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About this book
From the earliest days of medicine to the present, case reports have been a critical aspect of clinical education and knowledge development. In this comprehensive volume, Dr. William C. Roberts, a renowned expert in the field, explores the rich history and ongoing importance of case reports in cardiology.
Through engaging and insightful analysis, the book demonstrates how case reports have provided physicians with crucial insights into rare diseases, complex conditions, and groundbreaking treatments. Drawing on a vast range of sources, from ancient manuscripts to cutting-edge journals, it offers a unique perspective on the role of case reports in medical education and practice of congenital heart diseases and associated cardiac complications. It underscores how case reports can be used to enhance diagnostic accuracy, identify new treatment options, and promote innovation in the field. In addition, the book provides valuable insights into the process of writing and publishing case reports, including tips for young physicians looking to break into the field.
The book will be an indispensable guide to the history, practice, and ongoing significance of case reports for medical students, physicians, and researchers alike.
Key features:
- Provides a rich repository of diverse case reports in cardiology published by the editor and his colleagues over 61 years
- Features 52 clinical case studies related to Congenital Heart Disease useful for medical students and practicing cardiologists
- Valuable resource for young physicians seeking to establish a foothold in medical research and academics
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- In Memorial
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Editor
- Introduction
- Case 1. Braunwald E, Ross RS, Morrow AG, Roberts WC. Differential Diagnosis of Mitral Regurgitation in Childhood. Ann Intern Med. 1961;54(6):1223β1242
- Case 3. Folse R, Roberts WC, Cornell WP. Increased Bronchial Collateral Circulation in a Patient with Transposition of the Great Vessels and Pulmonary Hypertension. Am J Cardiol. 1961;8(2):282β287
- Case 12. Roberts WC. Anomalous Origin of Both Coronary Arteries from the Pulmonary Artery. Am J Cardiol. 1962;10(4):595β600
- Case 15. Roberts WC, Mason DT, Braunwald E. Survival to Adulthood in a Patient with Complete Transposition of the Great Vessels: Including a Note on the Association of Endocrine Tumors with Heart Disease. Ann Intern Med. 1962;57(5):834β842
- Case 16. Roberts WC, Goldblatt A, Mason DT, Morrow AG. Combined Congenital Pulmonic and Mitral Stenosis. N Engl J Med. 1962;267(25):1298β1299
- Case 17. Roberts WC, Berry WB, Morrow AG. The Significance of Asplenia in the Recognition of Inoperable Congenital Heart Disease. Circulation. 1962;26(6):1251β1253
- Case 18. Roberts WC, Morrow AG, Mason DT, Braunwald E. Spontaneous Closure of Ventricular Septal Defect, Anatomic Proof in an Adult with Tricuspid Atresia. Circulation. 1963;27(1):90β94
- Case 30. Roberts WC, Morrow AG. Aortico-Left Ventricular Tunnel. A Cause of Massive Aortic Regurgitation and of Intracardiac Aneurysm. Am J Med. 1965;39(4):662β667
- Case 51. Roberts WC, Eggleston JC, Humphries JO. Complex Congenital Cardiac Malformation: Corrected Transposition, Origin of Both Great Vessels from the Anatomic Right Ventricle, Common Ventricle, and Dextroversion. Johns Hopkins Med J. 1967;120(3):155β161
- Case 79. Perloff JK, Urschell CW, Roberts WC, Caulfield WH Jr. Aneurysmal Dilatation of the Coronary Arteries in Cyanotic Congenital Cardiac Disease. Report of a Forty Year Old Patient with the Taussig-Bing Complex. Am J Med. 1968;45(5):802β810
- Case 84. Glancy DL, Braunwald NS, OβBrien KP, Roberts WC. Scimitar Syndrome Associated with Patent Ductus Arteriosus, Aortic Coarctation and Irreversible Pulmonary Hypertension. Johns Hopkins Med J. 1968;123(6):297β304
- Case 92. Roberts WC. Anomalous Left Ventricular Band. An Unemphasized Cause of a Precordial Musical Murmur. Am J Cardiol. 1969;23(5):735β738
