Daniele Melo Sardinha, Leila de Massena e Neiva Assis, Alexsandro Soares Amoedo, Katia Regina de Oliveira Gonçalves, Renato Hugo Dias Melo, Cassia Andreia Silva Lima, Jessica da Silva Ferreira, Jaqueline Cristina da Silva Belém, Jaqueline Dantas Neres Martin, Gabriel Fazzi Costa, Aurenice Monteiro Pinto Gualdez & Alziney Simor·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2020
Heart Failure is characterized by a complex clinical syndrome in which the myocardium has an inability to adequately pump blood to meet tissue metabolic needs, or can do so only at high filling pressures. Thus, the aim of this study is to describe the Nursing Diagnostics in patie...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i230129
The truncus arteriosus communis is a very complex congenital cardiac malformation occurring in less than 1% of all congenital heart disease patients. Early repair remains one of the most challenging procedures in congenital cardiac surgery. Due to improvement in surgical reconstr...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i130123
Background: Exercise stress test (EST) is recommended as the first-line investigation in major guidelines. It believed as a safe procedure. However, there is unignorable complications include hospitalisation, acute myocardial infarction and sudden cardiac death. Case Presentation...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i130124
Daniele Melo Sardinha, Ana Gracinda Ignácio Da Silva, Sandra Gouveia Gomes, Fabricia Carvalho Pamplona, Adriana Letícia Dos Santos Gorayeb, Milena Farah Damous Castanho Ferreira, Milene do Socorro Bastos de Carvalho & Juliana Conceição Dias Garcez·Cardiology and Angiology: An International Journal·2020
Background: Cardiovascular diseases are the main cause of death in Brazil and worldwide, being influenced by the presence of risk factors. In the current life context, these factors are increasingly present in individuals, also related to occupation, which require extensive workl...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2020/v9i130125
Patent ductus arteriosus accounts for 5 – 10% of all congenital heart disease in children. Currently, transcatheter closure is standard of care. Device closure in PDA is usually done by an antegrade technique where PDA is crossed from the PA side. In some patients, this universa...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430122
Stent Entrapment is a rare complication of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention if left in situ may cause intracoronary or systemic embolization, thrombus formation, emergent coronary artery bypass graft surgery, or death. We here present a case of 2 unexpanded Drug eluting stent e...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430121
Background: Thrombus embolization during the Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI) in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) is common and results in suboptimal myocardial perfusion and increased infarct size. Two strategies proposed to reduce distal embolization a...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430120
Chagas' cardiomyopathy is a complication of Chagas' disease that presents in the cardiac form, which involves the manifestation of a clinical picture of dilated cardiomyopathy, with global left ventricular dysfunction and heart failure syndrome. In this context, the aim is to des...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430116
Congenital obstruction of the left ventricular outflow tract comprises a heterogeneous group of disorders, with obstruction potentially occurring below, above, or at the level of the aortic valve. Subvalvular stenosis is the second most common type of left ventricular outflow tra...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430112
Coronary air embolism is a dreadful complication of cardiac intervention despite careful prevention. In literature reported complications of coronary air embolism ranges from clinically non significant events to cardiogenic shock, myocardial infarction and death. We report a case...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430113
Super-dominant right coronary artery and the absent left circumflex artery is a rare congenital coronary anomaly, with only a few cases reported in the literature. Left anterior descending artery arises directly from the left anterior coronary cusp. Rare coronary anomalies are so...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430114
Transcatheter device closure is the treatment of choice in patients with secundum atrial septal defects with adequate rims. It is technically safe, feasible and has the obvious advantage of being a nonsurgical technique. Patient is free from the scar especially young, unmarried f...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430115
Electrocardiographic changes in myocarditis mimic a wide range of ECG diagnoses ranging from ST-elevation myocardial infarction to complete heart block. We report a case of acute myocarditis in a young female with a wide range of ECG changes that mimic ST-elevation myocardial inf...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430117
Post-infarction ventricular septal rupture (VSR) is a rare but lethal mechanical complication of acute myocardial infarction. The incidence of VSR has decreased from 1-3% following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the pre-reperfusion era to 0.17-0.31% following prima...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430119
The dissection of the sinus of Valsalva aneurysm into the interventricular septum leading to complete heart block is a rare complication with only few cases reported in the literature. We report a case of young farm laborer, who presented with multiple episodes of syncope. Upon c...
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Research Article10.9734/ca/2019/v8i430118