A 58-year old male patient who had undergone post-infarction ventricular septal defect closure and venous coronary bypass grafting to the obtuse marginal artery 2 years previously, presented with congestive heart failure. Echocardiography, computed tomography and ventriculography revealed a giant inferoposterior left ventricular aneurysm (Fig. 1A–D, Supplementary Video 1). Surgical left ventric...

The first case is of a 72-year-old woman undergoing angiography for aortic stenosis workup via the right radial approach. An Multipurpose 1 (MPA-1) catheter, Cordis Corporation, East Bridgewater, New Jersey) was used to direct the wire across the valve and subsequently used for ventriculography due to difficulty crossing the severely stenosed valve. There was visualization of the thebesian vein...

Several similar projections utilizing cranial and caudal angulation of the X-ray tube in various obliquities have been described recently for coronary angiography and left ventriculography. These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique proje...

An 83 year old woman presented to the emergency department with chest pain and dyspnoea. Chest radiography showed pneumothorax of the left lung. Arteries were normal on coronary angiography. Left ventriculography showed asynergy of apical akinesis and basal hyperkinesis. Within 18 days, the asynergy improved without any specific treatment. In the present case the left ventricular dysfunction ma...

Several similar projections utilizing cranial and caudal angulation of the X-ray tube in various obliquities have been described recently for coronary angiography and left ventriculography. These views provide improved visualization of the proximal branches of the left coronary artery, the region of the crux of the right coronary artery, and the left ventricle in the left anterior oblique proje...

A method for a combined air and isotope ventriculography is described. Twenty-nine infants with suspected hydrocephalus were studied. The merit of the combined study is the possibility of obtaining both anatomical and functional information. A very small amount of radioactivity-15 μc-was found to give satisfactory results. Patterns of cerebrospinal fluid flow in communicating and non-communicat...

A 39-year-old woman had an embolic upper division middle cerebral artery branch occlusion 3 hours after smoking the free base of cocaine ("crack"). Radionuclide ventriculography demonstrated cardiomyopathy, and echocardiography documented a left atrial thrombus. This case demonstrates that embolism is one mechanism of ischemic stroke after cocaine use, and that cardiomyopathy, possibly cocaine ...

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (AHCM) has been rarely described in the Western world. More recently, improved sensitivity of diagnostic modalities and increased diagnostic awareness have increased detection rates, suggesting that the prevalence outside of Asia may have been previously understated. Hallmark features of AHCM include deeply negative, "giant" T-wave inversions on electrocardiog...

Coronary arteriography and left ventriculography, performed in a 42-year old patient with unstable angina seven months after a myocardial infarct showed communications from both the left anterior descending and right coronary arteries to the left ventricular chamber. The area of communication corresponded to the site of infarction as established by electrocardiogram and left ventriculogram. Whe...