Complete aortic occlusion is rare and potentially detrimental. It usually occurs in patients with advanced aorto-iliac atherosclerosis, and can cause severe ischaemic manifestations in the lower extremities, spinal cord, intestine or kidneys [1]. However, the diagnosis may evade detection since collateral vasculature can maintain a basal perfusion and prevent the expression of acute ischaemic p...

The occurrence of aorto-right ventricular fistula after an aortic valve replacement is rare. If it remains untreated, this condition can result in heart failure and could thus significantly compromise patient survival. Surgical closure is the treatment of choice; however, transcatheter closure has been attempted with relatively acceptable results. Here, we report on a patient who presented with...

Within the community of the vascular surgeons, it has always been a matter of debate which surgical approach is tolerated better by the patient undergoing a reconstruction of the abdominal aorta. When the first reconstructions were performed in 1951 an extraperitoneal approach was preferred. Oudot (1) performed the first aorto-bi-iliac graft for aorto-iliac occlusive disease. Dubost (2) was the...

Penetrating cardiac injuries are commonly instantaneously lethal. However, numerous delayed manifestations of cardiac injury, including traumatic ventricular septal defect, ventricular aneurysms, right pulmonary artery to left atrial fistula, valvular regurgitation, and aorto-right ventricular fistula, are all described in the literature. Here, we present a case of aorto-right ventricular fistu...

Background Mitral valve abnormalities are an important cause of patient morbidity in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) contributing to left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO). Anterior mitral valve leaflet (AMVL) elongation predisposes to LVOTO. CMR detects this in overt HCM and in sarcomere gene mutation carriers without left ventricular hypertrophy (G+LVH-). However, the geometry o...

that the post-operative ventricular tachycardia did not produce hypotension or pulmonary oedema. The operation of aorto-coronary by-pass has been very successful in the treatment of intractable angina, but objective evaluations of its effect on left ventricular function are few. Chatterjee et al. (1972), Gareth Rees et al. (1971), have shown that this operation does produce symptomatic and meas...

Aorto-left atrial fistulas are rare. We describe the case of a patient in whom transcatheter closure of an aorto-left atrial fistula was carried out using an Amplatzer septal occluder. The patient had previously undergone cardiac surgery twice because of a recurrent left atrial myxoma. Closure of this type of fistula using a transcatheter device should be considered when the location and size o...

Background Aorto-right-atrial fistula in native valve endocarditis is very rare. Case Description A 45-year-old woman was referred with an endocarditis with a perforated right cusp of the aortic valve with at least moderate insufficiency and an affected tricuspid annulus with vegetations. In addition to this, an aorto-cavitary fistula from the aortic sinus to the right atrium with a holodiastol...

The clinical spectrum of Clostridium difficile infection can range from benign gastrointestinal colonization to mild diarrhea and life threatening conditions such as pseudomembranous colitis and toxic megacolon. Extraintestinal manifestations of C. difficile are rare. Here, we report a patient with a history of an endovascular aortic aneurysm repair (EVAR) presenting with an endovascular leak c...