BACKGROUND The aim of our study was to compare myocardial mechanics of constrictive pericarditis (CP) with restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM), or healthy controls; to assess the impact of pericardial thickening detected by cardiac magnetic resonance on regional myocardial mechanics in CP; and to quantitate the effect of pericardiectomy on myocardial mechanics in CP. METHODS AND RESULTS Myocardi...

BackgroundIncreased metabolic rate of hyperglycemia in gestational diabetes causes macrosomia, which can also affect the fetal heart. The thickness of the walls of the heart and its function in women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) can change over time before treatment. We aimed to evaluate fetal cardiac structure in terms of ventricular wall thickness and its function in women w...

A 47 year-old female died after mitral valve replacement. Post-cardiopulmonary bypass right ventricle was not able to pump despite good left ventricular contractility. At microscopic examination, diffuse right ventricular fatty infiltration was found. We found no previous report of this pathology in patients with mitral stenosis

Severe left ventricular volume overloading causes myocardial and cellular contractile dysfunction. Whether this is also true for severe right ventricular volume overloading was unknown. We therefore created severe tricuspid regurgitation percutaneously in seven dogs and then observed them for 3.5-4.0 yr. All five surviving operated dogs had severe tricuspid regurgitation and right heart failure...

abstract hypoplastic right ventricular is a rare congenital heart disease. a few cases have been reported. we presented a case with hypoplastic right ventricular and multiple associated anomaly (ventricular septal defect, atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis) in whom the main concern was whether biventricular repair or fontan type surgery would be the optimal management in this patient. ...

background: longer survival after the total repair of the tetralogy of fallot increases the importance of late complications such as right ventricular dysfunction. this is a prospective study of the right ventricular function in totally corrected tetralogy of fallot patients versus healthy children. methods: thirty-two healthy children were prospectively compared with 30 totally corrected tetra...