Ten Years of Images From Circulation is an extraordinary collection of valuable medical information that offers reader unique and unusual images of cardiovascular diseases.

Ten Years of Images From Circulation provide a unique opportunity to examine and evaluate many cardiovascular anomalies, most of which are considered rare.

Contents

Pulmonary Arteries, Aorta, Peripheral Vessels

• Multiloculated Myxoid Cyst of the Popliteal Artery
• Membranous Obstruction of the Inferior Vena Cava Treated by Percutaneous Balloon Angioplasty
• Erosion of Lumbar Vertebral Bodies due to Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Metallic Mercury Embolism
• Intra-Aortic Thrombus Producing Embolic Arterial Vascular Disease
• Percutaneous Balloon Angioplasty with Adjunctive Stent Placement in the Mesenteric Vessels in a Patient with Takayasu Arteritis
• Mycotic Aneurysm of the Descending Thoracic Aorta
• Cholesterol Embolization: Unrecognized Complication of Thrombolysis
• Successful Transcatheter Retrieval of an Air Gun Pellet and Adherent Thrombus from a Pulmonary Artery Branch
• Unusual Manfiestation of Subaortic Membrane
• Ultrasonographic Images of Takayasu Arteritis
• Inflammatory Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Spiral Computed Tomography Images of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism before and after Thrombolysis
• Three-Dimensional Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiography in a Patient with Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension before and after Thromboendarterectomy
• Twenty-First-Century Imaging for a Nineteenth-Century Disease
• Cerebral Arterial Embolism from a Protruding Atheroma of the Aortic with Covered Stents
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Asymptomatic Aortic Dissection
• Penetrating Stab Injury of the Thoracic Aorta
• Granulomatous Aortitis Presenting as an Acute Myocardial Infarction in Crohn's Disease
• Three-Dimensional Visualization of Pulmonary Thromboemboli in Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension with Multiple Detector-Row Spiral Computed Tomography
• Maffucci Syndrome
• Clubbing due to Peripheral Hypervascularization: Recognition by Contrast-Enhanced Three-Dimensional Magnetic Resonance Angiography
• Fulminant Clostridium septicum Aortitis
• Deep Vein Thrombosis Demonstrated by Magnetic Resonance Direct Thrombus Imaging
• Huge Calcified Pulmonary Arterial Aneurysm
• Detection of Carotid Atherosclerotic Plaque Ulceration, Calcification, and Thrombosis by Multicontrast Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Transient Occlusion of the Middle Cerebral Artery by Macroembolism during Carotid Stenting for Traumatic Dissection of the Common Carotid Artery

Coronary Arteries

• Systolic Obliteration of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery
• Multiple Coronary Emboli from a Calcified Rheumatic Aortic Valve
• Circumflex Artery Aneurysm
• Improvement of Myocardial Perfusion after Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
• Plaque Types
• Kawasaki Disease: Coronary Aneurysms in Mother and Son
• Sudden Death due to Rupture of Coronary Aneurysm in a 26-Year-Old Man
• Discordance between Coronary Angiography and Intracoronary Ultrasound
• Pectus Excavatum with Inferior Ischemia in Right Lateral Position
• Angiographic and Ultrasonic Evidence of Plaque Rupture Causing Myocardial Infarction
• Progress in Device Technology
• Spontaneous Postpartum Coronary Dissection
• Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery Stenosis Detected by Subsecond Spiral Computed Tomography
• Chronic Coronary Artery Dissection Presenting with Aortic Calcification
• Abciximab-Associated Pseudothrombocytopenia
• Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Angiogram of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Aneurysm
• Visualization of Tissue Prolapse between Coronary Stent Struts by Optical Coherence Tomography: Comparison with Intravascular Ultrasound
• Regression of a Donor Atheroma after Cardiac Transplantation: Serial Observations with Intravascular Ultrasound
• Postmortem Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of the Entire Coronary Arterial Circulation Using Electron-Beam Computed Tomography
• Visualization of the Ruptured Plaque by Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Transplant Vasculopathy: Evaluation with Multidetector Computed Tomography
• ST Elevation During Open Heart Surgery: Floating Air Bubble in Saphenous Vein Graft
• Giant Coronary Artery Aneurysms in Kawasaki Disease
• Anomalous Coronary Anatomy

Intracardiac Masses

• An Unusual Case of Right-Sided Heart Failure
• A Heavily Calcified Left Atrial Myxoma
• Papillary Fibroelastoma as an Unusual Source of Repeated Pulmonary Embolism
• Cardiac Rhabdomyomas in Tuberous Sclerosis (Bourneville Disease)
• Permanent Pacemaker Wire Vegetation in the Right Atrium
• Impending Paradoxical Embolus
• Superior Vena Caval Thrombosis
• Left Ventricular Thromboembolism
• Primary Malignant Fibrous Histiocytoma of the Heart Treated with Orthotopic Heart Transplantation
• Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Atrial Septum
• Three-Dimensional Imaging of Atrial Myxoma
• Left Ventricular Thrombus Detected by Two- and Three-Dimensional Computed Tomographic Ventriculography: A New Application of Helical Computed Tomography
• Mobile Left Atrial Thrombus Associated with Mitral Stenosis
• Fungal Whip Beats the Heart
• Intracardiac Extension of Pelvic Leiomyoma
• Clostridium perfringens within Intracardiac Thrombus: A Case of Intracardiac Gas Gangrene
• Migration of Intrahepatic Portosystemic Stent into Right Ventricle: An Unusual Cause of Tricuspid Regurgitation
• Right Ventricular Lead Perforation Presenting as Left Chest Wall Muscle Stimulation
• Primary Lymphoma of the Heart

