The present report describes a male newborn with a pulsatile structure beneath the sternum. Echocardiography showed common atrium, a single ventricle, mitral atresia, double outlet right ventricle, subpulmonary stenosis, small pulmonary artery branches, and a thin walled ventricular diverticulum suggestive of Cantrell's syndrome. The diverticulum was resected to prevent life threatening events ...

We report the case of a successful transatrial hybrid atrial septal defect (ASD II) closure in a borderline 9-month-old girl with multiple congenital defects. The patient, with hemodynamically significant ASD II, had scoliosis of the thoracic spine with multiple axial skeleton defects, including congenital defects of tho-racic vertebrae, defects of the right ribs and agenesis of the sternum (Fi...

The clinical and neuroradiologic features in 22 patients with septooptic dysplasia are reviewed. The most consistent abnormality seen in 15 patients was absence of the septum pellucidum and flattening of the roofs and inferior pointing of the floors of the anterior horns of the lateral ventricles. Hypoplasia of the anterior optic pathways was seen in 10 patients and a primitive optic ventricle ...

Abstract Background: Early diagnosis of right ventricle (RV) involvement in inferior myocardial infarction (Inf MI) is very critical. This study was performed to evaluate the clinical findings of Inf MI with or without RV infarction. Methods: From September 2010 to September 2012, 195 patients with definite diagnosis of Inf MI were evaluated in the Department of Cardiology, in Babol, north of...

OBJECTIVE To establish the incidence of systolic and diastolic dysfunction of the right and left ventricle in a large cohort of patients after Mustard or Senning operations and to assess changes in the incidence on long term follow up. DESIGN Postoperative case-control study using radionuclide ventriculography. Ejection fractions, peak filling rates, rapid filling periods and fractions, slow ...

Pontine tegmental cap dysplasia is a rare neurologic condition first described by Barth et al. in 2007. It is characterized by a vaulted pontine tegmentum projecting into the fourth ventricle and ventral pontine hypoplasia. Patients present with developmental delay, cerebellar and pyramidal abnormalities, cranial nerve dysfunction, and various extracranial malformations. The condition is though...

one hundred and sixty one-day-old male broilers (ross 308) in a 6-wk period were conducted to 2 groups (with 4 replicates for each group), 20 chicks for a replicate. one group of these chickens was raised in normal temperature (nt) treatment and the other in cold temperature (ct) treatment to induce ascites. at the end of the experiment (wk 6), 2 chickens from each replicate were randomly selec...

Afemale child with visceral heterotaxy (presumed left isomerism), interrupted inferior vena cava with azygos continuation to the superior vena cava, and double-outlet right ventricle underwent a total cavopulmonary anastomosis (end-to-side anastomosis of the superior vena cava to the right pulmonary artery) in infancy. Completion of Fontan circulation was undertaken at 3 years of age with const...