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Culture negative endocarditis (CNE) is a common concern in patients with fever, heart murmur, cardiac vegetation, and negative blood cultures. The diagnosis of CNE is not based only on negative blood cultures and a cardiac vegetation. The clinical definition of CNE is based on negative blood
A 15-year-old woman with a history of transient dysarthria two years before, suddenly developed weakness of right upper extremity, right facial palsy, and dysarthria. She was admitted to our hospital on the third day. She had no hypertension, heart murmur and oedema. On neurological examination, she
Myocardial rupture is the second most common reason for in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction, accounting for 8-17% of deaths. The clinical presentation varies due to the possibility of rupture in three main locations: free left ventricular wall (85%), interventricular
This study identifies the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative factors associated with perioperative myocardial infarction (MI). The records of all patients who had distal vascular reconstructive procedures who sustained a perioperative MI were retrospectively reviewed from 1977 to 1990.
We report on an 84-year-old woman with anteroseptal acute myocardial infarction. Emergency coronary angiography revealed the occlusion of proximal left anterior descending artery without collateral circulation, and percutaneous coronary intervention was performed. Two drug eluting stents were
BACKGROUND
Ventricular double rupture (VDR) is a rare but lethal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The early identification and timely treatment of VDR remain challenging problems. We present a case of AMI with VDR and briefly review the characteristics and prognosis of
METHODS
A 55-year-old woman developed increasing shortness of breath and breath-independent pain in the left lower chest. 20 years previously she had had an episode of pulmonary embolism and 10 years previously a central venous thrombosis in the left eye. No cause of the increased thrombogenesis had
Urgent surgery for ventricular septal rupture following myocardial infarction in a 75-year-old female with bronchial asthma was successfully performed. On Feb 28, 1988, she had chest pain, and was admitted 5 days later because of the appearance of heart murmur. Pansytolic murmur (Levine 4/VI) on 3
We reviewed a case undergoing emergency surgery for acute post-infarction papillary muscle rupture. The patient was a 79-year-old woman transferred to our hospital with cardiogenic shock who required endotracheal intubation. The acute myocardial infarction diagnosis was based on the
We treated a case of ventricular septal perforation (VSP) who survived for 14 years after myocardial infarction. Nine years after the onset of myocardial infarction, an apparent cardiac murmur was discovered by chance, and following further examination, the patient was diagnosed as having VSP. The