- Case 93. Dean DC, Pamukcoglu T, Roberts WC. Rocks in the Right Ventricle. A Complication of Congenital Right Ventricular Infundibular Obstruction Associated with Chronic Pulmonary Parenchymal Disease. Am J Cardiol. 1969;23(5):744β747
- Case 94. Simon AL, Friedman WF, Roberts WC. The Angiographic Features of a Case of Parachute Mitral Valve. Am Heart J. 1969;77(6):809β813
- Case 108. Liddy TJ, Roberts WC. Chronic Intravascular Hemolysis (Renal Hemosiderosis) After Incomplete Prosthetic Closure of a Ventricular Septal Defect and Noncalcific Aortic Regurgitation. Am J Clin Pathol. 1970;53(6):839β842
- Case 122. Fortuin NJ, Roberts WC. Congenital Atresia of the Left Main Coronary Artery. Am J Med. 1971;50(3):385β389
- Case 138. Falcone MW, Perloff JK, Roberts WC. Aneurysm of the Nonpatent Ductus Arteriosus. Am J Cardiol. 1972;29(3):422β426
- Case 145. Falcone MW, Roberts WC. Atresia of the Right Atrial Ostium of the Coronary Sinus Unassociated with Persistence of the Left Superior Vena Cava: A Clinicopathologic Study of Four Adult Patients. Am Heart J. 1972;83(5):604β611
- Case 215. Fishbein MC, Obma R, Roberts WC. Unruptured Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm. Am J Cardiol. 1975;35(6):918β922
- Case 327. Scott LP, Chandra RS, Roberts WC. Complex Congenital Heart Disease: A Multiplicity of Therapeutic Options. Am Heart J. 1978;96(6):806β810
- Case 332. Covarrubias EA, Sheikh MU, Isner JM, Gomes M, Hufnagel CA, Roberts WC. Calcific Pulmonic Stenosis in Adulthood: Treatment by Valve Replacement (Porcine Xenograft) with Postoperative Hemodynamic Evaluation. Chest. 1979;75(3):399β402
- Case 387. Cabin HS, Lester LA, Roberts WC. Congenital Heart Disease with Trisomy 13: Use of the Echocardiogram in Delineating the Location of a Left-to-Right Shunt. Am Heart J. 1980;100(4):563β566
- Case 399. Arnett EN, Aisner SC, Lewis KB, Tecklenberg P, Brawley RK, Roberts WC. Pulmonic Valve Stenosis, Atrial Septal Defect and Left-to-Right Interatrial Shunting with Intact Ventricular Septum. A Distinct Hemodynamic-Morphologic Syndrome. Chest. 1980;78(5):759β762
- Case 406. Waller BF, Sheikh MU, Roberts WC. Prolapsing Atrioventricular Valve in Partial Atrioventricular Defect. Am Heart J. 1981; 101(1):108β110
- Case 435. Cabin HS, Wood TP, Smith JO, Roberts WC. Ebsteinβs Anomaly in the Elderly. Chest. 1981;80(2):212β214
- Case 460. McManus BM, Luetzeler J, Roberts WC. Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection: Survival for 62 Years Without Surgical Intervention. Am Heart J. 1982;103(2):298β301
- Case 479. Waller BF, Smith FA, Kerwin DM, Roberts WC. Fetal Rubella 27 Years Later. Chest. 1982;81(6):735β738
- Case 482. Dicicco BS, McManus BM, Waller BF, Roberts WC. Separate Aortic Ostium of the Left Anterior Descending and Left Circumflex Coronary Arteries From the Left Aortic Sinus of Valsalva (Absent Left Main Coronary Artery). Am Heart J. 1982;104(1):153β154
- Case 490. Roberts WC, Dicicco BS, Waller BF, et al. Origin of the Left Main from the Right Coronary Artery or from the Right Aortic Sinus with Intramyocardial Tunneling to the Left Side of the Heart via the Ventricular Septum. The Case Against Clinical Significance of Myocardial Bridge or Coronary Tunnel. Am Heart J. 1982;104 (2 Pt 1):303β305
- Case 508. Roberts WC, Spray TL, Shemin RJ, Maron BJ. Crisscrossed Atrioventricular Valves and Prolonged Survival. Am J Cardiol. 1982;50(6):1436β1439
- Case 534. Saffitz JE, McIntosh CL, Roberts WC. Massive Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Aneurysm After Ventriculotomy for Subvalvular Pulmonic Stenosis Associated with Peripheral Pulmonary Arterial Stenoses. Am J Cardiol. 1983;51(8):1460β1462
- Case 598. Warnes CA, Boger JE, Roberts WC. Eisenmenger Ventricular Septal Defect with Prolonged Survival. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(3): 460β462
- Case 599. McManus BM, Hahn PF, Smith JA, Roberts WC, Jackson JH. Eisenmenger Ductus Arteriosus with Prolonged Survival. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(3):462β464
