Unrepaired tetralogy of Fallot in a 58-year-old female: factors contributing to the observed survival (case report).

Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is the most common form of cyanotic congenital heart disease. Less than 3% of all patients with uncorrected TOF reach their 40 year of life. We present the case of a 58-year-old woman female with uncorrected TOF.

[Surgical treatment of tricuspid regurgitation associated with left valvular heart disease: about 162 cases].

Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a prognostic factor associated with the outcome of patients undergoing surgical treatment of left valvular heart disease. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the postoperative outcome of patients with tricuspid regurgitation associated with left valvular heart disease and to identify factors associated with surgical failure. We conducted a retrospective study of 162 patients over the period January 2009 to July 2019.

Infectious endocarditis complicated by an ischemic stroke and revealing Marfan syndrome.

Marfan syndrome is a systematic genetic disease of the connective tissue. The cardiac affection would predict the prognosis and ischemic stroke might complicate it. The purpose of this work is to discuss the mechanisms of the ischemic stroke in Marfan syndrome which have to be considered in all young patients of ischemic strokes.

The incomplete ring with modulated flexibility: a new concept of mitral annuloplasty.

Among the different techniques of mitral valve repair (involving chordea, commissures, papillary muscles, leaflets, or annulus), the annuloplasty remains a difficult problem-solving step. Since invention of the first ring, which was rigid and closed, the concept of annuloplasty has taken into consideration the following objectives: to make the available leaflet tissue well fitted to the systolic mitral orifice by repairing the length and shape of the dilated annulus, prevent its further dilatation, and provide a support to the fragile area after a partial leaflet resection.