A 64-year-old asymptomatic man had an incidental finding of a giant left circumflex artery (LCX) aneurysm, with the distal LCX draining into a confluence receiving terminal portions of all coronary arteries and communicating with the left ventricle through a transmural fistulous tract. We believe that this is the first case reported with such a complex LCX abnormality. ().
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January 2021
In this Viewpoint, we highlight a possible hemodynamic problem arising following tricuspid valve replacement (TVR) in patients with severe chronic tricuspid regurgitation, represented by "unmasking" of pulmonary hypertension (PH) following the surgery. We share an observation that should alert cardiologists to the fact that this increasingly utilized surgery is not risk free, and careful assessment of the right ventricular function and pulmonary circulation preoperatively is extremely important, especially in patients with preexisting risk factors for PH, since TVR may lead to a sudden increase in right ventricular afterload.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is now a pandemic. It afflicts multiple organs, including the cardiovascular system. This occurs by direct invasion as well as opportunistic infections complicating acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.
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Hypotension as a procedural complication during cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) implantation was reported in the initial randomized clinical trials. However, this phenomenon is not well characterized. We reviewed our CRT implantation experience to better understand this issue.
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