I remember first being introduced to the term cor pulmonale in medical school, which was used to describe right heart failure due to chronic lung disease, and I still have a mental picture of the typical patient as a former heavy smoker, dyspneic at rest, and cyanotic with neck vein distention and lower extremity edema. However, even early catheterization studies of the normal and diseased huma...

Cor triatriatum is a congenital malformation of the heart which is usually presented with heart failure. We have dealt with an unusual presentation of a two-month-old child with cor triatriatum presented with hemolytic anemia.

The incidence of chronic cor pulmonale in Indian states, including Delhi, is the highest reported in nonindustrial populations. The patients presented as acute severe congestive heart failure and at younger ages than those reported. In amany eases there was only a short history of respiratory symptoms. Following the first attack of failure, repeated attacks were the rule and death ensued within...

c o m p l e x e s ; t h e s e f o r m t h e c a r t e s i a n c l o s e d s u b c a t e g o r y o f s i m p l e p r e s h e a v e s i n ! S m p , t h e t o p o s o f s y m m e t r i c s i m p l i c i a l s e t s , o r p r e s h e a v e s o n t h e c a t e g o r y ! å o f f i n i t e , p o s i t i v e c a r d i n a l s . W e s h o w h e r e h o w t h i s h o m o t o p y t h e o r y c a n b e e x...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE To study cerebrovascular autoregulation and its impact on clinical course in patients with impending malignant middle cerebral artery infarction, we used invasive multimodal neuromonitoring, including measurement of cerebral perfusion pressure, tissue oxygen pressure, and microdialysis. METHODS Fifteen patients with a stroke that involved >50% of the middle cerebral art...