A woman, aged 30 years with situs inversus, dextrocardia and severe rheumatic mitral restenosis was referred to AFIC/NIHD for commissurotomy. A Closed Mitral Valvotomy (CMV) for severe mitral stenosis had already been done 8 years earlier, and her symptoms had reappeared. She was evaluated with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography and found to have a mitral valve area of 0.6 cm2, ...

observed increased risk correlates with INR control. In summary, the findings of this large population-based study indicate that the initiation of warfarin is associated with an increased risk of ischaemic stroke. These results corroborate with those observed in post hoc analyses of two large trials of novel oral anticoagulants. While one hypothesis is that warfarin may induce a transient hyper...

Poland anomaly was first reported in Guys Hospital report, 1841. Since then many cases have been described. Among the upper limb developmental defects, Poiand anomaly has a prevalence of 1 in 20,000. According to anotherreport 10% of all cases of upper limb syndactyly have Poland anomaly also. Poland anomaly is a sporadic developmental disorder involving the upper limb. Primary defect seems to ...

SUMMARY In the case described anatomically corrected transposition of the great vessels is associated with situs inversus. Anatomically corrected transposition is extremely rare, and has not been previously reported with situs inversus. This type of transposition should not be confused with classical corrected transposition. Thus the case examined exhibited a D-bulboventricular loop with L-tran...