S UBACUTE bacterial endocarditis involves the left side of the heart in nearly all cases. The complete descriptions of the disease by Libman and Friedberg,’ Blumer,2 and Middleton and Burke3 refer chiefly to this common type. The vegetations are confined to the right side of the heart in less than 4 per cent of the cases.4*6 In patent ductus arteriosus complicated by subacute bacterial endarter...

Pre- and post-operative vectorcardiograms (Frank system) and angiocardiograms in a patient with Lutembacher's syndrome, were correlated. Preoperative vectorcariogram showed the initial conduction delay, complete RBBB, increased QRS voltage, and open QRS loop, while left ventriculography and left atriography demonstrated the markedly posteriorly dislocated left ventricular major axis surrounded ...

Lutembacher's syndrome is a rare combination of atrial septal defect (ASD) and rheumatic mitral stenosis. Traditionally, this condition is treated surgically. We present a case of Lutembacher's syndrome that was successfully treated with percutaneous transcatheter mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) using the Inoue balloon. Closure of ASD was successfully achieved with an Amplatzer atrial septal occlu...

Atrial septal defect is one of the common types of congenital heart disease. Although recognized for centuries and receiving increasing attention since 1900, it was the detailed description by Bedford, Papp, and Parkinson in 1941, of the physical, electrocardiographic, radiological, and diagnostic features, the complications, and the clinical course, that brought the salient characteristics of ...

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