Background: Pulmonary complications following valvular heart surgery are common and contribute to increased duration of hospital stay, rate of morbidity, and mortality. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the response of maximum inspiratory pressure and functional capacity to Positive End-Expiratory Pressure device in patients who underwent valvular hea...

Introduction: Infective Endocarditis (IE) is a serious disease whose prognosis depends on early management. Aortic localization characterized by its progression to myocardial failure and the high number of complications motivating recourse surgery. The diagnosis AR based microbiological imaging studies. Echocardiography recommended modality make diagnosis, assess impact guide surgery.
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Twelve adult patients with ostium primum atrial septal defects (incomplete endocardial cushion defect) who underwent surgical repair of their lesions were evaluated in the late postoperative period. All had closure of the low-lying atrial septal defect, with suturing of the mitral valve cleft in 11 patients. Although the patients benefited symptomatically from the surgery, all had residual card...

The cardiovascular lesions in 34 cases of Marfan's syndrome which were studied post mortem are reviewed. Recent reports show that the most common and most important lesion is cystic necrosis of the media which results in aneurysmal formations of the ascending aorta. The aneurysm may be fusiform and the aortic ring dilated, producing a marked aortic insufficiency, or there may be a dissecting an...

interventional MRI is warranted. Preoperatively, MRI allowed noninvasive assessment of cardiovascular anatomy and function. During and after implantation, the position of the prosthetic valve was easy to determine. Besides this morphologic information, MRI provided immediate postintervention physiologic parameters of cardiac function and perfusion of the proximal course of the coronary arteries...

Several techniques are currently in use for mitral valve reconstruction. We report a mitral repair case in which the use of a combination of different surgical techniques resulted in the necessary correction. A 47-year-old woman underwent surgical intervention to treat severe mitral valve insufficiency due to A1/A2/A3 and P2 prolapsed valve tissue. A combination of quadrangular resection, slidi...

Distal deep vein thrombosis (DVT) can range from being asymptomatic, to resulting in long term valvular damage resulting in chronic venous insufficiency. Proximal propagation can result in more serious pulmonary embolism. The overall incidence of DVT, including both radiologically diagnosed asymptomatic DVT and symptomatic DVT, post THA in early studies was reported to be as high as 70% without...

Pimobendan, a calcium sensitizer and phosphodiesterase III inhibitor, has positive inotropic and vasodilatory properties. Its use in patients with naturally occurring congestive heart failure (CHF) has been studied in a number of blinded, randomized, multicenter clinical trials. It has been shown to improve quality of life, reduce heart insufficiency scores, and increase median survival times f...

Microanigiographlic examinatioin of the pulmoniary arterial svstem in 12 n1ewborn in1fants with conicomitanit steniosis or atresia of the aortic anid mitral orifices showed that the intrapulmonary arterial pattern is inifluenced by the state of the forameni ovale. In inifanlts with aortic atresia with a prematuirely closed foramein ovale, that is cases in which the left side of the heart is a c...