Right ventricular infarction and associated ventricular arrhythmias. once considered rare. are now commonly recognised in patients with inferior wall infarction and clinical data is strongly suggestive of that cardiovascular changes occuring with human myocardial infarction vary importantly depending upon the site of myocardial infarction. Sympathetic hyper-activity is associated with the anter...

Ten patients with constrictive pericarditis were studied echocardiographically with specific reference to inter-ventricular septal dynamics. Abnormal movement of the interventricular septum was present in 8 patients and consisted of flattening in systole and unusual posterior motion in diastole. The aetiology of this type of movement is at present unknown but may be related to restriction of no...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the surgical treatment of transverse with or without posterior wall fractures of the acetabulum. MATERIAL AND METHODS We surgically treated 21 consecutive cases of pure transverse (7 cases) and with posterior wall (14 cases) fractures of the acetabulum. The anterior column fractures were firstly reduced, temporarily fixed through a modified Smith-...