Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Significant tricuspid regurgitation (TR) often improves during the long-term follow-up period after transcatheter atrial septal defect (ASD) closure. However, It is unknown whether ASD closure TR in patients with fibrillation (AF). Methods Between 2016 and 2021, 66 consecutive (66% males, mean age 58 +/- 16 years, 30% A...

We present an important cause of wrong pacemaker lead placement in the left ventricle due to atrial septal defect. Early recognition of this error is important to prevent thromboembolic complications. A 62-year-old woman with no history of cardiac disease presented with a chief complaint of dizziness and pre-syncope. During her hospital admission, a long sinus pause of over 3 sec was recorded. ...

CARDIAC resynchronization therapy with the placement of a left ventricular pacing electrode in the coronary sinus has been shown to be an effective treatment in selected patients with symptomatic left ventricular dysfunction. Coronary sinus leads can be removed with relative ease because of their small diameter and relatively poor fixation mechanisms. However, removal of coronary sinus electrod...

In the embryonic heart, the primitive atrium is considered to receive the bilateral sinus horns including the upper terminal of the inferior vena cava (IVC). To reveal topographical anatomy of the embryonic venous pole of the heart, we examined horizontal serial paraffin sections of 15 human embryos with crown-rump length 9-31 mm, corresponding to a gestational age of 6-7 weeks or Carnegie stag...

An electrophysiological study was performed on a 39-year-old woman with recurrent palpitations. She initially presented in 1985 with atrial fibrillation, ventricular preexcitation, and a rapid ventricular response. At that time, she underwent open heart surgery, and mapping demonstrated multiple posteroseptal and left free wall accessory pathways. Accessory pathway conduction was abolished surg...

Correspondence to: Mecit Kantarci, 200 Evler Mah. 14. Sok No: 5 Dadaskent, Erzurum, Turkey Phone: +90 442 231 69 15 Fax: +90 442 236 13 01 e-mail: [email protected] doi:10.5152/eajm.2012.45 Received: July 14, 2012 / Accepted: July 21, 2012 A 10-hour-old female infant presented with mild cyanosis and tachypnea. On physical examination, a cardiac murmur was not observed. A chest roentgenogram ...