A patient who underwent previous implantation of a mitral valve replacement with a Björk-Shiley Delrin (BSD) mitral valve prosthesis during infancy was admitted to our institution 43 years later ...after an episode of syncope and cardiac arrest. Under extreme hemodynamic instability, a mitral valve prosthetic dysfunction causing massive mitral regurgitation was identified. The patient underwent an emergent cardiac operation, and a complete disc fracture with partial disc migration was found. Exceptional cases of mechanical prosthetic heart valve fracture exist. We report the first case of complete transversal disc rupture of a BSD mitral valve prosthesis after the longest period of implantation ever reported in that position.
A patient was submitted to mitral valve replacement and tricuspid ring annuloplasty. During immediate postoperative course, signs of inferior myocardial ischemia appeared. Acute entrapment of the ...right coronary artery due to tricuspid ring sutures was confirmed by coronary angiography. The patient was reoperated and a right coronary bypass graft was successfully performed. Tricuspid procedures have shown to be effective and secure with a low rate of complication. Few cases of right coronary artery occlusion have been described and the majority not treated. Exceptional cases of right coronary occlusion related to tricuspid ring annuloplasty have been reported with a favorable outcome, as the case described herein.
La gestión de las listas de espera de los diferentes sistemas de salud autonómicos para procedimientos de cirugía cardiaca constituye una importante preocupación entre los profesionales, de la que ...nuestra Sociedad científica no es ajena. En el año 2000 fue publicada la primera iniciativa de ordenación temporal de los pacientes con patología cardiovascular incluidos en lista de espera quirúrgica. Con los cambios en el manejo y en la concepción de algunas patologías, un nuevo marco normativo vigente y la coyuntura asistencial actual, se hace necesaria una revisión de los mencionados criterios para ofrecer una actualización adecuada al contexto clínico-asistencial presente. Por ello, se ha elaborado un documento basado en la revisión de la literatura científica disponible y en el consenso de un grupo de trabajo dentro de la Sociedad Española de Cirugía Cardiovascular y Endovascular, para actualizar en nuestro país las recomendaciones de prioridad de estas patologías en las listas de espera.
Waiting list management of cardiac surgical procedures is a main concern for all the Spanish autonomic health systems and for our scientific Society. The first statement for optimal timing of patients waiting for cardiac surgery was published in 2000. Since then, after significant changes in the management of some pathologies, new normative frameworks and the current healthcare situation, a review of the timing criteria to offer an adequate and updated standard of care is needed. In this document we aim to review the available literature in the field and stablish a consensus within a working group of the Spanish Society of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery to optimize the priority recommendations in cardiac surgical waiting lists in our country.
Progressive dyspnea after myocardial infarction can suggests the presence of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction or a left ventricular aneurysm (LVA). Surgical treatment of LVA aims to reduce its ...volume and to restore the ventricle. Recurrence of LVA after previous repair is extremely rare and the occurrence of concomitant postoperative true and false aneurysms is extraordinary. Surgery is usually challenging because of LV dysfunction and cardiac adherences in reoperations. We describe the simultaneous occurrence in a patient of a recurrent true and false LVA after surgical repair of a postinfarction LVA. Five years postoperatively, the patient remains alive and healthy.
A dispneia progressiva após o enfarte do miocárdio pode sugerir a presença de disfunção ventricular esquerda (VE) ou a formação de aneurisma ventricular esquerdo (AVE). Os procedimentos cirúrgicos concebidos para o seu tratamento visam reduzir o volume e a reparação do VE. A recidiva de AVE após a reparação anterior é extremamente rara e a concomitância de aneurismas verdadeiros e falsos pós-operatórios não é vulgar. A cirurgia é geralmente um desafio por causa da disfunção VE e das aderências cardíacas em reoperações. Apresentamos a concomitância num doente de um AVE verdadeiro e falso recorrente após reparação cirúrgica de um AVE pós-enfarte do miocárdio. Cinco anos após a cirurgia, o doente mantém-se vivo e saudável.
A 52-year-old male patient, who underwent mitral replacement with a mechanical prosthesis as a child, sustained a cardiac arrest which was successfully resuscitated. Further investigation showed ...prosthesis malfunction with significant regurgitation in the context of multi-organ failure. In such a life-threatening condition, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation was considered as a rescue procedure to achieve optimisation of clinical status to allow definitive surgical treatment. An unusual complete fracture of the prosthesis was subsequently identified as the cause of acute dysfunction.
Primary coarctation-related isthmus aneurysm in an adult González-Santos, Jose María; Arnáiz-García, María Elena; Dalmau-Sorlí, María José ...
Turk Kardiyoloji Dernegi arsivi : Turk Kardiyoloji Derneginin yayin organidir,
12/2016, Letnik:
44, Številka:
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A 56-year-old female patient was transferred due to the presence of a left supraclavicular pulsatile mass. Further work-up was performed to confirm diagnosis. Angiography and computed tomography were ...also performed. The anatomy of the thoracic aorta suggested an unknown and untreated aortic coarctation. A second aortic narrowing was identified at the aortic arch, a result of elongation of the aorta. Endovascular approach was not possible, due to complexity of the aortic anatomy, and tortuosity. Open surgical repair was successfully performed. A primary coarctation-related isthmus aneurysm is an exceptional finding in adults, and is a life-threatening condition when diagnosis is delayed. Management and treatment are controversial and challenging.
Abstract We report on a 77-year-old woman in whom percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) closure was performed. The patient had a left atrial myxoma resection 3 years previously, and 2 years later, ...she suffered a transient ischemic attack. Atrial fibrillation was detected and anticoagulation therapy was established. An episode of intracranial bleeding forced interruption of anticoagulation. Thus, percutaneous LAA closure with an Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder (St Jude Medical) was proposed. During the procedure, the LAA occluder migrated and became trapped in the mitral valve. Secondary massive mitral regurgitation and hemodynamic instability forced emergent cardiac surgery. Successful removal of the Amplatzer Amulet LAA Occluder was achieved.
Pericardial Agenesis Arnáiz-García, Mª Elena; Dalmau-Sorlí, María José; González-Santos, José María ...
Journal of cardiac surgery,
November 2014, Letnik:
29, Številka:
6
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