Publications by authors named "M Mechri"
Article Synopsis
- The prevalence of heart failure (HF) is increasing in Tunisia, largely due to an aging population and rising rates of coronary artery disease and hypertension, yet there's limited data on patient demographics and care quality.
- The study aims to create the National Tunisian Registry of Heart Failure (NATURE-HF) by analyzing and following 1700 patients over a year, with assessments at 1, 3, and 12 months.
- Results will include tracking cardiovascular and overall mortality, hospital readmissions, and various clinical evaluations and treatment outcomes to gain insights into the management of HF in Tunisia.
Article Synopsis
- * The study found a 1-year all-cause mortality rate of 22.8% for acute heart failure (AHF) patients and 10.6% for CHF patients, with various factors like age and diabetes influencing these rates.
- * Results indicated that AHF has a poor prognosis, while outcomes for CHF patients are improving, highlighting potential variations based on different healthcare systems and patient characteristics.
Article Synopsis
- In the acute phase of STEMI, traditional viability imaging is either not validated or unavailable, prompting an evaluation of strain parameters as predictive tools for post-revascularization myocardial viability.
- A study involving 31 STEMI patients used echocardiograms to measure global longitudinal strain (GLS) and territorial longitudinal strain (TLS) within 24 hours of admission, later correlating these findings with delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) performed three months after treatment.
- The results indicated that lower GLS and TLS values were associated with nonviable myocardium, with specific threshold values predicting viability with good sensitivity and specificity, suggesting that these strain measurements could help prioritize coronary interventions in STEMI patients.
Background: The continuing increase in care, needs and costs in cardiology with the advances in percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) techniques represent the ideal scenario for considering same-day discharge (SDD) PCI program.
Aim: The primary endpoints were to examine feasibility and safety of SDD-PCI.
Methods: We conducted a comparative observational study of a prospective cohort (April 2017 to September 2017) where patients benefited from SDD-PCI with a retrospective cohort (October 2016 to March 2017) where patients were conventionally managed.
Introduction: Echocardiography is a non invasive tool for the assessment of systemic lupus erythematesus (SLE) involvement .
Aim Of Study: to investigate the cardiac involvement in patients diagnosed with SLE assessed by echocardiography and to study relationship between several factors and cardiac manifestation .
Methods: retrospective study of 76 patients with diagnosis of SLE between 2008 and 2017.