Design and Rationale of the National Tunisian Registry of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Protocol for a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.

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.

Short, midterm and late results of percutaneous coronary interventions for left main coronary artery disease.

Background: Left main coronary artery disease is found in 4-6% of patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography. Coronary artery bypass graft is the gold standard. However, percutaneous coronary intervention is a continuously evolving substitution for surgery in such patients.

Right ventricular myxoma obstructing the right ventricular outflow tract: a case report.

Introduction: Primary cardiac tumors are uncommon during infancy and childhood. Myxomas originating from the right ventricle are even less common in pediatric patients.

Case Presentation: Here we describe a case of an 11-year-old Tunisian boy who was referred for syncope.

Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery presenting as dilated cardiomyopathy: a case report.

Introduction: Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is a rare congenital anomaly and one of the causes of myocardial ischemia. The usual clinical course is severe left-sided heart failure and mitral valve insufficiency presenting during the first months of life.

Case Presentation: We report the case of a 6-month-old Tunisian girl who presented with dilated cardiomyopathy.

Relationship of brain natriuretic peptide concentrations to left ventricular function and adverse outcomes in children with end-stage renal disease undergoing hemodialysis.

B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a biomarker of cardiovascular disease that is common in adults with chronic kidney disease (CKD). However, in children with CKD, the range and predictive power of BNP concentrations are not known. We aimed to determine the effect of HD on BNP, as well as the prognostic impact of BNP, in end-stage renal disease (ESRD) children undergoing hemodialysis (HD).

Prevalence of Brugada-type ECG pattern and early ventricular repolarization pattern in Tunisian athletes.

Introduction: No data regarding the prevalence of the Brugada-type electrocardiogram (ECG) pattern and the early ventricular repolarization pattern (ERP) in the North African population were available. The aims of this study were to determine the frequency of Brugada-type ECG pattern and ERP in Tunisia and to evaluate ECG descriptors of ventricular repolarization in a population of athletes.

Methods: Over a 2-year period, resting 12-lead ECG recordings were analyzed from athletes (n = 540; 348 males; age 18.