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Ann Pediatr Cardiol
December 2024
Department of Cardiology, Bombay Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Residual defect after surgical closure of atrial septal defect is extremely uncommon. This communication reports four cases encountered in a tertiary care center during the last three decades. Clinical diagnosis was challenging, and the diverse presentations included acute ischemic stroke, cyanosis, and right ventricular volume overload.
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January 2025
Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, and Lung Transplantation, Marie-Lannelongue Hospital, Le Plessis-Robinson, France.
Background: Post-pneumonectomy bronchopleural fistula (BPF) is a life-threatening event whose treatment is not standardized.
Case Presentation: We report the management of a 28-year-old patient with a 3-year history of BPF complicating right pneumonectomy for congenital emphysema. Despite closure by an Amplatzer device, the patient had chronic pyothorax and severely deteriorated general health and quality of life.
Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol
December 2024
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head-Neck Surgery, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Kalyani, NH-34 Connector, Basantapur, Saguna, Nadia, Kalyani, West Bengal, 741245, India.
Objective: Clinicopathologic illustration of sinonasal teratocarcinosarcoma (SNTCS) in a middle-aged man, highlighting the difficulties and challenges encountered during surgical intervention, histopathologic diagnosis, and its overall management.
Methodology: Case report and literature review.
Results: A 40-year-old man having recurrent epistaxis for three months presented with a dark-colored protruding polypoid nasal mass.
Cureus
November 2024
Cardiology, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, USA.
Ventricular pseudoaneurysm (PSA) is a ventricular outpouching contained by adherent pericardium or myocardial scar tissue and represents a rare but potentially fatal complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The vast majority of cases involve the left ventricular apex, in the area of infarct. It is extremely rare to see PSA formation within the interventricular septum (IVS).
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November 2024
Structural and Valvular Interventional Cardiology Unit, Department of Interventional Cardiology, Centro Cardiologico Monzino IRCCS, Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
Post myocardial infarction ventricular septal rupture (MI-VSR) is a dreaded complication, closure of which is extremely challenging. We here describe a case which was surgically closed after 10 days but had a failure needing continuous intra-aortic balloon pump (IABP) support and was subsequently closed percutaneously with a Post MI-VSR device.
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