the most frequent congenital heart defects in the neonatal period are ventricular septal defects. ventricular septal aneurysms can rarely develop from an interventricular septal (ivs) defect in adults. we describe a 47-year-old man with an aneurysm in the ivs growing towards the right ventricle, which was confirmed by cardiac computed tomographic angiography and was missed by echocardiography.

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common category of birth defect, affecting 1% of the population and requiring cardiovascular surgery in the first months of life in many patients. Due to advances in congenital cardiovascular surgery and patient management, most children with CHD now survive into adulthood. However, residual and postoperative defects are common resulting in abnormal he...

Contact address: Oana Andrei, MD Emergency Institute for Cadiovascular Diseases “Prof. Dr. C. C. Iliescu” Sos. Fundeni 258, sector 2, 022328, Bucharest, Romania INTRODUCTION Along with increasing population age the prevalence of conduction disorders has also increased. The only effective therapy of symptomatic conduction disorders is pacing. Each year ~750000 new pacemakers1 are implanted. Desp...

introduction although a few patients will survive after penetrating cardiac injuries, some of them may have unnoticeable intracardiac injuries. the combination of aorto-right ventricular fistula with aortic valve injury is rare. case presentation a 19 year-old man referred with an aorto-right ventricular fistula accompanied with aortic regurgitation and delayed tamponade following a stab in the...

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assessment of cardiac right‑ventricle functions plays an essential role in diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia (arvd). among clinical tests, cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (mri) is now becoming the most valid imaging technique to diagnose arvd. fatty infiltration of the right ventricular free wall can be visible on cardiac mri. finding right‑ventricle functional paramete...

Background Chronic right ventricular (RV) pressure and volume overload in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results in leftward shift of the interventricular septum and impaired left ventricular (LV) diastolic function. However, the impact of PAH-mediated interdependency on LV fluid mechanics and fluid/structure interactions in LV diastolic dysfunction is incompletely understood. 4D flow CM...