bardet-biedl syndrome (bbs) is one of the rare autosomal recessive disorders that affect multiple organs of the body. the signs and symptoms of this condition vary among affected individuals, even among members of the same family. we present a case of bbs with features of hypogonadism and features such as marked central obesity, retinitis pigmentosa, polydactyly, renal abnormalities and mental ...

Left ventricular function was studied in 17 patients with ischaemic heart disease and compared with 4 patients with normal left ventricular function. The patients in the homogeneous group of ischaemic heart disease were further subdivided into those 'without angina' (n=5) and those 'with angina' (n=12), depending upon the presence of angina during supine leg exercise at the time of definitive s...

BACKGROUND Doubling of serum creatinine is often used as a marker for worsening kidney function in nephrology trials. Most people with chronic kidney disease die of other causes before reaching end-stage renal disease. We were interested in the association between doubling of serum creatinine and the risk of a first-time diagnosis of angina pectoris, congestive heart failure (CHF), myocardial i...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the status of transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMLR) from an evidence-based perspective to help hospitals make resource management decisions. STUDY DESIGN Qualitative systematic review of the clinical literature. METHODS We searched the reference databases MEDLINE, BIOSIS, EMBASE, SciSearch, and Current Contents to identify all articles related to TMLR publishe...

Lecerof, H. (1974). Thorax, 29, 673-677. Central haemodynamics during oxygen breathing in angina pectoris. The haemodynamic effects of breathing 100% oxygen have been studied by right heart catheterization at rest and during bicycle exercise in nine male patients with coronary heart disease. Oxygen breathing produced no significant haemodynamic benefit during angina pectoris induced by physical...

to study the newly mentioned significance of the obstructive lesion morphology in coronary artery disease (cad), a study has been designed to compare this feature between patients having stable angina (sa) or unstable angina (ua) who underwent coronary angiography in tehran heart institute. study objectives were detection of the angina producing artery (ap a) and its morphologic lesion type, de...

BACKGROUND Reportedly, patients with persistent refractory angina due to end-stage coronary artery disease (CAD) not amenable to traditional revascularization techniques have experienced symptomatic relief following laser revascularization, either surgical transmyocardial revascularization (TMR) or percutaneous myocardial revascularization (PMR). In spite of several hypotheses (i.e., channel pa...