Severe mitral stenosis secondary to eosinophilic granulomatosis resolving after pharmacological treatment.

We present a case of 44-year-old woman who underwent effective pharmacological treatment of severe mitral stenosis. The patient was hospitalized due to rapidly progressive dyspnea. Her medical history included asthma, perennial rhinitis, and nasal polyps.

Patient-prosthesis mismatch in patients treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation - predictors, incidence and impact on clinical efficacy. A preliminary study.

Introduction: Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) is relatively frequent after surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) and negatively impacts prognosis.

Aim: We sought to determine the frequency and clinical effects of PPM after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

Material And Methods: Overall, 238 patients who underwent TAVI were screened.

Assessment of the myocardial FDG-PET image quality with the use of maximal Standardized Uptake Value myocardial to background index. Application of the results in regard to semiquantitative assessment of myocardial viability with cardiac dedicated softwar.

Background: The objective of this study was to semiquantitatively assess the degree of myocardial fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in glucose-loaded myocardial viability positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scans, to calculate the myocardial to background index, and correlate the index with image quality assessed on the basis of visual qualitative assessment.

Material And Methods: The myocardial FDG-PET/CT study was carried out in 69 non-diabetic patients, who had known coronary artery disease, by intravenous injection of 250 ± 70 MBq (range: 180-320 MBq) FDG. Images were interpreted visually and patients were divided into three groups according to the grade of myocardial uptake: optimal, suboptimal, and uninterpretable.

Simplified protocol of cardiac 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography viability study in normoglycemic patients with known coronary artery disease.

Purpose: The purpose was to evaluate quality of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (18F-FDG-PET) myocardial scans and its correlation with background glucose (BG) after simplified 5% intravenous glucose load protocol.

Methods: An intravenous glucose load protocol was applied in 69 normoglycemic patients with confirmed coronary artery disease. The blood glucose level was measured every 15 min.