"Bronchogenic cyst impersonating a pericardial lesion": A case report.

A 32-year-old female presented with palpitations and chest discomfort. The patient had a history of pericardiotomy due to pericardial effusion. Multimodal imaging, including echocardiography, cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and coronary computed tomography angiography (CCTA) showed a single mass in the pericardium as the cause of the symptoms.

Postoperative intermittent dysfunction of mitral valve prosthesis of unclear etiology identified by three-dimensional echocardiography.

A 56-year-old patient with rheumatic heart disease and atrial fibrillation underwent mitral valve replacement with a mechanical prosthesis. The 3D perioperative echocardiogram showed an intermittent immobile medial disk without hemodynamic repercussion in the intensive care unit. The patient was taken back to the operating room and surgeons could not identify the cause.

[Gerbode defect or left ventricular to right atrial shunt. Case report and literature review].

Gerbode defect is a communication from the left ventricle to right atrium and it could be categorized in congenital or acquired. It is a rare condition that can represent as much as 0.08% of all septal defects.

[Short-stay programme in cardiac surgery. Analysis of short-term outcomes of 533 cases in five years].

Background: In 1999 so as to decrease the list of cardiac surgery the "fast track" program was started for patients with very mortality low risk. In 2004, this program was extended to moderate risk patients.

Objectives: A prospective, descriptive study to evaluate the clinical and demographic characteristics of "fast track" program patients for elective cardiac surgery.

[Surgical treatment of aortic stenosis in small aortic annulus].

The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that the aortic enlargement procedures, first described for patients with small aortic annulus, are reproducible with excellent results. A retrospective revision of 72 cases in which an enlargement procedure was done, with consideration regarding the relationship between valve size and patient body surface area, in order to avoid prosthesis-patient mismatch, was done. We consider the immediate mortality of the group, differentiating the cardiac mortality, concluding with other authors that body surface areas between 1.

[Left ventricular myxoma].

Primary tumors of the heart are rare entities. We report a unique case of a young woman presenting a left ventricular myxoma, which manifested itself as coronary artery disease and was diagnosed by echocardiography. Emergency surgical treatment was indicated, done through a transeptal approach with extensive resection of the tumor, its pedicle and the papilar muscle to which it was attached as well as the anterior mitral leaflet, which was thinned and deformed by the presence of the mass.

[Heart insufficiency in aortic valve disease: prognosis and treatment].

The purpose of this paper is to review the mortality rate in patients with aortic stenosis, and the special subgroup of this pathology associated with left ventricular dysfunction and clinical data of heart failure. The left ventricular dysfunction is recognized by low aortic gradients, and differentiation must be made between reversible ventricular dysfunction, in which case the optimal treatment is surgery, and irreversible ventricular disfunction, since in these cases surgical treatment will have excessively high mortality rates and no benefit.