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Journal Title: Journal of Rare Cardiovascular Diseases - Year 2018, Vol 3, Issue 7
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Authors and Affiliations
Piotr Podolec
55 years old patient with congenital heart malformation (RCD code: IV-1B.1a)
Cor triatriatum is a rare congenital anomaly where the left or right atrium is subdivided by a thin membrane, resulting in three atrial chambers. We present a case of 55 years old female who presented progressive dyspnea...
Pulmonary artery pressure matters – how to efficiently improve survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension (RCD code: II‐1A.1)
Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease characterized by poor prognosis despite treatment. Even in a modern era of pharmaco- therapy there is a strong need to further improve survival of patients. The current therap...
Report from the European Society of Cardiology Congress 2015 in London
At least for us, the ESC Congress 2015 in London was different from the previous ones as we did not organize Satellite Symposium on rare cardiovascular diseases. It is not that we did not want to, on the contrary we trie...
Case report on aortic valve replacement in adult woman with systemic mastocytosis (RCD code: VIII)
We present a case of a 50 year-old woman who was referred to our department with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis and systemic mastocytosis. Conventional mechanical aortic valve replacement was performed successfully w...
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy or hereditary hemochromatosis? (RCD code: III‑2B.3.o)
Hemochromatosis is a disease resulting from excessive deposition of iron in parenchymal tissues. The most common form of this disease is associated with the homozygous p.Cys282Tyr mutation of the HFE gene. It leads to mu...