Summary Background Current guidelines for the prevention of cardiovascular disease emphasize the importance of assessing global cardiovascular risk, but there is evidence that risk is often assessed inaccurately. Aims To…
Summary Background Improvements in the treatment of children with congenital heart disease have led to most of these patients reaching adulthood. Despite the increase in lifespan, very little is known…
Summary Background Although previous studies showed that pregnancy with heart disease is associated with significant complications, few focused on patients with valvular heart disease in sub-Saharan Africa. Methods We report…
The paper by Diao et al., published in the present issue of the Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases , deserves attention because original data on the contemporary burden of heart disease…
A 48-year-old man was referred to our institution for follow-up echocardiography. Five years previously, he underwent a coronary artery bypass graft and a mitral valve annuloplasty for severe symptomatic functional…
Summary Congenital malformations of the mitral valve may be encountered in isolation or in association with other congenital heart defects. Each level of the mitral valve complex may be affected,…
A 44-year-old woman was hospitalized with syncope involving a serious fall. Twenty-eight years earlier, she had undergone cervical radiotherapy for Hodgkin’s lymphoma. For 6 months, she had presented numerous episodes…
TMJ dislocation is an unusual complication of TEE. We report a case of bilateral TMJ dislocation in a 70-year-old man prior to direct current cardioversion for atrial fibrillation. Shortly after…
We describe the case of a 66-year-old man admitted to our intensive care unit after successful resuscitation associated with ventricular fibrillation. The patient’s medical history was marked by paroxysmal atrial…
Summary Aim Cardiogenic shock is associated with high mortality. We report our experience with the short-term left ventricular axial pump Impella LP5.0 in nine patients with severe ischaemic heart failure….
