A sinus of Valsalva aneurysm (SOVA) is an uncommon cardiac anomaly occurring in less than 1% of patients undergoing open cardiac surgical procedures (1). Approximately 65-85% of SOVAs originate from the right sinus of Valsalva, while SOVAs originating from noncoronary (10-30%) and left sinuses (<5%) are less common (2). It may be congenital or acquired in origin and may rupture into any of the ...

espite the development of novel pharmacological strateies and electrophysiological and surgical treatment regiens, heart failure remains one of the major causes of ortality in the western world. Heart failure can develop as consequence of myocardial infarction despite revascularzation procedures. Ischemia-induced death of cardiac myoytes results in scar formation and reduced contractility of he...

Pulmonary hypertension(PH) creates a significant challenge for the anesthesiologist, placing patients in high risk category. PH is a major reason for elevated perioperative morbidity and mortality, even in non cardiac surgical procedures. Stress, pain, ventilation, surgical related inflammation, can further increase pressure within pulmonary arteries and cause right heart failure. The major con...

Heart failure is frequently a result of impaired systolic ventricular performance. We describe a patient with heart failure and a systemic arteriovenous fistula who had left ventricular enlargement and a normal left ventricular ejection fraction, demonstrated by gated cardiac blood pool scanning. The heart failure was relieved by surgical repair of the fistula, but the left ventricular ejection...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and its prevalence is ∼1-2% of the general population, but higher with increasing age and in patients with concomitant heart disease. The Cox-maze III procedure was a groundbreaking development and remains the surgical intervention with the highest cure rate, but due to its technical difficulty alternative techniques have ...

Objectives : To evaluate the maternal outcomein patients with cardiac disease in pregnancy terms of complication and mode delivery. Materials And Methods Medical records 50 women heart who delivered at &gt;/= 28 weeks gestation from March 2018 to February 2022 Department Obstetrics Gynecology ,Basaweshwara Hospital ,attached MahadevappaRampure college ,Kalaburgi , were studied . Results The pre...

BACKGROUND Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MACCE) represent the most common cause of serious perioperative morbidity and mortality. Our aim was to identify risk factors for MACCE in a broad surgical population with intermediate-to-high surgery-specific risk and to build and validate a model to predict the risk of MACCE. METHODS A prospective, multicentre study of patients un...