The authors report the case of a 31 year-old male with right atrial myxoma whose clinical manifestations included: malaise, dizziness and dyspnea on great exertion. At physical examination, a tricuspid systolic and diastolic murmur of mean intensity was found. The chest radiography and the electrocardiogram signs were of right atrial and ventricular enlargement, and the diagnosis was made with ...

A 12-year-old spayed female miniature Poodle presented for coughing, respiratory distress, and anorexia. After thoracentesis for pleural effusion, radiography revealed an enlarged cardiac silhouette with a bulge in the area of the body of the right atrium. Echocardiography revealed an anechoic chamber-like cavity lateral to the right atrium that communicated with the right atrium through a 13 m...

Delayed evaluation and management of penetrating cardiac injuries especially mortar fragments were performed in 30 war victims in the Shahid Rajai Heart Hospital, Tehran. All were men with a mean age of 20.7 years. Pleuritic chest pain was the most common symptom (53.3%), while physical examination was negative in the majority of cases (66.8%). 50 percent of the cases had pericardial effus...

Fig. 1. Transverse midesophageal plane at 458, demonstrating the short axis of the aortic valve in diastole. The ruptured aneurysm of the right coronary sinus protrudes into the right atrium just above the tricuspid valve producing the characteristic ‘windsock’ appearance described in textbooks. Colour-flow Successful surgical repair of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm was performed in a 3...

A 41-year-old man was admitted to our hospital complaining of right-sided chest pain. Two-dimensional echocardiographic examination revealed a ruptured right atrium and a localized pericardial effusion. Color Doppler echocardiography and contrast echocardiography showed blood flow from the right atrium into pericardial effusion, which was confirmed at emergency surgery. The pathologic specimen ...

introduction: the correlation of central venous pressure (cvp) with inferior vena cava (ivc) sonographic diameter has been reported in several studies. however, few studies have attempted to find the best anatomic location of measurement. therefore, the purpose of this study was determining the best anatomic location to find precise correlation between cvp and ivc diameter using transesophageal...

A 66-year-old asymptomatic woman was admitted to our hospital with the diagnosis of a right atrial mass detected on an outside transthoracic echocardiogram and confirmed on transesophageal echocardiography. Physical examination and basal electrocardiogram were normal. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a 3.8 x 2.5 cm echogenic mass in the right atrium. A multislice CT examination demonstra...