Cardiology Journal 2011, tom 18, nr 5

The aim of this study was to investigate the incidence, origins and courses of coronary artery anomalies using a combination of angiographic and surgical methods in Turkish children with tetralogy of Fallot (ToF)...

The prevalence of myocardial involvement in influenza infection ranges from 0% to 11% depending on the diagnostic criteria used to define myocarditis. Whether such an association holds for the novel influenza A strain, pandemic-2009-H1N1, remains unknown. The clinical presentation of myocarditis varies and often mimics myocardial infarction...

Coronary arteriovenous fistula (CAVF) is a rarely encountered congenital coronary anomaly, in which coronary artery blood flow bypasses the myocardial capillary network and usually drains to a heart chamber or great vessel. It is usually asymptomatic. However, the risk of symptoms and complications increases with age...

Solitary intra-cardiac cavity tuberculoma is extremely rare and often only diagnosed during a post-mortem. We report a case of right atrial tuberculoma causing right atrial outflow tract obstruction in an immune-compromised man. The diagnosis of cardiac tuberculoma was made through the detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis DNA by tuberculosis-polymerase chain reaction in the pericardial fluid...

We report the case of a 69 year-old Chinese lady with pheochromocytoma who developed chest pain and acute ST-segment elevation in the anterior leads on electrocardiography. She was given intravenous phenoxybenzamine for alpha-blockade before undergoing urgent coronary angiography...

A 28 year-old female with a four year history  of primary infertility, oligomenorrhoea and menorrhagia  presented to the sub-fertility clinic at our  institution for further investigations. Her short stature  (141 cm) and obesity (73 kg; body mass index  36.7 kg/m2) prompted karyotype testing which confirmed  mosaic Turner syndrome...

A 75 year-old man with a Biotronik Lumax  VR-T540 uncommitted implantable cardioverter-  -defibrillator (ICD) received a shock during general  anesthesia for the resection of a basal cell carcinoma  on the nose. The surgeon who was unaware ofthe ICD, used unipolar electrocautery during the  procedure...

An elderly lady presented with breathlessness, fever and palpitations. She was treated for community-acquired pneumonia with antibiotics. Subsequently, she went into acute pulmonary edema. She was managed with standard heart failure medications and a trial of noninvasive ventilation. ECG showed A-V sequential pacing at a rate of 150/min with broad QRS. It was thought to be a pacemaker-related tachycardia...

We present a rare case of a patient with severe, symptomatic degenerative calcific mitral stenosis (MS). Calcification of mitral valve annulus (MVA) is a frequent finding in elderly patients. It can be isolated or associated more often with mitral valve insufficiency than MS. In rare cases, it results in severe MS. An accurate measurement of MVA in degenerative calcific MS is problematic because the limiting orifice is near the annulus and not at the leaflet tips as in rheumatic MS...

In this article, the authors take a closer look at the figure of Josephus Struthius Polonus (1510– –1568), one of the most famous physicians of the European Renaissance, on the 500th anniversary of his birth. Struthius became famous for his critical analysis of Galen’s works and his own research into the circulatory system...