Background Ebstein anomaly is a kind of congenital defect of tricuspid valve mainly affecting the right ventricle, recent evidence have suggested the LV geometry remodeling in patient with Ebstein anomaly due to potential RV-LV coupling. The aim of this study-we investigated the interaction between abnormal right ventricle and left ventricle and whether myocardial fibrosis is the basis of abnor...

The radiologic appearance of a "ballooned" fourth ventricle usually occurs consequent to obstruction of its exit foramina. One variant of ballooned fourth ventricle is the "isolated" ventricle, which occurs when there is both an aqueductal stenosis as well as extraventricular obstructive hydrocephalus. We describe the neuroradiologic evaluation of a patient originally thought to have an isolate...

Fig. 1. Coronal view of a re-formatted CT scan image with contrast showing the right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and a pericardial haematoma (PH). ‘L’ represents the level of the rupture of the myocardial abscess and its connection to the pericardial space. Fig. 2. CT 3-D reconstruction with contrast showing the right ventricle (RV), left ventricle (LV), and the pericardial haematoma (...

SUMMARY A new case of an unusual association of mitral atresia with single left ventricle is reported. The salient anatomic features include: (1) the right atrioventricular valve is atretic; (2) the left atrioventricular valve enters the large ventricle with morpho-logic characteristics of the left ventricle; and (3) this large ventricle communicates by way of an interventricular communication ...

although systolic dysfunction is revealed as a prognostic factor in cardiac surgery , the role of diastolic dysfunction as a predictive factor is less evaluated. in this retrospective study from 872 patients that underwent isolated coronary artery bypass graft(jan 2008-feb 2009),388 patients had normal left ventricular ejection fraction (>50%). these are divided in two groups, group 1: 361 pati...

The catastrophic consequences for patients in the settings of certain clinical conditions such as acute right ventricular infarction or massive pulmonary embolism with right heart failure illustrate the essential role that the right ventricle plays in sustaining life. With the development of more sophisticated diagnostic imaging technologies at the end of the last century and the dawn of this c...

When a central nervous system (CNS) lesion is found in patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the diagnostic possibilities include CNS involvement of CLL, transformation to large B-cell lymphoma (Richter’s syndrome [RS]), or coincidental presence another tumorous non-tumorous disease. RS commonly occurs preexisting CLL other nodal/extra-nodal involvement, but it extremely rare find i...