Medium-term echocardiographic follow-up of systolic and diastolic left ventricular abnormalities after surgical treatment of subacute rupture.

Subacute rupture of the left ventricular free wall is a complication that occurs during the acute phase of a myocardial infarction. The subacute presentation makes surgical management possible. However, it is not known whether either pericardial manipulation or the use of pericardial patches influences left ventricular function over the medium term.

Radiofrequency ablation of a left anterior accessory pathway in a patient with Wolff-Parkinson-White and major venous drainage anomaly.

Anomalies of the venous system may impose serious limitations to the treatment of arrhythmias by means of ablation therapy. We describe a patient who had the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome with frequent episodes of antidromic supraventricular tachycardia in whom an ablation was performed. The patient was found to have no inferior vena cava, a hemiazygos vein draining in a persistent left superior vena cava, and a left anterior manifest accessory pathway.