Permanent resiprokan kavşak taşikardisine bağlı dilate kardiyomiyopati: Bir olgu sunumu

We present a four-year-old girl who was admitted to our hospital with the complaints of dyspnea, tachypnea, cough, excess sweating and fatigue. Electrocardiogram (ECG) in the tachycardic girl showed inverted P waves in leads 2, 3 and aVF along with a P-R interval of 0.16 sec and an R-P interval of 0.28 sec. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed an enlarged and spherical left ventricle with diminished systolic functions. Holter ECG confirmed long R-P tachycardia with a rate of 140-160 beats/minute. She was diagnosed as having permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia-induced dilated cardiomyopathy and successfully treated with catheter ablation and flecainide.Bu olgu sunumunda hastanemize dispne, takipne, öksürük, aşırı terleme ve yorgunluk yakınması ile başvuran dört yaşında kız olgu sunduk. Taşikardik olan hastanın elektrokardiyografisinde (EKG) V2, V3 ve aVF derivasyonlarında ters P dalgaları ile birlikte 0,16 sn P-R aralığı ve 0,28 sn R-P aralığı mevcuttu. Transtorasik ekokardiyografide sistolik fonksiyonları azalmış, geniş ve sferik sol ventrikül saptandı. Holter EKG'de kalp hızı 140-160/dk olan uzun R-P intervalli taşikardi konfirme edildi. Hastaya permanent resiprokan kavşak taşikardisine bağlı dilate kardiyomiyopati tanısı kondu ve hasta kateter ablasyonu ve flekainamid tedavisi ile başarılı bir şekilde tedavi edildi

Right aortic arch with aberran left subclavian artery; accompanied with crossed pulmonary arteries: a rare association

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Relation between QT Variables and Left Ventricular Geometry in Athletes and Obese Children

INTRODUCTIONWe aimed to evaluate the relation between QT variables and left ventricular geometry in athletes and obese children.MATERIAL AND METHODSThis study included 209 children and adolescents. Thirty-eight of them were obese, 140 were athletes and 31 were normal weighted. Children with history of functional and structural cardiovascular diseases (acquired and congenital), chronic systemic diseases, hypertension, sleep apnea, endocrinological disorders were excluded. All subjects underwent detailed electrocardiographic and echocardiographic examination.RESULTSQT dispersion was significantly higher in obese children, basketball players, football players and swimmers compared to control group (p < 0.05, p < 0.001, < 0.001 and < 0.01 respectively). Basketball players had the highest QT dispersion. Left ventricular endsystolic diameter (mm/m2) was higher in footballers, swimmers, wrestlers and tennis players compared to obese subjects. Interventricular septal thickness at diastole was highest in swimmers compared to control group (p < 0.001) and left ventricular posterior wall thickness was significantly higher in footballers and swimmers compared to healthy subjects (p < 0.01 and p < 0.001 respectively). Left ventricular geometry was normal in 84 patients (47.1%), but 34 patients (19.1%) had concentric remodelling, 20 (22.4%) had concentric hypertrophy and 40 (28.6%) had eccentric hypertrophy. No concentric and eccentric hypertrophy was observed in obese subjects. Left ventricle hypertrophy was prominent in dynamic and combined groups but it was not statistically significant (p = 0.204). QT dispersion was statistically higher in obese, dynamic sports and combined sports compared to control group (p < 0.05, p < 0.001 and p < 0.001 respectively).DISCUSSIONIn this study we determined that QT dispersion is elevated in dynamic and combined sports types and obese children.CONCLUSIONQT dispersion is prolonged in obese and athletes who participate dynamic and combined sports

Does intrauterine tobacco exposure increase the pain perception of newborns?

