Modification of therapy and/or use of cardio-protective agents might be indicated in these patients.
On admission, she was found to be asystolic, and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation was immediately started.
Surgical correction was carried out using standard cardio-pulmonary bypass techniques.
It remains unexplained why different patients develop the cardiac, digestive, cardio-digestive or indeterminate clinical forms.
However, the most interesting findings were in two patients with the cardio-digestive form of the disease, in whom both heart and oesophagus could be studied.
Two hospitalized men, aged 61 and 76 years, died from cardio-respiratory complications.
The single screening question does not sit easily with the public health message that moderate regular alcohol ingestion might be cardio-protective.
Angiographic volume measurements are standard tools in paediatric cardio-logy, but all methods are using assumptions of ventricular geometry.
