An exceptionally giant left atrial myxoma: a case report and literature review.

Background: Cardiac myxomas are considered the most common benign heart tumours. The clinical manifestations mainly depend on the size of the tumour. They usually vary from asymptomatic, mild non-specific symptoms, to severe obstructive cardiac and systemic findings.

Factor VII deficiency: do all need replacement for cardiac surgery?

In cardiac surgery, supplementation with recombinant factor VIIa is the treatment of choice for patients with factor VII deficiency, but overzealous administration can be associated with thromboembolic side-effects. A 53-year-old man with factor VII activity 15.2%, international normalized ratio 2.

Management issues during postinfarction ventricular septal defect and role of perioperative optimization: A case series.

The development of a myocardial infarction ventricular septal rupture is a rare fatal complication, and the surgical repair is the treatment of choice. In most of the scenarios, the operation will be done as an emergency procedure that carries high mortality. Prognosis of these patients depends on prompt echocardiographic diagnosis and the proactive medical and surgical therapy.

An unsuspected diagnosis of mucoepidermoid carcinoma of lung.

A 40-year-old man with dry cough for 5 years, no history of smoking, and a right lung mass, underwent a radiologically-guided core needle biopsy. The initial histopathological diagnosis was adenocarcinoma of the lung. After lobectomy, the final pathology was mucoepidermoid carcinoma.