"Acquired" left ventricular-to-right atrial shunt (Gerbode defect) after bacterial endocarditis.

abstract：:A 49-year-old patient, referred with a diagnosis of right atrial myxoma, was found at surgery to have extensive cardiac metastases from a previously undetected cutaneous melanoma. In reviewing the literature, we found 5 other patients with a clinical diagnosis of melanoma metastatic to the heart, all of whom had a pre...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Bortolotti U,Tursi V,Milano A,Mazzucco A,Gallucci V

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aortoventricular fistula, a rare congenital or acquired defect of the aortic wall, is characterized by an abnormal connection between the aorta and one of the ventricles. Symptom severity correlates with the diameter of the fistula and with the acute or chronic timing of presentation. The diagnosis is usually made by ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Mve Mvondo C,Pugliese M,Dailor EM

更新日期：2019-04-01 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：: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：:From January 2002 through June 2004, 17 patients (2% of all coronary cases) were treated with off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting combined with percutaneous coronary intervention. There were 13 men and 4 women, whose ages ranged from 54 to 78 years (mean, 63.1 +/- 20.9 yr). Preoperative angiography revealed 2-ves...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Us MH,Basaran M,Yilmaz M,Yaymaci B,Ulusoy E,Sanioglu S,Ozbek C,Arslan Y,Pocan S,Yilmaz AT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Suprarenal or supraceliac aortic clamping during repair of infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysms can be complicated by renal, hepatic, and intestinal ischemia. To determine whether suprarenal or supraceliac clamping increases morbidity and mortality we retrospectively reviewed our recent nonrandomized experience. Betw...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： El-Sabrout RA,Reul GJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunt thoracoabdominal trauma is most often caused by high-velocity motor-vehicle accidents or by falls from a height. The clinical spectrum of cardiac injuries arising from this type of trauma varies from myocardial contusion to valvular rupture. Intracardiac valvular rupture is rarely observed, and few cases have be...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Hazan E,Guzeloglu M,Sariosmanoglu N,Ugurlu B,Keskin V,Unal N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surgically created arteriovenous fistulae (AVF) for hemodialysis can contribute to hemodynamic changes. We describe the cases of 2 male patients in whom new right ventricular enlargement developed after an AVF was created for hemodialysis. Patient 1 sustained high-output heart failure solely attributable to the AVF. A...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ragupathi L,Johnson D,Marhefka GD

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arrested myocardial development, often described as spongiosum heart, has been reported in association with obstructive semilunar valve disease and, much more rarely, as a primary disease in adolescents and adults. To our knowledge, this condition has never been diagnosed in utero. We describe the echocardiographic an...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Paladini D,Russo M,Palmieri S,Pacileo G,Caruso G,Ianniruberto A,Martinelli P,Calabrò R

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:Entrapment and fracture of coronary angioplasty hardware are rare complications of percutaneous coronary artery interventions; however, when such incidents occur, they frequently require surgical management. Percutaneous retrieval should be attempted before surgical retrieval unless hemodynamic stability is a problem....

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Chang TM,Pellegrini D,Ostrovsky A,Marrangoni AG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between May 1976 and December 1982 (104 months), 152 patients from a total of 3592 patients who had coronary angiography at the Buffalo Veterans Administration Medical Center had coronary artery disease with left ventricular ejection fractions of 40% or below. Sixty-three patients in this group had coronary bypass sur...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Balu V,Szmedra L,Dean D,Bhayana J

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inferior vena cava filters are commonly used to prevent pulmonary embolism in patients who manifest deep vein thrombosis and recurrent pulmonary embolism despite anticoagulation, or in patients with contraindications to anticoagulation. We report the case of a 69-year-old man with a structurally normal heart who exper...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Peters MN,Khazi Syed RH,Katz MJ,Moscona JC,Nijjar VS,Bisharat MB

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle is rare, and recurrence is extremely rare. We report the case of a 62-year-old man who presented at our hospital with a painless pulsatile swelling in the left breast. He had undergone coronary artery bypass grafting and left-ventricular aneurysmectomy 14 years earlier. On investig...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Rao MS,Vaijyanath P,Taneja K,Dubey B,Manchanda SC,Venugopal P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxorubicin, an anthracycline antibiotic commonly used as a chemotherapeutic agent for breast cancer, is well known to cause cardiotoxicity. We report the case of an active, otherwise healthy 57-year-old breast cancer survivor who, 17 years after chemotherapy, presented with symptoms of overt heart failure. She had no...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Kumar S,Marfatia R,Tannenbaum S,Yang C,Avelar E

