Background: In Tunisia, the number of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs) is increasing, owing to the increase in patient life expectancy and expanding indications. Despite their life-saving potential and a significant reduction in population morbidity and mortality, their increased numbers have been associated with the development of multiple early and late complications related to vascular access, pockets, leads, or patient characteristics.
Objective: The study aims to identify the rate, type, and predictors of complications occurring within the first year after CIED implantation.
Background: This study was designed to evaluate the care of hypertensive patients in daily clinical practice in public and private centers in all Tunisian regions.
Objective: This study will provide us an overview of hypertension (HTN) management in Tunisia and the degree of adherence of practitioners to international recommendations.
Methods: This is a national observational cross-sectional multicenter study that will include patients older than 18 years with HTN for a duration of 4 weeks, managed in the public sector from primary and secondary care centers as well as patients managed in the private sector.
Background: Coronary artery diseases remain the leading cause of death in the world. The management of this condition has improved remarkably in the recent years owing to the development of new technical tools and multicentric registries.
Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the in-hospital and 1-year clinical outcomes of patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in Tunisia.
Background: Hypertension is the leading cause of morbi-mortality in our country. Thus, we conducted this national survey on hypertension to analyze the profile of the Tunisian hypertensive patient and to assess the level of blood pressure control.
Methods: Nature HTN is an observational multicentric survey, including hypertensive individuals and consulting their doctors during the period of the study.
Background: The frequency of heart failure (HF) in Tunisia is on the rise and has now become a public health concern. This is mainly due to an aging Tunisian population (Tunisia has one of the oldest populations in Africa as well as the highest life expectancy in the continent) and an increase in coronary artery disease and hypertension. However, no extensive data are available on demographic characteristics, prognosis, and quality of care of patients with HF in Tunisia (nor in North Africa).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The 2D Strain is a new echo-cardiographic technique allowing the study of the myocardial deformation based on a follow-up of the acoustic markers of the LV wall. The aim of our study was to validate the contribution of this technique in the detection of the ischemia and in the prediction of the culprit coronary axis and the number of vessels affected and also we analyzed the correlation of this parameter with the Left Ventricle Ejection Fraction (LVEF) and the Wall Motion Score Index (WMSI).
Methods: This is a prospective study included 173 consecutive patients admitted for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) during the period between January 2015 and October 2016.
Background: Congenital coronary arteries anomalies are a rare entity. Although their identification started in the 60th, there is a lack of data concerning their frequency and clinical significance in Tunisia.
Aim: To characterize clinical and imaging features and mid-term follow up data of congenital coronary artery anomalies in a population of Tunisian adults.
Background: Myocardial reperfusion is the « corner stone » in the treatment of myocardial infarction. Primary percutaneous coronary intervention has proved its superiority upon intravenous thrombolysis. aim: To evaluate in hospital mortality of acute myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty and to determine its predictive factors.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Indications for permanent pacing are currently well codified. This treatment may, however, present complications
Aim: To report the results of cardiac pacing and to identify predictive factors of pacing's complication.
Methods: We conducted a retrospective study of 188 consecutive patients admitted to the cardiology department of Mongi Slim university hospital in La Marsa between January 2005 and June 2011 and implanted with a single or dual chamber pacemaker.
Background: The broncopulmonary cancer is a major problem of public health whose diagnosis is most of the time unfavorable. For a long time, strategies of management of cancer have not taken into consideration much the histological type and few authors have studied the implication of histological type of cancer on the future of patients having cancer.
Aim: Taking into account the results of recent studies, we propose to review the recent epidemiological and biological aspects of bronchial cancers and then to study the impact on the therapeutic strategy.