The anatomy of the membranous part of the ventricular septum is described in 25 hearts from patients ranging in age from 15 weeks of gestation to the ninth decade of adult life. Both atrioventricular and interventricular components were recognised in all the adult subjects, and the atrioventricular component was evident in all 25. The interventricular membranous septum was present in only 1 of ...

BACKGROUND There are two main surgical approaches, simple ulnar nerve decompression at the elbow, and anterior transposition of the nerve in treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome. Both techniques were reported in literature in details with similar reported success rates. Here, we present a modified simple de-compression surgical technique in treatment of cubital tunnel syndrome. METHODS Fifty...

We present an unusual case of cardiomyopathy in a two month old male infant with a grade-I systolic murmur. Echocardiographic examination disclosed left ventricular (LV), dysplasia with saw-tooth like inwards myocardial projections extending from the lateral walls towards the LV cavity. There was mild LV systolic dysfunction with apical hypokinesia. Cardiovascular magnetic resonance demonstrate...

Objective: To discuss the anatomical features of sinus venosus atrial defect on the basis of a comprehensive transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) examination and its relation to surgical data. Methods: 24 patients (13 men, 11 women, mean (SD) age 37 (17) years, range 17–73 years) with a posterior interatrial communication closely related to the entrance of the superior (SVC) or inferior vena...

OBJECTIVE To discuss the anatomical features of sinus venosus atrial defect on the basis of a comprehensive transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) examination and its relation to surgical data. METHODS 24 patients (13 men, 11 women, mean (SD) age 37 (17) years, range 17-73 years) with a posterior interatrial communication closely related to the entrance of the superior (SVC) or inferior vena...

brought to light by a study of them, but because they will serve as a means for demonstrating the principal facts on which the modern conceptions of cardiac arrhythmia are based. First, certain facts as to the anatomy and physiology of the cardiac muscle must be recalled. The primitive heart is a muscular tube, the powerfully contracting chamber is a later development, and the valves and perica...

In muscular pulmonary atresia, major aortopulmonary collateral arteries are characteristic of pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect and are rarely seen in pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum. Two unusual cases of muscular pulmonary atresia are reported, one with an intact septum and one with a perimembranous ventricular septal defect, closed in utero by aneurysmal tricus...

Double Outlet Right Ventricle with intact ventricular septum is an extremely rare malformation. Only nine cases are recorded in the known world literature. A new case is reported, concerning a female infant six months old when first seen, and still alive after atrial septectomy. The anatomical studies in Double Outlet Right Ventricle suggest that only the Ventricular Septal Defect in the outlet...

APPROXIMATELY 10 per cent of interventricular communications occur in the muscular portion of the ventricular septum.1-3 Of 259 cases of isolated ventricular septa] defects,2' 4-9 4.0 per cent had multiple muscular defects. Scant mention of these multiple defects as a distinct entity can be found in the recent literature, although the incidence is significant. We have observed characteristic fi...

WE READ WITH INTEREST THE PAPER OF Momma et al. concerning interruption of the aortic arch in association with deletion of chromosome 22qll . 1 In 6 of the 7 patients with this association the authors reported 'a complete deficiency of the muscular outlet septum with the defect extending to the perimembranous area'. Since the subarterial and doubly committed ventricular septal defect is prevale...