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Constrictive pericarditis is an uncommon disease in children, usually difficult to diagnose. We present the case of a 14-year-old boy with a previous history of tuberculosis and right heart failure, in whom constrictive pericarditis was diagnosed. The case highlights the need to integrate all information, including clinical data, noninvasive cardiac imaging, and even invasive hemodynamic evaluation when required, in order to establish the correct diagnosis and proceed to surgical treatment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article describes the case of a 47 year old man diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome after an episode of atrial fibrillation with preexcitation. A transthoracic percutaneous epicardial access was performed after it was hypothesized that the accessory pathway could be localized in the coronary venous system. The case of posteroseptal accessory pathway ablation shows that an epicardial transthoracic percutaneous approach can be the only option for successful percutaneous ablation.

The article presents a case study of a 47-year-old woman with a past history of left choroidal malignant melanoma submitted to eye enucleation 13 years before presented to the emergency department.