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1/111. Intrapericardial organized hematoma. A rare complication after open heart surgery.

    Intrapericardial organized hematoma, which compresses cardiac chambers late after open heart surgery, is extremely rare. We report a case of intrapericardial organized hematoma in a 63-year-old man who underwent aortic valve replacement 8 years prior, which may have aggravated rheumatic mitral valve regurgitation compressing the mitral valve anulus. Under extracardiopulmonary bypass and cardioplegic heart arrest, we removed the hematoma and replaced the mitral valve with a 27 mm St. Jude Medical valve. There were no bleeding points on the heart and pericardium at operation and no history of blunt chest trauma. The etiology of the hematoma is uncertain.
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2/111. Neovascularity related to mural thrombus in endomyocardial fibrosis.

    We report a 30-year old, previously healthy, Ghanese woman admitted with sudden onset of dyspnoe, hemoptoe and right-sided chest pain due to endomyocardial fibrosis with secondary pulmonary emboli coronary angiography revealed a myocardial "blush". This finding may focus attention to the presence of mural thrombus that may have diagnostic and therapeutic consequences.
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3/111. Polyvisceral echinococcosis with involvement of the heart and chest wall: follow-up and review of literature.

    echinococcosis remains an endemic surgical problem in countries where sheep and cattle raising is carried out, particularly in many Mediterranean countries. The life cycle of echinococcosis is usually marked by the filtration of larvae through the liver and lungs which are the organs most commonly affected by a hydatid cyst. Hydatid cysts in other sites are not common. Cardiac echinococcosis has been reported infrequently even in countries in which hydatid disease is endemic, only isolated sporadic cases have been reported in the literature. Here we report a case of polyvisceral hydatid cyst with involvement of heart and chest wall and reviewed the literature and discussed clinical procedures and management.
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4/111. Traumatic cardiac herniation diagnosed by echocardiography and chest CT scanning: report of a case.

    A 62-year-old man who had suffered fractures of the left chest wall and hemothorax 1 year earlier was admitted to our hospital with multiple injuries as a result of a traffic accident. Chest drainage was immediately performed under the diagnosis of left hemothorax followed by immobilization of fractures of the femur and radius. On the second day after admission, he suddenly developed severe chest pain and dyspnea after sitting up in bed. echocardiography and chest computed tomography (CT) showed herniation of the left ventricle into the left thoracic cavity, whereby a diagnosis of cardiac herniation due to rupture of the pericardium was made and an emergency surgical repair was successfully performed. Only eight cases of patients surviving after traumatic cardiac herniation have been reported in japan; however, this is the first in which a preoperative diagnosis was made by echocardiography and chest CT scanning prior to surgical repair.
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5/111. Cardiac disease late after chest radiotherapy for Hodgkin's disease: a case report.

    This report presents a case of occult constrictive pericarditis and mitral valve insufficiency following chest radiotherapy. A 44-year-old man had received radiotherapy for the treatment of Hodgkin's disease 8 years ago. At age 40 years, effusive pericarditis occurred and he was treated with intrapericardial drainage. biopsy revealed a fibrotic and thickened pericardium. He developed congestive heart failure 3 years later. The patient was found to have occult constrictive pericarditis and mitral valve insufficiency. He underwent mitral valve replacement, tricuspid annul plasty, and pericardiectomy. Although there is the benefit of cure for the Hodgkin's disease, the prognosis after treatment is affected by radiotherapy-induced heart disease. After radiotherapy of the chest and mediastinum, long-term cardiological follow-up is recommended in order to detecting patients with radiation-induced heart disease, such as the present case.
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6/111. Cardiac involvement and left ventricular failure in a patient with the churg-strauss syndrome.

    The churg-strauss syndrome is characterised by a history of asthma and paranasal sinus disease, eosinophilia of more than 10 per cent, non-fixed pulmonary infiltrates on chest radiography and vasculitis which may affect multiple organ systems. The condition usually manifests in the 4th decade. We present a 21-year old female with a history of asthma since one year of age who developed symptoms and signs of pneumonia, a pulmonary infiltrate on chest radiography and eosinophilia. This was followed a few weeks later by vasculitis which affected the skin and myocardium and associated with a peripheral eosinophilia of more than 80%. physical examination revealed palpable purpura and signs of left ventricular failure. echocardiography confirmed significant diminution of left ventricular contractility. A rapid improvement was observed after steroid therapy. echocardiography after two months showed normal left ventricular function. In this presentation we review the cardiac manifestations of the churg-strauss syndrome and its management.
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7/111. Simultaneous repair of cardiovascular disorders and pectus deformity in a patient with Sprintzen-Goldberg syndrome: A case report.

    We report a 12-year-old girl with Sprintzen-Goldberg syndrome (SGS) who was complicated with annuloaortic ectasia with aortic regurgitation, mitral valve prolapse with mitral regurgitation, and a severe pectus excavatum. In this patient, aortic root replacement, mitral valve replacement, and sternal elevation were simultaneously performed, and a version of Ravitch's procedure that was technically modified to support the sternum was used for sternal elevation. This modified sternal elevation technique gave excellent operative exposure, and maintained chest wall stability after the operation.
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8/111. Ectopic thyroid tissue in the left ventricular outflow tract.

    Ectopic thyroid tissue in the heart (struma cordis) is rare. The only report from a hemodynamically significant obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) by a heterotopic thyroid gland was published in 1988. In our patient, a 42-year-old woman with recurrent chest pain, two spheric cardiac tumors were diagnosed by transthoracal echocardiography. One of the tumors, obstructing the LVOT, could successfully be resected under cardiopulmonary bypass. The pathologic examination showed a colloid-filled ectopic thyroid gland. The second tumor, which was entirely located in the submembraneous part of the interventricular septum, had no hemodynamic influence, and was left in situ to avoid surgical damage of adjacent intraseptal structures. The midterm follow-up showed no recurrence.
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9/111. Favorable outcome in a large left heart air embolism: lessons from an unusual complication of a noninvasive chest scan.

    OBJECTIVE: To report an unusual life-threatening complication of the performance of a computed tomographic (CT) scan of the chest. DESIGN: Case report. SETTING: University hospital. PATIENT: An intubated patient with blunt thoracic trauma. INTERVENTION: Performance of a CT scan of the chest at full inspiration. MAIN RESULT: With air insufflation, a large left ventricular air embolism occurred as a consequence of an airway breach, revealed by the simultaneous existence of a mild bilateral anterior pneumothorax. CONCLUSION: CT scan of the chest in patients at risk of airway breach (patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome, trauma patients) should first be performed at full expiration, not full inspiration.
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10/111. Aortic dissection with fistula to right atrium after heart transplantation: diagnosis by transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography.

    Aortic dissection with rupture into the right atrium is an extremely rare and rapidly fatal condition that may occur after cardiac surgery. We report the case of a 59-year-old woman with a 6-year history of heart transplantation who presented with subacute illness characterized by chest pain and severe cardiac decompensation accompanied by a continuous murmur in the precordium. The diagnosis of aortic dissection complicated by right atrial fistula was made by the combination of transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiographic examination.
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