Precise reconstruction of the aortic valve using glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium in new formula: a case report.

Background: The current study presents a novel and precise surgical technique for complete reconstruction of the aortic valve using glutaraldehyde-treated autologous pericardium in a patient with aortic valve disease and endocarditis. The technique aims to provide a more effective and reproducible method for aortic valve repair, with the goal of improving outcomes and quality of life for patients with aortic valve disease.

Case Presentation: A 35-year-old Iranian male with aortic valve disease and endocarditis underwent aortic valve reconstruction surgery.

Combination of cardiac and carotid glomus tumour: a rare case report.

The most common tumour of the heart is myxoma but paraganglioma (also called glomus tumour in extracardiac sites) in the cardiac position is the rarest of them. While this tumour accounts for 0.8% of all primary benign tumours, the combination of both neoplasms is an exceedingly rare occurrence.

A rare case of Watson syndrome.

Watson for the first time reported a case series of children in a family that presented with pulmonary valve stenosis, mental retardation, short stature, and small brown color skin lesions that are known as cafe-au-lait spots. We present a rare new variant of the syndrome in an adult patient with severe pulmonary valve stenosis, main, left, and right pulmonary artery aneurysm, short stature, mental retardation, coronary artery disease, and skin lesions. The patient underwent open cardiac surgery with pulmonary valvotomy and aneurysmorrhaphy of the main pulmonary artery and its right and left branches.

A Rare Location of Pseudoaneurysm in Subaortic Ring after Bentall Operation.

Bentall operation is considered a gold standard of surgery in the treatment of ascending aortic aneurysm. This operation with en-bloc resection of ascending aorta and aortic valve requires aortic valve with two coronary bottoms re-replacements in a prepared composite graft. The four important locations for the pseudoaneurysm include proximal and distal composite graft anastomosis and two coronary bottom sites.

Association of cardiac enzymes with morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing coronary endarterectomy surgery.

Background: The relationship between cardiac enzyme release following coronary endarterectomy (CE) and morbidity and mortality is unclear. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the association of cardiac enzymes with morbidity and mortality of patients undergoing CE surgery.

Methods: This was a single-center retrospective cohort study of 475 patients who had undergone off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCABG).

Traumatic Hemolytic Anemia after Valve Surgery: a Case Report.

Hemolytic anemia is an uncommon complication after mitral valve repair. We present a case of a 55-year-old man who presented with post-operative hemolytic anemia after mitral valve repair with prosthetic ring. The hemolytic anemia improved after the patient had the prosthetic ring removed and the valve replaced by a prosthetic mitral valve.

Anabolic Steroid Use and Aortic Dissection in Athletes: A Case Series.

The use of anabolic steroids in supraphysiologic doses has grown in the last decade as doping drugs in athletes. The high dose of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) causes cardiomyopathy, hypertension, thrombosis, myocardial infarction (MI), weakness of connective tissue, and its sequelae such as tendon injury and aortic dissection. Dissection of the ascending aorta is an uncommon injury that has been recognized with increasing frequency in bodybuilders in recent years.

Right Atrial Blood Cyst with Stones Suspended from the Coronary Sinus.

Cardiac blood cysts are rare benign neoplasms, usually involving the cardiac valves and are remnants of the Chiari network. They are usually detected in the first six months of life and rarely occur in children or adults. We report a 76-year-old male patient who was referred to the Imam Ali Hospital affiliated with Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences, Kermanshah, Iran, in 2018 with dyspnoea.