Publications by authors named "M Arbane"

Internet public social media and forums provide a convenient channel for people concerned about public health issues, such as COVID-19, to share and discuss information/misinformation with each other. In this paper, we propose a natural language processing (NLP) method based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (Bi-LSTM) technique to perform sentiment classification and uncover various issues related to COVID-19 public opinions. Bi-LSTM is an improved version of conventional LSTMs for generating the output from both left and right contexts at each time step.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

We report the case of a repetitive and incessant activation of mode switch in a dual chamber pacemaker because of the inappropriate sensing by the atrial lead of far-fields signals from the ventricular evoked response. The incidence, consequences and prevention of the oversensing of far-field QRS complexes are discussed.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

A 76-year-old woman had a permanent transvenous DDDR pacemaker implanted for complete atrioventricular block. She was hospitalized 4 years later for recurrent transient ischaemic attacks related to dislodgment of the atrial lead into the left atrium through a patent foramen ovale. The patient was successfuly treated by transvenous extraction of the atrial lead.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

In anterior acute myocardial infarction, ST elevation in aVL and ST depression in II, III, and aVF predict a culprit lesion in the left anterior descending artery proximal to the origin of the first diagonal branch, with good specificity and positive predictive value. Inferior ST depression is not related to remote ischemia but represents an electrocardiographic phenomenon reciprocal to ST elevation in aVL.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF

The relative proportions of gamma chains of human fetal haemoglobin G gamma, A gamma 75 Ileu (A gamma I) and A gamma 75 Thr (A gamma T) were investigated in homogeneous populations of patients in Algeria exhibiting sickle cell disease and in patients in Algeria and Sardinia with beta-thalassaemia. The restriction site haplotypes within the beta gene cluster were known. The results suggest a tight genetic regulation of the G gamma/A gamma + G gamma ratio (G gamma ratio) which is associated with the G gamma Hind III site of polymorphism (p less than 0.

View Article and Find Full Text PDF