Background: Cardiac involvement in hydatid disease is uncommon (Method: In ...

The case of a previously asymptomatic 13-year-old boy who presented with cardiac arrest after playing football and drinking cold water is presented. He was immediately transferred from the football field to a nearby hospital ...

The Islamic Republic of Iran is one of the youngest countries in the world, as more than 50% of its population of 70 million is less than 30 years of age. The incidence of cardiovascular diseases has changed dramatically ...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the success of PTMC hemodynamically. The hemodynamic data have been evaluated by exercise stress echocardiography in patients with mitral stenosis (MS) following PTMC.

The usual ways of malignancy spreading to the heart are through the systemic circulation, coronary arteries, lymphatic channels and direct extension from adjacent organs.This article presents two cases of metastatic ...

Background: Mini sternotomy approach for aortic valve surgery is an alternative to median sternotomy to minimize surgical trauma. In this study, we report our experience with mini sternotomy and compare it with full ...

Background: Skeletonized harvesting of the bilateral internal mammary arteries (BIMA) decreases the occurrence of sternal devascularization, thus decreasing the risk of sternal complications, while better patency rates ...

A 14-month-oldboy with cyanosis, clubbing, left hemiparesis and convulsions was diagnosed by contrast echocardiography and angiocardiography to have anomalous connection of the venae cavae into the physiologic left atrium ...