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Aortic Coarctation/therapy , Stents , Adolescent , Adult , Child , Female , Hemodynamics , Humans , Male , Retrospective Studies , Treatment OutcomeABSTRACT
A 22-year-old woman underwent surgical repair of a secondary atrial septal defect. Thirty-five days after surgery, she developed fever, systemic venous congestion, and respiratory symptoms and chest pain. The echocardiogram demonstrated pericardial effusion (PE) quantified at approximately 3,500 cc, with signs of cardiac tamponade (CT). Pericardiocentesis was performed and symptomatology subsides when Prednisone 10 mg was administered every 24 h. Fourteen days after discharge, she was readmitted due to progressive dyspnea, orthopnea and fatigue. The echocardiogram showed the reappearance of PE and a mild CT. Prednisone 40 mg/day was given. After 10 days an echocardiogram showed are duction of the PE (600 cc) and the clinical condition of the patient improved. Three months later, PE disappeared in the echocardiogram and the patient remained asymptomatic.
Subject(s)
Cardiac Tamponade/etiology , Postpericardiotomy Syndrome/complications , Adult , Anti-Inflammatory Agents/administration & dosage , Cardiac Tamponade/diagnosis , Cardiac Tamponade/therapy , Echocardiography , Female , Follow-Up Studies , Heart Septal Defects, Atrial/surgery , Humans , Pericardial Effusion/diagnosis , Pericardial Effusion/etiology , Pericardial Effusion/therapy , Pericardiocentesis , Prednisone/administration & dosage , Radiography, Thoracic , Recurrence , Time FactorsABSTRACT
The nutritional state evaluation of any patient with heart disease must include the anthropometric measures, organic metabolic and cellular immunity test. We evaluated the nutritional state of 75 hospitalized patients with heart disease, and its correlation with New York Heart Association class and heart disease type. There was 36 patients (48%) with normal nutritional state, 24 (32%) with grade I malnutrition, 12 (16%) with grade II malnutrition, and 3 (4%) with grade III malnutrition. Of 23 patients with rheumatic valvular heart disease 83.4% have some degree of malnutrition, 37 patients with ischemic heart disease 25% was under nourished. Fifty percent of patients with hypertensive cardiopathy, 75% of the patients with cardiomyopathy and 83% of the 7 patients with other type of heart disease had some degree of malnourishment. There was a direct correlation between nutritional state and functional class, we found no patient in IV class functional with normal nutritional state, or grade I malnutrition.
