Strategy to achieve mitral isthmus flutter ablation by radiofrequency: the SHERIFF plan.

Background: Achieving mitral isthmus (MI) block can be challenging. This prospective study evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of a systematic strategy comprising three consecutive steps to achieve MI block.

Methods: Twenty consecutive patients (mean (± SD) age 71.

[Ibrutinib-associated atrial fibrillation : A therapeutic challenge].

Ibrutinib is a potent Bruton tyrosine kinase inhibitor and is an effective and well-tolerated treatment for a variety of lymphoid diseases. However, its use is associated with an increased incidence of atrial fibrillation ranging from 4% to 16%. New onset atrial fibrillation in cancer patients is associated with a significantly higher risk of heart failure and thromboembolism, even after adjusting for known risk factors.

[Clinical-Biological analyses and electrocardiographic follow-up of 104 cases of malaria treated at Camp Kosseï in N'Djamena (Tchad)].

Objective: The aim of this study was to assess the commonly accepted potential effects of Artemisinin-based combinaison therapy (ACT) on repolarization and QT.

Method: We realized a retrospective study, evaluating epidemiologic, clinical, biological and electrocardiographic data for patients treated for falciparum malaria, between August 31 and November 3, 2017 in the Pôle de santé unique on the Camp Kosseï of N'Djamena.

Results: One hundred and four patients were included (28,6 years old [0 - 75 years], 72% male).

An improved window of interest for electroanatomical mapping of atrial tachycardia.

Purpose: Diagnosis of atrial tachycardia (AT) with 3D mapping system remains challenging due to fibrosis or previous ablation. This study aims to evaluate a new electroanatomical mapping annotation setting using a window of interest adjusted at the end of the P wave (WOI) to identify the AT mechanism more accurately.

Methods: Twenty patients with successful ablation of left AT using navigation system CARTO3 were evaluated.

Epidemiological, clinical, and echocardiographic features of twenty 'Takotsubo-like' reversible myocardial dysfunction cases with normal coronarography following immersion pulmonary oedema.

Background: Pulmonary immersion oedema is a frequent diving accident. Although its outcome is generally favourable within 72 h, it can nonetheless lead to heart failure or sudden death. Cases of transient myocardial dysfunction have been reported in the literature.

[Drugs cardiotoxicity].

Thanks to science advances, cancer is no longer synonymous with death. Life expectancy improvement reveals a new problem: cancer treatment toxicity, including cardiovascular complications, responsible for significant morbidity and mortality. Media scandal of drug-induced valvular heart disease did revise the risk-benefit balance of drugs used (often off-label) as anorectics.

Impairment of cardiac metabolism and sympathetic innervation after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a nuclear medicine imaging study.

Introduction: Although aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) is often complicated by myocardial injury, whether this neurogenic cardiomyopathy is associated with the modification of cardiac metabolism is unknown. This study sought to explore, by positron emission tomography/computed tomography, the presence of altered cardiac glucose metabolism after SAH.

Methods: During a 16-month period, 30 SAH acute phase patients underwent myocardial (18)F- fluorodesoxyglucose positron emission tomography ((18)F-FDGPET), (99m)Tc-tetrofosmin and (123)I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine ((123)I-mIBG) scintigraphy, respectively, assessing glucose metabolism, cardiac perfusion, and sympathetic innervation.

Incidence and severity of non alcoholic and non biliary pancreatitis in a gastroenterology department.

Aims: Etiological investigations proposed for patients with acute pancreatitis have been evolving considerably these past few years, significantly limiting the number of cases labeled idiopathic. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of non alcoholic non biliary pancreatitis and identify causes, comparing severity by etiology.

Patient And Methods: This retrospective analysis included 108 patients managed from October 1996 to April 2005.

A double-blind controlled study of a nonhydroquinone bleaching cream in the treatment of melasma.

Background: Melasma is an acquired hypermelanosis predominantly affecting the face of women. It is often recalcitrant to treatment with hypopigmenting agents.

Objective: To assess the efficacy of a nonhydroquinone cream (Amelan M) vs.