[Right ventricular dysplasia: Uhl's disease. Echocardiography and tomodensitometry study. Apropos of a case in an adult].

The author discusses Uhl's disease in a 60 year old patient as indicated by right ventricular insuficiency without troubles of the ventricular rhythm. Echocardiography revealed the distinctive symptoms of this illness (dilation of the right cavities, diastolic opening of the pulmonary valve, delayed closing of the tricuspid valve) emphasizing its diagnostic value. The contribution of tomodensitometry is considered.

[False aneurysms extending from true aneurysms of the left ventricle].

Over a 10 year period, four cases of post myocardial infarction pseudo-left ventricular aneurysm were observed, two directly arising from the infarct (postero diaphragmatic patients had pseudo-aneurysms which arose inferiorly from true anteroapical aneurysms and underwent surgical resection. Apart from the histological features, a certain number of diagnostic signs merit review: --A clinical course marked by a number of phases (myocardial infarction--pericardial syndrome--true aneurysm complicated or not by arrhythmias--period of stabilisation followed by deterioration due to rapid progression of cardiac failure). -- "Angiographic-like" ultrasonic and isotopic methods complement left ventriculography which confirms the parietal aneurysm and may show three very suggestive signs of pseudo-aneurysm: a narrow communication with the true aneurysm; delayed and prolonged filling of the bulge; inferior extension with localization by pericardial adhesions.

[Non-obstructive hypertrophic myocardiopathy. Apropos of 5 cases].

Out of a total of 1 470 cardiac catheterisations performed in one year, 5 were motivated by the chance finding of giant negative T waves, greater than 10 mm and maximal in leads V3, V4. The patients were all males with an average age of 50 +/- 3,2 years. Four were asymptomatic and the other had scleroderma.

[Atrioventricular blocks of bacterial endocarditis. 8 cases comprising histological study of the conduction system].

The authors report 8 cases of complete atrio-ventricular block (AVB) which came on during bacterial endocarditis. The aortic valve was more frequently affected (6/8). The conduction disorder is necessarily unstable.