Right ventricular (RV) infarction occurs in 19% to 51% of patients with left ventricular inferior wall acute myocardial infarction.1,2 The importance of RV infarction and its unique hemodynamic consequences were ...

At the present time the treatment of choice for postductal coarctation of aorta is percutaneous angioplasty and stenting. One crucial step for successful stenting of coarctation is accurate positioning of the stent across ...

Backgrounds- Mitral stenosis (MS) causes elevation of left atrial and pulmonary venous pressures. Persistent elevation of pulmonary venous pressure causes anatomical and physiological changes in lung vasculature and tissue, ...

An atrial septal aneurysm is an uncommon abnormality and may be the origin of thromboembolic events. We herein present an unusual case of this septal abnormality with mitral stenosis and history of thromboembolic cerebrovascular ...

Background- Thombolytic therapy using tissue plasminogen activator has revolutionized the treatment of acute myocardial infarction. Tenecteplase was developed as a bioengineered variant of tissue-type plasminogen activator ...

Journal:   IRANIAN HEART JOURNAL (IHJ)   FALL 2009 , Volume 10 , Number 3; Page(s) 44 To 46.   Paper:  CASE REPORT: SUCTION TIP ...

Background- The results of a great amount of research done the world over in recent years have indicated that atherosclerosis is an inflammatory disease. Most of these investigations were conducted on the correlation between ...

ntroduction- Systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS) remains one of the major causes of cardiopulmonary bypass-associated organ injury during adult cardiac surgery. This study was designed and performed to assess ...