Electrocardiographic findings in correlation to magnetic resonance imaging patterns in African patients with isolated ventricular noncompaction.

Objective: Isolated ventricular noncompaction is a rare primary genetic cardiomyopathy characterized by persistent embryonic myocardial morphology without any other cardiac anomalies. Arrhythmias are frequently present, including both tachyarrhythmia and conduction disturbance. Our study aimed to describe the electrocardiographic findings and to correlate them with the clinical presentation and cardiac magnetic resonance imaging findings.

Pericardial tamponade and coexisting pulmonary embolism as first manifestation of non-advanced lung adenocarcinoma.

Pericardial effusion and pulmonary embolism are relatively common complications of malignancy and are uncommon as its initial manifestation. This report describes a case of a patient, who presented with this association, due to an underlying pulmonary adenocarcinoma. When a major pericardial effusion is associated with pulmonary hypertension, some echocardiographic signs may redress the diagnosis.

Acute coronary syndrome in a young woman with antithrombin III deficiency.

Acute coronary syndrome due to antithrombin III deficiency has been rarely reported. We describe a case of a 30-year-old woman, with no conventional risk factors, presenting with an extensive myocardial infarction. Coronary angiography revealed a simultaneous thrombosis of the left anterior descending artery and the circumflex artery, thrombus aspiration was performed, and the result of percutaneous coronary intervention was satisfactory.