Outcomes of Pulmonary Endarterectomy Operation Concomitant with Cardiac Procedures.

Background: The aim of this study was to analyze the results of pulmonary endarterectomy (PEA) performed simultaneously with additional cardiac procedures in a single tertiary-level center.

Methods: Data of patients who underwent PEA with additional cardiac procedures for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) in our clinic were retrospectively reviewed using patient records.

Results: Between March 2011 and April 2019, 56 patients underwent PEA with additional cardiac surgery.

Cardiac cystic echinococcosis: Report of three cases.

We present a retrospective analysis of three cases of cardiac hydatidosis, who underwent surgery between 2010 and 2012. Two patients had a lesion in the interventricular septum, whereas one patient had the lesion in apicoinferior wall of LV. The diagnosis was made by echocardiography, but magnetic resonance imaging was utilized to assess cyst activity and extend of disease.

Right ventricular mass: intracardiac ectopic thyroid tissue: a case report.

Ectopic thyroid tissue is a result of abnormal migration of thyroid tissue during the embryonic state. Most of these rare cases, almost 90% of them, are located in the base of the tongue and a minority of them is located anteriorly near the hyoid bone area. Below we report the case of a young patient with an intracardiac mass first diagnosed with three-dimensional echocardiography and afterward successfully treated surgically.