[Anomalous origin of coronary arteries from the aorta].

The authors report the series of 9 patients (6 male and 3 female, aged from 32 to 64 years) with anomalous origin of coronary arteries from the aorta discovered at coronary arteriography. In 4 cases, the circumflex, artery aries from the right coronary sinus and in 5 cases, the right coronary artery arises from the left coronary sinus. Severe atherosclerotic coronary disease was discovered in 5 cases.

[Coronary arteriography in severe aortic valve disease].

Three hundred and twelve patients with severe aortic valve disease underwent a pre-operative haemodynamic study including coronary arteriography either as routine (age more than 50 years) or because of chest pains, previous myocardial infarction or for patients with risk factors of coronary atherosclerosis. Significant coronary artery disease was present in 9% of all cases. Coronary artery disease was more frequent in patients with angina and in patients with previous myocardial infarction but none of these factors was specific.

[Twenty years result of a corrective surgery of tetralogy of Fallot in a 50 years old woman].

The authors report the case of a woman operated at a 50 years of age for a tetralogy of Fallot with a good late result.

[Multiple coronary artery-left ventricular fistulae. A case report].

The authors report the case of a patient with multiple coronary artery-left ventricular fistulae discovered in coronary angiography for exertional angina.

[The immediate effect of Rashkind's atrioseptostomy on systemic saturation in transposition of the great arteries].

The purpose of this prospective study is to analyse the immediate effect of Rashkind's atrioseptostomy on systemic saturation in transposition of the great arteries (TGA). Thirteen neonates and infants (10 males and 3 females) with TCiA underwent balloon atrial septostomy (BAS) at a median age of 20 days (range 2 and 60 days). The mean atrial septal defect diameter after BAS was 6.