Mailing Address: Joana Sofia Silva Moura Ferreira • Rua do Padrão, 479, Vila Maior, Coimbra – Portugal E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Manuscript received October 17, 2016; revised mansucript October 27, 2016, accepted October 27, 2016 A 79-year-old female with no relevant past medical history was admitted in our emergency department for dyspnea on minimal exert...

background nasal septal deviation (nsd) can cause upper airway obstruction, which results in hypoxia and therefore, pulmonary vasoconstriction, ventricular hypertrophy and right-sided heart failure. objectives the aim of this study is to determine the mean pulmonary arterial pressure (mpap) of the patients with nsd and the effect of septoplasty on pulmonary arterial pressure. patients and metho...

percutaneous pulmonary balloon valvuloplasty (pbv) remains the treatment of choice for pulmonary stenosis (ps). this procedure is effective, safe and gives excellent results. pulmonary artery (pa) dissection is a rare complication of pbv. this report is a case of an asymptomatic 17-year-old male with a history of pbv due to severe ps dating back to fifteen years ago. during recent echocardiogra...

A 58-year-old woman was admitted to our department for evaluating an abnormal blood flow in the main pulmonary artery by transthoracic echocardiography. Coronary angiography revealed the presence of fistulas originating from the left anterior descending artery and also the right coronary artery to the main pulmonary artery. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, both fistulas were ligated near the origi...