Correlation between systolic deformation and dyssynchrony indices and the grade of left ventricular hypertrophy in hypertensive patients with a preserved systolic ejection fraction undergoing coronary angiography, based on tissue Doppler imaging.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether systolic mechanical dyssynchrony occurs in hypertensive patients with a normal coronary artery and a normal ejection fraction and its relationship with different degrees of left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy.

Methods: A total of 125 angiographically normal coronary patients (42.4% male; mean age ± SD, 57.

Evaluation of subclinical left ventricular dysfunction in diabetic patients: longitudinal strain velocities and left ventricular dyssynchrony by two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography study.

Background: We evaluated left ventricular (LV) subclinical systolic dysfunction in diabetes mellitus patients using two-dimensional speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) for early detection of changes in LV longitudinal strain (ST) or synchronized contraction.

Methods: To determine ST and LV dyssynchrony, 37 normal coronary and normotensive diabetes mellitus patients with LV ejection fraction >50% were enrolled and compared to 39 nondiabetic normal coronary and LV function subjects. The cases underwent standard conventional transthoracic echocardiography and tissue Doppler imaging (TDI) and STE.

Using inverted autogenous veins to substitute arteries in a canine model.

Aims: Rapid harvesting of autogenous graft over a wire is an optional way in trauma surgery and it places the inverted conduit so that its adventitial layer is within the lumen of the graft. Our aim of this study was to compare the patency of inverted autogenous graft vs noninverted graft in dogs.

Settings And Design: Experimental animal models.

Wind sock deformity in rectal atresia.

Rectal atresia is a rare anorectal deformity. It usually presents with neonatal obstruction and it is often a complete membrane or severe stenosis. Windsock deformity has not been reported in rectal atresia especially, having been missed for 2 years.

Bowel perforation by crumpled paper in a patient presenting with acute abdominal pain.

Many of the abdominal foreign bodies are due to accidental ingestion. Our objective in this case report is to emphasize the importance of the enquiry about the foreign body in the differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. According to our knowledge, this is the first report of bowel perforation caused by paper ingestion.

Role of rectal biopsy in predicting response to intrasphincteric botulinum toxin injection for obstructive symptoms after a pullthrough operation.

Objective: Our aim was to correlate the pathological results and clinical response in patients who underwent botulinum toxin (BT) injection for obstructive symptoms (OS) after a pullthrough operation for Hirschsprung's disease (HD).

Methods: Between August 2002 and February 2006, 16 of 107 HD patients (15%) were referred with persistent OS after pull-through (PT) operation in this center. They underwent rectal biopsy and BT injection in the internal sphincter.

Esophageal Atresia: Migration of the gastrostomy tube into the bronchus.

A 2-day-old baby boy, 38 weeks gestation, weight 2000 g was brought due to hypersalivation and imperforate anus with gasless abdomen on plain X-ray. He underwent a gastrostomy tube insertion and colostomy. In contrast study of the stomach, on the 5th postoperative day, the dye spilled into the tracheo bronchial tree and the catheter was seen, entering the right main bronchus.