We report on a rare case of a 65-year-old woman who was admitted with orthopnea (NYHA class IV) and a single syncopal episode. A transthoracic echocardiography examination showed a 7x6x6-cm mass located in the right atrium and perfusion lung scan showed embolization. Complete surgical removal of the right atrial myxoma and tumor embolectomy was successfully performed with deep hypothermia and c...

This study is performed to investigate the effect of Fontan operations on cardiac contractility. Investigation of articles about the contractility in Fontan published in PubMed up to now revealed that the measurement of contractility values did not include the rudimentary ventricle. Connections between right atrium and right ventricle as well as right atrium and pulmonary artery were studied in...

Anomalous drainage of an inferior vena cava to the left atrium is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly that might lead to significant clinical implications. This report describes a 21-year-old male with an anomalous connection between one part of a single sided double inferior vena cava and the left atrium documented with cardiac imaging, including angiography. This rare congenital disorder should...

prolapsed mitral valve syndrome is a common, benign disorder with prevalence of %0.3-6 in population. this syndrome also is known as barlows syndrome and flaapy mitral valve syndrome. prolapsed mitral valve is the dropping of one or two mitral valve leaflet(s) into the left atrium during ventricular systole. this malformation leads to incomplete closing of mitral valve and regurgitates the bloo...

Right atrial dilation due to left heart disease is a common complication among adults. The present review aimed to describe a case of massively dilated right atrium in a female patient presenting with valvular heart disease and no atrial fibrillation. The results of chest X-ray revealed a large opacity filling the lower right hemithorax, falsely interpreted as a mediastinal mass. During the tra...

In dogs under pentobarbital anesthesia, the administration of KCI in single intra-atrial doses of 1 mg/kg produced varying effects on intraventricular conduction depending upon the initial potassium concentration of systemic blood. At normal and moderately increased systemic K concentrations, single injections of KCI improved intraventricular conduction, but at higher systemic K concentrations ...