Ascending aortic dissection is often a catastrophic condition. Dissection into the commissures or into an aortic valve leaflet may lead to leaflet avulsion and valvular insufficiency due to a flail valve. We present an image report describing an important and life-threatening complication due to the movement of a partially dehisced intimal aortic flap into the left ventricle causing aortic valv...

Around 75% of patients with severe pulmonary insufficiency requiring valvular replacement are excluded from percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation (PPVI) due to a large ventricular outflow tract. To extend the indication of PPVI to these patients, a new size reducer has been designed. This 35-mm size reducer was successfully deployed inside the main pulmonary artery through a 21-Fr delivery ...

1Allergy Related Disease Unit, G d’Annunzio University Foundation, Chieti, Italy 2Department of Medicine and Science of Ageing, Section of Allergy, Clinical Immunology and Occupational Medicine, G d’Annunzio University, Chieti, Italy 3Allergy Unit, Spedali Civili, Brescia, Italy 4Allergy/Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit, ICP Hospital, Milan, Italy 5Biostatistical Laboratory, Department of Biomedic...

1 Gama Filho University, Rua Manoel Vitorino 553, Prédio AG, 5 andar, 20740-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 Chest Institute, McGill University, 3650 St. Urbain Street, Montreal, PQ, Canada H2X 2P4 3 Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Avenida Professor Rodolpho Paulo Rocco 255, 21941-913 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 4 Center for Global Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New Y...

1Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, Institute for Biomedical Research, College of Medical and Dental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom; 2Centre for Molecular Medicine, Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary System, Frankfurt University Hospital, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; 3Division of Hematology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical S...