In this endovascular era, open repair of thoracoabdominal aneurysm is a rare operation in regional hospitals. Adjuncts to the repair including left heart bypass and spinal cord protection remain controversial. This is a presentation of a successful case of open repair of a type II thoracoabdominal aneurysm in a local hospital, and a discussion of the overviews of current medical practice on thi...

dear editor, abdominal aortic aneurysm is often asymptomatic, less recognized, and causes considerable mortality and morbidity, if missed. the incidence varies from country to country and the occurrence is influenced by modifiable (smoking, coronary heart disease, hypertension, dyslipidemia, and prolonged steroid therapy) and non-modifiable risk factors (increasing age, male gender, and positiv...

Unruptured right sinus of Valsalva aneurysm that causes severe obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is extremely rare. We describe the case of a 47-year-old woman who presented with exertional dyspnea. Upon investigation, we discovered an unruptured right sinus of Valsalva aneurysm with associated right ventricular outflow tract obstruction and a supracristal ventricular septal de...

I t is not unusual for complicated aneurysms of the ascending aorta to affect left ventricular function. Processes causing or associated with an aneurysm may narrow the coronary artery ostia and produce myocardial ischemia or infarction; the aneurysm may distort the aortic valve ring and produce aortic insufficiency with subsequent left ventricular hypertrophy, dilatation, and failure. However,...

Aortic aneurysm involves the aorta which is one of the large arteries through which blood passes from the heart to the rest of the body. Aortic aneurysm is a relatively common find‐ ing in the elderly patients because of aging, hypertension, or atherosclerosis, but it is rarely seen in childhood. In the adult population, the incidence of aortic aneurysm has been esti‐ mated to be 5.9 cases per ...

Background: Kawasaki disease (KD) is a frequent cause of acquired heart in infants and young children, which may be triggered by infectious agents, with the highest incidence Asian countries. Several genotypes are identified as susceptibility genes for KD, but none known Iranian population. Objectives: Due to racial differences frequency significance genes, we aimed investigate 8p22-23-rs225454...

Background and Aim: In-hospital rebleeding and early aneurysm rupture are major causes of mortality and morbidity in aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage. Rebleeding may occur at the referring hospital, during transfer or at the referral neurovascular center prior to surgical or endovascular treatment. However, there has been no report regarding the rate of in-hospital rebleeding and early aneury...

Arterio-venous aneurysm of the lung is usually considered to be a rare lesion, and by 1942 only four examples were on record. During the last six years, however, nineteen more cases have been published, and it is likely that as the clinical features of this syndrome become better known still more of these patients will be separated from the cases of cyanotic congenital heart disease and polycyt...

We describe the case of a significant fetal atrial septal aneurysm causing left ventricular inflow obstruction. Serial fetal echocardiograms demonstrated potential left heart hypoplasia. The fetal cardiologist guided the perinatal team to electively deliver the infant early and modify the course of developing hypoplastic left heart.