2018 January - 4 articles
Predominant causes for newly diagnosed postpartum heart failure are preeclampsia and peripartum cardiomyopathy. Being an anatomical variant of Takotsubo syndrome (TTS) reverse TTS in this period is rare. We present a 36 year old patient, who had deli...
Genome editing, or genome engineering is a type of genetic engineering in which DNA is inserted, deleted or replaced in the genome of a living organism using engineered nucleases, or molecular scissors. Genome editing is being rapidly adopted into al...
Variants in the LMNA gene, which encodes Lamin-A/C, have been commonly associated with cardiac conduction system diseases usually accompanying cardiomyopathy. We have seen two unrelated patients who presented with atrioventricular block (AVB) with or...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is defined as left ventricular hypertrophy in the absence of loading conditions sufficient to cause the observed abnormality. The true prevalence in childhood is unknown; the aetiology is more heterogeneous than that...
