BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS following intracardiac surgery for congenital defects with use of extracorporeal circulation is a new entity, as old only as open intracardiac surgery. The reported experience is therefore meager. Suggestions regarding its pathogenesis, recognition, behavior, management, and prevention are few. Heins and Lindel reported five cases of bacterial endocarditis in a series of ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the relation between intracardiac thrombus and blood coagulability in patients with mitral stenosis. DESIGN Prospective study. Cross sectional echocardiography and plasma concentrations of the D-dimer fragment of fibrin were used concurrently to detect intracardiac thrombus in patients with mitral stenosis. SETTING Department of Medicine, National Cardiovascular Cen...

BACKGROUND Hemodynamic assistance with a miniature intracardiac pump may fill the treatment gap between use of an intraaortic balloon pump (IABP) and the current, more invasive ventricular assist devices. The objective of this study was to compare the hemodynamic efficacy of a miniature intracardiac pump device with that of IABP. METHODS AND RESULTS Reversible acute mitral regurgitation (AMR)...

Introduction The intracardiac electronic device implantation rate has been constantly increasing for the last 20 years and is accompanied by an increasing lead extraction rate. Percutaneous extraction of transvenous leads of cardiovascular implantable electronic devices is mandatory in the case of pocket infection and/or system infection, resulting in valvular or lead endocarditis. Lead extract...

Just as the growing interest and proliferation of methods to reperfuse the coronary artery system with transcatheter techniques spurred interest and utilization of intracoronary ultrasound (at least in academic centers), so the growth of anatomic cardiac transcatheter interventions and increasingly aggressive transcatheter ablative strategies to treat cardiac arrhythmias has stimulated the use ...

introduction although a few patients will survive after penetrating cardiac injuries, some of them may have unnoticeable intracardiac injuries. the combination of aorto-right ventricular fistula with aortic valve injury is rare. case presentation a 19 year-old man referred with an aorto-right ventricular fistula accompanied with aortic regurgitation and delayed tamponade following a stab in the...

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In patients with sickle cell disease, thrombotic microangiopathy is a rare complication. Also in sickle cell disease, intracardiac thrombus formation without structural heart diseases or atrial arrhythmias is a rare phenomenon. We herein describe a 22-year-old woman, who was a known case of sickle cell-βthalassemia, had a history of recent missed abortion, and was admitted with a vaso-occlusive...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical outcomes and safety of daptomycin therapy in patients with serious Gram-positive infections. METHODS Patients were enrolled in the European Cubicin(®) Outcomes Registry and Experience (EU-CORE(SM)), a non-interventional, multicenter, observational registry. The real-world data were collected across 18 countries (Europe, Latin Ame...