Publications by authors named "Jean Marie Fauvel"
Background: Electrophysiological alterations in atrial fibrillation (AF) may be genetically based and may lead to changes in ventricular repolarization. Short QT syndrome is a rare channelopathy with abbreviated ventricular repolarization and a propensity for AF.
Aims: To determine if minor unrecognized forms of short QT syndrome can explain some cases of lone AF.
Background: Previous studies indicate that mortality from acute coronary syndromes is higher in women than in men, especially in case of interventional strategy.
Aim: To assess whether the in-hospital mortality rate differs between genders during the first 48h after emergency percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (emergency PCI-STEMI) or after non-emergency PCI.
Methods: All patients treated with PCI between January 2005 and June 2008 were included.
Background: Previous studies have reported circadian variation in the rate of post-percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) complications and mortality.
Aim: To assess whether in-hospital outcomes during the first 48h after admission are related to the time or the day when PCI is performed.
Methods: Emergency PCIs (2266 total; 1396 during regular hours and 870 during off hours) performed consecutively during a 3.
Background: Interest in the role of patient education sessions for optimizing the management of heart failure (HF) is increasing. We determined whether improvements in young and elderly patients' knowledge of HF and self-care behavior could be analyzed by administering a knowledge test before and after an educational session.
Methods: Stable heart failure patients (n = 115) were enrolled in a prospective cohort study from our Heart Failure educational centre in a university hospital.
Background: Despite advances in procedures for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) and enhancement of materials and adjunctive therapy, postprocedural mortality remains a possible adverse outcome after PCI.
Aims: To assess factors independently associated with in-hospital mortality in patients referred for PCI.
Methods: Between January 2004 and December 2005, 4074 PCI were performed in our University Hospital, with 70 deaths registered either during the procedure or during the in-hospital stay.
Objectives: Complete bidirectional cavo-tricuspid isthmus (CTI) block is mandatory for radio-frequency (RF) ablation of typical atrial flutter (AF). CTI block can be assessed by a simplified method using two catheters and the technique of differential pacing, but long-term results in large series are poorly known.
Methods: CTI RF ablation was performed in 255 consecutive patients with typical AF, using one quadripolar catheter, and the ablation catheter, in association with the technique of differential pacing.
Objectives: We sought to assess the frequency and causes of stent thrombosis in diabetic and nondiabetic patients after implantation of sirolimus-eluting stents.
Background: Safety concerns about late stent thrombosis have been raised, particularly when drug-eluting stents are used in less highly selected patients than in randomized trials.
Methods: The EVASTENT study is a matched multicenter cohort registry of 1,731 patients undergoing revascularization exclusively with sirolimus stents; for each diabetic patient included (stratified as single- or multiple-vessel disease), a nondiabetic patient was subsequently included.
The combination of coronary artery aneurysm and coronary artery fistula is infrequent. A saccular aneurysm of a branch of the left-circumflex coronary artery associated with multiple fistulae to the right atrium was observed on a coronary angiogram performed in a 47-year-old female. Multidetector computed tomography coronary angiography detailed the anatomy of the abnormal coronary artery.
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