Pathologic investigation of 50 children, adolescents, and young adults who died suddenly and unexpectedly revealed that the most frequently encountered cardiovascular diseases were mitral valve prolapse (12 cases), myocarditis (12 cases), hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (six cases), and anomalous origin of a coronary artery from the aorta (two cases). Five subjects had no evidence of cardiac abnorm...

Background The quantification of valvular regurgitation by CMR is usually a second-line diagnostic tool that is used when echocardiography has proven inconclusive. According to guidelines are aortic and mitral regurgitations considered severe if the regurgitation volume > 60 ml and regurgitation fraction > 50 %. Regurgitation of a single heart valve may be calculated by comparing LVSV and RVSV ...

innominate artery. I believe that the vessel concerned is in fact the hypoplastic ascending aorta, a component of the hypoplastic left heart of mitral and/or aortic valve atresia possibly the commonest cause of congenital cardiovascular death in the stillborn or neonate. The authors' 'truncus type III' is really the pulmonary trunk continuing into the wide ductus arteriosus; naturally, the vess...

Highlights The article describes the first conducted pseudorandomized comparative study of mitral valve replacement using either traditional or “valve-in-valve” techniques. Abstract Aim. To compare short-term (perioperative) and medium-term (6 months) outcomes surgical treatment bioprosthetic dysfunction methods. Methods. included 18 patients undergoing (open replacement) chosen according to fo...

Background: Heart valve disease gradually increases the pressure in the heart chambers and impairs heart pumping. It influences on quality of life due to low output, disability, fear, amnesia, anxiety, and depression. Although most of signs and symptoms in patients with heart valve diseases may significantly decrease after valve replacement surgery, there is limited information about the impact...

Certain subsets of high-risk mitral valve patients are not suitable candidates for transcatheter therapies. The objective of this report is to present a young patient with combined mitral valve and coronary artery disease to illustrate these challenges.In this report, we present a 47-year-old man with longstanding HIV infection who was referred with severe mitral regurgitation (MR) and profound...

IN THE rediscovery period of mitral surgery, beginning with the efforts of Harken and associates' and Bailey,2 3 it was clearly demonstrated that even a moderate increase in the size of the mitral orifice would improve the physiologic status of the patient considerably. However, as time went on it was apparent that finger fracture alone was not sufficient for many badly scarred and calcified va...

surgery for heart diseases during pregnancy, especially necessitating cardiopulmonary bypass, is believed to trigger maternal and fetal risks and should be performed only when medical therapy has been unsuccessful to alleviate the cardiac decompensation. a 33-year-old pregnant woman in her 33rd week of gestation was admitted to our hospital. she had rheumatic mitral valvular stenosis and had un...

In a 2-year period, 75 Hancock porcine xenograft valves were inserted in 66 patients, 33 male and 33 female. Their average age was 55 years (range 14 to 69 years). The indication for operation was rheumatic heart disease (30 patients), prosthetic valve dysfunction (8 patients), papillary muscle dysfunction (8 patients), degenerative valve disease (13 patients), subacute bacterial endocarditis (...

Pseudoaneurysm formation after aortic valve and root replacement is a postoperative complication that has traditionally been addressed by surgical means. We describe a case of a large subaortic pseudoaneurysm successfully occluded by transcatheter device closure. A 64-year-old woman with a history of mitral valve repair and ring implantation due to severe valvular regurgitation was referred for...