Background Aorto-right-atrial fistula in native valve endocarditis is very rare. Case Description A 45-year-old woman was referred with an endocarditis with a perforated right cusp of the aortic valve with at least moderate insufficiency and an affected tricuspid annulus with vegetations. In addition to this, an aorto-cavitary fistula from the aortic sinus to the right atrium with a holodiastol...

Thickening of the aortic root and anterior mitral leaflet has been described in patients with aortic valve insufficiency associated with ankylosing spondylitis. We report identical findings made by transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography in three patients with inflammatory, non-infective aorto-mitral pathology as manifestation of various rheumatological disorders. All three patients...

The incidence of severe complications of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection has presented variations over recent decades since the advent of penicillin. Gonococcal endocarditis (GE) still remains an ever-present threat afflicting the society's poor and sexually active young population. This entity frequently requires surgical intervention and usually exhibits a poor outcome. The interval betwe...

Thirty-five consecutive patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) associated with aortic insufficiency (AI) who underwent corrective surgery are presented. There were seven operative and three late deaths among the patients operated upon before 1968. No death, however, was encountered among the most recent 18 consecutive patients. The VSD was closed directly in 14 patients and with a Teflon...

Blunt trauma is uncommonly followed by intracardiac valvar injuries. The resulting valvar insufficiency rapidly or progressively leads to congestive heart failure or death unless surgically corrected. Three patients with sustained blunt chest trauma were found to have two aortic valve and one mitral valve ruptures. They had variable clinical courses. However, after the diagnosis was established...

Thirty-five consecutive patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD) associated with aortic insufficiency (AI) who underwent corrective surgery are presented. There were seven operative and three late deaths among the patients operated upon before 1968. No death, however, was encountered among the most recent 18 consecutive patients. The VSD was closed directly in 14 patients and with a Teflon...

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SUMMARY The effects of exercise in combined aortic stenosis and insufficiency were evaluated in 10 patients by pressure measurements and the measurement of forward (QF) and regurgitant (QR) flows by simultaneous upstream and downstream sampling using indocyanine green. While heart rate increased, systolic aortic valve pressure gradient

Background Because of the high prevalence of renal insufficiency in patients eligible for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), a non-contrast evaluation of the aortic root complex along with the entire vascular access route is desirable for pre-procedural evaluation. In this pilot study we proposed to test two novel investigational, non-contrast MRA techniques to develop a protocol fo...

We report the case of a 54-year-old patient who was admitted to our institution for planned surgical treatment of an ascending aortic aneurysm and aortic valve insufficiency. A decision was made to perform an elective Bentall-de Bono procedure. Constrictive pericarditis was revealed intraoperatively. The Bentall-de Bono procedure and the resection of calcified pericardium were performed success...