[Aortic arch surgery with bilateral cerebral perfusion by isolation of brachiocephalic trunk and left carotid artery].

Objective: To evaluate the results of a technique described by Carreira et al. using bilateral antegrade selective cerebral perfusion by isolating the brachiocephalic trunk and the left carotid artery.

Methods: Fifteen patients were operated between June 2005 and September 2007.

Acute atrial fibrillation during dengue hemorrhagic fever.

Dengue fever is a viral infection transmitted by the mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Cardiac rhythm disorders, such as atrioventricular blocks and ventricular ectopic beats, appear during infection and are attributed to viral myocarditis. However, supraventricular arrhythmias have not been reported.