Feasibility and reliability of whintings scanwatch to record 4-lead Electrocardiogram: A comparative analysis with a standard ECG.

The recent technological advances allowed us to produce some new wearable devices, such as smartphones and smartwatches (SW). These devices provide different services to their users through different software applications installed even in the SW or smartphones. Health monitoring functionalities, among these services, are nowadays the new technological fashion.

Left ventricular myxoma: case report.

Left ventricular (LV) myxomas are rare. We present a case of a LV myxoma arising from the interventricular septum in a 70-year-old asymptomatique man. General examination of the patient did not reveal any abnormality.

Pacemakers implantation and radiofrequency catheter ablation procedures during medical missions in Morocco: an 8-year experience.

Aims: Radiofrequency catheter ablation (RFCA) for arrhythmias in the context of short-term medical missions (MM) in a developing country has not been reported so far. We describe here our experience with RFCA and pacemaker implantation in Morocco with a fully portable electrophysiological (EP) system under the auspice of the Monaco-Morocco Cardiology Association.

Methods And Results: Since November 2007, two to three MM (mean duration 4 days including transportation) per year were conducted (including two physicians and one nurse from Monaco) and were alternately located in Marrakech, Fes, Agadir, Casablanca, Rabat, Essaouira, and Oujda.

Early hemodynamic changes versus peak values: what is more useful to predict occurrence of dyspnea during stress echocardiography in patients with asymptomatic mitral stenosis?

Background: In asymptomatic mitral stenosis (MS), the usefulness of peak exercise Doppler echocardiography (DE) values is acknowledged, but the role of values recorded during the first stage of DE remains unclear.

Methods: DE was analyzed in 48 asymptomatic patients with significant MS and revealed dyspnea in 22 patients (46%).

Results: MS severity and rest and peak systolic pulmonary artery pressures (SPAPs) were not different between patients who did and did not develop dyspnea.