Successful repair of a large pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle late after mitral valve replacement due to rupture of the papillary muscle following acute myocardial infarction.

We present a rare case demonstrating a large pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle late after mitral valve replacement due to rupture of the papillary muscle following acute myocardial infarction. A 52-year-old man, who had undergone mitral valve replacement 7 months previously, presented with severe congestive heart failure. Echocardiography and computed tomography of the chest demonstrated a large pseudoaneurysm of the left ventricle.

Successful one-stage surgical removal of intravenous uterine leiomyomatosis with right heart extension.

We report a 49-year-old woman with intravenous and intracardiac extension of uterine leiomyomatosis. After subtotal hysterectomy and salpingo-oophorectomy, an intravenous and intracardiac tumor was removed under normothermic cardiopulmonary bypass without cardiac arrest. Postoperatively, occlusion of the artery supplying the remaining uterine cervical stump was performed by the catheter coiling technique.