Perimyocarditis Following COVID-19 Vaccination.

A 39-year-old male was admitted in the emergency room with chest pain. He had been given the second dose of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine 3 days before. The patient denied taking any other medication beyond the usual.

Prosthetic aortic valve: a bone in the system.

We report a case of a 73-year-old female patient admitted to the surgical department for a splenic abscess. She had a history of a mechanical aortic valve implanted two years earlier. During the diagnostic work-up, the patient underwent a transesophageal echocardiogram that revealed the presence of multiple paravalvular abscesses, establishing the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis.

Aortic root to left atrium fistula: a rare complication of infective endocarditis in a native aortic valve.

The image shows a pseudoaneurysm of the mitral-aortic intervalvular fibrosa and a fistula between the non-coronary sinus and the left atrium.

Use of an implantable loop recorder: initial experience.

Objective: Retrospective analysis of the initial experience at our department with an implantable loop recorder (ILR) for the evaluation of patients with recurrent syncope, palpitations or dizziness.

Methods: We studied ten patients aged 31-65 (52.3) years referred to our center after an inconclusive evaluation that included ECG, Holter monitoring, events recorder, stress test, echocardiogram and electrophysiological study.