Cardiovascular disease in less-developed countries Burden of cardiovascular disease in less-developed countries Infectious disease and the heart Diphtheria HIV and the cardiovascular system Chagas’ disease and the heart Cardiovascular syphilis…
Syndromes are listed in alphabetical order A–C Aase syndrome A clinical triad of congenital anaemia, triphalangeal thumbs, and VSD. The aetiology is unknown. Adams–Stokes syncope See Stokes–Adams syndrome (p. 706)….
Chapter 8 Heart muscle diseases Classification Dilated cardiomyopathy Dilated cardiomyopathy: treatment Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: investigations Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: treatment Restrictive cardiomyopathy Cardiac amyloidosis Cardiac amyloidosis: treatment Fabry disease Arrhythmogenic right…
Chapter 9 Pericardial diseases Aetiology Syndromes of pericardial disease Acute pericarditis without effusion Pericardial effusion with or without tamponade Constrictive pericarditis Effusive-constrictive pericarditis Calcific pericarditis without constriction Viral pericarditis Tuberculous…
Fig. 13.1 Large adenocarcinoma of the left kidney: preoperative embolization. (a) Arteriography: two arteries feed the left kidney, a main renal artery and an inferior accessory artery. (b) Selective injection…
Fig. 21.1 Fifty-one-year-old male admitted with a very serious hemodynamic shock, after defenestration from 3rd floor. The mobile emergency medical unit (SAMU) conducted him directly to the CT room for…
Fig. 10.1 Massive hematemesis, complication of a pancreatic adenocarcinoma. Upper endoscopy showed an active bleeding of the second duodenum: an arteriography has been performed in emergency. (a) Aortography: modal anatomical…
Fig. 11.1 Huge splenic artery false aneurysm opened in a pseudocyst, discovered 6 m after an acute pancreatitis. (a) CT: Large pseudoaneurysm opened in a pseudocyst. (b) Selective injection of the…
Fig. 24.1 A 63-year-old, osteolytic metastases of the right ischiopubic branch and the right acetabular roof, complicating a thyroid cancer. A total hip replacement was planned, after a preoperative embolization…
Fig. 23.1 Patient with a large venous malformation (VM) of the left hemiface. (a) B-mode ultrasound showing the VM as an infiltrating, hypoechoic, and compressible mass. (b, c) MRI examination:…
