Dear colleagues, Welcome to the fourth issue of the Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine. We are grateful that with support and cooperation of our dear colleagues, the first year of JCTM publication passed successfully. We are expecting to promote the indexing of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine in the following year. In this issue, a valuable review article has been written by Dr.Corlateanu ...

OBJECT Despite advances in medical management and endovascular therapies, including the introduction of statins, antiplatelet agents, and drug-eluting stents, some patients experience medically refractory vertebrobasilar insufficiency and may benefit from robust surgical revascularization. The aim of this study was to evaluate such patients after surgical revascularization, emphasizing long-ter...

Allgrove's or "4 A" syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive condition with alacrima, achalasia, autonomic disturbance, and ACTH insensitivity among other features. Recent studies have identified mutations in the AAAS, a candidate gene on chromosome 12q13 in such patients. Manifestations in adult patients are rarely reported. The syndrome usually presents during the first decade of life with dysp...

a 31 year old woman was hospitalized for evaluation of aortic valve insufficiency and her present cardiac status. clinical and paraclinical findings strongly suggested the presence of a collagen vascular inflammatory processprecisely, the antiphospholipid antibody syndrome (aps), with systemic lupus erythematosus as the underlying disease.

background: given the relationship of vitamin d deficiency with insulin resistance syndrome as the component of polycystic ovary syndrome (pcos), the main aim of this study was to compare serum level of 25- hydroxyvitamin d [25(oh)d] between pcos patients and normal individuals. materials and methods: a cross sectional study was conducted to compare 25(oh)d level between117 normal and 125 untre...

Allgrove’s or “4 A” syndrome is a rare autosomal recessive condition with alacrima, achalasia, autonomic disturbance, and ACTH insensitivity among other features. Recent studies have identified mutations in the AAAS, a candidate gene on chromosome 12q13 in such patients. Manifestations in adult patients are rarely reported. The syndrome usually presents during the first decade of life with dysp...

Our aim is to present the treatment of one of the skeletal manifestations of Jeune's syndrome (JS), the hypoplastic chest, which can result in thoracic insufficiency syndrome and present "on-demand" stage surgical technique using mandible locking plate system for the fixation of ribs. The diagnosis "Jeune's syndrome" was presented clinically in a 3-month-old girl from a family in which the firs...

Objective We assessed the clinical presentation, operative findings, and surgical treatment outcomes for axillary-subclavian vein (AxSCV) thrombosis due to venous thoracic outlet syndrome (VTOS).

We report the case of a 23-year-old woman who died due to endograft stenosis 20 months after thoracic endovascular aortic repair. The patient presented with the pseudocoarctation syndrome. Although angioplasty of stenosis endograft was successfully performed, severe metabolic complications were lethal.