Outcome of pregnancy in a contemporary cohort of adults with congenital heart disease-a 10-year, single-center experience.

Background: Pregnancy may be associated with adverse outcome in women with congenital heart disease (CHD). However, data regarding the outcome of pregnancy in women with CHD who receive care in cardiac-obstetric expert units are limited.

Methods: We retrospectively analyzed baseline characteristics and outcome of pregnancy in 67 females with CHD who received medical care in our tertiary center for 61 singleton and 6 twin pregnancies between 2009 and 2018.

Improvement of Cardiac Function After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass in Morbidly Obese Patients Without Cardiac History Measured by Cardiac MRI.

Purpose: Metabolic syndrome in patients with morbid obesity causes a higher cardiovascular morbidity, eventually leading to left ventricular hypertrophy and decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is considered the gold standard modality for treatment of morbid obesity and might even lead to improved cardiac function. Our objective is to investigate whether cardiac function in patients with morbid obesity improves after RYGB.

[A man with a painful right hand].

A young man visited the Emergency Department with a painful right hand after punching his fist against a wall. He suffered a luxation in the fifth carpometacarpal joint and a fracture at the base of the fourth metacarpal bone which were successfully treated by reposition and plaster bandage for 4 weeks.