A rapid, high-volume cervical screening project using self-sampling and isothermal PCR HPV testing.

Objective: Rapid, high-volume screening programs are needed as part of cervical cancer prevention in China.

Methods: In a 5-day screening project in Inner Mongolia, 3345 women volunteered following a community awareness campaign, and self-swabbed to permit rapid HPV testing. Two AmpFire™ HPV detection systems (Atila Biosystems) were sufficient to provide pooled 15-HPV type data within an hour.

Design and feasibility of a novel program of cervical screening in Nigeria: self-sampled HPV testing paired with visual triage.

Background: Accelerated global control of cervical cancer would require primary prevention with human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination in addition to novel screening program strategies that are simple, inexpensive, and effective. We present the feasibility and outcome of a community-based HPV self-sampled screening program.

Methods: In Ile Ife, Nigeria, 9406 women aged 30-49 years collected vaginal self-samples, which were tested for HPV in the local study laboratory using Hybrid Capture-2 (HC2) (Qiagen).

Circadian rhythm of blood pressure reflects the severity of cardiac impairment in familial amyloid polyneuropathy.

Background: Cardiac amyloidosis due to familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) includes restrictive cardiomyopathy, thickened cardiac walls, conduction disorders and cardiac denervation. Impaired blood pressure variability has been documented in FAP related to the Val30Met mutation.

Aims: To document blood pressure variability in FAP patients with various mutation types and its relationship to the severity of cardiac involvement.

Prophylactic pacemaker implantation in familial amyloid polyneuropathy.

Background: Familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) is an autosomic dominant disease with a high rate of conduction disorders and increased risk of sudden death. Prophylactic cardiac pacing may be considered in asymptomatic patients with FAP. However, the potential benefits are unknown.

[Long-term evaluation of endocavitary cryoablation of nodal reentry].

Radiofrequency ablation is the reference treatment of refractory nodal reentry. Cryoablation has the advantage of having more modulable effects and minimises the risk of permanent atrioventricular block (AVB). Its immediate efficacy seems comparable to that of radiofrequency ablation but the long-term results are not well known.