Endocardium and Valves

• Aortic Valves: Shamrock, Bileaflet, and Lucky?
• Fungal Mass on the Tricuspid Valve
• Carcinoid Heart Disease
• Cardiovascular Disease in Ankylosing (Marie-Strumpell) Spondylitis
• Quadricuspid Aortic Valve
• Sinus of Valsalva Pseudoaneurysm
• Loffler Endocarditis
• Aortic Valve Stenosis in Alkaptonuria
• Effect of Balloon Dilatation on Aortic Stenosis Assessed by Three-Dimensional Echocardiographic Reconstruction
• Sudden Death of a Woman with Fibroelastoma of the Aortic Valve Chronically Occluding the Right Coronary Ostium
• Hemolysis after Mitral Valve Repair
• Coronary Artery Angiography Using Multislice Computed Tomography Images
• Resolution of Nonbacterial Endocarditis after Surgical Resection of a Malignant Liver Tumor
• Improved Preoperative Assessment of Papillary Fibroelastoma by Dynamic Three-Dimensional Echocardiography
• Tumor-Like Calcification of the Mitral Annulus: Diagnosis with Multislice Computed Tomography
• Giant Unruptured Noncoronary Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm

Pericardium and Myocardium

• Epitome of Cardiac Tamponade
• Calcified Pericardium Causing Cardiac Constriction
• Amiodarone Phototoxic Reaction
• Extreme Left Ventricular Hypertrophy
• Detection of Normal Pericardium and of Pericardial Effusion in the Lateral Chest Radiograph
• Heart Injury from Firearm
• Constrictive Pericarditis of the Interventricular Septum
• Hydatid Cyst of the Interventricular Septum
• Ruptured Papillary Muscle
• Chagas Disease and Ventricular Aneurysms
• Intrapericardial Teratoma
• Partial Pericardial Defect
• Amyloidosis with Cardiac Involvement
• Iron Deposition in Myocardium Documented on Standard Computed Tomography in Cardiac Hemochromatosis
• Cardiac Tuberculosis
• A Broken Heart
• Restrictive Cardiomyopathy Secondary to Fabry Disease
• Right Ventricular Dysplasia with Biventricular Involvement
• Sewing Needle Transfixing the Posterior Wall of the Left Ventricle Causes Death
• Laser Channels after Percutaneous Transmyocardial Revascularization
• A Bullet in the Heart
• "Switched" Precordial Leads
• Myocardial Infarction after Dog Bite
• Another Broken Heart
• Left Ventricular Involvement in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
• Eosinophilic Pericarditis and Myocarditis
• Ventricular Fibrillation during Swimming in a Patient with Long-QT Syndrome
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Impending Left Ventricular Rupture after Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Traumatic False Aneurysm of the Left Ventricle
• ST-Segment Elevation Resulting from Hyperkalemia
• Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm: Echocardiographic and Intraoperative Images
• Spontaneous Left Atrial Dissection Presenting as Pulmonary Edema
• Reversible Right Ventricular Hypertrophy due to Cardiac Sarcoidosis
• Three-Dimensional Imaging in Rupture of Papillary Muscle after Acute Myocardial Infarction
• Angiosarcoma of the Pericardium: A Fatal Disease
• Ventricular Septum Rupture after Myocardial Infarction Demonstrated by Multislice Computed Tomography

Congenital Heart Disease

• Arteriovenous Fistula
• Vascular Ring
• Mirror-Image Dextrocardia with Situs Inversus
• Muscle Bridging of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery
• Myocardial Bridges
• Noninvasive Imaging of Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery
• Noninvasive Diagnosis of Anomalous Origin of the Left Main Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Artery
• Giant Coronary Fistula
• "The Thrill is Gone": Visualization and Treatment of an Arteriovenous Fistula
• Scimitar Syndrome
• Holt-Oram Syndrome
• Cor Triatriatum
• Combined Angiography and Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography for Assessing Systemic-to-Pulmonary Collaterals in Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect
• Isolated Congenital Absence of the Pulmonary Valve
• Evolutionary Persistence of Spongy Myocardium in Humans
• Three-Dimensional Visualization of Recurrent Coarctation of the Aorta by Electron-Beam Tomography and MRI
• Cardiovascular Evaluation in Thoracopagus Twins
• Is This Right? (...or Is It Left?)
• Corrected Transposition of the Great Vessels and Situs Inversus Viscerum in a 65-Year Old Oligosymptomatic Woman
• Recognition of Left Atrial Aneurysm by Fetal Echocardiography
• Congenital Complete Absence of the Pericardium
• Identification of Fetal Atrial Flutter by Doppler Tissue Imaging
• Magnetic Resonance Angiography of Criss-Cross Heart
• Three-Dimensional Computed Tomography Showing Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Complicated by the Scimitar Syndrome

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