Echocardiographic findings are described in a patient with hypoplastic right heart syndrome (pulmonary atresia type with intact ventricular septum and small right ventricular cavity) who had an associated atrial septal aneurysm. An unusual appearance of echoes behind the aorta bulging into the left atrium in diastole on both the M-mode and cross-sectional echo suggested this diagnosis prior to ...

The patient, a 69-year-old woman, had been diagnosed with a heart murmur. A chest X-ray at a local clinic had shown an abnormal shadow. Since CT revealed a 3-cm-diameter mass close to the pulmonary artery, we performed a coronary angiography and diagnosed her as having a coronary artery aneurysm associated with a coronary-pulmonary artery fistula. We incised the aneurysm under cardiac arrest, t...

Bradley D. Allen, Alex J. Barker, Preeti Kansal, Jeremy D. Collins, James C. Carr, S. Chris Impact of Aneurysm Repair on Thoracic Aorta Hemodynamics Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.11...

BackgroundOver 95% of true left ventricular aneurysms result from coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. The incidence of left ventricular aneurysm in patients suffering myocardial infarction has varied between 10-35%. Large left ventricular aneurysm can cause arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, recurrent myocardial infarction, thromboembolic events and sudden death and operation...

To understand the role of surgery in the treatment of patients with a ventricular aneurysm, one must first consider the criteria used to define the presence of an aneurysm. Angiographically, an aneurysm may be defined as an area of the ventricle which is demarcated from the surrounding chamber by hypokinesis, akinesis, or dyskinesis. An angiographic aneurysm^' may relate anatomically to an obvi...

Cardiac myxoma is the most common primary tumor of the heart, located mainly in the left atrium. Cerebral embolization or intracranial aneurysm formation as a consequence of left atrial myxomas has been well documented, whereas myxoma embolization causing the combination of cerebral infarction and intracranial myxomatous aneurysm is rare. We report herein, a 67-year-old female with a cardiac my...

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) is nowadays a routine therapy for patients with advanced heart failure. We present the case of a 74-year-old male patient who was admitted to our center with terminal heart failure in dilated cardiomyopathy and ascending aortic aneurysm with aortic valve regurgitation. The LVAD implantation with simultaneous aortic valve and supracoronary ascending aortic r...

Introduction:Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is divided into two traumatic and non-traumatic categories. The present study sought to investigate the anatomical properties of non-traumatic intracranial hemorrhage in Kerman, Iran. Method:A total of 305 non-traumatic ICH cases were chosen in Shafa medical center. Data from patients’ files and CT scan images, including demographic factors and type o...