Primary cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma of the left atrium: an unusual presentation.

abstract：:We describe our experience with the transseptal approach for mitral valve replacement, a technique that we applied especially in cases of 3rd and 4th operations wherein numerous adhesions made the usual left atrial approach difficult. We report 39 cases of mitral procedures in which we used 3 slightly different transs...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Santibáñez Escobar F,Serrano Gallardo G,Ramirez Marroquin S,Lopez Soriano F,Barragán García R

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The efficiency and risks of a method that allows closed-chest decannulation of an intraoperatively inserted cardiac-assist balloon catheter are examined. The technique involves direct insertion of the balloon catheter into the ascending aorta under the protection of an indwelling silastic tourniquet. At the discretion...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Robicsek F

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frozen elephant trunk procedure is a hybrid, single-staged alternative to conventional surgery for repairing diffuse pathologic conditions of the thoracic aorta. This approach is particularly advantageous in patients who have pathologic conditions of the left side of the chest, because the descending thoracic aort...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Kent WD,Manjunath A,Malaisrie SC

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe diffuse obstruction of the coronary arteries was diagnosed in an 18-month-old girl who presented with signs and symptoms of severe congestive cardiomyopathy. Most reported cases of myocardial infarction in neonates or infants have been secondary to obstruction of a single major coronary artery owing to thrombos...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Park IS,Lufschanowski R,Angelini P,Leachman RD

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone marrow-derived CD34(+) cells are a well-characterized population of stem cells that have traditionally been used clinically to reconstitute the hematopoietic system after radiation or chemotherapy. More recently, CD34(+) cells have also been shown to induce therapeutic angiogenesis in animal models of myocardial,...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Mackie AR,Losordo DW

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite recent diagnostic and therapeutic advances, infective endocarditis continues to be a very serious illness, with high patient morbidity and mortality rates. The diagnosis of infective endocarditis has been based primarily on clinical signs and positive blood cultures. Echocardiography is currently recognized as...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Jessurun C,Mesa A,Wilansky S

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conservative nonoperative method of management was utilized in an atypical case of blunt traumatic rupture of the thoracic aorta. In unusual or complicated tears of the aortic arch, as described here, a delayed or expectant method of management may be justified. ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Pezzella AT,Effler DB,Levy I

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a modified technique for advancing a catheter or sheath into the right common carotid artery when the aortic arch anatomy is unfavorable.A standard 0.035-inch guidewire is passed into the right subclavian artery, and a diagnostic catheter is threaded over it, deep into the right axillary and brachial artery....

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Gupta K,Biria M,Mortazavi A

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the single-stage surgical management of aortic coarctation and coronary artery disease in a 48-year-old man. Through a left thoracotomy, patch aortoplasty with a preserved bovine pericardial patch, and off-pump grafting of the circumflex and left anterior descending coronary arteries with a saphenous vein ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Moraes F,Lamprea D,Wanderley J,Moraes CR

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have reviewed the clinical presentations, courses, and outcomes of 90 patients seen at Texas Children's Hospital from 1983 through 2008 who had an isolated cleft of the mitral valve without some form of endocardial cushion defect. Additional congenital cardiac defects were present in 61 of the 90 patients, 35 of wh...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Zhu D,Bryant R,Heinle J,Nihill MR

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central question that faces coronary laser investigators is whether interaction between laser energy and target tissues can be controlled in a dynamic in vivo environment. In considering this question, the author reviews the in vitro and in vivo experiments that his center carried out before it began using laser a...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Nordstrom LA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the case of a 10-year-old girl who developed visual loss progressing to blindness after orthotopic heart transplantation and an immunosuppressive regimen of cyclosporine, azathioprine, and prednisone. Headaches and visual deterioration began 2 months after transplantation, and a diagnosis of pseudotumor cer...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Schowengerdt KO Jr,Gajarski RJ,Denfield S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We operated on a 14-year-old boy who had an echocardiographic diagnosis of ventricular septal defect. At surgery we found, in addition, an anomalous and obstructive intraventricular muscle bundle. Detection of a continuous thrill over the right pulmonary veins, prior to cardiopulmonary bypass, led to exploration of th...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Victor S,Nayak VM

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of clinical symptoms and findings at physical, echocardiographic, and angiographic examination, a patient was suspected of having a tumor in the right ventricle. Results of surgical and pathological examination, however, revealed a thrombus obliterating the right ventricle. The purpose of this article is to de...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Van Osdol KD,Hall RJ,Warda M,Massumi A,Klima T

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We discuss the case of a 38-year-old black man who presented at our hospital with his first episode of syncope, recently developed atrial arrhythmias refractory to pharmacologic therapy, and a left atrial thrombus. He was diagnosed with primary cardiac sarcoidosis characterized by predominant involvement of the epicar...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Thangam M,Nathan S,Kar B,Petrovic M,Patel M,Loyalka P,Buja LM,Gregoric ID

