S Sawaki, J Yoshioka, K Akahane, N Totsuka, T Maruyama, N Fujii, S Furuta
{"title":"[A case of isolated coronary ostial stenosis in a middle-aged woman].","authors":"S Sawaki, J Yoshioka, K Akahane, N Totsuka, T Maruyama, N Fujii, S Furuta","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coronary ostial stenosis with otherwise normal coronary vessels occurs in patients with syphilis or Takayasu's aortitis. Iatrogenic ostial stenosis may develop as a complication of coronary angiography or after coronary perfusion at the time of cardiac surgery. Isolated ostial stenosis in the absence of these factors has been reported infrequently and its unique clinical and angiographic profile has been noted recently. Hence, it is proposed that this type of isolated ostial stenosis may represent a clinical entity distinct from the usual atherosclerotic coronary disease. We report the case of a middle-aged woman with this type of isolated coronary ostial stenosis. A 55-year-old female was admitted with the complaint of exertional chest pain, which had appeared 2 months admission and which had gradually become more frequent. The ECG on admission was normal. She had no coronary risk factor. Treadmill exercise test was stopped at stage 2 of Bruce protocol because ischemic S-T segment depression appeared in II, III, aVF, V4-V6 and she complained of a chest pain. Coronary angiography showed a 90% stenosis of the left coronary ostium with normal distal vessels. The right coronary artery was normal. A coronary artery bypass graft to the left anterior descending branch was performed uneventfully and the patient remains asymptomatic.</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"693-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19324923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[Effects of propafenone on the parameters of body surface electrocardiogram in comparison with those of disopyramide].","authors":"I Omori, M Ochiai, D Inoue, J Asayama, M Nakagawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The purpose of this study is to investigate the clinical effects of propafenone on the QT(QTc), QRS, PQ and RR interval of body surface electrocardiogram (ECG) in comparison with the effects of disopyramide. In 10 patients (5 with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and 5 with ventricular premature complex: ages 48-77), after 4 days' observation without any cardioactive drugs, disopyramide (300mg/day) was administered orally for 7 days. After discontinuing the administration of disopyramide, 4 more days were allowed to wash out the drug, and propafenone (450mg/day) was administered orally for 7 days. 12-lead ECG was taken twice before the administration of disopyramide (Pre-1 and -2), on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th days after the administration of disopyramide. Then it was also taken on the day before the beginning of propafenone administration and on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and 7th days after the administration of propafenone. The corrected QT (QTc = QT/square root of RR), QRS, PQ and RR intervals in lead II or V2 of each ECG were measured as the mean value of 5 consecutive sinus beats. The control values of QTc, QRS, PQ and RR intervals were calculated as the mean values of Pre-1 and -2, and the other values were expressed as the % ratio to the control values. Propafenone hardly altered the QTc interval but prolonged QRS interval after the 5th day of administration (110 +/- 12%, p < 0.05), while disopyramide significantly prolonged the QTc interval after the 3rd day of administration (109 +/- 5%, p < 0.001) without affecting the QRS interval.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"647-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19322909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Fujimori, K Fukami, M Murooka, T Koeda, K Hiramori, H Tanaka, H Kimura
{"title":"[A case of asymptomatic myocardial infarction with multiple coronary aneurysms].","authors":"M Fujimori, K Fukami, M Murooka, T Koeda, K Hiramori, H Tanaka, H Kimura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A 36-year-old man was hospitalized in December, 1990 because a small R wave was observed on his ECG in V1-3. The patient had suffered from a cold with fever for a month when he was a child. He had no symptoms or signs of myocardial infarction. The patient underwent selective right and left coronary angiography, which revealed specific coronary aneurysms in the left circumflex coronary artery and left anterior descending coronary artery. The aneurysm in the distal lesion of the left circumflex coronary artery was embolized by a thrombus and filled with many capillary arteries. The proximal lesion of the right coronary artery was slightly dilated. Good collateral flow from the right coronary artery to the left coronary artery was revealed by coronary angiography. Left ventriculograms were performed, and the anterior wall motion of the left ventricle was shown to the hypokinetic. A perfusion defect of the anterior wall of the left ventricle was revealed by Thallium-201 imaging with single photoemission computed tomography. Based on these findings, we diagnosed the patients' illness as old myocardial infarction caused by Kawasaki disease.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"683-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19324921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H Akita, S Matsuoka, M Kubo, Y Hayabuchi, Y Kuroda
