Primitive cardiac sarcomas: about 2 cases.

Background: the cardiac sarcomas, although very rare, represent the quasi-totality of the primitive sly tumors of the heart

Aim: it is about a retrospective study of two cases of cardiac sarcomas operated in Sahloul university hospital of Sousse.

Cases: it is about a woman and a man: The respective ages were 22 and 45 years. The clinical pattern of the patients was polymorphic and the diagnosis put by cardiac echography.

[Cor triatriatum: of six operated patients report].

Six cases of cortriatriatum operated between January 1990 and April 2004. Their ages ranged from 3 months to 22 years. Associated lesions are present in 4 patients.

[Congenital abdominal infrarenal aortic aneurysm in infants: 2 case reports and literature review].

Abdominal aortic aneurysm is extremely rare in infant and is generally due to infection, umbilical artery catheterization, vasculitis, connective tissue diseases and tuberous sclerosis. At the absence of these evident causes, it is a congenital primary aortic aneurysm which is exceedingly rare and only a few cases have of which have been reported. Here we report two cases of aortic wall reconstruction done by a Gore tex patch.

[Chronic aortic regurgitation with left ventricular dysfonction].

We studied fifty one patients (40 men and 11 women) under going valve replacement from 1990 to 2002 for aortic regurgitation and had left ventricular dysfunction. 45% patients were in class III or IV of New York Heart Association (NYHA). All patients were investigated by echocardiography (left ventricular ejection fraction [LVEF] < 50%) - Peroperative mortality was 5.

[Cardio-pericardial hydatid cyst. Report of 19 cases].

From May 1991 to July 2003, 19 patients (9 men and 10 women), of 30 years average age were operated in our department service for surgical cure of cardio-pericardial hydatid cysts. The TEE constitutes the examination of choice in the cardio-pericardial diagnosis of hydatid cyst. The surgery under CPB is the technique of choice, we practiced used 15 times.