Cardiac involvement is the leading cause of mortality and morbidity in patients undergoing chronic hemodialysis. Therefore, echocardiography is the preferred diagnostic test. Our study aims to describe the different cardiac lesions observed on transthoracic echocardiography and i...
Acute myocardial infarction is usually seen in the setting of atherosclerosis and its associated risk factors. One of the rare causes of AMI in young patients is polycythemia vera. We report the case of 38-year-old male with a history of tobacco use, who presented with constricti...
Background: Pacemaker (PM) devices are increasingly used to treat cardiac conduction abnomality especially in elderly population. Twiddler syndrome (TS) in PM patients is a condition where patient manipulation of a pacemaker leads to its retraction and dysfunction. TS can be extr...
Background: Infective endocarditis is still a frequent, life-threatening condition, despite advances in diagnosis and treatment. It can occur in a healthy heart, but more often in a pathological heart, as the congenital heart disease without surgery, or with a residual shunt or p...
Background: Association of pulmonary embolism and pericardial effusion is rarely described in the literature, it is associated in the majority of cases with a neoplastic origin followed by a tuberculous origin. Within the limits of our research, no cases of lupus associated with...
F. Karim, I. Tlohi, N. Mahoungou-Mackonia, Y. Hamine, H. Seydou, M. Njie, C. B. Mahamadou, M. HABOUB, S. AROUS, G. Benouna, A. DRIGHIL, L. Azouzi & R. HABBAL·Asian Journal of Cardiology Research·2022
Left ventricular pseudoaneurysms are rare. They are usually form from a rupture of the myocardium contained by pericardial adhesions. Unlike true aneurysms, false aneurysms have a narrow neck and lack myocardial elements. They can be constituted spontaneously or acquired. We repo...