Traumatic ventricular septal defect after a kick by a cow.

A case is presented of an unusual rupture of the ventricular septum due to a kick from a cow. The 7-year-old boy developed acute cardiac failure. The electrocardiogram showed anterior and apical myocardial infarction.

[Immediate results of surgical treatment of intracardiac myxomas in 45 patients].

Between 1961 and 1992, 45 patients with intracardiac myxomas localised in the left ventricle--40 (89%) and in the right ventricle--5 (11%) were operated on. There were 27 women and 18 men, aged 15-63, mean age, 46.5 years.

[Infections of the sternum after cardiac surgery].

Methods of treatment of suppurative mediastinitis in cardiosurgical operations applied at the clinic are analysed. These methods are: debridment with closure of the sternum with irrigation of the substernal space, debridment with bandage of open wound and healing per secundam, debridment with bandage of open wound and its closure by myocutaneous layers. It has been concluded that these infections are very complex etiopathogenetically because of which it is very important to know all relevant risk factors aiming to prevent development of this complication in cardiosurgical operations.

[Ultrasound, computer tomography and angiography in the diagnosis of dissecting aortic aneurysm].

The findings obtained by ultrasound, CT and angiographic examinations of 75 patients with dissecting aortic aneurysms operated on at the M.M.A.