Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to S L Lopes.
A two-year-old male child presenting anomalous origin of the left coronary artery diagnosed by Doppler echocardiography and confirmed by angiography developed an ischemic stroke, which is a rare event in this situation. He [correction of She] had good recovery of the neurological deficit and his anomalous artery was successfully reimplanted.
In November, 1993,M.G., a 6 year and 11 month-old girl, was admitted at Hospital Infantil Joana de Gusmão--Florianópolis, SC, Brazil--with post-parotitis myocarditis and congestive heart failure. Three days after admission it was evidenced, on an echocardiogram, a thrombus in the left ventricle apex which, despite of correct treatment, embolized to iliac and small mesenteric arteries. Epidemic parotitis (mumps) is very common, being endemic around the world. Complications are rare and myocarditis, one of them, is more common than diagnosed because of its poor and benign manifestations, generally transient abnormalities of cardiac rhythm and conduction. This case was astonishing because of its rare subsequent event, that is, the formation of a ventricular mural thrombus during an acute myocarditis.