Case Reports in Cardiology

William C. Roberts was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on September 11, 1932. He graduated from Southern Methodist University and Emory University School of Medicine. He did his training in internal medicine at the Boston City Hospital and at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and his training in pathology at the National Institutes of Health. From July 1964 to March 1993, he was Chief of Pathology at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He published more than 1700 articles, authored or edited 31 books, and lectured in more than 2200 cities worldwide. He contributed information on many cardiovascular conditions. During the past 44 years, Dr. Roberts had been program director for the Williamsburg Conference on Heart Disease held every December in Williamsburg, Virginia. The American College of Cardiology Foundation has sponsored this conference for 30 years. Since March 1993, Dr. Roberts had been the executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He was also the editor-in-chief of the Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings and Dean of the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education at Baylor Scott & White Health. He had been the editor-in-chief of The American Journal of Cardiology since June 1982. He received many honors including the 1978 Gifted Teacher Award from The American College of Cardiology; the 1983 College Medalist Award of the American College of Chest Physicians; the Public Health Service Commendation Medal in 1979; the 1984 Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the Council of Cardiology of the American Heart Association; an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Far Eastern University, Manila, Philippines in 1995; the designation of Master from The American College of Cardiology in 2004, and the Lifetime Achievement Award of The American College of Cardiology in 2016; and the Lifetime Achievement Award for D’s CEO’s Excellence in Healthcare Awards in 2021. Sadly, Dr. William C. Roberts passed away in June 2023 at the age of 90, just as this book series went into production.

*Note: Cases are numbered based on their number in WCR’s CV.

Introduction

Miscellaneous Cardiovascular Disease

55. Roberts WC, Fredrickson DS. Gaucher’s disease of the lung causing severe pulmonary hypertension with associated acute recurrent pericarditis. Circulation. 1967;35(4):783-789.

57. Glancy DL, Yarnell P, Roberts WC. Traumatic left ventricular aneurysm. Cardiac thrombosis following aneurysmectomy. Am J Cardiol. 1967;20(3):428-433.

63. Glancy DL, Bohjalian O, Roberts WC. An unusual nephritis in malignant hypertension. Arch Intern Med. 1967;120(5):625-630.

283. Lachman AS, Spray TL, Kerwin DM, Shugoll GI, Roberts WC. Medial calcinosis of Mönckeberg. A review of the problem and a description of a patient with involvement of peripheral, visceral and coronary arteries. Am J Med. 1977;63(4):615-622.

384. Waller BF, Brownlee WJ, Roberts WC. Self-induced pulmonary granulomatosis. A consequence of intravenous injection of drugs intended for oral use. Chest. 1980;78(1):90-94.

342. Roberts WC, Brownlee WJ, Jones AA, Luke JL. Sucking action of the left ventricle: demonstration of a physiologic principle by a gunshot wound penetrating only the right side of the heart. Am J Cardiol. 1979;43(6):1234-1237.

412. Waller BF, Dean PJ, Mann O, Rosen JH, Roberts WC. Right ventricular outflow obstruction from thrombus with small peripheral pulmonary emboli. Chest. 1981;79(2):224-225.

431. Siegel RJ, Cabeen WR Jr, Roberts WC. Prolonged QT interval—ventricular tachycardia syndrome from massive rapid weight loss utilizing the liquid-protein-modified-fast diet: sudden death with sinus node ganglionitis and neuritis. Am Heart J. 1981;102(1):121-122.

438. Waller BF, Roberts WC. Systolic clicks caused by rocks in the right heart chambers. Am Heart J. 1981;102(3 Pt 1):459-460.

462. Lindgren KM, McShane K, Roberts WC. Acute rupture of the pulmonic valve by a balloon-tipped catheter producing a musical diastolic murmur. Chest. 1982;81(2):251-253.

653. Ross EM, Macher AM, Roberts WC. Aspergillus fumigatus thrombi causing total occlusion of both coronary arterial ostia, all four major epicardial coronary arteries and coronary sinus and associated with purulent pericarditis. Am J Cardiol. 1985;56(7):499-500.

703. Barbour DJ, Inglesby TV, Roth JA, Roberts WC. Pulmonary arterial and venous hypertension and left ventricular calcification of undetermined etiology. Am J Cardiol. 1986;58(7):661-663.

728. Levine S, McManus BM, Blackbourne BD, Roberts WC. Fatal water intoxication, schizophrenia, and diuretic therapy for systemic hypertension. Am J Med. 1987;82(1):153-155.

834. Mann JM, Pierre-Louis M, Kragel PJ, Kragel AH, Roberts WC. Cardiac consequences of massive acetaminophen overdose. Am J Cardiol. 1989;63(13):1018-1021.

867. Van Buren PC, Roberts WC. Cholesterol pericarditis and cardiac tamponade with congenital hypothyroidism in adulthood. Am Heart J. 1990;119(3 Pt 1):697-700.

1021. Harvey LAC, DeMaio SJ, Roberts WC. Radiation-induced cardiovascular disease including stenosis of coronary ostium, coronary and carotid arteries, and aortic valves. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 1994;7(3):33-36.

1030. Shirani J, Zafari AM, Hill VE, Roberts WC. Long asymptomatic survival with a bullet adjacent to the left main coronary artery, the only site of atherosclerotic plaque in the coronary tree. Am Heart J. 1994;128(5):1043-1044.

