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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510020

Mitral Valve Perforation: The Value of Real Time Three-Dimensional Transesophageal Echocardiography

Humberto Morais and Valdano Manuel

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: December 14, 2015

A 63-year-old man was referred to perform a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) for suspicion of mitral endocarditis. The 2-Dimensional TEE showed a solution of continuity in the anterior leaflet of the mitral valve compatible with mitral perforation....

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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510019

Images of Iatrogenic Pneumopericardium

Josephine Pressacco

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: December 11, 2015

A 76-year-old man presenting with cardiac tamponade underwent urgent pericardial drainage using ultrasound guided pericardial puncture. A pericardial drainage catheter was left in place....

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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510018

Giant Floating Right Atrial Thrombus Following Balloon Mitral Valvuloplasty

Georgina Fuertes Ferre, Maria Carmen Aured Guallar, Esther Sanchez Insa and Jose Gabriel Galache Osuna

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: December 06, 2015

A 83 years-old woman underwent percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty (PBMV) due to symptomatic rheumatic mitral stenosis. The transesophageal echocardiogram before PBMV revealed no atrial thrombus. PMBV was performed under fluoroscopic guidance....

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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510017

Radiological Diagnosis of a Neonate with Mucolipidosis II (I-Cell Disease)

Yo Niida

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: November 28, 2015

Mucolipidosis II (ML II) or inclusion cell disease (I-cell disease) (OMIM 252500) is an autosomal recessive lysosomal enzyme targeting disorder. ML II is usually presents between 6 and 12 months of age with a clinical phenotype resembling Hurler syndrome and a radiological picture of dysostosis multiplex....

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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510016

Drive Line Infection and Colonic Erosion: A Rare Complication of Left Ventricular Assist Device Placement Demonstrated on PET/CT

Kanchan Kulkarni

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: November 23, 2015

Left ventricular assist device (LVAD) placement is now commonly performed as both bridge to transplant and as destination therapy in end stage cardiomyopathy with high associated prevalence of sepsis (up to 58%) and mortality (up to 44%)....

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Open Access DOI:10.23937/2474-3682/1510015

Paediatric Lingual Thyroid: Cause of Chronic Cough

Gautam Bir Singh, Mayank Yadav and Shruti Ranjan

Article Type: Clinical Image | First Published: November 12, 2015

A 10 year old female child was referred to us from the paediatric department with the chief complaints of chronic cough and an occasional history of odynophagia for the past 6 months, especially following attack of upper respiratory tract infection....