Heart transplantation in a recipient with giant left atrium is rare. To correct the mismatch between and donor at level of atrium, plication has been proposed. We report case which was not feasible owing to significant calcification atrial wall tight pericardial adhesions resulting from two previous sternotomies. Creating pulmonary venous confluence allows orthotopic heart any size conformation...

conclusions a right atrium myxoma in a patient with a history of multiple soft tissue tumors has been limited to only a few cases. this may suggest a genomic affinity or similarity; if so, those with multiple different type soft tissue masses should be screened for a heart mass before the mass becomes complicated. introduction heart secondary tumors are much more common than primary tumors. the...

During the implantation process, the pacemaker leads advanced easily into the atrium and ventricle from the left subclavian vein. On fl uoroscopy, the locations of the leads in the atrium and ventricle appeared atypical (Fig. 1). An intraoperative transthoracic echocardiography was then performed, showing the atrial lead into the left atrium (Fig. 2). The pacemaker leads were then repositioned ...

Methods Forty nine subjects undergoing clinically indicated right and left heart cardiac catheterization were prospectively recruited to undergo MRI in a 1.5T scanner. First pass perfusion using steady state free precession saturation recovery sequence was performed with gadolinium infusion at 0.01 mmol/kg. Global TT was defined as the time between the peaks of time intensity curves between the...