1207. Roberts WC, Phillips SD, Escobar JM, Capehart JE. Cardiac transplantation 40 years after a stab wound to the heart. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2001;14(3):241-242.

1222. Bang LS, Black RD, Hall SA, Roberts WC. Dyspnea with hemoglobin SC disease. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2002;15(1):86-90.

1251. Mason DT, Roberts WC. Isolated ventricular septal defect caused by nonpenetrating trauma to the chest. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2002;15(4):388-390.

1590. Fazel P, Vallabhan RC, Roberts WC. Massive bloody pericardial effusion as an initial manifestation of chronic kidney disease. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2013;26(1):33-34.

1618. Roberts WC, Rosenblatt RL, Ko JM, Grayburn PA, Kuiper JJ, Guileyardo JM. Cardiac restriction secondary to massive calcific deposits in the left ventricular cavity. Am J Cardiol. 2014;113(8):1442-1446.

1746. Zhang J, Baugh L, Guileyardo J, Roberts WC. Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura with Graves' disease during pregnancy. Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent). 2020;33(2):270-272.

Diseases of the Aorta

44. Roberts WC, Wibin EA. Idiopathic panaortitis, supra-aortic arteritis, granulomatous myocarditis and pericarditis. A case of pulseless disease and possibly left ventricular aneurysm in the African. Am J Med. 1966;41(3):453-461.

87. Roberts WC, MacGregor RR, DeBlanc HJ Jr, Beiser GD, Wolff SM. The prepulseless phase of pulseless disease, or pulseless disease with pulses. A newly recognized cause of cardiac disease, monoclonal gammopathy and "fever of unknown origin". Am J Med. 1969;46(2):313-324.

127. Fortuin NJ, Morrow AG, Roberts WC. Late vascular manifestations of the rubella syndrome. A roentgenographic-pathologic study. Am J Med. 1971;51(1):134-140.

135. Buja LM, Ali N, Fletcher RD, Roberts WC. Stenosis of the right pulmonary artery: a complication of acute dissecting aneurysm of the ascending aorta. Am Heart J. 1972;83(1):89-92.

386. Brosius FC III, Blackbourne BD, Roberts WC. Structure-function correlations in cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases (CPC). Death in the disco. Chest. 1980;78(2):321-323.

679. Barth CW III, Bray M, Roberts WC. Rupture of the ascending aorta during cocaine intoxication. Am J Cardiol. 1986;57(6):496.

837. Roberts WC, Satler LF, Wallace RB. Hemodynamic confirmation of peripheral pulmonary stenosis caused by aortic dissection. Am J Cardiol. 1989;63(18):1418-1420.

971. Mautner SL, Mautner GC, Curry CL, Roberts WC. Massive perigraft aortic aneurysm late after composite graft replacement of the ascending aorta and aortic valve in the Marfan syndrome. Am J Cardiol. 1993;71(7):624-627.

1063. Comfort SR, Curry RC Jr, Roberts WC. Sudden death while playing tennis due to a tear in ascending aorta (without dissection) and probable transient compression of the left main coronary artery. Am J Cardiol. 1996;78(4):493-495.

1178. Lander SR, Roberts WC. Aneurysm of the false channel of descending thoracic aorta years after operative excision of the initiating aortic dissection tear in ascending aorta. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2000;9(2):91-93.

1381. Roberts WC, Ko JM, Pearl GJ. Abdominal aortic aneurysm in nonagenarians. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2006;15(5):319-321.

1390. Roberts WC, Ko JM, Matter GJ. Isolated aortic valve replacement without coronary bypass for aortic valve stenosis involving a congenitally bicuspid aortic valve in a nonagenarian. Am J Geriatr Cardiol. 2006;15(6):389-391.

1501. Roberts WC, Lensing FD, Kourlis H Jr, et al. Full blown cardiovascular syphilis with aneurysm of the innominate artery. Am J Cardiol. 2009;104(11):1595-1600.

1568. Benjamin MM, Roberts WC. Fatal aortic rupture from nonpenetrating chest trauma. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2012;25(2):121-123.

1667. Roberts WC, Won VS, Weissenborn MR, Khalid A, Lima B. Massive diffuse calcification of the ascending aorta and minimal focal calcification of the abdominal aorta in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia. Am J Cardiol. 2016;117(8):1381-1385.

1674. Zhang J, Guileyardo JM, Roberts WC. Origin of the left subclavian artery as the first branch and origin of the right subclavian artery as the fourth branch of the aortic arch with crisscrossing posterior to the common carotid arteries. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2016;29(4):423.

1675. Zhang J, Guileyardo JM, Roberts WC. Frequency and potential consequences of origin of the left vertebral artery (or the arteria thryoidea ima) directly from the aortic arch. Proc Bayl Univ Med Cent. 2016;29(4):424-425.

1705. Velasco CE, Hashemi H, Roullard CP, Machannaford J, Roberts WC. Asymptomatic ascending aorta aneurysm with severe aortic regurgitation caused by multiple intimal-medial tears unassociated with aortic dissection. Am J Cardiol. 2018;121(5):668-669.

1739. Roberts CS, Salam YM, Moore AJ, Roberts WC. Pseudoaneurysm of the ascending aorta at the cannulation site diagnosed more than four decades after repair of ventricular septal defect. Am J Cardiol. 2019;124(12):1962-1965.

1773. Roberts WC, Roberts CS. Combined cardiovascular syphilis and type A acute aortic dissection. Am J Cardiol. 2022;168:159-162.