[Sudden death from lipomatous hamartoma of the heart].

The authors report a case of a patient arrived at their observation in cardiogenic shock. The ECG showed extreme bradycardia refractory to resuscitation manoeuvres. The autopsy showed a lipomatous hamartoma in the interatrial septum.

[The specificity of the CPK MB enzyme kinetic test for the diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction (author's transl)].

The clinical usefullness of the CPK MB test (spectophotometric method) was evaluated on 139 patients admitted to a Cardiovascular Diseases Department with a diagnosis of suspected myocardial infarction. Serial determinations of serum MB isoenzyme creatine kinase, total creatine kinase, lacate dehydrogenase and hydrossibutirrate dehydrogenase were made at 1st, 2th, 3th, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th day. Incidence of CPK MB false positive and false negative data were also determined and correlated with the electrocardiogram pattern and serum levels of other standard enzymes.