Background: pheochromocytoma is a neuroendocrine tumor that secretes high levels of catecholamines and it is able to exert serious cardiovascular effects. The cardiac involvement is the most frequent, with reported conditions such as transient myocardial dysfunction, acute coronary syndrome and ventricular arrhythmias.
Clinical Case: we reported a 36 year-old woman without cardiovascular history.
Background: Takotsubo syndrome is a cardiopathy characterized by a dyskinesia or left ventricular apical ballooning and subsequent recovery of ventricular function. We undertook this study to present a case of Takotsubo syndrome.
Clinical Case: We present the case of a 60-year-old female with a 26-year history of systemic arterial hypertension treated with 40 mg of termisartan daily.
Objective: We present two cases of Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) treated with percutaneous Amplatzer device.
Method: The first case corresponds to 48 years old woman with Ebstein's disease with moderate to severe hemodynamic repercussion and three cerebrovascular accidents, the last one under coumarin treatment, she received antiarrhythmic medication and despite of it developed 1st degree AV block, supraventricular and ventricular ectopia, rigth branch block. The second case corresponds to a 22 years old man with antecedents of cerebrovascular accident at the age of 21 with sequelae of convulsive crisis.
We performed transcatheter closure of an atrial septal defect (ASD) using an Amplatzer device in three patients, 2 women and 1 male child, aged 12, 54, and 4 years, respectively, coursing with ostium secundum ASD. Two with left to right shunt and the third with bidirectional shunt. The transesophageal echocardiogram revealed ASD with diameters of 13, 15, and 10 mm, the diameter with expanded catheter balloon was of 30, 26, and 17 mm, respectively.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To analyze immediate and long-term results of balloon dilation for aortic coarctation in a three-center experience in Mexico, and to determine factors associated with increased risk.
Background: Results demonstrated that the procedure is effective and safe, however its use in some groups is still controversial, specially in neonates and infants.
Methods: In a ten-year period, 333 patients with aortic coarctation on underwent balloon dilation with an immediate success rate of 93.