abstract objective cardiac dysfunction is a major cause of death in patients with beta thalassemia. in these patients, repeated blood transfusion, ineffective erythropoiesis and increased gastrointestinal iron absorption lead to iron overload in the body and this induced heart failure. left ventricular ejection fraction was measured in major beta thalassemia (β-th) patients to detect the relati...

abstract background prevention of myocardial siderosis is a key step to reduce rate of mortality in thalassemic patients. our objective was to study association between echocardiography parameters and serum ferritin level in patients with major thalassemia. materials and methods sixty-six patients with major thalassemia were studied in amir kabir hospital, arak, iran. serum ferritin levels were...

the aim of this study was to assess the effect of spinal block with low dose of bupivacaine and sufentanil on patients with low cardiac output who underwent lower limb surgery. fifteen patients who had ejection fraction less than 40% (group 1) were compared with 65 cases with ejection fraction more than 40% (group 2) in our study. our subjects underwent spinal block with 7.5 mg hyperbaric bupiv...

conclusion the cv value correlated more closely with low lvef and more accurately indicated an enlarged heart than ca or ctr. this may be due to the fact that an anteroposterior measurement of heart size is included in the former but not the latter two measurements. these study results may help quantify left heart enlargement with greater accuracy than may be obtained from standard cxr. backgro...

the disease of thalassemia major requires mangement by repeated transfusions of packed cell and iron chelators such as deferoxamine. today, serum ferritin is used for estimation of adequacy of the management. as the most morbidities and mortalities of the disease are the consequences of cardiac complications. echocardiography is periodically periodically performed along with the management. in ...

conclusions the administration of curcumin in patients undergoing dialysis had no positive effects on enhancing lvef and lv function. further research is required to shed sufficient light on this issue. results the mean age was 44.2 ± 13.4 years for the curcumin group and 45.4 ± 6.2 years for the placebo group. the study population comprised 22 male and 13 female patients. there were no signifi...

background: acute myocardial infarction (ami) is the leading cause of disability and death in iran and many other countries. objective: to investigate the prognostic value of ccl5 and ccl18 in patients with acute myocardial ischemia. methods: in this cohort study we recruited and followed 50 patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (aami) for developing cardiovascular accidents in a 6...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the infl uence of ejection fraction (ef) on peak aortic time (pat) and  peak aortic enhancement (pae) during coronary computed tomography angiography (cta). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty patients (64 men, 56 women) underwent measurement of coronary cta with a measurement of ef within 3 months of coronary cta.pearson’s correla...

background: bone marrow-derived mesenchymal cellscan transdifferentiate into cardiomyocyte cells and improveheart function after transplantation. since biomaterials canimprove the cell retention in the site, cell survival and differentiation,heart tissue engineering is now being explored as anapplied solution to support cell-based therapies and increasetheir efficacy for myocardial diseases. ch...

introduction: coronary artery bypass graft can improve myocardial contractility and functional class in ischemic heart disease. materials & methods: this study was done on 200 patient’s with cabg operation during 6 months. 142 patients were men and 56 patients were women with mean age 57.7  9.2 years (36-83). ef was measured by echocardiography before & 1 week after cabg, ccsfc evaluated befor...