Objective: For the interaction of individuals with their environment, motor competence is of major importance. It is known that school children with congenital heart disease (CHD) have motoric limitations even without hemodynamic residuals. Data from kindergarten children is lack...
Background: Tobacco smoke is harmful to health. In the acute phase it causes changes in the cardiovascular system that result in increase in blood pressure (BP). An increase in arterial stiffness due to arteriolar endothelial dysfunction has been cited among the causes. Pulse Wav...
Background: Several factors may affect heart failure status of patients. It is important to investigate whether or not the effects are direct. The purpose of this study was learning Bayesian networks that encode the joint probability distribution for a set of random variables. Me...
Cardiac rhabdomyoma is the most common primary pediatric tumor of the heart. We report a 1-month old male infant who presented to our institute for routine cardiac evaluation since he was diagnosed to have a cardiac mass in the right ventricle (RV) in utero. After he was born, an...
Congestive Heart failure (CHF) is a very common medical disorder and a major health problem in Libya. CHF is associated with an increase in the risk of stroke and hospitalization. Objectives: To estimate and describe the main risk factors and complications of CHF among people wit...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of risk factors on the death of patients with heart failure in a cohort of patients hospitalized with heart failure disease. In this paper we used chi-square tests with the aim of studying the relationship of each factor wit...
Percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy (BMV) done for mitral stenosis (MS) though largely improved nowadays can be followed by multiple and rare procedure related complications. We present an interesting case of a 45 year old male with symptomatic severe mitral stenosis of rheumat...
Aims: Parkinson's disease (PD) and multiple system atrophy (MSA) are neurodegenerative disorders characterized by motor "parkinsonian" symptoms and non-motor symptoms related to autonomic nervous system (ANS) dysfunction. The latter can be quantified with the analysis of Heart Ra...
Aims: To recognize heart block as a complication associated with congenitally-corrected transposition of the great arteries (CCTGA). Presentation of the Case: A healthy 36 year old male with CCTGA presented with syncope as a manifestation of heart block. A unique feature of this...
Aim: The study was aimed to determine the association of adipose derived hormones, adiponectin, leptin, and adiponectin/leptin (A/L) ratio with presence and degree of atherosclerosis in metabolic syndrome patients. Study Design: Open label, pilot, case-control study. Place and Du...