Totally endoscopic trans-mitral removal of a left ventricular apical thrombus through right thoracotomy in a patient with subacute anterior myocardial infarction: a case report.

Background: Left ventricular thrombosis confers a life-threatening risk of systemic embolism; therefore, it requires prompt intervention. Although anticoagulation is the primary treatment, surgery is indicated in instances of large or/and mobile thrombus or when there is potential for recovery of ventricular contraction. However, standard left ventriculoplasty with thrombectomy carries risks of cardiac dysfunction due to left ventriculotomy.

Minimally Invasive Extraction of a Catheter From the Heart Without Thoracotomy.

Retrieval of an intracardiac catheter by using endovascular devices sometimes fails. That failure has conventionally required thoracotomy and cardiotomy, occasionally with cardiopulmonary bypass, to remove the catheter. These case reports describe a far less invasive way of extracting a foreign body from the heart, by introducing long-shaft forceps through the right internal jugular vein.

Mycotic Aortic Arch Aneurysm Caused by Clostridium perfringens.

We report a case of a 79-year-old man for a mycotic aortic arch aneurysm caused by . The patient who had been hospitalized for cholangitis two months prior revisited the hospital for fever and left precordial pain. He was suspected of an infected aortic aneurysm in the distal arch due to emphysematous changes observed.