413: Successful Surgical Repair of Neonatal Berry Syndrome After Failed Hybrid Procedure

Rescue angioplasty after failed thrombolysis--high mortality despite successful procedure.

Successful transvenous lead extraction after a failed open surgical attempt.

An 81-year-old man was referred with an infected cardiac resynchronization therapy defibrillator (CRT-D) system. His initial dualchamber implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) had been implanted 8 years earlier and upgraded to a CRT-D system 2 years before referral. Epicardial atrial and left ventricular (LV) leads were subsequently added after the endocardial LV lead lost capture. The en...

Successful early surgical treatment in neonatal compartment syndrome: case report.

Neonatal compartment syndrome is rare, and the diagnosis is often missed or delayed because other ischemic diseases can mimic clinical signs observed on the skin. A premature newborn infant presented with skin lesions during the first hours of life that were recognized as the sentinel finding in compartment syndrome of the newborn. We restored normal function by emergency surgery. The authors h...

Successful Surgical Repair of Stabbing Cardiac Injury

Reports describing traumatic lesions to the heart caused by a foreign body are comparatively rare. Such trauma is often associated with a poor outcome due to injury to the heart or major blood vessels with subsequent massive blood loss. Delayed presentation and intervention are associated with poor outcome in these patients. This report describes a 17-year-old male who presented with stabbing t...

Pseudoarthrosis repair after failed metatarsophalangeal 1 arthrodesis

Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. DOI 10.3109/17453674.2011.552782 We present an inlay bone grafting technique for the treatment of failed first metatarsophalangeal joint (MTP-1) arthrodesis. To our kn...