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Transcatheter mitral valve intervention
Transcatheter mitral valve interventions (TMVI) or percutaneous mitral valve interventions are less-invasive, highly technical procedures available for the management of selected patients with mitral valve regurgitation and include several transcatheter mitral valve repair (TMVr) and transcathet...
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Retained cardiac pacemaker leads
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04 Jul 2022
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Glenn shunt
The Glenn shunt, also known as Glenn procedure, is a palliative surgical procedure for a variety of cyanotic congenital heart diseases.
Rationale
In this procedure, the systemic venous return is re-directed to the pulmonary circulation, bypassing the right heart 1-3.
It can be used in a varie...
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Hypoplastic right coronary artery
A hypoplastic right coronary artery refers to an underdeveloped or small-sized right coronary artery (RCA) with a narrowed lumen or a short course.
Epidemiology
Associations
Clinical conditions associated with a hypoplastic right coronary artery include 1,2:
left coronary arterial dominanc...
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Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return
Partial anomalous pulmonary venous return (PAPVR), also known as partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC), is a rare congenital cardiovascular condition in which some of the pulmonary veins, but not all, drain into the systemic circulation rather than in the left atrium.
Epidemiolo...
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Ebstein anomaly
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04 Jul 2022
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Coronary stent thrombosis
Coronary stent thrombosis or scaffold thrombosis refers to an acute thrombus or occlusion in a coronary segment previously treated with a coronary stent or scaffold. It is a severe complication of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and a major adverse cardiovascular event.
Epidemiology
C...
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LAD occlusion with severe acute heart failure and severe generalized atherosclerosis
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24 Oct 2023
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Transposition of the great arteries
Transposition of the great arteries (TGA), also known as transposition of the great vessels (TGV), is the most common cyanotic congenital cardiac anomaly presenting during the newborn period, with cyanosis in the first 24 hours of life.
It occurs as a result of ventriculoarterial discordance, w...
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Anteroseptal hypokinesia after myocardial infarction
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30 Nov 2011
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Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, also known as levo- or L-loop transposition (L-TGA), is a rare cardiovascular anomaly with inversion of the ventricles and great arteries. See the main article on transposition of the great arteries for discussion of the D-loop subtype....
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Ventricular septal defect
Ventricular septal defects (VSD) represent a hole or pathway in the interventricular septum that allows for communication between the right and left ventricles. It typically results in a left-to-right shunt.
Epidemiology
They represent one of the most common congenital cardiac anomalies and ma...
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Caseous mitral annular calcification
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23 Jun 2018
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Coronary arterial ectasia
Coronary arterial ectasia (CAE) refers to diffuse dilatation of the coronary arteries. Under some classification systems, there is some overlap with the term coronary arterial aneurysms (which is a more focal dilatation).
Terminology
It is often defined as dilatation of an arterial segment to ...
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also known as stress cardiomyopathy, apical ballooning syndrome, or broken heart syndrome, is a condition characterized by transient regional abnormal cardiac wall motion, not confined to a single coronary arterial territory.
Epidemiology
It has been described predomi...
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Infective endocarditis
Infective endocarditis is defined as infection of the endocardium. It commonly affects the valve leaflets and chordae tendineae, as well as prosthetic valves and implanted devices.
Epidemiology
Infective endocarditis has an estimated general prevalence of 3 to 9 cases per 100,000. Intravenous ...
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Right coronary artery occlusion successfully treated with percutaneous intervention
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11 Apr 2024
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DSA (angiography)
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Sinoatrial nodal artery
The sinoatrial (SA) nodal artery is the small artery that supplies the sinoatrial (SA) node of the heart (the pacemaker).
Gross anatomy
Origin
Right coronary artery in 60% of cases and the left coronary artery in 40% of cases.
Course
The artery turns posteriorly below the superior vena cav...
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Tuberous sclerosis
Tuberous sclerosis (TS), also known as tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) or Bourneville disease, is a phakomatosis (neurocutaneous disorder) characterized by the development of multiple benign tumors of the embryonic ectoderm (e.g. skin, eyes, and nervous system).
Epidemiology
Tuberous sclerosi...
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Aberrant right subclavian artery
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13 Aug 2016
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