Busayo Onafowoke Oguntola

• Bachelor of Medicine
• Afe Babalola University

Background Hypertension is a major cause of cardiac dysfunction. The earliest manifestation is left ventricular remodeling/hypertrophy. The occurrence of adverse cardiac remodeling and outcomes occurs irrespective of age in blacks. This necessitated an estimate of the prevalence of left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) and an assessment of the roles o...

Disorders of cardiac positioning can pose difficulty during the acquisition of transthoracic echocardiography views. Especially when adequate clinical history is unavailable to the echocardiographer, the presence of the heart within the right hemithorax brings dextrocardia to mind, especially in young adults. Cardiac dextroposition is a great mimic...

Background: Regular, high-intensity, and prolonged physical activity causes clinical, electrical, morphological, and functional alterations in the cardiovascular system. This circulatory alterations observed in athlete heart are particularly important in black athletes as data has shown that they are more likely to experience sudden cardiac death....

Background: Psychotropic medications are administered for various psychiatric conditions with associated significant high morbidity and mortality. Electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities had been reported among patients on psychotropic medications; however, baseline or follow-up ECGs are rarely done during routine clinical practice especially in d...

Background: Petiveria alliacea L. (Phytolaccaceae) ethnomedically is known for its sedative property and beneficial treatment of other central nervous system (CNS) disorders. However, the neuropharmacological properties of the n-hexane extract of this aromatic plant leaf have not been reported, hence this study. Objective: To determine the acute to...

Lutembacher syndrome (LS) is a rare syndrome comprising a combination of atrial septal defect (ASD) and mitral stenosis. We present the case of a 28-year-old man, who presented with progressively worsening dyspnea of 2 months associated with orthopnea, paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea, bilateral leg swelling and productive cough. Chest X-ray revealed p...

Introduction: hypertension is the most common cardiac disease in Nigeria. There are very limited studies in Nigeria on the use of 24-hour ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (24-h ABPM) for evaluation of hypertensive patients. Twenty four-hour ABPM, unlike office blood pressure (OBP), can assess diurnal variation using parameters like awake blood...