[Swelling at the sternoclavicular joint].

A visible mass around the sternoclavicular (SC) joint may be explained by a wide variety of diagnoses, each with its own diagnostic pathway and treatment options. Here we report three cases: a 56-year-old male with an anterior luxation of the right SC joint, a 59-year-old male with osteomyelitis of the left SC joint and a 78-year-old male with a painless swelling to the right medial clavicle, interpreted as sterno-costo-clavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) as part of his SAPHO syndrome. An atraumatic swelling of the SC joint is most often caused by osteoarthritis, characterized by a slowly progressing solid swelling.

Minimal invasive aortic valve replacement: associations of radiological assessments with procedure complexity.

Objectives: Limited aortic annulus exposure during minimal invasive aortic valve replacement (mini-AVR) proves to be challenging and contributes to procedure complexity, resulting in longer procedure times. New innovations like sutureless valves have been introduced to reduce procedure complexity. Additionally, preoperative imaging could also contribute to reducing procedure times.

Open repair of long-standing thoracic stent graft collapse resulting in pseudocoarctation and aneurysm formation.

After reported successful endovascular repair of an aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) caused by a chicken bone, subsequent stent graft collapse resulted in pseudocoarctation and late aneurysm formation requiring complex open surgical repair using deep hypothermic circulatory arrest.