Tetralogy of Fallot is the most frequent cyanotic congenital heart disease. Usually, the condition is diagnosed and treated during the first year of life. Few reports of uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot reaching adulthood are found in the literature.
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April 2012
We describe a unique case of a 37-year-old patient who was diagnosed with human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis co-infection due to a cardiac involvement that consisted in atrial fibrillation as a consequence of a compression of the left atrium by a giant necrotic lymphadenopathy and a pericardial effusion.
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April 2010
A 72-year-old man presented with an acute myocardial infarction, he did not receive any reperfusion therapy because he presented as a non-ST elevation myocardial infarction (MI). A dobutamine stress echocardiography was done five days after. A partial rupture of the posterior papillary muscle occurred during the stress test.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this report, we describe a continuous murmur heard in a young woman at the beginning of her lactation period, which illustrates a typical example of 'Mammary Souffle', described one century ago. Colour Doppler and pulsed-wave mode echocardiogram allowed to precise, for the first time, the arterial nature of increased systolic and diastolic blood flow in tortuous branches of internal mammary artery, most probably responsible of the murmur, after ruling out any other origin of continuous murmur.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSymptoms may appear during the perimenopause, but it is often difficult to treat them at that time. Progestins are used to treat abnormal bleeding. Low dose hormone replacement therapy (HRT) or oral contraception are often used also.
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