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Delayed Treatment Of Acute Myocardial Infarction With Ventricular Septal Rupture Due To Patient Fear During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Minar Chhetry, Reema Bhatt, Nathan H Tehrani, Dimitrios V Avgerinos, Charles A Mack, Samuel J Lang, Xuming Dai
Delayed Treatment Of Acute Myocardial Infarction With Ventricular Septal Rupture Due To Patient Fear During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Minar Chhetry, Reema Bhatt, Nathan H Tehrani, Dimitrios V Avgerinos, Charles A Mack, Samuel J Lang, Xuming Dai
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
During the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandmic, more patients are presenting with complications late after acute myocardial infarction. We report the case of a 71-year-old man who delayed seeking medical care for 2 weeks, despite progressive shortness of breath, cough, and tactile fever, for fear of contracting COVID-19 in the hospital. Clinical and echocardiographic evaluation revealed a ventricular septal rupture secondary to acute myocardial infarction. The patient underwent urgent cardiac catheterization, followed by successful saphenous vein grafting to the left anterior descending coronary artery and open surgical repair of the ventricular septal rupture with a bovine pericardial patch. This case …
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography For Detecting Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction In Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Rongjuan Li, Jinjie Xie, Bo Jiang, Zhonghua Sun, Lvya Wang, Zhaoting Leng, Yueli Wang, Ya Yang
Speckle-Tracking Echocardiography For Detecting Subclinical Left Ventricular Dysfunction In Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia, Rongjuan Li, Jinjie Xie, Bo Jiang, Zhonghua Sun, Lvya Wang, Zhaoting Leng, Yueli Wang, Ya Yang
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
Myocardial ischemia and left ventricular dysfunction have been documented in young adults with familial hypercholesterolemia. We investigated whether speckle-tracking echocardiography can be used to detect subclinically impaired global and regional myocardial function in patients with this lipid disorder. This single-center study included 47 patients with familial hypercholesterolemia and 37 healthy control subjects who underwent transthoracic Doppler echocardiography and speckle-tracking echocardiography from January 2003 through December 2016. Conventional echocardiographic and strain parameters in the 2 groups were analyzed and compared. Left ventricular dimensions were significantly larger at end-diastole (P=0.02) and end-systole (P=0.013), left ventricular walls were significantly thicker (P
Routine Outpatient Electrocardiogram: What Is The Diagnosis?, Muzamil Khawaja, Vincent R J Siebert, John Allison, Yochai Birnbaum
Routine Outpatient Electrocardiogram: What Is The Diagnosis?, Muzamil Khawaja, Vincent R J Siebert, John Allison, Yochai Birnbaum
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
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Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma In The Heart Of A 45-Year-Old Woman, Mohamad Karnib, Isaac Rhea, Robin Elliott, Saneka Chakravarty, Sadeer G Al-Kindi
Benign Metastasizing Leiomyoma In The Heart Of A 45-Year-Old Woman, Mohamad Karnib, Isaac Rhea, Robin Elliott, Saneka Chakravarty, Sadeer G Al-Kindi
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
We report a rare case of benign metastasizing leiomyoma in the heart of a 45-year-old woman 2 years after a uterine leiomyoma had been discovered during hysterectomy. Computed tomograms at presentation showed a large mixed cystic mass in the pelvis and bilateral lung nodules suggestive of metastatic disease. A large cardiac mass, attached to the chordae of the tricuspid valve and later shown to be histopathologically consistent with uterine leiomyoma, was successfully resected through a right atriotomy. This case suggests that benign metastasizing leiomyoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of right-sided cardiac tumors.