The diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis, particularly when there is no overt systemic involvement, is frequently delayed because of its varied manifestations. Focal left ventricular wall motion abnormalities were recognised in five patients with sarcoidosis. Three patients showed abnormal regional wall motion in the basal portion of the ventricular septum and free wall with sparing of the apex. Th...

Pulmonary valvular stenosis with right-sided aortic arch and an intact ventricular septum is a rare anomaly. Brock and Campbell (1950) and Abrahams and Wood (1951) stated that the aortic arch was left-sided in simple pulmonary valvular stenosis. Three years later, Campbell (1954) reported one patient with a right aortic arch from a series of 75 cases of pulmonary valvular stenosis with an intac...

The interatrial septum (IAS) was studied by subxiphoid two-dimensional echocardiography (S2DE) in 88 infants under 12 months of age who weighed 1.2-9.1 kg. The IAS was adequately displayed in 87 of 88 patients. The morphology, presence and localization of defects in the IAS were evaluated by S2DE and retrospectively related to the findings at cardiac catheterization. In seven patients with no i...

Most of the congenital heart diseases can be diagnosed in utero using fetal echocardiography. With the development of ultrasonography and intrauterine cardiac intervention technique, fetal cardiac intervention (FCI) for critical aortic stenosis, highly restrictive or intact atrial septum, pulmonary atresia with an intact ventricular septum (PA/ IVS), and critical pulmonary stenosis (CPS) are av...

A successful simultaneous surgical repair of rupture of the interventricular septum and left ventricular aneurysm resulting from myocardial infarction is described. Very few similar cases have been described in the literature and in none was angiocardiography performed before operation. Preoperative angiocardiographic examination to demonstrate a ventricular aneurysm is of major importance in a...

OBJECTIVE To assess immediate and medium term results of transcatheter laser valvotomy with balloon valvoplasty in selected infants with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Tertiary cardiac unit. PATIENTS All infants with pulmonary atresia and intact septum with no more than minor tricuspid valve hypoplasia referred between November 1990 and ...

In a heart with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without asymmetrical septal hypertrophy the number of transmural myocytes, the mean size of myocytes, and the percentage area of interstitial space were similar in the ventricular septum and left ventricular posterior wall, whereas in a reported series of 14 hearts with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with asymmetrical septal hypertrophy the number of tra...

Increased inspiratory right ventricular filling with a consequent shift of the ventricular septum to the left, thereby decreasing left ventricular filling, has been suggested as a mechanism of pulsus paradoxus. We recently saw a patient with tricuspid atresia and hypoplastic right ventricle who developed pulsus paradoxus. His course may help clarify the contribution of this mechanism.

Abstract Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (MI). VSR and early surgical repair associated with high mortality rate suboptimal results frequent postoperative residual shunt. Rapid diagnosis proper management are critical. We present the case 73-year-old patient who came to our Emercency Room (ER) reporting oppressive chest pain profuse s...