International journal of cardiology
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Letter Case Reports
Ventricular septal defect and Swyer-James (Macleod's) syndrome together: a case report.
Swyer-James (MacLeod's) syndrome is a rare entity that is characterized by the hyperlucent appearance of one or more lobes of one lung, diminished ipsilateral hilar shadow and hardly visible arterial structure on chest radiography. Ventricular septal defect is the most common childhood congenital heart defect and, if left untreated, this will result to irreversible pulmonary hypertension, reversing of the shunt and Eisenmenger's syndrome. In this case report, we describe a 19-year-old female patient who had diagnosis of VSD and Swyer-James syndrome at the same time.
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Letter Case Reports
Intracoronary air embolism in open heart surgery--an uncommon source of myocardial ischaemia.
We report a case of air embolism detected by transesophageal echocardiography in a patient undergoing open heart surgery for acute mitral regurgitation. Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography revealed an increased brightness of the apical wall and a severely compromised left ventricular myocardium with severe diffuse hypokinesis after removal of the aortic cross clamps and spontaneous resolution in the control echocardiography.