Tetralogy of Fallot with pulmonary atresia and large major aortopulmonary collateral arteries in congenital heart disease is associated a high mortality. Early diagnosis of this can increase the opportunity for surgery and improve survival. A small portion of unoperated patients...
Afzal Hussain, Jawaid Akbar Sial, Dileep Kumar, Syed Jibran Ashraf, Chander Parkash & Muhammad Tahseen Raza·Asian Journal of Cardiology Research·2021
Introduction: ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is a condition characterized by typical ischemic symptoms resulting from a total occlusion of a coronary artery. STEMI is specifically diagnosed on the electrocardiography. Diabetic patients reveal a more complicated anatom...
Complex congenital heart disease involving Congenitally Corrected Transposition of the Great Arteries (CCTGA) with dextrocardia presenting with complete heart block (CHB) possess great difficulty in placing permanent pacemaker (PPI). We had a 52 -year-old female admitted with bre...
Introduction: Post-surgical atrial fibrillation is a common arrhythmic complication of coronary artery bypass surgery. However, mostly it is thought to be a benign and self-limiting problem, but it has also been observed that it is a serious complication and can raise the number...
Introduction: The link between cardiovascular diseases and rise in occupational dust have been known for more than a decade. Occupational dusts are small dry, solid particles generated and projected into the air by mechanical or man-made processes such as crushing, grinding, mill...
Aims and objectives: To compare immediate and in hospital outcomes of patients undergoing Redo Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Commissurotomy(PTMC) with outcomes in patients undergoing PTMC for the first time. To compare the grading of Mitral Regurgitation(MR) and Mean Mitral V...
The incidence of ventricular septal rupture (VSR) following ST elevation myocardial infarction has decreased from 1-3% in the pre-reperfusion era to 0.17-0.31% after the advent of primary percutaneous coronary intervention. Surgical repair is the definitive treatment strategy, bu...
30-year-male presented with a complaint of palpitation and easy fatigue for 10-days. He has a history of fever 4-weeks back. On examination had a pulse rate of 44/min and occasional canon a wave on jugular-venous-pulse examination. Rest cardiovascular examination was unremarkable...
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Besides imparting enormous human suffering, they inflict huge direct and indirect financial costs on the worldwide society. With the ready availability of affordable therapeutics globally, and the re...
A 55-year-old man came with dyspnea on exertion NYHA class –II, for 4 months with orthopnea, and episodic-palpitations, 2 episodes of presyncope. On examination pulse was 110/minute irregular, blood pressure was 92/68mmHg and cardiovascular examination was remarkable with soft S1...