An 18 year old man was admitted with progressively increasing chest pain of one year's duration and palpitation, breathlessness, and oedema of the lower limbs that had lasted for three months. On examination there was ankle oedema; the blood pressure was 90/60 mm Hg and the jugular venous pressure was 7 cm from the sternal angle with prominent V waves and Y descent. The apex beat was easily fel...

A 74-year-old woman with a history of chronic hepatitis C and transcatheter arterial chemoembolization for an unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) 2 years previously presented with progressive exertional dyspnea of 1 month's duration. Two-dimensional echocardiography revealed a huge right ventricular mass with right atrial and right ventricular outflow tract extension. Palliative resecti...