Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a fatal condition that may rarely occur due to complications of coronary catheter insertion. In this case report, a 41-year-old male was presented 48 hours after radiofrequency catheter ablation(RFCA) for the management of Wolf-Parkinson-White syndromewith acute onset of dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain. The physical examination revealed coarse crackles in ...

background: noninvasive techniques for the localization of the accessory pathways (aps) might help guide mapping procedures and ablation techniques. we sought to examine the diagnostic accuracy of strain imaging for the localization of the aps in wolff-parkinson-white syndrome. methods: w e prospectively studied 25 patients (mean age = 32 ± 17 years, 58.3% men) with evidence of pre-excitation o...

A full term female infant was born after 41 weeks of gestation, with a birth weight of 3815g and normal Apgar scores (9-10-10). Immediately after birth tachycardia was noted. An electrocardiogram (ECG) showed a heart rate of 300 beats per minute (bpm) and narrow QRS complexes. The newborn was clinically stable. She was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit and an intravenous line was ins...

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El síndrome de preexcitación cardiaca se caracteriza por la presencia fibras que conectan las aurículas con los ventrículos manera directa, sin tener atravesar el nodo atrio ventricular (AV). La prevalencia a nivel mundial este tipo oscila entre 0.1 y 0.3 % población general, mostrando un relación 2:1 hombres mujeres en su mayoría, cerca del 95 no está asociado ninguna patología asociada. 1, 2,...

Hyperthyroidism is a rare side effect of amiodarone treatment. Four patients with this untoward effect are described One patient with mild hyperthyroidism before treatment with amiodarone, developed prolonged severe resistant thyrotoxicosis 6 months after initiation of this drug. A second patient with Wolf-Parkinson-White syndrome and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation was successfully stabilized w...