Heart failure caused by cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma.

Rhabdomyosarcoma accounts for 20% of primary malignant cardiac tumours. We describe a woman with cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma. She had loss of appetite, loss of weight, and symptoms of heart failure.

[Ebstein's anomaly as a cause of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation].

Background: Ebstein's anomaly is characterized by a displacement of the tricuspid valve toward apex, because of anomalous attachment of the tricuspid leaflets. There are type B of Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome and paroxysmal arrhythmias in more than a half of all patients.

Case Report: We presented a female, 32-year old, with frequent paroxysms of atrial fibrillation.

[Cardiac rhabdomyosarcoma].

Background: Primary malignant cardiac tumors are rare entities and rhabdomyosarcoma accounts 20% of these lesions.

Case Report: We presented a female patient with loss of appetite and loss of weight. She also had symptoms of heart failure and bilateral pleural effusions.

[Influence of the double antiplatelet therapy on patency of the occluded artery after acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation].

Background/aim: Most patients with acute myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation (STEMI) are still treated with pharmacological reperfusion, which is not always successful. That is the reason for searching possibilities for a better success of reperfusion with adding new antiplatelet drugs. The aim of this study was to investigate weather addition of clopidogrel as a second antiplatelet drug, improves the patency of the infarct-related artery after STEMI.