The prevalence of CAN in diabetes mellitus is high. Higher age, longer duration of diabetes and peripheral neuropathy are significant risk factors. QTc interval in the ECG can be used to diagnose CAN with reasonable sensitivity, specificity and positive predictive value.

The no-reflow phenomenon occurs in a considerable number of patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary reperfusion therapy. Our study aimed to identify clinical, angiographic, and procedural variables that predict this phenomenon in patients with STEMI undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI), as well as determine the impact of no-reflow on in-hospital mortality. Prospective observational data from 410 patients with STEMI undergoing PPCI were obtained. In this study, diabetes mellitus, late presentation, higher Killip class at admission, anterior wall infarction, proximal site of occlusion, presence of high-grade thrombus, and left ventricular systolic dysfunction at admission were significantly associated with suboptimal coronary flow. Diabetes mellitus, a high thrombus burden, prolonged total ischemic time, and low left ventricular ejection fraction on admission were independent predictors of no-reflow. No-reflow during PPCI was associated with in-hospital mortality more than twice that for normal flow.

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We describe a patient who presented with acute (inferior wall) ST elevation myocardial infarction. Her echocardiogram showed severe mitral stenosis with ball valve thrombus in the left atrial body and thrombus in the left atrial appendage. Coronary angiogram revealed thromboembolic material in the right coronary artery. Mitral valve replacement was scheduled.

Cor triatriatum sinistrum is an extremely rare congenital heart disease. It is even more uncommon in adults, and clinically significant mitral valve lesion complicating cor triatriatum is distinctly rare. Wong et al reported for the first time the rare combination of cor triatriatum sinister associated with severe mitral regurgitation and abnormal tensor apparatus of the mitral valve. We report a similar case and used the term Wong's anomaly for the syndrome, having membranous type of cor triatriatum sinistrum, severe mitral regurgitation and hypoplasia of the papillary muscles and short chordae. Color Doppler Echocardiography showed peculiar 'helmet sign' of mitral regurgitation, wherein the mitral regurgitation color jet fills the distal atrial chamber and abruptly ends in a horizontal plane as it is halted by the intra-atrial membrane.

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We report a case of a second recurrence of a right atrial myxoma in a 38-year-old woman who had surgical excision in March 2008 and excision of a recurrence in August 2012. She presented with a similar clinical picture in December 2014 and again underwent surgical excision. The case is unusual both for its location in the right atrium and its multiple recurrences in a sporadic form without any sign of the myxoma complex.

However, there are only a few reports of ALVT associated with severely stenotic bicuspid aortic valve.