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N Feteih

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PubMed1985

Endomyocardial fibrosis: report of eight cases.

Endomyocardial fibrosis is a disease of unknown origin which has not previously been described in detail from the Middle East. The clinical, echocardiographic, hemodynamic and angiocardiographic findings in eight patients (five men and three women, mean age 38 years) are presented. Two patients had right-sided involvement, two had left-sided involvement and four had biventricular involvement. The presence of a small ventricle with obliteration of the apex and a large atrium is a two-dimensional echocardiographic finding highly suggestive of endomyocardial fibrosis. Hemodynamic characteristics of dip and plateau on ventricular pressure curves were present in six patients. Ventricular angiography was diagnostic in all cases. Endomyocardial biopsy yielded positive findings in three of six patients and is not essential for diagnosis.

Adult↗
PubMed1981

Thomas G. Orr Memorial Lecture. Cardiovascular surgery in Saudi Arabia.

A program in cardiovascular surgery from Baylor College of Medicine was transplanted halfway around the world to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, providing services with results similar to those obtained in more medically advanced areas of the world. In order to do this, however, numerous support services must be in place and functioning efficiently, and there must be a cooperative spirit on the part of all concerned. In this manner it has been possible not only to provide cardiovascular service to the Kingdom, but also to establish a bidirectional training program. It is intended that eventually this program of cardiovascular surgery will be conducted by Saudi nationals.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1979

Use of treadmill score to quantify ischemic response and predict extent of coronary disease.

In this study we assessed whether various responses to exercise testing could be quantified in order to derive the probabilities of presence of coronary disease, and if present, to assess its severity. A treadmill score based on the exercise response was determined in 405 patients who had both treadmill tests and coronary angiograms. The score was derived using discriminant function analysis, by weighting and combining depth and configuration of ST depression (downsloping, horizontal or slowly upsloping), timing onset and duration of ischemia, grading ventricular arrhythmias, heart rate and blood pressure change, coexistence of exercise-induced chest pain and sex. The treadmill score was effective in detecting coronary disease (lesions with an greater than or equal to 50% narrowing), with a predictive accuracy (PA) (probability that a subject manifesting a positive test has disease) of 87%, a true negative rate (TNR) (probability of a subject with a negative test having no disease) of 80%, and sensitivity of 94%. The treadmill score also detected severe disease (triple-vessel, main left and/or greater than 90% proximal occlusion of the left anterior descending artery), with a PA of 73%, TNR of 79% and sensitivity of 82%. We conclude that the exercise response, expressed numerically as a treadmill score, permits analysis of most of the relevant data from exercise testing, increases test accuracy by 10-15% compared with standard criteria for treatmill test interpretation, and enables the derivation of probability statements for presence and severity of coronary disease. The validity of any prediction on the basis of exercise performance may thus be quantitatively judged.

Analysis of Variance↗