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to evaluate the role and effectiveness of gallium 67 imaging in the diagnosis of acute myocarditis that mimics acute myocardial infarction. Of 315 consecutive acute myocardial infarction patients admitted to our institution over a 4-year period, 5 (2 men, 3 women) were suspected of having acute...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hung MY,Hung MJ,Cheng CW

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sickle cell disease is a risk factor for cerebrovascular accidents in the pediatric population. This risk is compounded by hypoxemia. Cyanotic congenital heart disease can expose patients to prolonged hypoxemia. To our knowledge, the long-term outcome of patients who have combined sickle cell and cyanotic congenital h...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Iannucci GJ,Adisa OA,Oster ME,McConnell M,Mahle WT

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the case of a 61-year-old woman who presented with dyspnea, aortic stenosis, and coronary artery disease-typical side effects of radiation therapy for Hodgkin lymphoma. A poor candidate for surgery, she underwent successful high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention and subsequent transcatheter...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Nieto DC

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between February 1983 and July 1987, twelve patients underwent heart-lung transplantation at the University of Cape Town and the University of Munich. The patients included eight men and four women, whose ages ranged from 15 to 49 years (mean, 27 years). The underlying pathologic condition was idiopathic primary pulmo...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Reichenspurner H,Odell JA,Cooper DK,Novitzky D,Rose AG,Klinner W,Reichart B

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:No data are available on the long-term outcome of coronary-coronary venous bypass grafting. We describe a case in which we successfully stented a discrete, critical stenosis of a coronary-coronary venous graft that had been placed 19 years earlier to minimize manipulation of a severely calcified ascending aorta. Coron...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Mariscalco G,Blanzola C,Leva C,Bruno VD,Luvini M,Sala A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cardiogenic shock after acute myocardial infarction is associated with a high mortality rate despite modern reperfusion methods and intra-aortic balloon pump support. For myocardial infarction patients in cardiogenic shock that is refractory to intra-aortic ballon pump counterpulsation and pressors (severe refractory ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Idelchik GM,Loyalka P,Kar B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza causes cardiac and pulmonary complications that can lead to death. Its effect on the conduction system, first described a century ago, has long been thought to be fairly benign. We report 2 cases of high-grade atrioventricular block associated with acute influenza infection. Both patients-a 50-year-old woman...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ergle K,Gooden JY,Ahmed MM

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding plaque formation in patients at risk for coronary artery disease-the leading cause of morbidity and death in the world-enables physicians to better determine whether and how to treat these individuals. We used computed tomographic angiography to quantitatively evaluate the progression of nonculprit coron...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Liu X,Wu G,Xu C,He Y,Shu L,Liu Y,Zhang N,Lin C

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients who have either hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism can present with cardiovascular complications. These manifestations of thyroid disease-congestive heart failure, atrial tachyarrhythmias, atrioventricular conduction disorders, and mitral valve dysfunction-are well known to the clinician. Pericardial effusion ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ovadia S,Lysyy L,Zubkov T

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bentall procedure is the standard operation for patients who have lesions of the ascending aorta associated with aortic valve disease. In many cases, however, mechanical prosthetic conduits are not suitable. There are few reports in the English-language medical literature concerning the mid- to long-term outcome o...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Christenson JT,Sierra J,Trindade PT,Dominique D,Kalangos A

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The indications for transcatheter aortic valve implantation have been increasing with the development of new-generation valves and delivery systems. Our patient, an 81-year-old man with aortic stenosis, had an existing coronary artery bypass graft and bilateral aortoiliac bypass grafts. We used the transfemoral approa...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Gul M,Akgul O,Erturk M,Eksik A,Yildirim A

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inflammatory response induced by cardiopulmonary bypass decreases vascular tone, which in turn can lead to vasoplegic syndrome. Indeed the hypotension consequent to on-pump cardiac surgery often necessitates vasopressor and intravenous fluid support. Methylene blue counteracts vasoplegic syndrome by inhibiting the...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Manghelli J,Brown L,Tadros HB,Munfakh NA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To evaluate the possibility of providing, in vitro, an endothelial lining for artificial hearts, we cultivated adult autologous endothelial cells on two polyurethane and two silicone rubber surfaces. Over the ensuing 11-day period, we investigated the resulting cell proliferation and morphology by means of scanning el...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Fasol R,Zilla P,Deutsch M,Fischlein T,Kadletz M,Griesmacher A,Müller MM

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both conventional Argon- and NdYAG-lasers in continuous wave or pulsed application and far ultraviolet laser radiation are able to cause a loss of substance of biologic tissue. The thermic and ablative effects of NdYAG-lasers and UV-Excimer lasers at the wavelengths of 193 nm (ArF) and 248 mm (KrF) on inconspicuous an...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Wollenek G,Laufer G,Miholic J,Deutsch M,Wolner E

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During an 11-year period ending January 1, 1985, 352 patients had insertions of an intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) as an adjunct to medical or surgical therapy. Group I, 175 patients, could not be weaned from cardiopulmonary bypass and required intraaortic balloon pump (IABP). Thirty-nine patients (22%) died in the op...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Corral CH,Vaughn CC

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00