were left ventricular aneurysms, all of which occurred after the operation of closed or 'blind' aortic valvotomy in adults, and four were right ventricular outflow tract aneurysms which developed in children after surgical procedures for the correction of severe forms of Fallot's tetralogy. Two of the left ventricular aneurysms arose at the site of the ventriculotomy usedfor introducing the Bro...

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...

Mitral valve prolapse has been diagnosed by two-dimensional echocardiographic criteria with surprising frequency in the general population, even when preselected normal subjects are examined. In most of these individuals, however, prolapse appears in the apical four-chamber view and is absent in roughly orthogonal long-axis views. Previous studies of in vitro models with nonplanar rings have sh...

Left ventricular aneurysms are a frequent and serious complication following acute transmural myocardial infarction and are most commonly located at the ventricular apex. The majority of these patients presents with severe mitral insufficiency, congestive heart failure, systemic embolism and sudden cardiac death. Giant aneurysms occurring in a submitral position between anterior and posterior p...

An 85-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with symptoms of acute heart failure. The patient had an extensive cardiac history, including a bioprosthetic mitral valve replacement (Mosaic II, number 2) in 1994 and a transcatheter transapical Edwards SAPIEN THV 23 mitral valve implant within the mitral bioprosthesis (valve-in-valve implantation) in 2010 because of bioprosthetic val...

  Background: Embolus is one of the causes of ischemic stroke that can be due to cardiac sources such as valvular heart diseases and atrial fibrillation and atheroma of the aorta. Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is superior in identifying potential cardiac sources of emboli. Due to insufficient data on TEE findings in ischemic stroke in Iran, the present study was done to evaluate TEE in...

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Background and Purpose: An association between atrial septal aneurysm and embolic events has been suggested. Atrial septal aneurysm has been shown to be associated with patent foramen ovale and, in some reports, with mitral valve prolapse. These two latter cardiac disorders have been identified as potential risk factors for ischemic stroke. The aim of this prospective study was to assess the ro...