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Eur Heart J Case Rep
December 2024
Paediatric Interventional Cardiology Unit, Vall d'Hebron Hospital, Paseo de la Vall d'Hebron, 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, Spain.
Background: The Edwards Sapien percutaneous valve (Edwards Lifesciences, Irvine, CA, USA) is a promising therapeutic option for congenital atrioventricular disease mostly because of the possibility to accommodate somatic growth with balloon dilatation.
Case Summary: This article reports the performance of the Edwards Sapien 3 valve in atrioventricular valve position in four paediatric patients.
Discussion: Despite aggressive antiplatelet and anticoagulation strategies, most patients showed early bioprosthesis dysfunction, with increasing gradient not related with somatic growth.
Retin Cases Brief Rep
December 2024
Liverpool Ocular Oncology Research Centre, Department of Molecular and Clinical Cancer Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK.
Purpose: The Foldable Capsular Vitreous Bag (FCVB) implant is useful in maintaining ocular structure in cases of chronic hypotony secondary to trauma or repeated surgery. There are few published reports of long-term outcomes and no indication of the chronic cellular changes of the adjacent tissues associated with FCVB implantation. We describe one of few FCVB cases in the UK and present histological findings associated with it following secondary enucleation.
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December 2024
Heart and Lung Transplant Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
Background: Subaortic pannus formation complicates bioprosthetic aortic valve (AV) replacement. We report an extreme case in a continuous-flow left ventricular assist device (LVAD) patient.
Case Summary: A 49-year-old Caucasian female with dilated cardiomyopathy was bridged to transplant with a HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device (Medtronic).
Radiologia (Engl Ed)
February 2024
Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Universitario de Cabueñes, Gijón, Asturias, Spain.
Prosthetic valve obstruction is a rare but potentially lethal complication. The most frequent causes are thrombus and pannus formation, in the absence of infectious data. Diagnosis is not always easy using cardiac CT scanning and in 46%-85% of cases thrombus and pannus coexist, complicating the diagnosis.
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March 2024
From the Department of Radiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging Unit, Hospital San Juan de Dios, HT Médica, Avenida el Brillante n° 36, 14012, Córdoba, Spain (J.B.); Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn (P.S.R., E.W.); Department of Radiology, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colo (D.V.); Department of Radiology, Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain (M.L.S.A.); Department of Radiology, McGovern Medical School, UT Health Houston, Houston, Tex (D.O.T.); Section of Cardiothoracic Imaging, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo (S.B.); Department of Cardiology, Hospital de la Cruz Roja-Grupo Corpal, Córdoba, Spain (J.C.F.C.); Department of Radiology, Section of MRI, Clínica las Nieves, Jaén, Spain (A.L.).
Infective endocarditis (IE) is a complex multisystemic disease resulting from infection of the endocardium, the prosthetic valves, or an implantable cardiac electronic device. The clinical presentation of patients with IE varies, ranging from acute and rapidly progressive symptoms to a more chronic disease onset. Because of its severe morbidity and mortality rates, it is necessary for radiologists to maintain a high degree of suspicion in evaluation of patients for IE.
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