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We report a case illustrating a 39-year-old man with delayed presentation of severe pulmonary valve (PV) stenosis, clinical evidence of congestive right heart failure in the form of enlarged liver, raised jugular venous pressure, and anasarca without cyanosis. Echocardiography (echo) was used both
OBJECTIVE
To determine circulating atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) concentrations in the postoperative state and to define potential hemodynamic determinants of regional plasma ANF concentrations.
METHODS
Cohort study.
METHODS
Pediatric ICU in a university hospital.
METHODS
Twenty-two children, mean
The immunologic profile of patients with congenital heart disease complicated by protein-losing enteropathy (PLE) is undefined. The aim of this study was to assess the lymphocyte subpopulation and immunglobulin (Ig) pattern in patients with PLE complicating congenital heart disease. The immunologic
Carcinoid heart disease is a morphologically specific type of cardiac disorder that involves the mural and valvular endocardium on the right side of the heart. Twenty-one subjects (57 percent) (Group I) with carcinoid heart disease and 15 subjects (43 percent) (Group II) without carcinoid heart
A 53-year-old woman was referred to our hospital with the main symptoms of productive cough, fever and exertional dyspnoea. Chest X-ray revealed enlargement of the left hilar shadow and cavitary infiltration in the right upper lobe. 99mTechnetium-macroaggregated albumin (99mTc-MAA) perfusion
Congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG) are a group of metabolic disorders caused by deficient protein glycosylation. PMM2-CDG, the most common CDG, is caused by phosphomannomutase (PMM) deficiency. Clinical symptoms often include neurological involvement in addition to dysmorphic features,
A 22-year-old woman presented with acute left-sided pleuritic chest pain and dyspnea 6 days after surgery for revision of the stenotic central aortopulmonary shunt. She had a history of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF), pulmonary valve stenosis, ventricular septal defect and major aortopulmonary collateral