Prostate cancer across four countries in the Middle East: a multi-centre, observational, retrospective and prognostic study.

Prostate cancer (PC) is the second most prevalent cancer in males, with a steadily increasing incidence in the Middle East (ME). The aim of this study was to capture real-world data on the characteristics, disease progression, and treatment patterns among PC patients in the ME. This was a retrospective, observational, multi-centre study conducted across ten hospitals/research centers in Lebanon, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait.

Conduction System Pacing: Have We Finally Found the Holy Grail of Physiological Pacing?

The late fifties are considered a high point in the history of cardiac pacing, since this era is marked by the first pacemaker implantation, which has since evolved into life-saving therapy. Right ventricular apical and biventricular pacing are the classic techniques that are recommended as first-l ine approaches for most indications in current guidelines. However, conduction system pacing has emerged as being able to deliver a more physiological form of pacing and is becoming mainstream practice in a growing number of centres.

Case report of hidden (yet visible) systolic fascicular potentials in a patient with left bundle branch block during conduction system pacing implantation.

Background: Left bundle branch pacing (LBBP) is being increasingly adopted as a more physiological alternative to conventional pacing. At implantation, appropriate lead depth can be guided by monitoring a number of parameters, including the presence of a fascicular potential during conducted rhythm. However, in patients with left bundle branch block (LBBB), a presystolic fascicular potential is most often absent, due to upstream conduction block.

Eight versus 28-point lung ultrasonography in moderate acute heart failure: a prospective comparative study.

Lung ultrasonography (LUS) is an accurate method of estimating lung congestion but there is ongoing debate on the optimal number of scanning points. The aim of the present study was to compare the reproducibility (i.e.

COVID-19 and complicated bacterial pneumonia in children.

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