A seven-year-old girl with clinical diagnosis of aortic insufficiency underwent echocardiographic and hemodynamic evaluation and referred for surgery with the same diagnosis. However, at surgery, aorto-Ieft ventricular tunnel was found and repaired successfully. Review of echocardiogram and catheterization data revealed interesting findings to differentiate this rare entity from congenital...

The clinical and postmortem data from a 14-year-old girl who had transient embolic aortoarteritis are presented. This disease was first described in 1974 by Peiris and Wickremaslnghe in Hindu patients and is characterized by repetitive embolic occlusion of infraand extracranial vessels of the brain, originating from focal thrombotlc lesions in the aorta and its primary branches. The main histop...

A Chinese man, aged 55 years, was admitted to hospital in January 1964, complaining of increasing shortness of breath on exertion, of about two months' duration. He had had some retrosternal chest discomfort but this was never severe, though it increased in severity following exertion. His face was noted to be swollen in the mornings and this swelling decreased towards the end of the day. In th...

Aorto-ventricular tunnel is a congenital, extracardiac channel which connects the ascending aorta above the sinutubular junction to the cavity of the left, or (less commonly) right ventricle. The exact incidence is unknown, estimates ranging from 0.5% of fetal cardiac malformations to less than 0.1% of congenitally malformed hearts in clinico-pathological series. Approximately 130 cases have be...

OBJECTIVE Assess outcome of patients with descending thoracic aortic aneurysms complicated by aortobronchial and aortoesophageal fistulae in comparison to patients undergoing repair of aortic aneurysms without fistulae. METHODS In a consecutive series of 145 patients (age 60 +/- 12 years) with repair of descending thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms, 11 patients (8%; age 63 +/- 9; ...

The mechanical properties of left ventricular contraction were described in terms of tension, velocity, length, and time in closed-chest, sedated dogs in which a large aorto-caval fistula had resulted in circulatory congestion, and the results were compared with those in normal dogs. Instantaneous contractile element velocity was calculated from left ventricular pressure and its first derivativ...

The correlates of angiographic and clinical outcomes after drug-eluting stent (DES) implantation for aorto-ostial lesions remain unknown. This study evaluated long-term results of DES implantation for aorto-ostial lesions and determined risk factors for restenosis and adverse cardiac events. In total, 184 consecutive patients who underwent DES implantation for aorto-ostial lesions were investig...

Le syndrome de la pince aorto-mésentérique résulte de la compression du troisième duodénum entre l’artère mésentérique supérieure et l’aorte. Elle détermine un tableau d’occlusion intestinale haute aiguë ou chronique. Nous faisons une revue de la littérature à partir d’un cas de syndrome de la pince aorto-mésentérique. Il s’agit d’un nourrisson de 16 mois suivi pour des vomissements alimentaire...

Aorto-ventricular tunnel is an extremely rare congenital heart defect, consisting of failure of attachment of an aortic leaflet along the semilunar hinge. In all published reports the leaflet involved was either the right coronary leaflet, most frequently, or the left coronary leaflet, in most of the cases opening toward the left ventricle, with only one-eighth of the reported cases communicati...

Une patiente âgée de 79 ans s’est présentée avec la fièvre, des frissonnements et une dyspnée. Six mois auparavant, elle avait reçu, à l’étranger, bioprothèse en position aortique mitrale ainsi qu’un pontage aorto-coronarien.