While cardiac involvement is not a common presentation in human echinococcosis, it may lead to life-threatening complications including cyst rupture; anaphylactic shock; tamponade; pulmonary, cerebral or peripheral arterial embolism; acute coronary syndrome; dysrhythmias; infection; ventricular or valvular dysfunction, as well as sudden death. Here we report a 9-year old girl who was diagnosed ...

The objective of this study was to establish a dependable technique for imaging the interventricular septum and ventricular septal defects in infants. Subxiphoid two-dimensional echocardiograms were performed on 81 infants who were 1 day to 12 months (median 43 days) old and weighed 1.6-8.6 kg (median 3.4 kg). A short-focus, 5-MHz crystal with a 13-mm active element diameter was used in all stu...

Among the 3 siblings, only 1 presented pathological baseline ECG findings (type 2); he has a son with a type 1 ECG pattern. An EEF study was performed, but arrhythmia was not induced. At the time of writing, after more than 12 months of followup, no arrhythmic event has been observed and the baseline ECG is always similar to the previous one. The patient presented no chest pain during the exerc...

R UPTURE of the interventricular septum, one of the most dramatic complications of myocardial infaretion, has become a wellrecognized clinical entity that is readily confirmed by cardiac catheterization. Since the usual course is that of rapid deterioration and early death, surgical repair of the defect is indicated once the diagnosis has been established. The medical literature contains only a...

We report the case of an asymptomatic 43-year-old-man with a lipoma of the interventricular septum. Diagnosis was established during routine medical examination by 2-dimensional echocardiography and confirmed by computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. The patient underwent successful resection of the tumor.

ed to the outpatient department of our hospital with complaints of intermittent fever and exertional dyspnea since 2 months. On physical examination, a grade 3/6 diastolic murmur was heard. Blood cultures had persistently grown gram-positive enterococci. Two-dimensional transthoracic echocardiogram that was performed revealed a large aneurysm in the right coronary leaflet involving the basal se...