The Role OF 3D echocardiography in prediction of pulmonary vascular resistance and its reversibility in simple congenital heart disease with secondary pulmonary hypertension.

Background: Pulmonary hypertension is a progressive and often fatal disease that frequently presents with the non-specific symptom of dyspnea on exertion.

Aim: To determine non-Invasive Predictors of Pulmonary vascular resistance severity and reversibility in simple Congenital Heart Disease Patients Using 3D Echocardiography.

Patients And Methods: This was a Prospective cohort study conducted on 40 patients selected from attendees of Cardiology clinics of Ain Shams University Hospitals over a period of 2 years.

Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus: How Do They Affect the Right Ventricular Functions Individually and Together?

Context: The right ventricle (RV) is neglected in clinical practice although the RV function is the primary determinant of prognosis and effort tolerance in many groups of patients.

Aim: The effects of type two diabetes mellitus and hypertension solitary and together were studied on right ventricular systolic and diastolic function by echo-Doppler and tissue Doppler echocardiography.

Settings And Design: A cohort of 300 consecutive patients with echocardiographic right ventricular (RV) diastolic dysfunction as determined by Doppler echocardiography were included in this study.

Cutoff Value of Admission N-Terminal Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide Which Predicts Poor Myocardial Perfusion after Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment-Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

Background: We explored the value of admission levels of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NTProBNP) that best predicts poor myocardial tissue perfusion following primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI) in patients admitted with acute ST-segment-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).

Methods: We enrolled 90 consecutive patients admitted with acute STEMI who underwent PPCI and achieved post-procedural TIMI flow grade 3 in the infarct-related artery. We measured levels of NTProBNP from admission blood samples.

Right heart thrombus-in-transit with pulmonary embolism in a patient with primary hypercoagulable state.

A 25 year-old female with a history of Caesarian section ten weeks ago presented with symptoms suggestive of pulmonary embolism. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a free-floating large thrombus traversing the right atrial cavity. Transesophageal echocardiography confirmed the presence of an unattached thrombus that originated from the most proximal part of the inferior vena cava.