M Takeshita, M Mathison, K Yagyu, Y Kotsuka, H Matsunaga, A Furuse
{"title":"[Congenital bicuspid aortic valve: stenotic type and insufficient type].","authors":"M Takeshita, M Mathison, K Yagyu, Y Kotsuka, H Matsunaga, A Furuse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two-hundred and eighty-one patients underwent surgical treatment of the aortic valves during a 10-year period of 1981 to 1991, 32 of whom (11%) had bicuspid aortic valve. Bicuspid aortic valve is well known to cause calcified aortic stenosis, however, some of these cases develop pure aortic insufficiency of unknown etiology. In our studies of 32 patients with bicuspid aortic valve, 28 patients had aortic stenosis, 2 were aortic insufficiency and 2 were infective endocarditis. Pathogenesis of aortic insufficiency in patients with bicuspid aortic valves was discussed and compared with that of aortic stenosis.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"133-7; discussion 138"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12590104","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}
T Imai, S Ohkawa, C Watanabe, K Chida, S Maeda, K Kuboki, M Sugiura
{"title":"[A clinicopathologic study of morphologic tricuspid valve prolapse in the aged: comparison with color Doppler evaluation].","authors":"T Imai, S Ohkawa, C Watanabe, K Chida, S Maeda, K Kuboki, M Sugiura","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Similar morphologic abnormalities have often been observed in the leaflets of tricuspid valve in patients with mitral valve prolapse. In the present study, morphologic tricuspid valve prolapse was analyzed in 500 consecutive autopsies of the aged over 60 years (mean 78.5 yrs, 266 men, 234 women). Additionally, the sensitivity and specificity of the color Doppler technique applied before death were assessed in 61 autopsy cases. The results were as follows: 1. The incidence of morphologic tricuspid valve prolapse was 22.2% at autopsy in 500 cases of the aged, however, tricuspid regurgitation had not clinically been detected in any of them. 2. The prolapse of 2- or 3-leaflets was common (78.5%). Among the 3 leaflets, the prolapse was more frequently observed in the anterior or posterior leaflet than in the septal leaflet. Combined tricuspid and mitral valve prolapses were observed in 22 cases (19.8%). 3. Among 61 cases examined by color Doppler echocardiography, autopsy showed that 16 cases had tricuspid valve prolapse and 14 cases tricuspid regurgitant flow signals (87.5%). 4. Regurgitant flow signals were also detected in 4 of 12 morphologically normal cases (33.3%). 5. In autopsy cases of the aged, generally, the incidence of morphologic tricuspid valve prolapse and tricuspid regurgitant flow signal were high, however, hemodynamically significant regurgitation due to prolapse was very rare.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"55-62; discussion 63-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12590111","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 Kawai, Y Yokota, Y Takeuchi, J Shite, Y Honda, M Shimizu, M Yokoyama
{"title":"[Long-term effect of medical treatment in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation].","authors":"H Kawai, Y Yokota, Y Takeuchi, J Shite, Y Honda, M Shimizu, M Yokoyama","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We often experience patients with chronic severe aortic regurgitation (AR) whose cardiac function significantly improves by medications, especially by vasodilator therapy. To find the factors determining the response to pharmacologic treatment, we studied 20 patients with chronic AR with dilated left ventricle (end-diastolic dimension > or = 55 mm) using echocardiography; 9 patients with significant improvement (delta Ds < or = -3 mm: improved group) and 11 without improvement (unchanged group). In the initial evaluation, systolic blood pressure and left ventricular relative wall thickness (Thd/Dd) were greater and left ventricular end-diastolic dimension was smaller in the improved group than in the unchanged group. During the follow-up period, systolic blood pressure and end-systolic wall stress decreased significantly and absolute and relative wall thickness increased significantly in the improved group, however, they remained nearly the same in the unchanged group. Significant negative correlation was observed between Thd/Dd and delta Ds. In conclusion, cardiac function in some patients with chronic AR can be improved by pharmacologic treatment, and in such cases, the Thd/Dd ratio could be a parameter of the response to pharmacologic treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"77-83; discussion 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12589917","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}
T Sakamoto, T Sekiya, T Takamoto, M Oshiro, M Karikomi, M Iwakami
{"title":"[Prosthetic valve function evaluated by ultrafast computed tomography (Imatron C-100)].","authors":"T Sakamoto, T Sekiya, T Takamoto, M Oshiro, M Karikomi, M Iwakami","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Ultrafast computed tomography (UFCT) is a new diagnostic modality that includes not only imaging of cardiac structures, but also movement of cardiac muscles and valves. It can be useful in the evaluation of prosthetic valves, because the scan time is extremely short and whole cardiac structures are imaged with a slice thickness of 8 mm and within 7 cardiac cycles. We review our experience using UFCT to observe prosthetic valve function in 22 cases with various valvular diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"139-46; discussion 147-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12590105","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}
T Takamoto, I Sakuma, A Koike, A Nogami, H Ito, M Hiroe, Y Doi, T Sakamoto
{"title":"[A family of Marchesani syndrome with mitral valve prolapse and anuloaortic ectasia].","authors":"T Takamoto, I Sakuma, A Koike, A Nogami, H Ito, M Hiroe, Y Doi, T Sakamoto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Marchesani syndrome consists of short statue, small spherical lens, glaucoma and brachydactyly, which are manifestations of hyperplastic connective tissue disease in systemic organs of mesodermal origin (Marchesani 1939). Among nearly 200 cases of Marchesani syndrome reported in the ophthalmology field, none has shown cardiac manifestations which typically characterize Marfan syndrome caused by hypoplastic connective tissue disorders. We experienced 2 cases which met the diagnosis of Marchesani syndrome and yet showed annuloaortic ectasia and mitral valve prolapse. A 30-year-old man and a 26-year-old woman who are siblings suffered from manifested brachydactyly, spherophakia, glaucoma and cardiac involvements. Their parents are in consanguinity. These unprecedented cases with mixed manifestations provide the evidence of possible gene-crossing between these 2 dystrophic mesodermal disorders.