A pseudoaneurysm of the proximal right subclavian artery is rare and most commonly caused by penetrating or blunt trauma. We report a case of a Marfan patient with a large iatrogenic pseudoaneurysm of the right subclavian artery, induced by a puncture lesion during central venous catheter placement for an elective endovascular thoracic aortic procedure. The patient was successfully treated with...

was fistulized from the area near the mitral valve toward the left atrium. Mobile fibrillary vegetations were observed inside the aneurysm. Using the 3-D assessment, a segment bulging towards the mitral valve in diastole was also observed. There was no detectable structural defect of the anterior mitral valve leaflet (Fig. 3a-c; Video 3). Blood cultures were positive for Streptococcus spp. The ...

The patient is a 54-year-old asymptomatic male with a tumor in the right atrium that was diagnosed on transesophageal echocardiography and confirmed as a lipoma of the right atrium on computerized tomography. The patient underwent surgical repair with extracorporeal circulation. The tumor was resected, and its base of implantation in the atrium was repaired with a flap of bovine pericardium. Th...

We experienced two cases of left ventricular free wall rupture (LVFWR) following acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Case 1, with the blowout type of LVFWR was initially closed by direct suture, followed by hemostasis using a double patch sealing method (DPS) by which the tear was doubly sealed with large and small bovine pericardium patches to which GRF glue was applied. Case 2 with the oozing ...

Report on two children, one 11 year-male and another one year-six-month-female with tetralogy of Fallot associated with anomalous origin of coronary artery crossing the right ventricle outlet tract. Diagnosis was done by echocardiography and cardiac catheterization. On surgical correction we used an external composite tubular pericardium bovine graft and posterior wall of the pulmonary artery b...

Abstract We report an extremely rare case of primary aortocaval fistula with simultaneous development aortoenteric in a 68-year-old man. The patient developed under oral anticoagulation spontaneous intracaval aortic rupture. An emergency intervention was performed covering the aorto-uniiliac stent graft and femoro-femoral crossover bypass. One week later, transferred to our institution diagnosi...

Congenital defects of the pericardium are considered rare. Until 1979 , the reported cases were only about 200.1 Total absence of the left pericardium is the most common defect2 and less common is a partial defect of the left pericardium. Other types, i.e. isolated right-sided defects, total pericardial absence and diaphragmatic pericardial defects are very rare.3 Before the last decade, t...