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A case of hypoparathyroidism with cardiovascular complications: interventricular septal dissecting aneurysm in a middle-aged woman

BMC Endocrine Disorders
Background Hypoparathyroidism (HypoPT) is a rare endocrine disease characterized by hypocalcemia, hyperphosphatemia, and insufficient or no parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion.
Ronghua Huang, Yi Zhou, Xingshou Pan, Liufang Zhou, Zhengjiang Liu   +4 more
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Surgical Cryoablation of Drug Resistant Ventricular Tachycardia and Aneurysmectomy of Postinfarction Left Ventricular Aneurysm

Case Reports in Medicine, 2014
Heart failure is usually associated with left ventricle remodelling, wall thickening, and worsening of the systolic function. Ventricular tachycardia is a common and a negative prognostic factor in patients with endocardial scarring following myocardial ...
Marek Pojar, Jan Harrer, Nedal Omran, Martin Vobornik   +3 more
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Mycotic aneurysm of the tibioperoneal trunk: a first manifestation of an infected endocarditis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2012
Infrapopliteal mycotic aneurysm resulting from endocarditis is rare, with only a few reported cases. We describe the case of a 28-year-old male patient who was suffering with pain and edema in the right leg.
Sergio Quilici Belczak, Igor Rafael Sincos, Marcelo Passos Teivelis, Carlos Alberto Sian de Oliveira, Hélio Fragoso, Ricardo Aun   +5 more
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Complete Heart Block with Diastolic Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema Secondary to Enlarging Previously Diagnosed Thrombosed Aneurysm of Sinus of Valsalva in a Patient with History of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease

Case Reports in Cardiology, 2015
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is associated with vascular aneurysms that can affect any part of the vascular tree, like ascending aorta or coronary arteries. Sinus of Valsalva is known as an anatomical dilation at the root of aorta
Sherif Ali Eltawansy, Martin Miguel Amor, Maria Joana Thomas, Jeffrey Daniels   +3 more
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Using multiple classifiers for predicting the risk of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair re-intervention through hybrid feature selection. [PDF]

, 2017
Feature selection is essential in medical area; however, its process becomes complicated with the presence of censoring which is the unique character of survival analysis.
Attallah, O, Bown, MJ, Choke, EC, Holt, PJ, Karthikesalingam, A, Ma, X, Sayers, R, Thompson, MM   +7 more
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Hyperhomocysteinemia induced by excessive methionine intake promotes rupture of cerebral aneurysms in ovariectomized rats. [PDF]

, 2016
BackgroundHyperhomocysteinemia (HHcy) is associated with inflammation and a rise in the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-9 (MMP-9) in the vascular wall.
Hashimoto, Tomoki, Kanematsu, Yasuhisa, Kitazato, Keiko T, Korai, Masaaki, Matsushita, Nobuhisa, Miyamoto, Takeshi, Nagahiro, Shinji, Satomi, Junichiro, Shimada, Kenji, Tada, Yoshiteru   +9 more
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Ruptured Aneurysm of Sinus of Valsalva Into the Right Ventricle: The Role of Echocardiography

Majalah Kardiologi Indonesia, 2017
1% of the incidence of congenital cardiac anomalies. The most frequent complication is rupture into the right ventricle, causing a shunt from left to right or aortic valve insufficiency with congestive heart failure requiring immediate surgical ...
Primawati A, Krisdinarti L, Mumpuni H
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Effect of a Flared Renal Stent on the Performance of Fenestrated Stent-Grafts at Rest and Exercise Conditions [PDF]

, 2016
Purpose: To quantify the hemodynamic impact of a flared renal stent on the performance of fenestrated stent-grafts (FSGs) by analyzing flow patterns and wall shear stress–derived parameters in flared and nonflared FSGs in different physiologic scenarios.
Hamady, M, Kandail, H, Xu, XY
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A Giant Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm Treated With Percutaneous Closure

JACC: Case Reports, 2019
A patient with a history of coronary artery bypass graft presented with breathlessness and was found to have an 11 × 6 cm aneurysm in a distally occluded saphenous vein graft. This case describes the investigation, heart team discussion, and percutaneous
Pawel Klementowicz, MD, Joel P. Giblett, MD, Sanjay K.B. Agrawal, MD, Leonard M. Shapiro, MD, Patrick A. Calvert, MA, PhD   +4 more
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Hidden behind the mask: misdiagnosis of a ruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm in a young male patient—a case report and review of literature

Journal of Medical Case Reports
Background Sinus of Valsalva aneurysm is a relatively rare disease accompanied by several severe complications. Patients with an unruptured sinus of Valsalva aneurysm are usually asymptomatic or present with symptoms of dyspnea, easy fatigability ...
Junqiao Mi, Xiaodan Cao, Jinfeng Zhou
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