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Aim: Approximately %10 of posterior mediastinal neurogenic tumors include a spinal canal component. Safe removal of these tumors requires one-stage combined neurosurgical and thoracic operations. Therefore Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is required when an enlarged vertebral canal is detected in the computerized tomography (CT). We reviewed our experience with these types of tumors and assessed diagnostic and therapeutic approaches. Materials and Method: A series of 35 ...

... history of dyspnea, chest pain, heart palpitations, night sweats and general malaise. Echocardiography revealed a mass 55mm x 50mm in the right ventricle partly obstructing the outflow tract, LV ejection fraction-86%, RV ejection fraction-38%. Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging showed a heterogenous mass measuring 52 x 32 x49 mm with borders protruding in the RV ventricle, infiltrating the middle, apical portion of the interventricular septum and part of the anterior wall of right ventricle. A coronary angiogram was ...

... history in whom a transthoracic echocardiography motivated by chest pain revealed a large intracardiac cystic mass measuring 46 X 49 mm within the ventricular septum, bulging in the right ventricle. A serogical test was positive for Echinococcosis and the magnetic resonance imaging and contrast- enhanced computed tomography showed the cardiac hydatid cyst with no other location of the disease. The patient was started on preoperative albendazole to be taken for 4 months. Under cardiopulmonary bypass, the hydatic cyst was ...

... Cardiac tumors are exquisitely rare, they may be symptomatic or found incidentally throughout evaluation for an ostensibly unrelated problem or physical finding. In symptomatic patients, a mass can practically always be detected by echocardiography, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and/or computed tomography (CT). Because symptoms may mimic other cardiac conditions, the clinical challenge is to consider the possibility of a cardiac tumor so that the appropriate diagnostic tests can be steered. The clinical scenario ...

... effective orifice area were 0.83-0.91of their geometric values. Follow-up assessment of the patient in 2016 revealed the peak/mean gradients 8, 7/4, 2 mmHg. Conclusions The new CorBeat has proven to be effective prosthesis for AVR. Follow-up Doppler and Magnetic Resonance Imaging studies revealed the CorBeat prostheses possessed hemodynamic advantages over conventional mechanicals. Free of obstruction CorBeat’s orifice area results in minor pressure transprosthetic gradients and helps left ventricle to remodel earlier ...