A 3-month-old girl presented with myocarditis owing to brucellosis. Her mother had been diagnosed with brucellosis at 28 weeks gestation but did not receive treatment until after delivery. The infant had intrauterine ...

9-year-old boy presented with a history of lower respiratory infections and stridor. At age 18 months, he had undergone surgery for inguinal hernia and tracheoesophageal fistula. Physical examination now revealed a ...

Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions and cardiac rhythm problems for the early detection of myocardial dysfunction in children with Wilson’s disease. Methods: ...

Objectives To investigate serum adiponectin and resistin levels in childhood obesity and their relationship with cardiac changes and insulin resistance. Methods Seventy-one obese and 24 overweight children and 40 healthy ...

To evaluate cardiac maturational and haemodynamic alteration in healthy newborns and infants and determine reference values in this period using tissue Doppler, strain, and strain rate echocardiography. Material and ...

Chylopericardium generally occurs after thoracic surgery or trauma. Primary idiopathic chylopericardium is an extremely rare condition especially in children and young adults. In recent years, a few case reports have ...

Truncus arteriosus (TA ) is an uncommon con-genital cardiovascular anomaly that is character-ized by a single arterial trunk arising from thenormally formed ventricles by means of a singlesemilunar valve. The anomaly is ...

Cardiac pseudoaneurysm is an extremely rare condition in children. It can be congenital or acquired and has been primarily described in the left side of the heart. The congenital form of pseudoaneurysm is thought to be ...