Background-Military personnel come from the general population and have the same epidemiological style for coronary artery disease (CAD). There are two significant questions: Is there a higher rate of premature CAD in ...

Objectives - The aim of this study was comparing the prevalence of ST elevation myocardial infarction in 1997 with the prevalence in 2010 considering age groups in the hospitals of Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical ...

Background- Selectins as a group of adhesion molecule arise from the surface of activated cell and involved for atherosclerotic plaque production.Objective- To evaluate the relationship between Circulating ...

Background - Myocardial longitudinal shortening play an important role in cardiac contraction. Tissue velocity imaging (TVI) is an ultrasonographic technique that measure myocardial motion and providing a quantitative ...

This is the report of the insertion of a central venous catheter into the Rt internal mammary artery in lieu ofthe Rt subclavian vein by mistake in a 19-year-old patient scheduled for the correction of Tetralogy of Fallot.

Introduction- Nowadays, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) plays an important role in the early diagnosis of patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). This study sought to assess the performance of MPI alongside chest ...

Background- Systemic venous congestion has been considered the main cause of liver dysfunction in heart failure patients. In this study, we assessed the relation of liver function tests to hemodynamic profile in patients ...

Amyloidosis is a systemic, yet an uncommon and probably underdiagnosed disorder which may have cardiac manifestations drawing the cardiologist's attention to its existence.1-3 Endomyocardial biopsy material is then referred ...

Background - Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common postoperative arrhythmic complication after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). The aim of the present study was to compare AF prevalence after off-pump ...

Background- Although right heart catheterization (RHC) has acceptable accuracy for the measurement of pulmonary arterial pressure (PAP), significant risks and cost issues are worrisome. Thus, a non-invasive technique such ...