…of patients. It manifests as localized, transient swelling of the subcutaneous or submucosal tissues, most frequently involving the face, lips, tongue, and upper airway. Due…

…symptoms are absent [1,4]. Typical warning symptoms are: hoarseness, stridor, swelling of the tongue or throat dyspnoea, hypoxia, bronchospasm or severe cough hypotension, collapse…

…age of 30 60 years and are more common among women. Approximately 80% of all myxomas are localized in the left atrium (most of them…

…of cardiac hemodynamic status and may be estimated with echocardiography. The PASP is an independent predictor of survival and for elevated left ventricular filling pressures…

…plaque that penetrates through the internal elastic lamina into the media. The lesion may produce a localized medial haematoma and can progress to IMH, pseudoaneurysm…

…and tends to worsen when the patient lies flat or moves [2], [5]. Localization: While often retrosternal, the pain may be localized to the left…

…when the patient sits up and leans forward. Pain may be retrosternal or left precordial and can radiate to the neck, arms, or left shoulder…

…complex (QRS duration <0.12 s) is localized in the AV node in 90% of the cases and the bundle of His in 10% of…

…ventricle in the thorax. It is localized immediately behind the sternum and thus is the most anteriorly located part of the heart. The right ventricle…

…1991 in Japan and the authors termed it takotsubo , which is the Japanese word for a kind of octopus trap (the left ventricle takes the…