Phospholamban Cardiomyopathy Leading to Advanced Heart Failure in an Active Duty Service Member.

A phospholamban mutation is a rare genetic cause of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Our case describes a young service member who presented with advanced heart failure and was found to have a familial DCM from an autosomal dominant phospholamban mutation. He ultimately underwent a successful heart transplant just 23 days after his initial presentation.

Serial Echocardiographic Follow-up of Structural Heart Interventions Performed During Pacific Partnership Interventional Cardiology Subject Matter Exchanges From 2015 to 2017 in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Introduction: The U.S. Navy Medicine has a long history of conducting global health missions that foster international diplomacy through medical knowledge exchange with a goal of increasing partner nation's health care capacity.

Total Artificial Heart Implantation as a Bridge to Heart Transplantation in an Active Duty Service Member With Amyloid Cardiomyopathy.

Introduction: Cardiac involvement by light-chain (AL) amyloid occurs in up to 50% of patients with primary AL amyloidosis. The prognosis of amyloid heart disease is poor with 1-year survival rates of 35 to 40%. Historically, heart transplantation was considered controversial for patients with AL amyloid cardiomyopathy (CM) given the systemic nature of the disease and poor survival.

Elongated eustachian valve dividing the right atrium.

A 64-year-old man underwent transthoracic echocardiography after a syncopal event. Two-dimensional imaging demonstrated a linear density that appeared to divide the right atrium. Color doppler imaging demonstrated that inflow from the inferior vena cava, but not from the superior vena cava, was obstructed by this density.

Clinically significant incidental findings among human immunodeficiency virus-infected men during computed tomography for determination of coronary artery calcium.

Those infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) have a greater risk of cardiovascular disease and might undergo computed tomographic (CT) scans for early detection. Incidental findings on cardiac CT imaging are important components of the benefits and costs of testing. We determined the prevalence and factors associated with incidental findings on CT scans performed to screen for coronary artery calcium (CAC) among HIV-infected men.

Acute respiratory distress following liposuction.

An active duty male presented to the emergency room with dyspnea for 2 days after undergoing liposuction surgery. Upon presentation, the patient was afebrile, tachycardic, tachypneic, and hypoxemic. The initial chest radiograph demonstrated bilateral patchy opacities and the PaO2/FiO2 ratio was <200.

The postcardiac injury syndrome: case report and review of the literature.

The postcardiac injury syndrome (PCIS) includes the postmyocardial infarction syndrome, the postcommissurotomy syndrome, and the postpericardiotomy syndrome. Dressler reported a series of patients who developed a pericarditis-like illness days to weeks after a myocardial infarction. Postcardiac injury syndrome also has been observed after cardiac surgery, percutaneous intervention, pacemaker implantation, and radiofrequency ablation.