Anomalous pulmonary venous drainage associated with mitral valve disease

Four cases of mitral stenosis associated with anomalous pulmonary venous return are described. In two of these cases there was severe mitral regurgitation as well. A pulmonary arteriovenous shunt was also found in one of these. A review of the records of patients admitted for cardiac catheterization revealed that in 0.42 per cent of the cases of mitral valve disease and 5.7 per cent of the cases of anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, both conditions were associated. The clinical, roentgenologic, electrocardiographic, and vectorcardiographic findings were predominantly characterized by the mitral valve disease. In every case, the diagnosis was established at cardiac catheterization. Hemodynamic studies were performed. These indicated that the circulatory consequences of the mitral valve disease were only little influenced by the anomalous pulmonary venous return

Bilateral cardiac myxomas and peripheral myxomas in a patient with recent myocardial infarction

Coronary arteriography, performed for recent anterior wall myocardial infarction in a 29 year old man, showed multiple aneurysms of the distal branches of the left coronary artery without evidence of obstructions in the major branches, and two clusters of abnormal vessels, supplying tumors in the right ventricle and the left atrium. At operation and histologic examination both tumors appeared to be myxomas. In addition, two myxomas, located elsewhere in the body, could be proven histologically

Intravenous instrumentation alters the autonomic state in humans

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Evaluation of lipid-lowering therapy by functional assessment. A substudy of the regression growth evaluation statin study (REGRESS)

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Does the change in quantitatively assessed coronary artery disease after lipid-lowering therapy relate to the change in functional status of the patient?

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Does the change in quantitatively assessed coronary artery disease after lipid-lowering therapy relate to functional status of the patient? A substudy of the regression growth evaluation statin study (REGRESS)

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Functional Evaluation of Lipid-Lowering Therapy by Pravastatin in the Regression Growth Evaluation Statin Study (REGRESS)

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Myocardial bridging: what have we learned in the past and will new diagnostic modalities provide new insights?

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The LDL-Apheresis Atherosclerosis Regression Study (LAARS). Effect of aggressive versus conventional lipid lowering treatment on coronary atherosclerosis

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