{"title":"[Frequency domain analysis of signal-averaged electrocardiogram in patients with right bundle branch block following repair of congenital heart disease].","authors":"H Akita, S Matsuoka, M Kubo, Y Hayabuchi, Y Kuroda","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Frequency domain analysis of signal-averaged electrocardiograms (SAECGs) were investigated in 24 patients with right bundle branch block (RBBB) following repair of congenital heart disease, in order to determine the block site of RBBB using a SAECG. The block site of RBBB was first identified by a body surface map; 10 patients had proximal RBBB, 14 had distal RBBB. The peak amplitude, the amplitudes on 20 Hz, 40 Hz, 50 Hz, and 100 Hz in the proximal RBBB patients were significantly (p < 0.01) smaller than in the distal RBBB patients. The areas between 0 to 20 Hz, between 0 to 40 Hz, between 20 to 50 Hz, between 40 to 100 Hz in the proximal RBBB patients were significantly (p < 0.01) smaller than in the distal RBBB patients. In conclusion, frequency domain analysis of SAECG was useful for determining the block site of RBBB following surgical correction.</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"641-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19322908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Sanada, H Okano, S Yokota, T Kanikawa, T Itou, T Oh-ishi, K Ogawa
{"title":"[Electrocardiographic study of sinus bradycardia associated with enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 infection].","authors":"M Sanada, H Okano, S Yokota, T Kanikawa, T Itou, T Oh-ishi, K Ogawa","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A severe outbreak of hemorrhagic colitis occurred at a kindergarten in Saitama, Japan in October, 1990. Children who were affected by enterohemorrhagic E. coli O157: H7 infection showed apparent bradycardia as well as severe bloody diarrhea, generalized convulsion, or hemolytic uremic syndrome. Cardiac involvement such as bradycardia observed in the patients of this outbreak has not been described in previous reports about EHEC infection, while bradycardia has been well known in typhoid fever due to salmonella typhosa infection. Electrocardiographic examination was performed to evaluate bardicardia, utilizing electrocardiography at rest and Holter's twenty-four hour electrocardiography. In the report, we demonstrate that the bradicardia was due to reduced frequency of sinus node. Both average heart rate and average minimum heart rate of the patients at night (74.0 +/- 5.6 BPM and 57.0 +/- 5.1 BPM, respectively) decreased significantly, as compared with controls (84.6 +/- 9.3 BPM and 66.3 +/- 8.0 BPM respectively) (p < 0.01). CVRR of the patients (0.120 +/- 0.019, respectively) increased significantly as compared with controls (0.090 +/- 0.010, respectively). These results indicate that an activated parasympathetic nervous system, that is, activation of the vagal nerve, might have induced the sinus bradycardia observed in the patients with EHEC infection.</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"653-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19322910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"[An autopsy case developing both marked stenosis of the coronary artery and dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy].","authors":"A Yamada, S Nakamoto, M Sakamoto, T Matsumoto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An autopsy case involving the dilated phase of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is reported. This case was also complicated with a lesion similar to fibromuscular dysplasia of the coronary artery. A 37 year-old male died of cardiac insufficiency and an autopsy was performed. Macroscopically, both atriums and ventricles were dilated and the walls of both ventricles were markedly thickened. Also, the coronary artery was almost completely obstructed. Histological examination revealed bizarre myocardial hyperplasia with disorganization and marked fibrosis of the myocardium. The coronary artery showed intimal fibrous thickening with increase in elastic fibers and smooth muscle cells. There were similar lesions in other arteries examined; the renal arteries, external iliac arteries, pulmonary arteries and aorta. We think that this lesion of the coronary artery plays an important part in the progression from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy to dilated cardiomyopathy.</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"689-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19324922","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K Yamamoto, T Honma, M Kazurayama, K Kuwano, T Sakamoto, N Kaku, T Fujino, K Yamana, N Aoyagi, K Ooishi
{"title":"[A case of spontaneous rupture of the ascending aorta].","authors":"K Yamamoto, T Honma, M Kazurayama, K Kuwano, T Sakamoto, N Kaku, T Fujino, K Yamana, N Aoyagi, K Ooishi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report a rare case of spontaneous rupture of the ascending aorta without any evidence of aneurysm formation or aortic dissection. A woman aged 64 was admitted to our cardiac care unit as an emergency patient with severe chest pain. Her face was pale and systolic blood pressure was 70 mmHg in spite of intravenous administration of dopamine (10 micrograms/kg/min). She had a history of hypertension for two years under good medical control. No trace of the chest trauma was noted before her admission. Physical examination revealed neck vein engorgement and distant heart sounds. Chest X-ray film showed enlargement of the cardiac silhouette. ECG showed no evidence of acute coronary syndrome. Pericardial effusion with a floating hematoma-like mass was detected by 2-dimensional echocardiogram. Pericardiocentesis revealed bloody pericardial fluid (Ht: 26%). Aortagraphy was performed resulting in a clinical diagnosis of acute aortic dissection, but there were no signs of a false lumen, aneurysm formation or extravasation of the contrast medium. Although continuous pericardial drainage was performed, she suddenly lost consciousness, collapsed and died. A longitudinal intimal laceration 5 cm long was observed in the ascending aorta. Pathological examination revealed cystic medial necrosis and irregularity of the elastic fibers in the media. No atheromatous plaque was noted in the intima. Spontaneous rupture of the aorta is a life-threatening condition that requires urgent surgery.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":76077,"journal":{"name":"Kokyu to junkan. Respiration & circulation","volume":"41 7","pages":"697-700"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19324924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}