A 58-year-old female with a history of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome presented at our institution with palpitations and chest pain. Electrocardiography revealed paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia with a heart rate of 188 beats/min. Antiarrhythmic drugs were ineffective, and tachycardia was resolved by electrical cardioversion. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed abnormal vessels aroun...

INTRODUCTION The potential complications of an abdominal aortic aneurysm include rupture, compression of surrounding structures, thrombo-embolic events and fistula. The most common site of arterio-venous fistula is the inferior vena cava. Fistula involving a renal vein is particularly uncommon. CASE PRESENTATION This report describes a 54-year-old Caucasian woman who was admitted to the emerg...

Abdominal aortic aneurysms represent a common pathologic condition, with an increasing incidence in the last decades. Unfortunately, the mortality rate in ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms has also increased. The aim of this retrospective study was to determine the risk factors that could interfere with the surgical outcome of these patients, especially with the perioperative morbidity and mo...

superior mesenteric artery (sma) aneurysm is a rare disease. in this case report, we present a 32 years old woman who was admitted to our hospital with chronic abdominal pain. sma aneurysm was diagnosed after radiological evaluation. the patient underwent ligation of the superior mesenteric artery aneurysm and remained well 12 months after the surgery.

We report the case of an 86-year-old man who was admitted with congestive cardiac failure and chronic renal failure. He was previously known to have a thoracic aortic aneurysm and chronic bronchitis. There was no history of myocardial infarction but his heart failure was assumed to be due to ischaemic heart disease. Despite treatment of the heart failure the patient died. At post-mortem he was ...

SUMMARY Thirteen patients with left ventricular aneurysm due to coronary heart disease were studied by left heart and coronary sinus catheterization, including cineventriculog-raphy and measurement of ventricular mechanics and energetics at rest, and in some subjects, during either isoproterenol infusion or supine leg exercise. Eight patients had an aneurysm estimated to comprise greater than 2...

a pseudo aneurysm results from leakage of blood from an artery after trauma or dehiscence or separation of a surgical anastomosis. the reported rate of pseudo aneurysm in access sites range from 0.88% to 8%. it has some cause like penetrating trauma, blunt trauma and endovascular procedure. the differential diagnoses of this lesion are hematoma, av fistula, lymphadenopathy, lymphocele, dvt, com...

In neonates, aneurysm of the vein of Galen often masquerades as cyanotic congenital heart disease. We report 4 cases of neonates presenting with malformation of the vein of Galen at our insititution. An increased awareness of this entity seems warranted.

A 35-year-old male patient presented with heart failure. On examination, there was a continuous murmur over the left sternum. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a ruptured aneurysm arising from the noncoronary sinus of Valsalva and draining into the right atrium.

We report the case of a girl with chronic rheumatic valvar heart disease who developed infective endocarditis and two complications, ischemic stroke due to cerebral embolic event and mycotic aneurysm of the superior mesenteric artery.