[Markers of coronary damage. From diagnosis to prognosis].

Unlabelled: Cardiovascular disease is a major public health problem. Rapid and accurate diagnosis in the emergency department is essential for timely initiation of treatment, thus any means for improving the speed and accuracy of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) diagnosis can contribute to better clinical and economic outcomes. Measurement of circulating level of troponin has proven to be a sensitive and specific test for cardiac damage detection but they do not discriminate between ischemic and not ischemic etiologies of myocardial injury.

Hypoplastic left heart syndrome in situs inversus totalis.

A very rare case of a newborn with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and situs inversus totalis is herein reported. Successful surgical treatment of this cardiac malformation was accomplished at our institution and consisted of: modified Norwood stage I procedure, with direct anastomosis of the transected main pulmonary artery to the aortic arch, without any prosthetic material interposition and right ventricle to pulmonary artery polytetrafluoroethylene shunt.