A prospective evaluation of breast thermography enhanced by a novel machine learning technique for screening breast abnormalities in a general population of women presenting to a secondary care hospital.

Objective: Artificial intelligence-enhanced breast thermography is being evaluated as an ancillary modality in the evaluation of breast disease. The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical performance of Thermalytix, a CE-marked, AI-based thermal imaging test, with respect to conventional mammography.

Methods: A prospective, comparative study performed between 15 December 2018 and 06 January 2020 evaluated the performance of Thermalytix in 459 women with both dense and nondense breast tissue.

Ten-year experience with single-vessel and multivessel reoperative off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting.

Objective: Patients undergoing reoperative coronary artery bypass have increased mortality and morbidity compared with those undergoing primary coronary bypass. The experience in applying off-pump techniques to coronary reoperations is limited. In this article we report a 10-year experience using various techniques of reoperative off-pump coronary bypass.

Coronary artery fistulas in pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect.

Pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect is an anomaly with highly variable anatomy. Rarely, a coronary artery-to-pulmonary artery fistula may contribute to pulmonary blood flow. Since 1996, we have treated 4 patients with coronary-pulmonary fistula associated with pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect.

Native double-valve endocarditis by Mycobacterium fortuitum following percutaneous coronary intervention.

Infective endocarditis caused by atypical mycobacteria, especially Mycobacterium fortuitum, is rare. Most reported cases involve diseased valves or prosthetic heart valves. Only four cases of native valve endocarditis caused by this organism have been previously reported.

Controversies in the use of intraluminal shunts during off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting surgery.

Technical advances have made the performance of multivessel off-pump coronary artery bypass feasible. Snaring and intraluminal shunts are the techniques used for vascular control. Snaring provides a bloodless surgical field, is usually well tolerated by the patient, and is supported by years of clinical experience.

A rare intrapericardial enterogenous cyst presenting in infancy.

We report an infant with an intrapericardial enterogenous cyst, and discuss the differential diagnosis of intrapericardial cysts presenting in infancy.

Supramitral ring: good prognosis in a subset of patients with congenital mitral stenosis.

Background: Management of congenital stenotic mitral valvular abnormalities remains an important therapeutic challenge. Supramitral ring constitutes a small but inadequately described subset that has a relatively good outcome with appropriate management.

Methods: Between 1996 and 2004, 15 patients with supramitral ring were managed in this institution.