TOPIC: Cardiovascular Disease TYPE: Global Case Reports INTRODUCTION: Enlarged LA is a common finding in severe mitral stenosis(MS) and regurgitation(MR). It can enlarge to giant proportions. The unusual thirty-year-old woman presenting with only mild dyspnea despite hugely dilated prompted us report this case CASE PRESENTATION: A presented the outdoor clinic complaint of on exertion NYHA class...

Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common heart arrhythmia. In certain situations, it can result in life-threatening complications such as stroke and heart failure. For paroxsysmal AFib, pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) by catheter ablation is the recommended choice of treatment if drug therapy fails. During minimally invasive procedures, electrically active tissue around the pulmonary veins ...

UNLABELLED The maze procedure initially proposed by Cox for primary atrial fibrillation treatment somehow, in its complexity, increases the morbidity risk associated with mitral valve surgery. OBJECTIVE We sought to describe a surgical technique that considers the concepts of electrophysiology and to describe the initial results of a new surgical and electrophysiological approach that blocks ...

A9-year-old girl underwent transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to determine whether there was an indication for transcatheter closure of her secundum atrial septal defect (ASD). She had been diagnosed as having a single defect by transthoracic echocardiography at 6 months of age. During previous clinic visits, her parents often complained that she had occasional episodes of central cyanosis,...