We present the case of a 2.5 year-old child with unbalanced atrioventricular septal defect due to a small left ventricle (LV) (mitral annulus of 10mm and a 0.4 ratio in relation to the tricuspid annulus, LVDD: 17 mm, LV Vd2: 15 ml/m(2) and LV/RV long-axis ratio of 0.71); he had a favorable outcome after biventricular surgical repair. Normal LV development was observed three months after the ope...

This paper is a commentary on the experimental observation observations of Bensimon et al. [1] of convection of a binary fluid mixture in a fluid annulus. They observed a convective pattern that is time periodic, but with non-zero amplitude confined to a stationary sector of the annulus. The symmetry properties of this state are paradoxical. There is no subgroup of the spatio-temporal symmetry ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Right ventricle (RV) remodeling can determine tricuspid valve (TV) geometry and the severity of functional tricuspid regurgitation (TR). SUBJECTS AND METHODS In 53 patients with various degrees of functional TR and in sinus rhythm, RV and TV geometries were analyzed using real-time 3-dimensional echocardiography, including tenting angles of 3 leaflets, septal-lateral...

[Purpose] The present study assessed the effects of using an unstable inclined board on the active and passive ankle range of motion in patients with ankle stiffness. [Subjects] The study included 10 young female patients with ankle stiffness. [Methods] The patients were divided into the following two groups: a group that performed ankle dorsiflexion stretching exercises using a wooden inclined...

BACKGROUND The objective was to evaluate the effects of aortic annulus size on valve hemodynamics and clinical outcomes in those patients included in the Placement of Aortic Transcatheter Valves (PARTNER) randomized controlled trial cohort A and the nonrandomized continued access cohort. METHODS AND RESULTS Patients included the randomized controlled trial (n=574) and nonrandomized continued ...