Publications by authors named "Francesco Rattenni"
Article Synopsis
- Cardiac hemangioma is a rare, benign tumor that can be asymptomatic or cause symptoms depending on its location and interaction with nearby structures.
- A case study describes a 79-year-old patient diagnosed with right cardiac hemangioma after experiencing severe symptoms like fluid buildup and heart failure.
- The tumor was successfully removed using cardiopulmonary bypass, leading to a favorable outcome after 12 months, highlighting its unusual size and location near the tricuspid valve.
The use of cannulated screws and titanium plates to reinforce the sternal closure or to treat sternal dehiscence after median sternotomy has already been suggested in several articles. The system proposed here has some important advantages over those already described. Moreover, thanks to its characteristics, this system can also be used to treat pathologies affecting the entire rib cage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Situs inversus totalis, dextrocardia with interrupted inferior vena cava, and azygos vein continuation concomitant with symptomatic atrial fibrillation requiring ablation. This case was deemed not suitable for percutaneous ablation due to anatomic variations and the lack of case reports in the literature.
Methods And Results: We performed bilateral thoracoscopic epicardial ablation and epicardial left atrial appendage exclusion.