Does extracorporeal life support influence outcome after surgical management of post infarct ventricular septal rupture? A monocenter retrospective study.

Background: Ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is an uncommon but life-threatening complication of acute myocardial infarction. Extra corporeal life support (ECLS) use in the preoperative setting allows hemodynamic stabilization for a delayed surgery. We aimed to assess the role of ECLS in the preoperative period of post infarction VSR surgery.

Two-in-one: A case report of a touchy TAVI procedure with a new valve.

Implantation of a second transcatheter heart valve (THV) into a primary THV is a bail-out situation, but may be necessary. An 85-year-old woman was referred with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). Echocardiography showed a moderately calcified AS.

A four-leaf clover: A case report of quadricuspid aortic valve stenosis.

Background: We present the case of a patient with severe quadricuspid aortic valve (QAV) stenosis who underwent treatment with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI).

Case Summary: An 87-year-old woman was referred to our department with severe aortic stenosis. Computed tomography angiography revealed a QAV with four separate equal-sized leaflets, similar in appearance to a four-leaf clover.

Surgical treatment of a Budd-Chiari syndrome secondary to hepatic inferior vena cava agenesia.

We report the case of a surgically treated congenital Budd-Chiari syndrome related to agenesia of the retrohepatic inferior vena cava. The first symptoms of the disease were noticed in childhood. The increasing symptomatology led to propose, at the age of 30 years, first a percutaneous transluminal angioplasty which failed, because of the impossibility to recanalize the obstructed segment.

Longitudinal ruptures of polyester knitted vascular prostheses.

Aim: The purpose of the study was the characterization of a type of rupture occurring on warp-knitted polyester vascular prostheses.

Materials And Methods: We studied 20 cases of warp-knitted polyester vascular prostheses that were explanted from humans that showed a longitudinal rupture as a part of a collaborative retrieval program. All the prostheses were immediately fixed in a 10% formaldehyde solution after their explantation in the operating room.