Cardiac diverticulum is a rare anomaly, which may present in association with pericardial effusion. Only few cases diagnosed during fetal life have been published and only in 12 cases pericardiocentesis was made with good postnatal outcomes in 83% of the cases. In the first trimester of pregnancy only 6 cases were reported. We described the largest series of cases published. We describe a case ...

Mortality due to uncomplicated congenital defects of the heart is comparatively infrequent. Cabot's analysis of 1,906 cardiac autopsies shows only seven cases of congenital defects, of which two were clinically recognized and in only one was the death solely due to the cardiac anomaly. Among the congenital cardiac disorders Muir and Brown (1934) consider that interventricular septal defects are...

Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SVA) is a rare cardiac anomaly and comprises less than 1% of congenital cardiac defects. It can be congenital or acquired. Echocardiography and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging are noninvasive imaging procedures primarily used for diagnosis. A 47-year-old patient with a history of asthma was admitted through the emergency department which dyspnoea that had started ...

Congenital absence of the pericardium is a rare abnormality that can be diagnosed by cardiac imaging procedures. A 49-year-old male needed medical attention due to the appearance of palpitation with a systolic murmur, and a notable aortic arch deviation was seen in the chest X-ray. In the echocardiogram, a poor echo window was detected. A cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed a rare c...

Background: Persistent Left Superior Vena Cava (PLSVC) is a rare congenital anomaly which is typically asymptomatic and discovered incidentally during device implantation. Methods: In this case, we present challenges and techniques of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT) in a patient with PLSVC. Results: After evaluating the exact anatomy of PLSVC and Coronary Sinus (CS), we chose the approp...

From October 1977 to December 1988, 108 neonates born with esophageal atresia (EA) and/or a tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) were treated at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children. An incidence of I :4000-4500 live births was noted. 1I2.4% had the common- type anomaly, 5.5% had pure esophageal atresia, and 6.5% had an H-type anomaly. 2.8% had upper and lower fistulae and 2.8% had uppe...

Inborn cardiac diseases are among the most frequent congenital anomalies and are the main cause of death in infants within the first year of age in industrialized countries when not adequately treated. They can be divided into simple and complex cardiac malformations. The former ones, for instance atrial and ventricular septal defects, valvular or subvalvular stenosis or insufficiency account f...

INTRODUCTION This study aimed to determine factors associated with the need for extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) during admission for cardiac surgery (CS). A secondary aim was to determine how ECMO impacted length, cost, and mortality of the admission. METHODS Data from the Kids' Inpatient Database (KIDS) were utilized. Admissions with...

Around 5% of patients undergoing coronary angiography are diagnosed with a variant of aberrant coronary arteries. Malignant variants of this anomaly have been shown to result in 19% of sudden cardiac deaths in young athletes [1]. It is speculated that aberrant coronaries taking an anomalous course between the great arteries are squeezed between the pulmonary artery and the aorta during exercise...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Aortopulmonary septal defect is an uncommon congenital cardiac anomaly. To date, approximately 300 cases have been reported. We present our experience, emphasizing the importance of early correction to avoid irreversible pulmonary hypertension. PATIENTS AND METHOD Between 1979 and 2000, seven patients underwent surgical repair of this heart defect in our hospital. ...