MURCS Association: a rare association with patent ductus arteriosus and bicuspid aortic valve.

A multimodality approach to an elderly patient with aortic coarctation, patent ductus arteriosus, and bicuspid aortic valve.

Bicuspid aortic valve and severe aortic stenosis in a newborn exposed to carbamazapine during pregnancy.

The use of antiepileptic drugs increases the risk of major congenital malformations during pregnancy. Here, we report an infant who had a history of in-utero carbamazepine exposure and who was born with a cardiac malformation. The infant was born at 39 weeks of gestation vaginally to an epileptic mother who had been treated with carbamazepine throughout her pregnancy. He was referred due to car...

Familial thrombocytopenia associated with ovarian agenesis, umbilical hernia, bicuspid aortic valve, patent ductus arteriosus and epilepsia.

Delayed Fracture of a PFM Nit-Occlud Flex Coil after Transcatheter Occlusion of Patent Ductus Arteriosus

We report the fracture of a 4×4 Nit-Occlud pfm coil in a child with patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), bicuspid aortic valve, and coarctation, detected three years after deployment without any adverse consequent. This report emphasizes the importance of adherence to the user guidelines of the company for the implementation of the device and also shows the significance of lateral chest X-ray in the...

[Clinical and echocardiographic characteristics of scimitar syndrome].

Seven patients with scimitar syndrome underwent retrospective clinical and echocardiographic examination. The findings were: respiratory infection with dyspnea on moderate exercise in 90%, scimitar sign in four (57%), dextrocardia in five (71%), and interatrial septal defect in five (71%), one of whom had patent ductus arteriosus. Overall, two patients had patent ductus arteriosus: one also had...