[Coarctation of the aorta in infants under one year of age. An analysis of 20 years of experience].

Objective: A review of experience with techniques of correction used, in the last 20 years, in children younger than one year old.

Methods: In the period from 1978 to 1998, 148 patients (pt) with coarctation of the aorta (CoAo), under one year of age, with or without associated intracardiac defects, were submitted to surgery. Median age 50 days, 92 female pt (62.

Right ventricular bronchogenic cyst.

We report an exceedingly rare case of primary bronchogenic cyst in the outflow tract of the right ventricle in a 48-year-old woman. In our review of the world literature, we found only 1 other report of an intracardiac bronchogenic cyst. Our patient's only symptom was mild dyspnea not associated with physical exertion, and the cyst was resected successfully.

Late results of endoventricular patch plasty repair in akinetic and dyskinetic areas after acute myocardial infarction.

Objective: To assess the surgical results of endoventricular patch plasty repair in akinetic and dyskinetic left ventricular areas.

Methods: We studied 52 patients who had undergone endoventricular patch plasty repair associated with myocardial revascularization. The preoperative functional class distribution was as follows: class I in 1 (1.