BACKGROUND: This study aimed to assess whether there was a difference in the pain-perception levels of newborns born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy and newborns born to mothers who were not exposed to active or passive smoking during pregnancy. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A total of 60 newborns born by normal spontaneous vaginal birth between June 2013 and June 2014 were included in the study: 30 born to mothers who smoked during pregnancy, and 30 born to mothers not exposed to smoking. Mothers or newborns who had taken analgesics or sedative medications in the previous 24 hours, newborns not born at term, and sick newborns were not included in the study. During the routine hepatitis B-vaccination injection given at postnatal 48 hours, the newborns’ behavior was monitored and recorded by video camera. The data obtained from the recordings were evaluated according to the Neonatal Pain, Agitation, and Sedation Scale and analyzed with SPSS 20. RESULTS: The median pain score of the group exposed to tobacco smoke in utero was 8.5, while the median pain score of the unexposed group was 6 (P<0.001). CONCLUSION: Exposure to tobacco smoke in utero may increase the pain-perception levels of newborns

Serum ischemia-modified albumin levels in adolescent smokers

It is known that the biochemical marker linked to tissue ischemia, ischemia-modified albumin (IMA), is related to oxidative stress. Cigarette smoking is a situation with increased oxidative stress causing cell damage and it is thought that many of the negative effects linked to smoking may occur after the biological material in the body is exposed to oxidative damage. This study aimed to identify variability in serum IMA levels in adolescents who smoke. This case-control study comprised 60 adolescents without any chronic disease. The smoking group was 30 adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 years who smoked, while the control group was 30 healthy adolescents who did not smoke. Blood samples were collected from all subjects and serum IMA levels and serum nicotine metabolites were determined. The serum IMA levels in the adolescents who smoked were 0.452±0.094 absorbance unit (ABSU), while the control group had ASBU levels of 0.427±0.054. There was no significant difference between the groups in terms of serum IMA levels (p=0.210). There was a significant difference between the control and smoking groups in terms of serum nicotine metabolite levels (p<0.001). Among adolescents who smoke, serum IMA levels may not be a good marker for oxidative stress

Left ventrİcular noncompaction and ventricular tachycardia diagnosed at preparticipatİon screening

Sol ventrikül nonkompaksiyonu (LVNC), sol ventrikülün aşırı trabekülasyonu veya miyokardın süngerimsi özellikte olması ile karakterize nadir bir genetik kardiyomiyapatidir. Kalp yetersizliği, inmeyi de içeren tromboembolik olaylar, ventriküler aritmiler ve Wolf-Parkinson-White sendromu hastalığın önemli komplikasyonlarıdır. Bu çalışmada spor öncesi rutin fizik muayenesinde aritmisi farkedilen, yapılan tetkiklerinde sol ventriküler nonkompaksiyonu ve ventriküler taşikardi saptanan, radyofrekans ablasyon ve flekainid ile başarılı bir şekilde tedavi edilen bir olgu sunulmuştur.Left ventricular noncompaction is a rare genetic cardiomyopathy which is characterized by excessive trabeculated and spongioform left ventricule. Heart failure, thromboembolism including stroke, ventricular arrhythmia and Wolf Parkinson White Syndrome are the main complications. In this study we present a patient with arrhythmia diagnosed during preparticipation screening and succesfully treated with radiofrequency ablation and flecainide

Prenatal maternal risk factors for infantile colic

To examine maternal prenatal risk factors for infantile colic (IC). Mothers were asked to complete a standard pre-coded questionnaire form. Inclusion in the study consisted of four criteria. The case group comprised healthy children with infantile colic according to Wessel's definition. The control group comprised healthy children with no history of IC. Prenatal period characteristics of mothers were examined to determine associations with IC. Children with mothers who had prophylactic iron supplementation therapy during pregnancy suffered more from IC. Postpartum depression was found to be more frequent in the case group than in the control group. Gynaecological history, including suffering from migraine, presence of any premenstrual symptoms, dysmenorrhea and high pre-pregnancy body mass index, was associated with development of IC. Pre-gestational gynaecological complaints and pregnancy characteristics may point to IC. These characteristics should be investigated and families should be informed