Assessment of chronic tricuspid regurgitation by colour Doppler echocardiography: a comparison with angiography in the catheterization room.

Colour Doppler echocardiographic (CDE) assessment of tricuspid regurgitation (TR) has been limited by the lack of an accepted model against which it can be compared. Angiography is said to be inadequate because catheter placement across the tricuspid valve could induce artifactual TR. Thirty-five consecutive patients with left-sided valvulopathy and recent heart failure were studied.

[The potential usefulness of MIBI-99mTc SPECT at rest in identifying viable myocardium after a myocardial infarct].

We present a 65 years-old female with a silent anterior myocardial infarction. A coronary angiogram showed a left ventricle with akinesia of segments anterior, lateral and apex. Left anterior descending artery showed a unique 95% lesion.

Diagnostic value of two-dimensional echocardiography in cardiac hydatid disease.

Echinococcal infection of the heart is rare. The preoperative findings, with special attention to two-dimensional echocardiography (2DE), of six patients with cardiac echinococcosis and their surgical and pathological correlations are reported. Cardiac hydatid cysts (HCs) were located in the cardiac apex in three patients, in the upper part of the interventricular septum extending towards the anterior aspect of the heart in one and in the postero-superior right atrial wall in another patient.

Right ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy associated with primary biliary cirrhosis.

A case of right ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy associated with primary biliary cirrhosis is described. The patient was a middle aged woman, who initially complained of fatigue and itching. The diagnosis of primary biliary cirrhosis was made based on clinical, biochemical and histological evidence of the disease.