Dietary perception and knowledge among cardiac patients visiting tertiary care hospital outpatient department (OPD).

Objective: To appraise the dietary perception and knowledge of cardiac patients visiting Outpatient department of a tertiary care hospital.

Methods: A cross sectional study of 466 patients attending cardiac outdoor clinic at a tertiary care cardiac hospital in Rawalpindi, Pakistan were selected through convenient sampling from January to April 2021. Patients included in the study were above 18 years of age and had a cardiac disease.

Anomalous origin of left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA).

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery also recognized as Bland White Garland syndrome is a very rare congenital condition. A two-months old baby boy presented with dyspnoea for two weeks and a pansystolic murmur on auscultation. The base line investigations showed cardiomegaly and bilateral basal haze on X-ray chest.