Severe pulmonary embolism (PE) was treated with streptokinase in four patients, three men and one woman, age 38 to 72 (mean = 53 +/- 14) years. Before the thrombolytic therapy, all patients had pulmonary angiogram and hemodynamic parameters analyzed. The drug was infused through the distal lumen of the S...
An 8 year old child suffering from asthenia and complete atrioventricular block, probably congenital. During the tread-mill test there was a sudden electrocardiogram change to a ventricular preexcitation pattern. Besides this rare association, we emphasize the importance of the autonomic balance over the...
Chalela, Wiliam Azem;
Cruz, Silvia Helena;
Moraes, Aguinaldo Pereira;
Soares Júnior, José;
Giorgi, Maria Clementina Pinto;
Izaki, Marisa;
Moffa, Paulo Jorge;
Cerri, Giovani Guido;
Bellotti, Giovanni;
Pileggi, Fúlvio.
PURPOSE--To analyze adverse reactions (AR), hemodynamic and electrocardiographic changes and thallium scintigraphy (TS) results, during pharmacological stress with dipyridamole (SD), correlating these data to the presence and extension of coronary artery disease (CAD). METHODS--We studied 126 patients, 6...
PURPOSE--To study the presence and type of ventricular arrhythmias in patients with different geometric patterns of the left ventricle (LV). METHODS--Seventy-two patients with essential hypertension were divided in 4 groups, by the echocardiographic patterns: group I with concentric remodeling of the LV ...
PURPOSE--To evaluate, retrospectively, the main clinical findings observed in patients with incessant supraventricular tachycardias. METHODS--Data from 13 patients were analyzed, 8 men and 5 women, mean age 24 +/- 19 years. All patients underwent to periodic clinical evaluation with serial ECG, Holter, e...
PURPOSE--To characterize the idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) through clinical manifestations and complementary tests and to analyze the surgical benefit on the correction of tricuspid regurgitation. METHODS--Five patients with RCM idiopathic were retrospectively studied, 4 female and 1 male, ...
Patient with subaortic stenosis due to the insertion of anomalous chordae tendineae of the mitral valve in the interventricular septum (mitral web) associated with mitral stenosis with diagnosis made by bidimensional echocardiographic study with Doppler and confirmed by hemodynamic study. The patient was...
Two female patients, 54 and 38 years-old with refractory ventricular tachycardia were undertaken to electrophysiologic study for diagnosis and radiofrequency ablation of their arrhythmias. The tachycardias were only inducible with intravenous isoproterenol infusion. The site of the origin of ventricular ...
A 48-years-old woman with Lutembacher syndrome with a clinical and laboratory finding of atrial septal defect, of the ostium secundum type and without pulmonary hypertension was reported. We observed, from diagnostic viewpoint, that the electrocardiographic finding of left atrial overload and the echocar...
PURPOSE--Evaluation of the incidence and clinical implications of perfusion defects that appear worse in the rest than the stress myocardial perfusion imaging with technetium-99m isonitrile (MIBI), similar to the reverse redistribution described with thallium-201. METHODS--The studies of 730 consecutive ...
