Systolic prospectively ECG-triggered dual-source CT angiography for evaluation of the coronary arteries in heart transplant recipients.

Objectives: To assess feasibility, image quality, and radiation dose of prospectively ECG-triggered coronary CT angiography (CTA) in orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) recipients.

Methods: 47 consecutive OHT recipients (40 men, mean age 62.1 ± 10.

Giant left atrial thrombus 17 years after orthotopic heart transplantation.

We present the case of a 66-year-old woman who underwent orthotopic heart transplantation 17 years earlier for dilated cardiomyopathy. After 7 years allograft coronary vasculopathy developed requiring coronary artery angioplasty. In year 15 postoperatively she experienced congestive heart failure and she became symptomatic requiring diuretics and digoxin treatment.

Long-term results of ascending aorta-abdominal aorta extra-anatomic bypass for recoarctation in adults with 27-year follow-up.

Objective: The surgical treatment of recurrent coarctation in adults supposes a redo left thoracotomy with adhesions and high risk of bleeding and injury of adjacent nerves. The rate of paraplegia in these cases may reach 2.6%.

Congenital bilateral coronary artery to pulmonary artery fistulas associated with left main trunk stenosis.

A rare case of a 57-year-old patient who presented with an acute coronary syndrome with incidental discovery of bilateral coronary arteriovenous fistulas originating from both coronary arteries to the pulmonary artery trunk and coronary artery atherosclerosis.

Cardiac surgery in nonagenarians: hospital mortality and long-term follow-up.

Nonagenarians represent a growing part of the population. However, it is assumed that they present a poorer functional class to cope with the stress inferred by surgical interventions. The aim of this study was to review our experience with nonagenarians concerning postoperative morbidities, mortality, and long-term survival status.