We report a 35-year-old woman referred to the Imam Ali Hospital, Kermanshah, Iran, in July 2014 for evaluation of postoperative dyspnoea after neurosurgery performed seven days previously for a ruptured cerebral artery aneurysm. She was known to have Behçet’s disease with a history of recurrent oral and genital aphthou …
The combination of a dissected ascending aortic aneurysm (AA) with multiple fistulae to the periaortic root structures is a life-threatening complication that occurs rarely after infective endocarditis of the prosthetic aortic valve. Many risk factors are potentially associated with this complication, including aortic …
Cardiac blood cysts are rare benign neoplasms, usually involving the cardiac valves and are remnants of the Chiari network. They are usually detected in the first six months of life and rarely occur in children or adults. We report a 76-year-old male patient who was referred to the Imam Ali Hospital affiliated with Ker …
لقد زاد استخدام الستيرويدات الابتنائية بجرعات تفوق الفسيولوجية في العقد الماضي كأدوية منشطة للرياضيين. تؤدي الجرعة العالية من الستيرويدات الابتنائية والأندروجينية (AAS) إلى اعتلال عضلة القلب، وارتفاع ضغط الدم، والتخثر، واحتشاء عضلة القلب (MI)، وضعف الأنسجة الضامة، وتبعاتها مثل إصابة الأوتار وتمزق الشريان الأورطي. يُعتب …