Publications by authors named "Spyridoula Katsilouli"
Small cardiac vein draining into the inferior vena cava.
Interdiscip Cardiovasc Thorac Surg
October 2024
Cardiac venous anomalies are rare congenital anatomical anomalies, which are most commonly found on computed tomography scans as an accidental finding. We report a case of a 14-year-old child who was operated for an atrial septal defect, and during the operation, we came across an anomalous drainage of the small cardiac vein into the inferior vena cava. The child's postoperative course was uneventful.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFKey Clinical Message: Anomalous origin of right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital malformation and it needs surgical management. Consequences of this condition affect lead to pulmonary hypertension and severe pulmonary vascular disease.
Abstract: Anomalous origin of right pulmonary artery from the ascending aorta is a rare congenital heart malformation that results in early infant mortality affecting the right pulmonary artery more than the left.
Unlabelled: Although caseous calcification of the mitral annulus is usually diagnosed incidentally, it can cause embolic complications. The current report describes the case of caseous calcification revealed by recurrent episodes of stroke in a 64-year-old female patient. After her last ischemic episode, cerebral magnetic resonance imaging confirmed the presence of a thrombus in the right middle cerebral artery.
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- A 67-year-old man had heart surgery before and had a problem called a pseudoaneurysm in a part of his heart called the ascending aorta.
- He was treated using a special procedure that wasn’t very risky.
- After one year, a heart scan showed that the problem was gone and he was doing fine!
Introduction: Left Main Compression Syndrome (LMCS) represents an entity described as the extrinsic compression of the left main coronary artery (LMCA) by a dilated pulmonary artery (PA) trunk. We examined the presence of LMCS in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) using dual-source computed tomography (DSCT), as a non-invasive diagnostic tool.
Methods: The following parameters were measured: PA trunk diameter (PAD), the distance between PAD and LMCA (LMPA) and the distance between PA and aorta (AoPA).