Rheumatic fever (RF) remains endemic in many countries and frequently causes heart failure due to severe chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease, which requires surgical treatment. Here, we report on a patient who underwent an elective surgical correction for mitral and aortic valvular heart disease and had a post-operative diagnosis of acute rheumatic carditis. The incidental finding of Ascho...

The management of synchronous carotid disease and coronary or valvular disease requiring surgical repair has been a constant challenge to clinicians for decades and for a variety of reasons. First, although it is a vexing problem, it is relatively infrequent, such that any single institution/ operator experience in management will always be clouded by “the last case I did” syndrome, more reflec...

Correspondence to Professor P Lancellotti; [email protected] The growing prevalence of valvular heart disease represents a major challenge in terms of short-term and long-term management and surveillance. 2 Despite welldefined guidelines, appropriate detection and follow-up strategies are still poorly applied in valvular heart disease. 4 In many countries, valvular heart diseases are m...

Valvular heart disease presents as mixed spectrum lesion in healthcare settings in the third-world and developing countries. Rheumatic heart disease still forms the bulk of the aetiopathology of valve lesions. Mitral and aortic valve lesions top the list of valvular pathology. A thorough understanding of the pathophysiology of valvular heart disease is essential while planning anaesthesia and p...

Heart murmurs are a common finding during physical examination of children but most of them are innocent or normal.recognizing the etiology of heart murmurs can help us in differential diagnosis of them.the peresent study was undertaken to determine the prevalence and etiology of heart murmurs  in 4761 school children.the sex ratio was nearly 1:1 ,murmurs were heard in 459 students (9.64%) with...