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G Ital Cardiol (Rome)
August 2024
U.O. Cardiologia-UTIC, Ospedale Vaio, AUSL Parma, Fidenza (PR).
Pulmonary artery dissection is a rare and fatal disease. Diagnosis is mainly made during autopsy because most patients die suddenly due to pulmonary artery dissection in the pericardium resulting in pericardial tamponade. The optimum management is not clearly defined because of the paucity of cases in the literature.
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April 2023
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
Cardio-cutaneous fistula is a very rare complication of cardiac surgery, and the optimal management strategy is unclear. We present a case of a right ventricle-to-pulmonary artery conduit (RV-PA) forming a cutaneous fistulate that was successfully surgically repaired. A 43-year-old male presented for an elective RV-PA conduit replacement with a cutaneous skin lesion and associated sub-sternal collection.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Clin Ultrasound
May 2023
Department of Ultrasound, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang, China.
Aorto-pulmonary venous fistula combined with pulmonary arteriovenous fistula is a rare condition with an unknown incidence. We experienced a case of descending aorto-pulmonary venous fistula combined with a pulmonary arteriovenous fistula, which was treated with pulmonary arteriovenous fistula embolization and improved.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Med Vasc
April 2021
Université Côte d'Azur, CHU, Inserm U1065, C3M, Nice, France; Department of Clinical Biochemistry, University Hospital of Nice, Nice, France.
Eur Heart J Case Rep
December 2020
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Tygerberg Hospital, Stellenbosch University, Francie van Zijl Drive, Cape Town 7505, South Africa.
Background: Penetrating cardiac injury (PCI) is an accepted burden in high violent crime areas. Traumatic intracardiac fistulae are however not that commonly detected on initial presentation, with most of these injuries being detected post-operatively or at routine follow-up. The literature is devoid of general principles around the pre-operative planning and intra-operative management in these cases, and thus warrant documented case reports by clinical units experienced in the management of these challenging clinical scenarios.
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