The iron reabsorption index: a new phenotypic and pathophysiological descriptor in HFE hemochromatosis.

Background: The current phenotypic descriptors of high Fe gene hemochromatosis are hardly specific and time dependent in a context of highly variable expressivity. We hypothesized that the rate of iron removed during maintenance therapy and corresponding to the iron reabsorption index (IRI) could be patient specific and may then represent a new useful phenotypic marker.

Aim: The present study aimed to describe IRI with respect to its phenotypic specificity and to its potential usefulness.

An ECG analysis interactive training system for understanding arrhythmias.

The ECG remains a daily diagnostic tool for the detection of numerous cardiovascular diseases. Our goal was to use a computerized qualitative model (QM) of heart in order to build cases of simple arrhythmias dedicated to initial and more advanced medical teaching. The original QM is able to generate videograms of many cardiac disturbances.

Multimedia and physiology: a new way to ensure the quality of medical education and medical knowledge.

Background: since the eighties and the existence of virtual campuses, the value of computers in distance education has been acknowledged. The development of information and communication technologies is driving at discriminating distance education and on-line education.

Purpose: the aim of the "Campus Numérique de Physiologie" is not to reproduce an on-line copy of classical textbooks but to put at students' and physicians' disposal the huge possibilities of multimedia resources for an active and easier understanding of complex physiopathological phenomena.