Bilateral coronary-to-pulmonary artery fistulas associated with giant aneurysm in an elderly woman: Case report and literature review.

Coronary artery fistula is an abnormal vascular communication of coronary artery with cardiac chambers or any segment of the systemic or pulmonary circulation. The prevalence is 0.9% of all coronary anomalies.

Iomeprol and iopamidol in cardiac angiography: a randomised, double-blind, parallel-group comparison.

During cardiac angiography, hemodynamic alterations and surface electrocardiographic changes are common, predictable and dose-related adverse reactions to radiocontrast media. High osmolality, inadequate sodium content and local transient hypocalcemia are thought to be the main mechanisms responsible for these untoward cardiovascular effects. The purpose of this double-blind, parallel-group trial was to compare the hemodynamic and electrocardiographic responses to cardiac and selective coronary artery injection of iomeprol 400 (400 mgI/ml) and iopamidol 370 (370 mgI/ml).

[Occlusive aorto-arteropathies: surgical treatment and long-term results in 4 cases treated surgically].

A rare disease with an obscure etiology is described. It affects predominantly the aorta and occasionally some of its branches, producing a decrease on the lumen vessel. In our experience it has been diagnosed in four young patients and the most important symptom has been arterial hypertension.

[Multiple lentiginosis and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy].

Two patients with Multiple Lentiginosis (ML) had hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with severe obstruction of the right and left ventricular outflow tracts. ML is a rare syndrome in which there is a typical skin pigmentation disorder together with various other abnormalities like slight mental retardation, sensorineural deafness, genital and skeletal anomalies and sometimes a characteristic facies. Obstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract is frequent in such patients.