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"149-57; discussion 158"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12590106","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 administration of three kinds of catecholamine on mitral complex].","authors":"K Imataka, H Sakamoto, E Okamoto, K Ieki, J Fujii","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate cardiac injury induced by injection of 3 kinds of catecholamine, 219 male rabbits were examined. Eighty-five to 100 percent of the animals having high doses of adrenaline and noradrenaline showed ventricular premature contraction, and 65 to 75 percent of them showed mitral complex injury; whereas, these effects were identified in none or only in 10 percent of the animals with isoproterenol injection. The cardiac injury was similar to that of vagal stimulation, which was reported previously. These results indicate that ventricular premature contractions are important for developing the adrenaline- and noradrenaline-induced mitral complex injury.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"28 ","pages":"47-51; discussion 52-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1992-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"12556036","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}
W Amano, K Takenaka, T Sakamoto, J Suzuki, T Shiota, T Igarashi, T Sugimoto
{"title":"[Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in thoracic aortic disease: comparison with computed tomography and angiography].","authors":"W Amano, K Takenaka, T Sakamoto, J Suzuki, T Shiota, T Igarashi, T Sugimoto","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To evaluate the usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in thoracic aortic disease, transesophageal echocardiography was performed in 11 patients with thoracic aortic disease (true aortic aneurysm in two patients, aortic dissection in nine patients). Findings obtained by transesophageal echocardiography were compared with those obtained by computed tomography (nine patients) and angiography (six patients). Results were as follows: 1. True aortic aneurysm: Although transesophageal echocardiography and computed tomography could evaluate the size of the aorta and detect mural thrombus, angiography underestimated degree of aortic dilatation because of the presence of mural thrombus. 2. Aortic dissection: Although computed tomography could not differentiate thrombus in the false lumen from mural thrombus in two patients, transesophageal echocardiography could discriminate those two easily in one patient from properties and motion of the intimal flap, and flow information in the false lumen. Angiography could not evaluate the range of dissection in any patients with thrombus in the false lumen. With transesophageal echocardiography we could detect the entry in all six patients with aortic dissection of DeBakey type III except 1 patient with aortic dissection of DeBakey type I. Transesophageal echocardiography could obtain real-time image of most of the aorta except for a part of the ascending aorta. Therefore, transesophageal echocardiography was useful for diagnosing thoracic aortic disease and distinguishing between true aortic aneurysm and aortic dissection.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"26 ","pages":"45-56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13090725","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 Oiwa, H Matsunaga, H Makuuchi, K Yagyu, M Matison, H Igarashi, T Ohtsuka, A Furuse
{"title":"[Mitral valve disease with pulmonary hypertension: two surgical cases].","authors":"H Oiwa, H Matsunaga, H Makuuchi, K Yagyu, M Matison, H Igarashi, T Ohtsuka, A Furuse","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two surgical cases of mitral valve disease with severe pulmonary hypertension were reported, in which pulmonary hypertensive crisis (PHC) was a really serious problem to be treated. The first case (60-year-old woman) had atrial fibrillation and her pulmonary artery pressure was 68/32 mmHg (Pp/Ps = 0.63) and mean pulmonary wedge pressure was 26 mmHg with a high v wave (46 mmHg). PHC developed immediately after the cessation of artificial cardiopulmonary bypass, and intraaortic balloon pumping was performed. However, it was difficult to wean from the assist circulation, and then PGE1 and isoproterenol were given into the pulmonary artery and epinephrine and norepinephrine were given into the left atrium, and we succeeded in weaning from the assist circulation. The second case (58-year-old woman) had high pulmonary artery pressure (86/37 mmHg) and the Pp/Ps was 0.73. According to the experience of the first case, prevention of PHC started during cardiopulmonary bypass, giving PGE1, nitroglycerin and torazoline into the pulmonary artery. This led to the easy weaning from cardiopulmonary bypass. PHC may be seen even in cases of acquired valvular disease, and the prevention is mandatory for uneventful surgery.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"25 ","pages":"175-84; discussion 185-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13049098","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":"Aspects of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation.","authors":"J B Barlow","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"25 ","pages":"3-33"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13049100","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":"[Clinical survey of 126 cases with mitral valve prolapse detected at the annual health check-up].","authors":"H Takahashi","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Clinical and echocardiographic survey of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) was performed in 616 cases, which were selected from about 6,000 health check-up. An echocardiographic study revealed MVP in 126 cases. The prevalence of MVP was about 2% (health check-up survey) and 20.5% (echo study). The male and female ratio was 102/24. Frequent premature contractions, isolated atrial fibrillation and an apical systolic murmur were more frequently associated with MVP. Among 13 cases of isolated atrial fibrillation, seven with MVP were permanent, while other six without MVP were transient. Most cases (77%) were asymptomatic. Mild mitral regurgitation proved by auscultation and phonocardiography was observed in only two cases (1.6%), and most of the cases (81%) had no mitral regurgitant signals by a Doppler study.</p>","PeriodicalId":77193,"journal":{"name":"Journal of cardiology. Supplement","volume":"25 ","pages":"87-92; discussion 93-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1991-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"13049720","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}