Background: Primary intra cardiac tumors are rare. In this article, we present papillary fibroelastoma of mitral valve chordae. Case Presentation: A 35-year old man presented with atypical chest pain and palpitation. Physical examination and electrocardiogram were normal. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) revealed a mass of 1015 mm attached to chordae of anteromedial papillary muscle of ...

endocarditis is rarely reported in sheep and information presented for ovine endocarditis is based mostly on comparative findings in the cattle. infective vegetative endocarditis of the right heart was diagnosed in a 3-year-old fat-tailed ram. clinical findings included tachycardia, marked brisket edema, jugular veins distention and pulsation and pale mucous membranes. hematologic abnormality i...

conclusions moderate ppm has no negative effect on echocardiographic trans-aortic pressure gradients or the patients’ nyha functional status after avr with a carbomedics prosthesis in the mid-term follow up. results of the 66 studied patients, 39 were male and 27 were female. the mean age of the patients was 43 ± 17 with a range of 6 - 76 years. implanted sizes of the carbomedics av prosthesis ...

A rare case of anterior urethral valve in association with posterior urethral valuve is reported. Clinical findings are discussed, and the available literature will be briefly reviewed.

Bicuspid aortic valve is traditionally considered an innocuous congenital anomaly. Due to a better and widespread availability of non-invasive imaging techniques, it has come to the fore that 30% of these cases develop complications, viz., valve abnormality (aortic regurgitation and stenosis), and aneurysm of aortic root and ascending aorta. Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is an uncommon complicatio...

Recently, there have been more reports of cardiac valve infections due to the increasing number of intravenous (IV) drug abusers and chronic renal failure patients. Among cardiac valves, tricuspid valve is most commonly affected in the course of endocarditis. Appropriate management of these patients is a challenging and controversial issue in the field of cardiac surgery. Treatment options in s...

Engines equipped with camless valve trains will have greater space for performance optimization. In this paper, based on the electromagnetic actuated valve train system, one-dimensional and three-dimensional simulation models on engine thermodynamic cycle and in-cylinder charge motion are established, respectively. With the application of early-intake-valve closing (EIVC) strategy，unthrottled l...

bicuspid aortic valve is traditionally considered an innocuous congenital anomaly. due to a better and widespread availability of non-invasive imaging techniques, it has come to the fore that 30% of these cases develop complications, viz., valve abnormality (aortic regurgitation and stenosis), and aneurysm of aortic root and ascending aorta. sinus of valsalva aneurysm is an uncommon complicatio...

introduction: infective endocarditis is well known to produce neurologic complications from septic emboli, which mandates a multidisciplinary approach between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery. however, literature is not clear as to the optimal interval length between neurosurgery and cardiac surgery.presentation of cases: the first case involves a 60-year-old woman with significant past medical...