A 22-year-old woman presented with acute left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea 6 days after surgery for revision of the stenotic central aortopulmonary shunt. She had a history of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral artery. Her Waterston shunt was placed when she was 5 years old and stented and re-dilated after...

It has not been delineated in detail how pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) affects gas exchange through long-term follow-up. In Japan, this surgery has been undertaken in a limited number of institutions, and the results of PTE have not been well publicized. A total of 25 patients were operated on during the period from 1985 to 1996 at our institution, and the overall mortality rate was 16%...

BACKGROUND Behçet's disease (BD) is a rare condition with a classic triad of oral and genital ulceration and eye disease. Cardiovascular complication is a rare finding in BD. CASE REPORT In this report, we present a seventeen years old patient with a history of fever for 20 days, who developed a clot in right ventricle (RV). Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and echocardiography demons...

OBJECTIVES Because pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) can result in an immediate reduction in pulmonary artery (PA) pressure, we sought to evaluate the effect of PTE on severe tricuspid regurgitation (TR) without tricuspid annuloplasty. BACKGROUND Few data exist regarding the frequency and magnitude of functional TR improvement after reduction in PA pressure. METHODS We identified 27 pat...

Pancreatic cancer (PC) is known to be frequently associated with venous thromboembolism (VTE). Although treatment and prophylaxis strategies for VTE in PC patients were updated recently, these were mainly based on data from Western populations and were not verified in East Asian ethnic populations.We investigated the clinical characteristics of VTE in East Asian PC patients. We reviewed electro...

introduction: oral contraceptives (ocs) are considered as one of the most common risk factor of venous thromboembolism (vte) in child bearing age. some of the recent researches indicate that the odds of vte may be even higher with newer generations of ocs. the present meta-analysis was designed to evaluate the effect of different generation of ocs on the occurrence of vte. methods: two research...

patients and methods using current procedural terminology (cpt) codes for orthopaedic trauma procedures, we identified a prospective cohort of patients from the 2006 to 2013 acs-nsqip database. using wilcoxon-mann-whitney and chi-square tests where appropriate, patient demographics, comorbidities, and operative factors were compared between patients who developed a dvt within 30 days of surgery...

Abstract Introduction/Background Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a rare but life-threatening event for which adequate epidemiological data in paediatrics are lacking. Best estimates regarding the epidemiology of PTE Canadian children were published over two decades ago, using information obtained from national registry paediatric thromboembolic disease only examined pulmonary embolism as rel...

BACKGROUND Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular (LV) strain and strain rate (SR) by 2D speckle tracking may be useful tools to assess chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) severity as well as response to successful pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE). METHODS We evaluated 30 patients with CTEPH before and after PTE using 2D speckle tracking measurements of LV rad...

PURPOSE To compare the prevalence of deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), and bleeding complications in patients receiving heparin or danaproid after hemiarthroplasty or osteosynthesis for hip fractures. METHODS 37 men and 138 women aged 47 to 100 (mean, 80) years underwent either hemiarthroplasty or osteosynthesis for hip fractures; 5 patients with dementia were exclu...