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Case Details History of Presenting Medical Complaint A 38-year-old man presented to his local hospital with a 9-month history of expectorating small volumes of hemoptysis preceded by exertional dyspnoea for 4–5 months. He also gave a history of two brief…
Case Synopsis Diagnoses Ebstein anomaly of the tricuspid valve (TV). TV repair with right atrial (RA) cryoablation and epicardial pacemaker, February 2015. TV replacement, March 2016. Very troublesome atrial tachyarrhythmia with multiple direct current (DC) cardioversions and ablations. Type 2…
Case Synopsis LB is a 26-year-old male with a history of dextro-transposition of the great arteries (DTGA) and intact ventricular septum. Desaturation and restriction of atrial level flow was almost immediately apparent and balloon atrial septostomy was performed just hours…
Case Report A 61-year-old man with a history of Ebstein anomaly underwent valve repair with concomitant intraoperative ablation of an accessory pathway and right atrial maze procedure in 1997 at age 41. This was followed by tricuspid valve replacement in…
Case Synopsis A 67-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of recurrent episodes of palpitations for the previous 3 years, which he described as irregular and fast. These episodes occurred several times per year. The palpitations usually started when…
Case Synopsis History A 51-year-old male underwent primary repair of tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) in 1974 at the age of 9 years. The repair included a Dacron patch to close the ventricular septal defect and a pericardial patch in the…
Case Synopsis Case Description A 27-year-old male was admitted to our cardiac tertiary center because of increasing dyspnea and progressive exercise intolerance. He had been followed up by different hospitals during his life. At birth, he was diagnosed with transposition…
Case Synopsis We report the case of a patient diagnosed with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) at the age of 1 year. He developed severe systemic tricuspid valve regurgitation at the age of 6 years when it…