[Atresia of the tricuspid valve and total anomalous supracardiac pulmonary venous return. Description of a case associated with severe extracardiac malformations]. / Atresia della tricuspide e ritorno venoso polmonare anomalo totale sopracardiaco. Descrizione di un caso associato a gravi malformazioni extracardiache.

The Authors report a case of tricuspid atresia and total anomalous pulmonary venous return of the supracardiac type, with mild pulmonary valve stenosis and extracardiac malformations as anal atresia, microphthalmia and irideo and chorioretinic coloboma. The Authors stress the importance of the electrocardiogram and standard chest X-Ray to "suspect" this rare association.

[Angiocardiography with axial projections in the study of various types of intraventricular septal defects]. / L'angiocardiografia con proiezioni assiali nello studio dei vari tipi di difetto del setto interventricolare.

The exact site of an interventricular septal defect (VSD) is important mainly to program surgical treatment. The present study takes into consideration the possibility of the axial angiocardiographic method to identify the site of the interventricular septal defect. With this goal 126 cases of VSD in infancy were retrospectively studied with left ventriculograms using angled "long-axial" and "four chambers" views. In 62 cases the anatomic-angiographic correlation of the VSD site was reached, and was confirmed at surgery. The most frequent localization of the VSD was perimembranous (89 cases, 70%). The rarest localizations were the sub-arterial and the multiple VSD. The personal experience agrees with the data found in literature, namely that angiocardiography performed with axial views has an elevated diagnostic reliability in the various types of VSD.

[Kawasaki's disease. Presentation of 2 clinical cases]. / La malattia di Kawasaki. Presentazione di due casi clinici.

The authors describe two cases of Kawasaki disease, one of whose is an "incomplete" form, and emphasize the importance to know this "new" disease in the differential diagnosis of febrile exanthemas of childhood. A complete diagnostic walk-up failed to find out a probably, while change of some immunological and flogistic parameters has permitted to suppose a probably immuno-mediated pathogenesis of Kawasaki disease. Both patients healed without any sequelae after therapy with low doses of salicylate for ten months, in confirmation of usefulness of this treatment in the prevention of heart complications of Kawasaki disease.