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 20% to 30% of patients who undergo coronary arteriography for the evaluation of chest pain are found to have normal coronary arteries. These patients have a survival rate comparable to that of the normal population, yet they continue to complain of symptoms on extended follow-up, and about half of this g...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Mukerji V,Beitman BD,Alpert MA

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemangiomas of the heart are extremely rare. The prognosis is quite variable, because this benign tumor may grow, involute, or stop growing; therefore, resection is usually the treatment of choice. In patients with tumors of the left atrium, percutaneous balloon mitral valvulotomy is generally contraindicated. Yet for...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： van Buuren F,Langer C,Faber L,Butz T,Schmidt HK,Esdorn H,Bogunovic N,Mellwig KP,Scholtz W,Horstkotte D

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:During his work, an 18-year-old carpenter-in-training overbalanced and shot himself in the left median thorax with a nail gun. The patient was delivered to our thoracic surgery unit with a tentative diagnosis of penetrating lung trauma. An emergent computed tomogram showed a heart-penetrating nail injury. The patient ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Rupprecht H,Ghidau M

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary cardiac myxosarcoma is a rare disease; it is exceedingly rare for symptoms of systemic metastasis to precede diagnosis of the primary cardiac tumor. We describe the case of a previously healthy 60-year-old man with left atrial myxosarcoma, who had first presented with jejunal intussusception due to intestinal ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Takami Y,Masumoto H,Terasawa A,Kanai M,Sugiura H

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amiodarone therapy for the treatment of arrhythmias has been found to have severe side effects. Although the drug has been prescribed in Europe for more than 20 years, it has only recently been used in the United States as an investigational drug, and has been found to cause pulmonary toxicity, as well as other major ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Liss G,Leachman RD

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Because of the variety of their anatomy and clinical implications, coronary anomalies tend to confuse many observers. Recently, our group and other investigators have proposed that only 1 specific type of anomaly, by means of a specific mechanism, is able to cause both symptoms of myocardial ischemia and sudden death....

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Angelini P,Walmsley R,Cheong BY,Ott DA

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:We report a case of an 11-year-old girl who presented with a slowly enlarging mass in the right posterolateral chest wall. Computed tomography showed a soft-tissue mass 8.5 × 7.5 × 5.5 cm in size, arising from the right posterolateral 9th, 10th, and 11th intercostal spaces. Magnetic resonance imaging confirmed a vascu...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Ulku R,Onat S,Avci A,Ozmen CA

更新日期：2010-01-01 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 compared the diagnostic accuracy of N-terminal prohormone brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) with that of echocardiography in the evaluation of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction after coronary artery bypass grafting. Thirty patients were studied prospectively. Patients who had recent myocardial infarction, ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Islamoglu F,Ozcan K,Apaydin AZ,Soydas C,Bayindir O,Durmaz I

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta after the original inclusion/wrap technique of the Bentall procedure present a difficult surgical management problem and are associated with substantial morbidity and mortality. Patients with Marfan syndrome frequently develop aneurysms and dissections that involve multiple aorti...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Kokotsakis JN,Lioulias AG,Foroulis CN,Skouteli EA,Milonakis MK,Bastounis EA,Boulafendis DG

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the following review, we outline the cellular ontogeny and time course of coronary artery development within the vertebrate heart. Our eventual focus will be the potential role of arteriogenesis in the differentiation of a subset of specialized conduction cells in the chick heart. We begin by briefly outlining earl...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Harris BS,O'Brien TX,Gourdie RG

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a patient who sustained a myocardial infarction after inhaling cocaine. He developed a persistent wall motion defect that was present 18 months after the acute event despite resolution of electrocardiographic evidence of infarction. ...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Wilkins CE,Mathur VS,Ty RC,Hall RJ

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the study was to investigate, in adult patients after successful repair of aortic coarctation, potential relationships between B-type natriuretic peptide levels and exercise capacity and the following factors: arterial hypertension, residual stenosis of the ascending aorta, and age at the time of surgery. T...

journal_title：Texas Heart Institute journal

authors： Trojnarska O,Gwizdala A,Lanocha M,Katarzynska A,Katarzynski S,Oko-Sarnowska Z,Szyszka A,Chmara E

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00