The single coronary artery, anomalous origin of the right coronary artery from the left anterior descending artery, is a benign and very rare coronary artery anomaly. We firstly present a case with this type of single coronary artery and congenital pulmonary valvular stenosis with large poststenotic dilatation.
Objective: To evaluate ECG findings regarding interatrial block and ventricular repolarization and certain biochemical parameters in young patients diagnosed as acute myocarditis with normal ventricular functions.
Materials and Methods: 405 patients under the age of 35 who underwent diagnostic coronary angiography between January 2014 and January 2020 were retrospectively analyzed. Patients whose ECG records could not be accessed or quality were not suitable for evaluation, with sudden cardiac death, cardiomyopathy, ejection fraction
Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 ) is an infection that can involve various systems and organs, as well as the cardiovascular system. There are several reports in the literature on cardiac involvement in COVID-19 patients who are hospitalized. Therefore, the current research was designed to determine whether cardiac involvement occurred in COVID-19 patients at home.
Methods:The current research included 30 patients with a positive COVID-19 PCR test but no hospitalization and recovery at home, and also 30 healthy volunteers. All participants underwent routine and transthoracic echocardiographic exams. The left and right ventricular diameters and functions were examined using two-dimensional echocardiography. M-mode imaging was used to assess tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) and mitral annular plane systolic excursion (MAPSE). In addition, the tissue Doppler images of the patients were recorded.Results: In the COVID-19 group, 53% of the patients were male, and the mean age was 35.6 years (±7.6). The control group consisted of 57% males, and the mean age was 35.1 years (±6.9). The right and left ventricular diameters, systolic pulmonary artery pressure, and TAPSE and MAPSE values were similar in the two groups. In both groups, the tricuspid lateral annular systolic velocity (S' tricuspid) values were in the normal reference range. However, the S' tricuspid value was statistically lower in the COVID-19 group than in the control group (13 [14-11] vs. 14 [15-13]; p=0.010).
Conclusion:In this study, cardiac functions did not significantly differ between patients with mild COVID-19 infection and the control group.
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