Response to Survivors of Aortic Dissection: Activity, Mental Health, and Sexual Function; and Exercise and Physical Activity for the Post-Aortic Dissection Patient: The Clinician's Conundrum.

Chaddha A et al. Clin Cardiol. 2015;38:652-659.

[Valve repair for chronic mitral regurgitation].

Valve repair is the best surgical treatment for mitral regurgitation. In the present article we describe the results of mitral valve repair in patients with chronic mitral regurgitation treated at our center during the last eight years. The degree of correction of valve insufficiency, functional benefit, in-hospital morbidity and mortality, postoperative outcome of ventricular function, and middle-term overall and reoperation-free survival are analyzed.

[Surgical treatment for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy].

Introduction And Objectives: Five percent of the patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) have symptoms unresponsive to medical treatment and are candidates for invasive therapy. The objective of this study was to analyze our results with surgical treatment of HOCM during the last 10 years.

Patients And Method: Between July 1993 and January 2004 26 patients with HOCM refractory to drug therapy were operated on.

[Right atrial pheochromocytoma].

Pheochromocytoma is a catecholamine-producing tumor and a rare cause of hypertension. Most cases are intra-adrenal and intrapericardial pheochromocytomas are extremely uncommon. We report the case of a 46-year-old woman with a 1-year history of hypertension, in which a right atrial pheochromocytoma was detected after a hypertensive crisis.

Edge-to-Edge tricuspid repair for redeveloped valve incompetence after DeVega's annuloplasty.

"Edge-to-edge" technique is a well-accepted procedure with excellent results for correction of mitral insufficiency. We describe a simple edge-to-edge combined with bicuspidalization repair method that was successfully applied in 2 patients for the treatment of redeveloped functional tricuspid regurgitation after previous annuloplasty. Significant improvement in symptoms and echocardiographic results were achieved.