.......................................................................................................................................... 4 LIST OF PAPERS ................................................................................................................................. 5 SAMMANFATTNING PÅ SVENSKA ......................................................................................

Right aortic arch with Kommerell's diverticulum is a very rare situation. Surgical treatment is recommended for symptomatic patients or asymptomatic patients with a large diverticulum. However planning the strategy of operation is difficult without a 3D imaging. We report a case of a 57-year-old man with right aortic arch, Kommerell's diverticulum, and aberrant left subclavian artery. After a 3...

The purpose of the following pilot study is to evaluate the possibility to detect the asymptomatic ischemic episodes which often precede dangerous events by means of endocardial signals. Intracardiac electrograms (IEGMs) have been detected in patients undergoing percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA), a procedure during which ischemic episodes are induced. For 10 patients IECGs h...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are few if any data on the prognostic importance of silent myocardial ischemia during exercise with regard to the risk of stroke and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) among asymptomatic men. In this prospective study, we investigated the relation of silent myocardial ischemia and the risk of stroke and CVD death in men with and without conventional risk factors. METH...

INTRODUCTION The potential of alcohol withdrawal to cause acute coronary events is an area that needs the urgent attention of clinicians and researchers. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 52-year-old heavy-alcohol-using Sri Lankan man who developed electocardiogram changes suggestive of an acute coronary event during alcohol withdrawal. Despite the patient being asymptomatic, subseque...

CT scan and MRI are useful for evaluating the question of cerebral infarction which may occur as a consequence of carotid artery stenosis. Infarctions related to internal carotid artery stenosis may be deep, subcortical, or cortical. However, carotid stenosis may exist in the absence of infarction on MRI and CT. The definition of asymptomatic or symptomatic carotid artery stenosis is based upon...

We compared digital intra-arterial angiography and transcranial Doppler sonography in acute cerebral ischemia as part of a wider study on a continuous series of 48 patients with acute focal cerebral ischemia in the carotid territory, observed within 4 hours of the onset of symptoms. The most significant Doppler findings of the middle cerebral artery included no detection of the artery when occl...

A prospective cardiologic evaluation was performed in 83 consecutive patients with transient cerebral ischemia or mild stroke and without symptoms or electrocardiographic signs of ischemic heart disease. Patients were studied with an electrocardiographic exercise test; a positive test was followed by exercise Thallium-201 myocardial scintigraphy. Results were compared to those obtained in a gro...

T HE PRESENCE of an asymptomatic patent ductus arteriosus is usually suspected on the basis of auscultatory findings, and the diagnosis is supported by electrocardiography and roentgenography. Other vascular and cardiac lesions that produce continuous murmurs to the left of the upper sternum are usually symptomatic and are associated with additional changes requiring cardiac catheterization and...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Cerebral arterial vasospasm (CVS) is a common complication of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage strongly associated with neurological deterioration and delayed cerebral ischemia (DCI). The utility of screening for CVS as a surrogate for early detection of DCI, especially in patients without clinical signs of DCI, remains uncertain. METHODS We performed a retrospective ...