heart murmurs/hemorrhage

Cerebral hemorrhage occurs rarely in endocarditis caused by Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. A 51-year-old man with a prosthetic mitral valve, who had been prophylactically treated (7 years) with warfarin, presented with intermittent fever. On admission, a Levine grade II/VI systolic cardiac

A 40-year-old man with Wegener's granulomatosis with renal and ocular involvement was admitted with symptoms of fever, malaise and cough not responding to oral antibiotics. On initial assessment, he had patchy consolidation but was also found to have a new cardiac murmur. He was mildly anaemic.

A fifty-four-year-old woman died from multiple brain infarction and hemorrhage in the bilateral cerebrum, cerebellum, and brainstem, with renal infarction. She developed hematuria and transient blindness sixteen days before admission. Low-grade fever, heart murmur, and aortic valve vegetation on

Two pet rabbits were presented with an acute decrease in appetite and activity. Rabbit 1 showed severe hypothermia, bradycardia, arrhythmias, a heart murmur, dyspnea, occlusion of the nares with secretions, icterus, dehydration, and gaseous gastrointestinal dilation. The urine was dark yellow.

Endocarditis is most frequently infective in origin, and thus, when a patient presents with a clinical picture suggestive of endocarditis, an extensive work up aimed at finding the infectious agent is warranted. Among systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients, cardiovascular disease is prevalent

The pathophysiology of hypertension in dogs and cats, the methods available to monitor blood pressure, and the signs and treatment of hypertension are reviewed. Clinical signs of hypertension are usually referable to target organ damage, most notably in ophthalmic, renal, and cardiovascular tissues,

BACKGROUND Atrial septal defect (ASD) closure is routinely performed using transcatheter closure under echocardiographic guidance. METHODS A 24-year-old male was evaluated for a newly detected heart murmur. This was the first time a murmur or any other cardiac abnormalities were detected. He

Thirty-four patients in sinus rhythm with anemia due to chronic renal failure and one subject with chronic uterine bleeding were studied by means of echocardiography. Six patients (18%) had major diastolic fluttering of the mitral valve, and in 4 others the fluttering was equivocal. No subject had

We present clinical, haemodynamic, and angiographic data on a 48-year-old woman with a fistulous aneurysm of the ductus arteriosus. This is the first reported case of a spontaneous fistulous aneurysm of the ductus arteriosus in an adult in which an antemortem diagnosis was made. This lesion

Regurgitation of blood through the left atrioventricular valve owing to the rupture of one of the chordae tendineae of the valve was diagnosed in a horse with sudden-onset respiratory distress and a holosystolic cardiac murmur. Severe regurgitation was confirmed with Doppler echocardiography and

METHODS Case 1: a 20-year-old previously healthy man sustained multiple nonvascular injuries without visible chest trauma in a car accident. Four days later a loud systolic murmur was heard over the heart. Case 2: a 21-year-old man similarly sustained in a car accident multiple injuries without

A 62-year-old man with heart murmur and recent cerebral thrombosis was admitted to our hospital. Examination of his heart revealed mitral stenosis and hematological study confirmed the diagnosis of essential thrombocytosis (ET). After 1100 ml pre-operative phlebotomy, mitral valve replacement with a

Pheochromocytoma-associated catecholamine-induced cardiomyopathy is a well-known entity in man, nonhuman primates, and mice but has not been described in dogs. In this retrospective study, 9 dogs were identified with pheochromocytomas and concurrent cardiovascular pathology observed histologically

An adult female spayed dog was evaluated after inadvertently receiving a total dose of 1,750 mg oral cyclophosphamide, equivalent to 2,303 mg/m2, over 21 days (days -21 to 0). Nine days after the last dose of cyclophosphamide (day +9), the dog was evaluated at Perth Veterinary Specialists. Physical

Jehovah's Witness who require operation represent a challenge to the physician because of the patients' refusal to accept blood transfusion. We report an 8-year-old male of Jehovah's Witness who underwent a surgical treatment of infective endocarditis. He was transferred to our hospital because of