Publications by authors named "E Cirio"
Purpose: Here we describe a patient admitted for a stroke that was unexpectedly correlated with subclinical infective endocarditis attributable to a rarely opportunistic pathogen, Abiotrophia defectiva.
Case Report: A 75-year-old man presented with a stroke. Transesophageal echocardiography suggested vegetation on all aortic valve cusps, despite the absence of clinical or laboratory signs of infection.
Diagnostic and surgical management of HeartMate 3 outflow graft obstruction due to two different mechanisms.
Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann
September 2022
Outflow graft obstruction is a potentially catastrophic complication of left ventricular assist devices that may occur secondary to different mechanisms. Two cases of Heartmate 3 outflow graft obstruction associated with two different pathophysiological mechanisms are presented. The first one was a 70-year-old man who developed outflow graft obstruction secondary to kinking.
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- Post myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a serious complication that can occur after ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and requires urgent surgical intervention due to high mortality rates.
- A 76-year-old woman with acute heart failure and VSD underwent emergency surgery with a bovine pericardium patch but experienced early patch failure.
- The defect was successfully closed using an off-label Amplatzer ASD-MF device, and the patient showed improvement without significant complications one year later.
Pericardial cysts are rare benign intrathoracic lesions, more often located in the right rather than in the left cardiophrenic angle. At echocardiography, they appear as echolucent unilocular structures, which are in contact with the pericardium. They contain a clear water-like fluid and, thus, are referred to as "spring water cysts".
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