Cardiac myxomas are the most common neoplasms of the heart. They can be located in any chamber of the heart but frequently in the left atrium. In this report we present a patient who had been treated for a right ventricular myxoma originating from the interventricular septum and leading to right ventricular outflow tract obstruction.

OBJECTIVES Atrial switch procedures for transposition of the great arteries are associated with reoperations mainly for systemic ventricular dysfunction and baffle complications. This study aims at identifying the results of reoperations following the Senning operation. METHODS Records of 314 hospital survivors who had undergone the Senning operation were reviewed for details concerning cardi...

We report the case of a 41 years old woman who presented with massive bleeding after redo mitral valve replacement. A Left ventricular rupture, different from the three known types of wall rupture was hardly identified and controlled with extreme difficulty. The patient died eight days postoperatively due to disseminated intravascular coagulopathy. Retrospective analysis of the Echocardiograph...

Left ventricular outflow obstruction (LVOTO) and diastolic dysfunction are the main pathophysiological characteristics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)LVOTO, may be identified in more than half HCM patients represents an important determinant symptoms a predictor worse prognosis. This review aims to clarify LVOTO mechanism in, diagnosis of, therapeutic strategies for with obstructive HCM.

A 24-year-old man was referred to our department for routine follow-up due to a small perimembranous ventricular septal defect (VSD), which had been monitored since his childhood. The patient’s vital signs were stable. Auscultation revealed a systolic murmur. Echocardiography showed a highly mobile aneurysmal mass in the left ventricular outflow tract without stenosis or significant aortic insu...

Cardiomyopathy has been defined as "a subacute or chronic disorder of heart muscle of unknown or obscure etiology, often with associated endocardial, and sometimes with pericardial, involvement, but not atherosclerotic in origin". Using this definition a differentiation of chronic cardiomyopathies into three types has been made on clinical grounds (Goodwin et al., 1961). Obstructive Cardiomyopa...

BACKGROUND The morphological determinants of mitral valve systolic anterior motion (SAM) and obstruction to left ventricular outflow in patients within the broad clinical spectrum of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) are not completely understood, particularly the contribution of mitral leaflet length and size. METHODS AND RESULTS To clarify this issue, mitral valve specimens from 43 patients...

Tetralogy of Fallot comprises a constellation of cardiac findings that share the following common anatomic abnormalities (Fig. 1): a large malaligned ventricular septal defect (VSD), overriding of the aorta over the septal defect, right ventricular outflow obstruction, and right ventricular hypertrophy. The anatomic spectrum of TOF is diverse and includes other variants such as pulmonary stenos...

In February 1961, Brockenbrough, Braunwald and Morrow described a new haemodynamic test in the differential diagnosis of left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction, based on the haemodynamic profiles of the left ventricle and aorta immediately following an extrasystolic beat. Despite 50 years of multiple technological advances, the observation retains a place in the discrimination of fix...

in the planning or production of the document. Within the committees, it was felt that specific insights into the estimation of costeffectiveness for electrophyiological procedures. M.S. was selected as a participant of this group to provide this specific expertise. M.S. is a Health Economist (MSc in Economics—Ruhr-Universität Bochum and MHE in Master in Health Economics—VLEKHO Belgium) and has...