Harbinger of Difficult Weaning from Cardiopulmonary Bypass in Aortic Valve Replacement Surgery: A Case Report.

Failure to wean from cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is a rare but critical intraoperative challenge. Common causes include residual structural defects (causing intracardiac shunting, prosthetic valve le...

ProtekDuo Cannulation via Right External Jugular Vein: A First in Man Method Description.

Individuals requiring transplantation represent the sickest cohort of patients with end-stage lung failure. Commonly, they have multiple comorbidities that carry significant risk for post-transplant r...

Stent-Related Infective Endocarditis Revealing Aortic Cusp Perforation on Intraoperative TEE: A Case Report Altering Surgical Strategy.

Coronary stent infective endocarditis (IE) is a rare but serious complication of percutaneous coronary intervention. Extension to adjacent valvular structures, particularly causing cusp perforation of...

Morquio Syndrome for Aortic Valve Replacement: Anesthesia Concerns - A Case Report.

Morquio syndrome is a lysosomal storage disease that can lead to glycosaminoglycan deposition in the tissues. Skeletal deformities, cardiovascular complications, and airway abnormalities are well-reco...

Giant Right Atrial Appendage Aneurysm with Thrombus Causing Cardiac Compression in Pulmonary Tuberculosis.

Right atrial appendage aneurysm (RAAA) is a rare cardiac anomaly, predominantly considered congenital, resulting from dysplasia or localized absence of atrial myocardium leading to thinning and aneury...

Intraoperative Echocardiography as a Cornerstone in Anesthetic Care for Mayo Level IV Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma with Cavoatrial Invasion in a Patient with Sickle Cell Trait.

This case report describes the successful perioperative anesthetic management of a 60-year-old woman with Mayo Level IV clear cell renal cell carcinoma and sickle cell trait who underwent radical neph...

The Forgotten Fetal Channel: Guidewire Entry Into Umbilical Vein During Central Line Placement in a Neonate.

Central venous catheterization in neonates presents unique challenges due to transitional circulatory physiology and potential persistence of fetal vascular structures. We describe a rare intraoperati...

Impact of Swept-Source OCT Angiographic Scanning Speeds on the Detection of Choriocapillaris Flow Deficits in Eyes With AMD.

PURPOSE: The impact of swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (SS-OCTA) scanning speeds (interscan times) on the quantification of choriocapillaris flow deficit percentages (CCFD%) was ...

Machine-Reported Electrocardiographic Right Axis Deviation or Right Ventricular Hypertrophy and Echocardiographic Pulmonary Hypertension Phenotypes and Right-Heart Abnormalities.

PURPOSE: Machine-reported electrocardiographic findings suggesting right-heart strain are routinely generated during electrocardiogram (ECG) acquisition, but their relationship to echocardiographic pu...

Distal radial access in acute coronary syndrome patients with good arterial pulsation: a subgroup analysis from the KODRA registry.

BACKGROUND/AIMS: Distal radial access (DRA) has been associated with fewer access-site complications, but evidence in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains limited. This study evaluated the feasibilit...

Correlation of Transcutaneous pCO(2) and Capillary pCO(2) in Newborn Patients Depending on Gestational Age: A Secondary Data Analysis.

INTRODUCTION: Transcutaneous monitoring of CO2 partial pressure (tcpCO2) provides continuous information about the CO2 partial pressure in the blood (pCO2). However, the deviation of tcpCO2 from pCO2 ...

Cardiomyocyte-enriched OTUD5 alleviates septic cardiomyopathy by promoting NLRP3 deubiquitination and inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation.

BACKGROUND: Septic cardiomyopathy (SCM) is the leading cause of mortality among patients diagnosed with sepsis. Nevertheless, the precise mechanisms underlying its pathogenesis remain poorly understoo...

Therapeutic Effect of Parthenolide on Paclitaxel-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Rats.

The aim of this study was to investigate the therapeutic effects of parthenolide (PTL), the active constituent of Tanacetum parthenium, on paclitaxel (PTX)-induced cardiotoxicity at both gene and prot...

Radiographic Evaluation of Thoracic Inlet Diameter-Normalized Cardiac Silhouette Indices in Clinically Normal Young Adult Cats.

This prospective study aimed to establish reference values for thoracic inlet diameter-normalized radiographic indices to evaluate cardiac size in clinically healthy domestic shorthair cats. Standardi...

Emerging Roles for Metabolism in Myocardial Inflammation During Heart Failure.

Metabolic alterations are a hallmark of heart failure and differ across stages. The immune system plays a critical role in cardiac repair and injury during heart failure progression. Metabolic interac...

Unilateral High-Riding Vertebral Artery Associates With the Progression of Atlantoaxial Joint Degeneration in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis.

High-riding vertebral artery (HRVA) at C2 is more prevalent in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) than in the general population, but its clinical significance remains unclear. Recent evidence in...

Early Left Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony Predicts Left Atrial Dysfunction Following Right Ventricular Pacing.

BACKGROUND: Left atrial reservoir strain (LASr) is an established marker of left atrial (LA) mechanical dysfunction and may identify early remodeling preceding HFpEF in patients undergoing conventiona...

Moving the Goalposts in Hypertensive Risk Assessment: The AVI/LVGLS Ratio as a Sensitive Detector of Maladaptive Ventricular-Arterial Coupling.

PURPOSE: This commentary discusses the AVI/LVGLS ratio as an emerging, fully non-invasive marker of ventricular-arterial coupling (VAC) for refining cardiovascular risk assessment in hypertension beyo...

2D-Echocardiographic Estimation of Right Ventricular Volumes Using a Previously Validated Geometric Model Is Associated With Outcomes After Transcatheter Tricuspid Interventions.

AIMS: To determine whether a simplified, previously proposed two-dimensional (2D) approach to RV volume assessment can provide adjunctive prognostic information in patients undergoing Transcatheter Tr...

Association of Echocardiographic Ventricular-Arterial Coupling With Elevated 10-Year ASCVD Risk in Hypertensive Patients.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between the arterial velocity pulse index-to-left ventricular global longitudinal strain ratio (AVI/LVGLS) and estimated 10-year atherosclerotic cardiovascula...