Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a known complication after catheter ablation of arrhythmias. Surprisingly, little information is available on its manifestations in the lung. We describe the case of a 39-year-old woman who presented from an outside hospital with worsening shortness of breath after catheter ablation of pulmonary veins for atrial fibrillation. After an initial diagnosis of pneumo...

A 68-year-old man presented with right heart failure due to compression of the right pulmonary artery by a syphilitic aneurysm of the ascending aorta. The diagnosis was made by cardiac catheterization and angiography and it was proven by autopsy. This complication is unusual and supports the experimental evidence that unilateral pulmonary obstruction may be responsible for the development of pu...

A patient with Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome and pulmonary arterial hypertension not associated with chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension is described. It is hypothesised that pulmonary arterial hypertension is another complication associated with the Klippel-Trenaunay syndrome, possibly due to haemodynamic changes of small vessel abnormalities.

Isolated pulmonary valve endocarditis is an uncommon clinical entity and is usually associated with intravenous drug abuse. The majority of cases involve the tricuspid valve. Isolated pulmonary valve bacterial endocarditis complicating Triology of Fallot ( which constitutes pulmonary valve stenosis, right ventricular hypertrophy and atrial septal defect) is very rare. A rare complication of a r...

OBJECTIVE To check the respiratory muscle strength in cardiac surgery and the relationship with the postoperative pulmonary complications. METHODS Sixty-tree adult's patients undergoing elective cardiac surgery were enrolled in this study. In the day of the surgery all patients did the respiratory muscle strength test. In the postoperative a multidisciplinary team took care all patients and t...

Unilateral reexpansion pulmonary edema (RPE) is a rare complication of the treatment of lung collapse secondary to pneumothorax, pleural effusion, or atelectasis. Although RPE generally is believed to occur only when a chronically collapsed lung is rapidly reexpanded by evacuation of large amounts of air or fluid, in this review 15 of 47 cases of RPE available for assessment occurred when the p...

BACKGROUND Radiofrequency catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is well established but not drawback free. Pulmonary vein stenosis is one of the complications and usually treated with stenting with the disadvantages of high re-stenosis rate and anticoagulant dependence. CASE PRESENTATION Herein, we present the case of a 47 year-old lady, who suffered from fever and hemoptysis d...

A newly described immediate complication after percutaneous pulmonary valvuloplasty isacute lung injury. Here we report a case of fatal acute lung injury after pulmonary valvuloplasty.The patient was a 26-year-old woman, referred to a general hospital with the diagnosis of livercirrhosis. In her work-ups severe pulmonary stenosis was detected and so a decision was madeto relieve the valve steno...

Rev Esp Cardiol. 2010;63(3):362-76 369 hypertension, and high pulmonary-capillary wedge pressure, may facilitate the risk of development of alveolar haemorrhage in patients treated with GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors, whereas others, believe that pulmonary disease does not necessarily define a subgroup of patients particularly at risk for this complication. The unpredictable and potentially lethal cour...