[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.

[Congenital aortic valve stenosis with left ventricular dysfunction: effect of percutaneous valvuloplasty].

Two girls aged 6 and 15 years with severe congenital valvular aortic stenosis and left ventricular (LV) dysfunction underwent successful balloon aortic valvotomy (BAV). Both patients had severe symptoms at the time of initial evaluation. The electrocardiograms showed LV hypertrophy and cardiac enlargement (cardiothoracic ratio 0.

[Percutaneous mitral commissurotomy and left ventricular function in severe mitral stenosis].

The purpose of this study was to determine the immediate effect of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) on left ventricular (LV) performance. We studied 30 patients with severe mitral stenosis undergoing successful PMC by cardiac catheterization and angiography before and 5 minutes after PMC. All patients were in sinus rhythm and no patient had hypertension or clinical coronary artery disease.

[Cardiac retrograde arterial catheterization in children under 2 years of age. Indications, techniques and complications].

Thirty children (15 males and 15 females) under 2 years of age (mean age 14 +/- 6 months, range 1 to 24 months, mean weight was 8.3 +/- 2.5 kg) underwent diagnostic cardiac percutaneous femoral arterial and venous catheterization for congenital heart disease.

[Coronary-pulmonary arterial fistula in the adult: report of 6 cases and review of the literature].

Six new patients and 33 previously reported with coronary-to-pulmonary artery fistula were reviewed. The mean age at the time of diagnosis was 51 years. A male predominance was found (65%).

[Immediate and mid-term results of balloon valvuloplasty in congenital aortic stenosis. Ten case reports].

From 1987 to 2000, 10 patients aged 0.5 to 20 years with congenital valvular aortic stenosis underwent percutaneous balloon aortic valvuloplasty. In one patient, balloon valvuloplasty was unsuccessful, this patient had acute artery thrombosis requiring surgical intervention.

[Stratification of cardiac risk in unstable angina: value of troponin measurements].

Recent studies have identified patients with unstable angina and increased troponin I or T as a high risk population gaining benefit from adjunctive treatment with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor antagonists and early reperfusion by coronary interventions.