2014 04 - 5 articles
Differential imaging in the evaluation of mitral valve insufficiency
In current clinical practice, choosing the optimal imaging technique for the quantification and differential diagnosis of mitral valve insufficiency constitutes a challenge, even for...
This is the case of a 60-year-old man with three-vessel coronary artery disease and a first myocardial infarction in 1998 [...]
Left bundle branch block or ventricular paced rhythms can sometimes make acute myocardial ischaemia difficult to diagnose in the 12-lead ECG. Several algorithms for diagnosing ST segment elevation myocardial infarction have been described with differ...
We present the case of a 54-year-old woman with severe symptomatic stenosis of an exceedingly rare type of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) with two raphes. Preoperative coronary angiography showed an intraseptal right aortic sinus-connected left main cor...
Case report A 79-year-old male patient with chronic atrial fibrillation and a history of mitral valve repair including ring annuloplasty several years ago underwent coronary angiography (fig. 1) for acute coronary syndrome, which showed the culprit l...
