Dear Colleagues,   As Editor-In-Chief of Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Medicine (JCTM), it is my pleasure to introduce this official quarterly publication of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, which is an international, peer-reviewed, and English language journal. Our aim is to publish high quality integrating clinical and experimental research in the following fields: Respiratory medici...

OBJECTIVE Primary objective of this study was to assess utility of sagittal abdominal diameter (SAD) as a cardio vascular risk predictor and compare various anthropometric measurement of body fat distribution in elderly patients. METHOD Four hundred patients were enrolled in study. Elderly patients more than 60 year of age attending medical OPD, geriatric OPD and suitable indoor patients who ...

conclusions troxerutin may reduce the vascular complications and tissue injuries induced by chronic diabetes in rat aorta through increasing the activity of tissue antioxidant system and reducing the level of lipid peroxidation. materials and methods male wistar rats were randomly divided into four groups (n = 8/each): control, control plus troxerutin, diabetic and diabetic plus troxerutin. dia...

case presentation we reported a 2-year-old boy with pph, who presented unusual and intractable seizure which suggested the diagnosis of md. we also reviewed a few previous reports about the association of pph with moyamoya disease. discussion moyamoya disease is a kind of cerebral vasculopathy and should be considered as a differential diagnosis for patients with unusual seizure attacks who are...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a significant cause of illness, disability, and death among individuals with diabetes. The macrovascular complications of diabetes— Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), Cerebro Vascular Accidents (CVA), and Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD)— all being different facets of the same vascular damage – account for more than 70% of all deaths in individuals with diabetes. CVD...

OBJECTIVE Cardiac diseases are psycho-somatic disorders, and psychological aspects play an essential role in their initiation and exacerbation. The aim of this study was to gain appropriate knowledge in the epidemiology of co-morbid depression and anxiety disorder in cardiovascular outpatients. METHOD This study is descriptive with a sample of patients attending a cardio-vascular clinic. 238 ...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Severity of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy has been associated with the amount of myocardial fibrosis in autopsy studies. Cardio-vascular magnetic resonance allows, by means of the delayed contrast-enhancement technique, an in vivo detection of focal myocardial fibrosis. Our aim was to study myocardial fibrosis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by means of co...

background and objectives: the increasing pressure on health systems to improve quality of health care,require them to develop novel conceptual framework and indices aimed at evaluating decision variables in the contemporary complex community. customer quality is a newly introduced concept addressing capability of patients in contribution to healthcare process and cooperation with healthcare pr...

1 Resident, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, 2 Assistant Professor, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 3 Associate Professor, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 4 Professor and Head, Dept of Cardio Thoracic and Vascul...