The Multidisciplinary Congress in Cardio-Thoracic Healthcare was held in Ottawa, Canada, August 17–20, 2006. The Congress focused on some of the fastest-evolving areas in cardio–thoracic healthcare, namely medical devices, interventional procedures, pharmaceutical agents, imaging technologies, cell-based therapies and surgical approaches. The Congress Chairs were Sir Magdi Yacoub, Joel D Cooper...

OBJECTIVE To determine the influence of cardio-pulmonary-bypass-time on hospital mortality and ICU-morbidity in isolated CABG surgery. METHODS Between 1985 and 1994 perioperative data of 8578 consecutive CABG operations were prospectively collected. Seven variables: gender, redo vs. primary operation, elective vs. urgent surgery, age in 4 categories, use of IMA, number of distal anastomoses (...

Skeletal muscle metabolic function is known to respond positively to exercise interventions. Developing non-invasive techniques that quantify metabolic adaptations and identifying interventions that impart successful response are ongoing challenges for research. Healthy non-athletic adults (18-35 years old) were enrolled in a study investigating physiological adaptations to a minimum of 16 week...

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 ...

background differentiating ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy is important both prognostically and therapeutically, although it may be difficult clinically. objectives we aimed to determine the diagnostic power of cardiogoniometry (cgm) in the differentiation of the ischemic from the nonischemic etiology of left bundle branch block (lbbb). patients and methods we studied 37 patients with ...

introduction: chest x–ray is one of the most common method of imaging. cardio thoracic ratio ( ctr ) is one of the parameters of chest x–ray that is used for determining cardiac enlargement. echocardiography as compared to chest x–ray is expensive and all centers dont have it, but it can determine heart size, valvular diseases, ejection fraction, left ventricular hypertrophy (lvh), pericardial ...

coronary artery disease is one of the main causes of mortality in most developed countries. there is also an increasing rate of mortality in developing countries where in addition to coronary artery disease, infection diseases still not have been controlled. although, now a day coronary artery disease is responsible for half of deaths in developed countries, this regrettable event is increasing...

background: metabolic syndrome (mets) is a complex clustering cardiovascular risk factors such as abdominal obesity, hypertension, diabetes and dyslipidemia. it has been a growing health problem in iranian adults in recent decade. the objective of this article was to review the prevalence of mets and the corresponding risk factors among iranian adults.methods: we conducted a systematic review t...

The patient, a Hindu male, aged 42, a workman in the Railway Workshop at Jamalpur, was admitted to the Jamalpur Railway Hospital on 7th December, 1938, for difficulty in swallowing of about two years' duration. There was no history of acidity, indigestion, taking a corrosive or irritant drink, or of having ever suffered from cardiac or respiratory trouble, neither was there any history of syphi...

To cite: Asadi Gharabaghi M, Asadi Gharabaghi M. BMJ Case Reports Published online: 2 January 2013 doi:10.1136/ bcr-2012-007633 DESCRIPTION An 80-year-old man presented with a 3-monthhistory of hoarseness that developed gradually and remained with the same intensity afterwards. He had neither a history of constitutional symptoms nor cardiorespiratory complaint. He worked as a farmer for 40 year...