Heart Transplantation and Subsequent Noncardiac Surgery Jeff T. Granton Davy C. H. Cheng A 41-year-old man with a history of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDCM) is admitted to the cardiac care…

Hypertension Cindy Wang Fun-Sun F. Yao A 70-year-old man with cholelithiasis was scheduled for a cholecystectomy. His blood pressure (BP) was 230/120 mm Hg; pulse, 60 beats per minute. Hematocrit…

Cardiac Tamponade Nikolaos J. Skubas James Osorio A 69-year-old woman presents with shortness of breath, orthopnea, oliguria, and overt weakness 4 days after two-vessel coronary artery bypass graft procedure and…

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair Shreysjit R. Kumar Cindy Wang Anup Pamnani Fun-Sun F. Yao The patient is a 76-year-old man with a 6-cm infrarenal aortic aneurysm discovered on routine physical…

Thoracoabdominal Aortic Aneurysms Sharon McCartney Stephen Gregory J. Mauricio Del Rio Mani A. Daneshmand Madhav Swaminathan A 68-year-old man presents for surgical repair of a thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA). He…

Valvular Heart Disease Natalia S. Ivascu Gregg S. Hartman Nikolaos J. Skubas A 78-year-old man was admitted with increasing shortness of breath. He had chest pain in the past but…

Pacemakers, Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators, and Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy Devices Alan Cheng Fun-Sun F. Yao A 63-year-old woman was scheduled for urgent open cholecystectomy. She underwent a dual-chamber permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation…

Ischemic Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Lisa Q. Rong Nikolaos J. Skubas Fun-Sun F. Yao A 57-year-old man with triple-vessel coronary artery disease (CAD) was scheduled for coronary…

Aspiration and Postoperative Respiratory Failure David A. Berlin Kapil Rajwani Edward J. Schenck A 62-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with a small bowel obstruction. She is vomiting and…