Two thousand one men with coronary heart disease (CHD) who were enrolled in the Exercise Testing Registry of the Seattle Heart Watch had symptom-limited maximal exercise tests at the initial clinical examination and follow-up surveillance of subsequent mortality for 4.1 +/- 1.6 years. When subdivided into three mutually exclusive subgroups, 636 patients did not have exertional myocardial ische...

Circulatory distress can occur in the long term after the formation of a traumatic arteriovenous fistula (AVF), but cardiac failure rarely occurs in a patient with an AVF in the lower extremity. The present patient underwent surgery to treat a traumatic popliteal AVF 9 years after sustaining the injury. Although the patient was asymptomatic with regard to cardiac circulation, cardiomegaly was n...

An asymptomatic patient with cardiomegaly caused by isolated right atrial standstill is reported. The right atrium showed no evidence of contraction on pressure records or angiographically, while the left atrium functioned normally.

Most fatal cases of Coxsackie group B neonatal myocarditis have been associated with nursery epidemics. Occasional sporadic cases have been reported, mainly from the U.S.A., and a further case with gross cardiomegaly is described.

Methods A 31 year old woman at 32 + 2 weeks had an ultrasound assessment which showed cardiomegaly at the expense of the right atrium with moderate ascites. She had an unremarkable family history, In her past medical and surgical history she had an endometrioma we was operated on in 2007 and at the time underwent a cystectomy and hypothyroidism with a TSH of 6. 51 which did not require treatmen...