During April 1991-June 1993 PTMC (Inoue method) was performed on 102 subjects with symptomatic mitral stenosis, consist of 32 males and 70 females. Mean of age was 33.12 plus/minus 10.50 years. Atrial fibrillation was found in 42.2 percent of patients. All patients had mitral valve score (Wilkins) less than and equal 8 and 53 percent patients had moderate-severe pulmonary hypertension. Mitral r…
The clinical diagnosis of thalassemia syndrome is not difficult to establish with relatively simple Investigations, but molecular study is needed to determine the genotype and for the prenatal diagnosis. In the molecular study, the DNA should be first amplifed and among the amplification techniques polymerase chain reaction is the simplest and the most rapid one. The procedure can in vitro ampl…