To determine how coronary reperfusion affects rest and exercise ventricular function after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), 63 patients with a patent infarct artery after intravenous thrombolytic therapy (lysis) were compared with 27 patients who failed thrombolysis but had successful acute recanalization by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) as a "rescue" procedure. Contra...

Corresponding Author: Mehmet Ali Elbey, MD; e-mail: [email protected] 565 Dear Editor, The noncompacted myocardium (NCM) is characterised prominent trabeculations and deep intertrabecular recesses due to interruption of the myocardial fiber compacting during embryogenesis. Major clinical features of NCM include heart failure, arrhytmias and thromboembolic events. A 40-year-old man with shor...

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Multiple cerebral hydatid cysts are rare and usually occur as a result of spontaneous, traumatic, or surgical rupture of a primary hydatid cyst (1]. Surgical treatment of multiple cysts involves a greater ri sk than treatment of a single cyst because of the increased risk of cyst rupture. We report the use of nonionic CT ventriculography for the preoperative examination of a patient with multip...

The hemodynamic response to exercise stress was assessed in 17 patients with left ventricular (LV) aneurysm, demonstrated by contrast left ventriculography, and congestive cardiac failure (CCF) before and after sublingual isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN). Radionuclide ventriculography was performed at rest and during exercise in 14 patients. ISDN increased mean exercise LV stroke work index (LVSWI) ...