The clinical, pathological, and electrocardiographic findings in congenital pulmonary atresia with intact septum have been reviewed recently by Elliott, Adams, and Edwards (1963). Among their 12 cases, the x-ray examinations on 10 were available for this study. The most characteristic appearance on the frontal chest radiograph in pulmonary atresia is the diminution in the size of the pulmonary ...

To cite: Sethi T, Singh AP, Singla V, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2012008320 DESCRIPTION A 50-year-old woman presented with complaints of progressive breathlessness and easy fatiguability over the past 2 years. Jugular venous pressure was raised with absence of a wave. Cardiac auscultation revealed two distinct mid-diastolic murmurs at t...

A 72-year-old female, retired trader, receiving multidisciplinary care for dilated cardiomyopathy and congestive cardiac failure, with massive cardiomegaly, endomyocardial fibrosis, pericardial effusion, atrial fibrillation, ascites umbilical hernia was scheduled elective herniorrhaphy at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital (UPTH). She successfully had surgery under lumbar epidura...