Usefulness of cardiac computed tomography in prosthetic heart valve dysfunction.

Background: Prosthetic heart valve (PHV) dysfunction is a serious complication. Echocardiography remains the first-line imaging investigation to assess PHV dysfunction. However, the role of Computed Tomography (CT) scanning in this type of case has not been thoroughly studied yet.

Features of patients with 2019 novel coronavirus admitted in a pneumology department: The first retrospective Tunisian case series.

Aim: On 2 March 2020, Tunisia has reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19. Since then, the disease has affected about 700 persons in the country. The purpose of our study was to report epidemiological, clinical, radiological and therapeutic features of patients with 2019-nCoV infection admitted in the pneumology department.