[Thrombolysis and massive pulmonary embolism: occasionally spectacular results].

The authors report the clinical history of a 47-year-old patient hospitalised as an emergency with acute respiratory distress complicated by cardiocirculatory arrest. The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was rapidly suspected and confirmed by emergency pulmonary angiography. A definite diagnosis enabled the early prescription of fibrinolytic treatment in situ.

[Results of open heart mitral commissurotomy in 85 patients].

Open heart mitral commissurotomy was performed in 85 patients between January 1973 and January 1976. This series comprised 38 patients with pure mitral stenosis and 47 patients with associated mitral and aortic or tricuspid lesions. Mitral commissurotomy, always complete, was associated with correction of mitral incompetence, either preexisting or peroperative, in 19 cases; in 44 cases with correction of an aortic lesion and in 10 cases with correction of a tricuspid lesion.