A follow-up report on the first patient with cor triatriatum to undergo successful surgical treatment is presented. A second procedure was necessary 92 years later because of stenosis of the initial surgically created orifice in the anomalous diaphragm. A review and ananalysis have been made of 17 cases from the literature reporting successful operations for this lesion. Total excision of the a...

Sinus venosus atrial septal defect (SVD) is a rare cardiac abnormality in adults. Particularly, the inferior type is difficult to depict by transthoracic echocardiography because of its infero-posterior location to the fossa ovalis. We describe the case of a 33-year-old woman whose chest X-ray taken during bronchopneumonia revealed a cardiomegaly. Further echocardiographic investigations showed...

In the feline species the most common congenital defects are atrioventricular dysplasia (with the mitral valve more commonly affected than the tricuspid valve) and ventricular septal defects. Pulmonic and aortic stenosis are relatively rare. Patent ductus arteriosus is extremely uncommon. However one has to be aware that cats often have multiple congenital defects and do present as adults with ...

Pre-anaesthetic evaluation revealed a 50 kg female with no obvious dyspnoea. Central cyanosis was present; heart rate was 136/min and blood pressure 130/90 mmHg. Her renal and liver function tests and coagulation profile were normal. 2D echocardiography with Doppler showed severe pulmonary arterial and venous hypertension with a left ventricular ejection fraction of 55%. Anti-aspiration prophyl...

Using an optical vortex coronagraph and simple adaptive optics techniques, we have made the first convincing demonstration of an optical vortex coronagraph that is coupled to a star gazing telescope. We suppressed by 97% the primary star of a resolvable binary system, Cor Caroli. The stars had an angular separation of 1.9lambda/D at our imaging camera. The secondary star suffered no suppression...

Congenital heart valve cyst is a rare and asymptomatic condition mostly seen in the mitral and tricuspid valves (1). In some cases, surgery is required as these cysts may cause obstruction, valve dysfunction, and sometimes embolism (2, 3). We think that if a heart valve cyst is asymptomatic and does not alter valve function, periodic evaluation with echocardiography is a feasible option. Here w...