- Case 604. Warnes CA, Shugoll GI, Wallace RB, Roberts WC. Atrioventricular Septal Defect (Primum Atrial Septal Defect) with Prolonged Survival (Despite Severe Mitral Regurgitation and Pulmonary Hypertension) and Associated Cardiac Calcification (Mitral Anulus, Coronary Artery and Pulmonary Trunk). Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(6):689β691
- Case 605. Ross EM, McIntosh CL, Roberts WC. βMassiveβ Calcification of a Right Ventricular Outflow Parietal Pericardial Patch in Tetralogy of Fallot. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(6):691β692
- Case 616. Roberts WC, Robinowitz M. Anomalous Origin of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Trunk with Origin of the Right and Left Circumflex Coronary Arteries from the Aorta. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(10):1381β1383
- Case 617. Warnes CA, Maron BJ, Jones M, Roberts WC. Asymptomatic Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm Causing Right Ventricular Outflow Obstruction Before and After Rupture. Am J Cardiol. 1984;54(10):1383β1384
- Case 635. Barbour DJ, Roberts WC. Origin of the Right from the Left Main Coronary Artery (Single Coronary Ostium in Aorta). Am J Cardiol. 1985;55(5):609
- Case 642. Barth CW III, Dibdin JD, Roberts WC. Mitral Valve Cleft Without Cardiac Septal Defect Causing Severe Mitral Regurgitation but Allowing Long Survival. Am J Cardiol. 1985;55(9):1229β1231
- Case 673. Barth CW III, Bray M, Roberts WC. Sudden Death in Infancy Associated with Origin of Both Left Main and Right Coronary Arteries from a Common Ostium Above the Left Sinus of Valsalva. Am J Cardiol. 1986;57(4):365β366
- Case 725. Barbour DJ, Roberts WC. Aneurysm of the Pulmonary Trunk Unassociated with Intracardiac or Great Vessel Left-to-Right Shunting. Am J Cardiol. 1987;59(1):192β194
- Case 848. Dollar AL, Roberts WC. Retroaortic Epicardial Course of the Left Circumflex Coronary Artery and Anteroaortic Intramyocardial (Ventricular Septum) Course of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery: An Unusual Coronary Anomaly and a Proposed Classification Based on the Number of Coronary Ostia in the Aorta. Am J Cardiol. 1989;64(12):828β829
- Case 897. Brabham KR, Roberts WC. Fatal Intrapericardial Rupture of Sinus of Valsalva Aneurysm. Am Heart J. 1990;120(6 Pt 1): 1455β1456
- Case 968. Fernicola DJ, Boodhoo VR, Roberts WC. Prolonged Survival (74 Years) in Unoperated Tetralogy of Fallot with Associated Mitral Valve Prolapse. Am J Cardiol. 1993;71(5):479β483
- Case 983. Shirani J, Roberts WC. Coronary Ostial Dimple (In the Posterior Aortic Sinus) in the Absence of Other Coronary Arterial Abnormalities. Am J Cardiol. 1993;72(1):118β119
- Case 990. Shirani J, Zafari AM, Roberts WC. Sudden Death, Right Ventricular Infarction, and Abnormal Right Ventricular Intramural Coronary Arteries in Isolated Congenital Valvular Pulmonic Stenosis. Am J Cardiol. 1993;72(3):368β370
- Case 1545. George BA, Ko JM, Lensing FD, Kuiper JJ, Roberts WC. βRepairedβ Tetralogy of Fallot Mimicking Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (Another Phenocopy). Am J Cardiol. 2011;108(2):326β329
- Case 1629. Donaldson EE, Ko JM, Gonzalez-Stawinski G, Hall SA, Roberts WC. Secondary Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Decades After Operative Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot. Am J Cardiol. 2014;114(5):806β809
- Case 1649. Roberts CC, Roberts WC. Large Patent Ductus Arteriosus in a 44-Year-Old Woman Leading to Calcium Deposition in the Left Atrium and Mitral and Aortic Valves. Tex Heart Inst J. 2015; 42(3):262β264
- Case 1686. Roberts WC, Grayburn PA, Guileyardo JM, Stoler RC. Full Development of Consequences of Congenital Pulmonic Stenosis in Eighty-Four Years. Am J Cardiol. 2017;119(8):1284β1287
- Case 1697. Roberts WC, Sing AC, Guileyardo JM. Combined Atresia of One Left-Sided and One Right-Sided Cardiac Valve in a Premature Newborn. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2017;30(4):437β438
- Case 1766. Roberts WC, Siddiqui S. Huge Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Aneurysm Late Following Total Repair of Tetralogy of Fallot Leading to Orthotopic Heart Transplantation. Cardiovasc Pathol. 2021;52:107332
- Index