1.Quadricuspid Aortic Valve Complicated with Severe Aortic Regurgitation and Left-Sided Inferior Vena Cava.
Jun SHIRAISHI ; Kazunari OKAWA ; Kohei MUGURUMA ; Daisuke ITO ; Masayoshi KIMURA ; Eigo KISHITA ; Yusuke NAKAGAWA ; Masayuki HYOGO ; Akiyuki TAKAHASHI ; Takahisa SAWADA
Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound 2017;25(1):34-37
No abstract available.
Aortic Valve Insufficiency*
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Aortic Valve*
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Echocardiography, Transesophageal
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Vena Cava, Inferior*
2.A patient presenting painful chest wall swelling: Tietze syndrome
Kohei Sawada ; Hiromi Ihoriya ; Taihei Yamada ; Tetsuya Yumoto ; Kohei Tsukahara ; Takaaki Osako ; Hiromichi Naito ; Atsunori Nakao
World Journal of Emergency Medicine 2019;10(2):122-124
Patients frequently visit the emergency room with acute chest pain. While some potentially life-threatening disorders may cause the pain, in approximately 80% of cases, the chest pain source is benign, and musculoskeletal chest pain accounts for nearly 20%– 50% of those cases.[1–6] Thus, pain caused by benign and pathological conditions of the chest wall encountered in the emergency department is sometimes incorrectly attributed to angina pectoris or pleuritic and other serious cardiopulmonary diseases.