[Cavoauricular thrombectomy under extracorporeal circulation and right superior lobectomy for paraneoplastic thrombosis in a case of lung cancer]. / Thrombectomie cavo-auriculaire en C.E.C. et lobectomie supérieure droite pour thrombose paraneoplasique dans un cas de cancer du poumon.

A patient with superior vena cava thrombosis from cancer of the right lung is described. The particular interest of this case resides in: The numerical scantiness of cases reported in the literature: 12 cases reviewed; The exceptional nature of the etiopathogenic mechanism: paraneoplastic thrombosis; and the more precise problems relating to the indication, technique and tactics with respect to surgery.

Congenital quadricuspid aortic valve with displacement of the right coronary orifice.

To date only five patients have undergone surgery for severe incompetence due to quadricuspid aortic valve (5-9). This report describes a new case of congenital quadricuspid aortic valve with severe regurgitation and associated displacement of the right coronary orifice, in which the abnormal valve was excised and replaced by a Björk-Shiley tilting disc valve prosthesis.

[Cardiac electrostimulation in childhood (author's transl)]. / La elettrostimolazione in età pediatrica. Su due casi richiedenti impianto di pacemaker.

The AA. relate on two cases of pacemaker implantation in childhood, and they outline the causes that make necessary a cardiac pacemaker in such an age and the troubles can possibly occur.