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A case of a patient of 44 years of age with nonspecific thoracic symptomatology and anomalous protrusion of the second arch of the left border of the cardiac silhouette is reported. Cineangiocardiography showed a herniation of the left atrium and ventricle through a partial defect in the left pericardium demonstrating a mechanism that can give rise to sudden death by cardiac incarceration. Prophylactic longitudinal pericardiectomy was performed and the patient made an uneventful recovery.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThirteen consecutive cases of cardiac hydatic cyst were studied. The cysts were usually multiple, predominantly left ventricular. There were two cases of rupture of left ventricular cysts with systemic embolism, and three ruptures of right ventricular cysts causing pulmonary embolism.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHemodynamic and angiocardiographic findings are analysed in 10 patients with intracardiac myxomas of varying localization: right-atrial myxoma in 1, right-ventricular myxoma in 2, left-atrial in 6, and multiple right-atrial and right-ventricular myxomas in 1. The pattern of intracardiac hemodynamic disorder depends on the site of tumour and resembles patterns associated with various valvular defects. Selective angiocardiography combined with roentgenocinematography can yield the most objective information for myxoma diagnosis.
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