a 33-year-old female-a known case of behcet's disease- was admitted to the hospital due to fever, dyspnea and hemoptysis. one week before admission, she had developed right leg swelling. the history suggested either deep vein thrombosis (dvt) and pulmonary emboli or pulmonary artery vasculitis. diagnostic tests were requested and the necessary treatment was started accordingly

A 4-day-old boy underwent an urgent operation for mixed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with the left upper pulmonary vein draining into the innominate vein and the other pulmonary veins draining into the coronary sinus. The left upper pulmonary vein was left uncorrected at that time. After periodical follow-up for 5 years, repair of the uncorrected anomalous pulmonary vein was perf...

Pulmonary vein stenosis is a recently described complication of radiofrequency ablation. We report a patient who experienced thrombosis of the lingular vein and pulmonary infarction resulting from mild single-vessel pulmonary vein stenosis. This report extends available experience with complications of radiofrequency ablation, by demonstrating pulmonary venous thrombosis as a complication of re...

Figure 1 Intracardiac tracings from the left superior pulmonary vein (LSPV), left inferior pulmonary vein (LIPV), right superior pulmonary vein (RSPV), right inferior pulmonary vein (RIPV) and coronary sinus (CS): before ablation (left) and after left antral circumferential ablation (center). Transthoracic echocardiogram showing severe right atrial and right ventricular dilatation with apical d...

INTRODUCTION Recent studies described the occurrence of conduction block within pulmonary veins. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of exit block during arrhythmias that arise in pulmonary veins. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-five patients with atrial tachycardia/fibrillation underwent successful ablation of 28 arrhythmogenic foci within a pulmonary vein. The prevalence of ...

We present two cases of individual pulmonary vein atresia without vestige of an involved pulmonary vein. On CT, we noted the absence or interruption of normal pulmonary venous structures, and the presence of abnormal vascular structures that represented collaterals for the involved lung parenchyma. On angiography, the atretic pulmonary vein was found to drain into the other ipsilateral pulmonar...

introduction antiphospholipid syndrome (aps) associated with intra-cardiac thrombus and pulmonary embolism is infrequent. however, the presence of pleural effusion is extremely rare. case presentation a 42-year-old woman, admitted with palpitation, dyspnea and history of stroke and thrombocytopenia is described. doppler sonography revealed deep vein thrombosis. moreover, subsequent investigatio...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary vein thrombosis represents a potentially fatal disease. This syndrome may clinically mimic pulmonary embolism but has a different investigation strategy and prognosis. Pulmonary vein thrombosis is difficult to diagnose clinically and usually requires a combination of conventionally used diagnostic modalities. CASE PRESENTATION The authors report a case of a 78-year-old pr...