Major neurological events following foam sclerotherapy.

Aim: This report describes two complications of severe neurologic alterations (TIA, CVA) after foamed sclerotherapy injection.

Methods: Using foam sclerotherapy in accepted concentrations, volume, and in standard ratio of air to sclerosant, two serious neurologic complications occurred.

Results: In both cases described, unknown atrial communications existed resulting in foam emboli.

Successful repair of a submitral left ventricular infected pseudoaneurysm.

Aneurysms of the left ventricle may be congenital or may occur after a myocardial infarction, trauma, or endocarditis. Infective endocarditis can cause destructive injury to the heart in various ways. This report describes the formation of an aneurysm of the left ventricle from trauma of a bacterial vegetation of the mitral valve.