EXPERIENCES in the surgical research laboratory and in the operating room have served to refine the technic of open cardiotomy for the repair and correction of anomalies involving the ventricular septum, the right ventricular outflow tract, and the pulmonary valve. These refinements have been reflected in a steadily declining mortality following the repair of ventricular septal defects and the ...

EXPERIENCES in the surgical research laboratory and in the operating room have served to refine the technic of open cardiotomy for the repair and correction of anomalies involving the ventricular septum, the right ventricular outflow tract, and the pulmonary valve. These refinements have been reflected in a steadily declining mortality following the repair of ventricular septal defects and the ...

Background: There are many causes of left ventricular hypertrophy which can result in arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is one the commonly encountered cause death young adults. Aim: Identifying role Cardiac MRI characterising diagnostic parameters HCM. Materials methods: 125 patients with clinical suspicion or genetic evidence HCM referred for between June...

This series of 5 cases with double outlet of morphologically left ventricular chamber includes 4 found during a review of 1700 heart specimens (incidence 0.23%) and 1 found at operation and successfully corrected. Abnormal atrioventricular connection precluding total correction was present in the 4 anatomical cases. Clinical diagnosis may be difficult and it is suggested that axial cineangiogra...

BACKGROUND Apical ballooning syndrome (or Takotsubo cardiomyopathy) is a syndrome of transient left ventricular apical ballooning. Although first described in Japanese patients, it is now well reported in the Caucasian population. The syndrome mimicks an acute myocardial infarction but is characterised by the absence of obstructive coronary disease. We describe a serious and poorly understood c...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) – is the most common genetically determined heart disease, characterized by symmetrical or asymmetrical myocardial thickening (≥15 mm), leading to progressive failure and a high risk of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Diagnosis, natural course treatment HCM have become sources uncertainty, misunderstanding debate due increasing complexity diagnosis in clinical prac...

A subaortic membrane is an uncommon cause for left ventricular outflow tract obstruction. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction would mask the presence of the subaortic membrane on transthoracic echocardiography and cause a false diagnosis. We report a patient with subaortic stenosis due to flail subaortic membrane misdiagnosed as obstructive hypert...

BACKGROUND Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease characterized by substantial genetic, morphologic, and prognostic heterogeneity. Recently, sex-related differences in HCM were reported, with women being older at diagnosis and exhibiting greater left ventricular outflow tract obstruction than men. We sought to evaluate the influence of sex on the HCM phenotype in a large cohort of unrel...

OBJECTIVE The aim was to define the long term prognosis of isolated ventricular septal defect (VSD) with anteriorly malaligned outlet septum. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING University hospital, tertiary medical care centre. PATIENTS Between July 1986 and June 1993, 63 patients were studied with an isolated VSD and anteriorly malaligned outlet septum (59 perimembranous; 4 muscular outlet). ...