Left atrial dissection is a rare factor that may cause left ventricular assist device obstruction. Prompt diagnosis and surgical repair are essential. This case report describes our experience and a successful surgical management in a patient after HeartMate 3 implantation and mitral valve inflow obstruction due to a left atrial dissection.

Background and Purpose: Candida endocarditis is an infrequent disease with a high mortality rate, which commonly occurs in immunosuppressed patients with cardiac valve replacement. We reported a 70-year-old woman diagnosed with Candida prosthetic valve endocarditis (PVE). This study also involved a review of all published cases of Candida PVE from 1970. Case report: Herein, we reported a 70-ye...

The surgical procedures used to treat mitral valve disease have changed in the last 30 years. The aim of this study was to assess trends in surgical procedures for mitral valve disease at the Jikei University Hospital. From 1972 to 2003,770 patients with mitral valve disease underwent one of following procedures in our department:closed mitral commissurotomy,open mitral commissurotomy,mitral va...

introduction fungal prosthetic valve endocarditis (pve) is rare but serious complication of valve replacement surgery. candida species, particularly candida albicans is the most common isolated pathogen in fungal pve (1–6%of cases). case presentation we describe a 35-year-old woman who underwent mechanical mitral valve replacement about 3 years ago. she was admitted with neurological symptoms a...

mitral valve prolapse (mvp) is a relatively frequent valvular abnormality. in both children and adults with mvp, an increased incidence of ventricular arrhythmias has been reported. qt dispersion, defined as the difference in duration between the longest qt interval and the shortest one, for a given set of electrocardiographic leads has been proposed as a sign of regional difference in cardiac ...

functional mitral regurgitation (mr) results from left ventricular remodeling, leaflet tethering or tenting. coronary artery disease is one of the important causes of functional mr due to tethering. detection of functional mr and its severity are important factors in patient prognosis. there are different methods for detection of functional mr and its severity, including anterior mitral leaflet...

the term mitral valve prolapse (mvp) is used for a particular subset of patients with hyperadrenergic dysautonomia. it occurs when part of a leaflet or both leaflets of the mitral valve extend above the plane of the atrioventricular junction during ventricular systole. the adenylate cyclase activity in mvp dys-autonomia was studied by extraction of enzyme from the erythrocytes from 62 normal su...

Patients with severe symptomatic mitral regurgitation benefit from correction of mitral regurgitation. Surgical mitral valve repair or replacement is the current standard of care for these patients. However, high risk of surgery in many of these patients, lack of universal expertise for mitral valve repair and moderate long-term success in correcting functional mitral regurgitation are some of ...