Scimitar Syndrome
Age: 34 years Gender: Female Occupation: Homemaker Working diagnosis: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection HISTORY The patient was well at birth and throughout childhood, but had been told her heart…
Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return
Age: 54 years old Gender: Female Occupation: Housewife Working diagnosis: Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return HISTORY The patient was well throughout her life until the age of 44 (10 years…
Endocarditis in a Young Man
Age: 27 years Gender: Male Occupation: Graduate student Working diagnosis: Residual ventricular septal defect after surgical closure HISTORY The patient was born with a perimembranous VSD. Because of severe aortic…
Right Heart Enlargement of Uncertain Cause (Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect)
Age: 56 years Gender: Female Personal information: Grandmother Working diagnosis: Unexplained shortness of breath for several months HISTORY The patient had been well all her life. She had given birth…
Rationale for Septal Defect Closure in the Elderly
Age: 88 years Gender: Female Personal information: Grandmother Working diagnosis: Secundum atrial septal defect HISTORY The patient was healthy throughout her childhood and adult years. She had two uneventful pregnancies,…
Atrial Septal Defect with Cyanosis: The Hypoplastic Right Ventricle
Age: 40 years Gender: Female Occupation: Housewife Working diagnosis: Atrial septal defect with cyanosis HISTORY Born small for gestational age (1800 g), the patient was noted to be cyanotic on crying…
Patent Foramen Ovale with Transient Ischemic Attack
Age: 47 years Gender: Female Occupation: Staff nurse Working Diagnosis: Transient ischemic attack HISTORY The patient was completely well until she suddenly developed slurred speech one morning while preparing to…
Echocardiography in Patients with Myocardial Infarction
Acknowledgments The authors are grateful to Celine Pitre, chief sonographer at the Montreal Heart Institute, for her contribution to the figures and videos, and to Dr François Marcotte for kindly…
Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging After Myocardial Infarction
Introduction The use of sensitive biomarkers has significantly improved the diagnosis of myocardial infarction (MI), and has been incorporated into the “Universal Definition” of MI (see Chapter 1 ). However,…
Mechanical Complications of Myocardial Infarction
Introduction Myocardial infarction (MI) caused by coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States (see Chapter 2 ). Although the advent of coronary care units…
