[CoQ10 blood levels and erythrocyte concentration of GSH in ischemic heart patients during exercise test (effects of vitamin E)].

During exercise there is an increase of oxygen consumption with production of superoxide anion. Tocopherols and ubiquinones are intrinsic lipid components involved in antioxidant protection and also glutathione reduced is an important water soluble antioxidant. The authors take into consideration 28 patients with ischemic heart disease coming in a rehabilitation center.

Focal cerebral ischemia and patent cardiac foramen ovale.

By means of transthoracic contrast echocardiography, the prevalence of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) was studied, in a continuous series of 48 patients aged less than 50 years with a recent episode of acute cerebral ischemia. A PFO was found in 11 subjects (23%). In the subgroup of younger patients (aged less than 30 years), the prevalence was much higher than in those aged 30 or more (58% against 11%, p = 0.

[Cardiopulmonary echinococcosis: a report of a clinical case].

The authors report a case of hydatid cyst of the ventricular septum. The patient, an asymptomatic 30-year-old woman, was hospitalized in the Department of Pneumology after a routine chest X-ray test which detected two round masses in the lungs. During hospitalization the patient was asymptomatic and standard ECG was normal, but two-dimensional echocardiography (2D echo) revealed a cardiac cyst localized in the mediobasal portion of the ventricular septum.