[Percutaneous closure of a coronary-pulmonary fistula : a case report].

Background: A coronary artery fistula is an abnormal connection between one or more coronary arteries and a cardiac chamber or great vessel, often discovered incidentally through cardiac imaging. Although coronary artery fistulas are typically asymptomatic during the first two decades of life, particularly when small, they can become clinically significant over time.

Case Presentation: We present the case of a 71-year-old female patient with a history of exertional dyspnea.

Epidemiology and management of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction in a Tunisian university hospital.

Introduction: Despite considerable advances in treatment, heart failure (HF) remains a serious public health problem linked to a high rate of mortality. The aim of this work was to describe the epidemiological, clinical and evolutionary features of HF in a Tunisian university hospital.

Methods: This was a retrospective study including 350 hospitalised patients diagnosed with HF with reduced ejection fraction (≤ 40%) during the period between 2013 and 2017.

Design and Rationale of the National Observational Multicentric Tunisian Registry of Hypertension: Protocol for Evaluating Hypertensive Patient Care in Clinical Practice.

Background: This study was designed to evaluate the care of hypertensive patients in daily clinical practice in public and private centers in all Tunisian regions.

Objective: This study will provide us an overview of hypertension (HTN) management in Tunisia and the degree of adherence of practitioners to international recommendations.

Methods: This is a national observational cross-sectional multicenter study that will include patients older than 18 years with HTN for a duration of 4 weeks, managed in the public sector from primary and secondary care centers as well as patients managed in the private sector.

Epidemiologic features and management of hypertension in Tunisia, the results from the Hypertension National Registry (NaTuRe HTN).

Background: Hypertension is the leading cause of morbi-mortality in our country. Thus, we conducted this national survey on hypertension to analyze the profile of the Tunisian hypertensive patient and to assess the level of blood pressure control.

Methods: Nature HTN is an observational multicentric survey, including hypertensive individuals and consulting their doctors during the period of the study.

Reduction of aerosols and splatter generated during ultrasonic scaling by adding food-grade thickeners to coolants: an in-vitro study.

Objective: The effectiveness of using food-grade coolant thickener solutions on the amount of aerosols generated and splatter contamination spread distance during simulated ultrasonic scaling was examined.

Materials And Methods: The study was performed using a phantom lower jaw placed on a black box. Simulated ultrasonic scaling was performed for 2 min using four coolant solutions: distilled water (control), 2% wt.

Design and Rationale of the National Tunisian Registry of Heart Failure (NATURE-HF): Protocol for a Multicenter Registry Study.

Background: The frequency of heart failure (HF) in Tunisia is on the rise and has now become a public health concern. This is mainly due to an aging Tunisian population (Tunisia has one of the oldest populations in Africa as well as the highest life expectancy in the continent) and an increase in coronary artery disease and hypertension. However, no extensive data are available on demographic characteristics, prognosis, and quality of care of patients with HF in Tunisia (nor in North Africa).

The cardiovascular complications of diabetes: a striking link through protein glycation.

Diabetes mellitus is a predominant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. One of its serious health problems is cardiovascular complications. Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) are a group of heterogeneous toxic oxidant compounds that are formed after a non-enzymatic reaction between monosaccharides and free amino groups of proteins, compound lipids, and nucleic acids.

Echocardiographic characteristics of cardiac involvement in Systemic lupus erythematosus.

Introduction: Echocardiography is a non invasive tool for the assessment of systemic lupus erythematesus (SLE) involvement .

Aim Of Study: to investigate the cardiac involvement in patients diagnosed with SLE assessed by echocardiography and to study relationship between several factors and cardiac manifestation .

Methods: retrospective study of 76 patients with diagnosis of SLE between 2008 and 2017.

Molecular detection of Babesia equi in infected and carrier horses by polymerase chain reaction.

Twenty-three blood samples were used in this study; five were from five naturally infected horses with Babesia equi (B. equi), while eighteen were from asymptomatic horses with equine babesiasis from different localities in Egypt. All samples were subjected to microscopic examination, indirect fluorescent antibody test (IFA) and polymerase chain reaction (PCR).