[Primary pulmonary hypertension arterial and Basedow disease].

We report a case of a fifty year old woman with Graves' disease with positive AntiTPO antibodies and positive AntiTSH receptor antibodies, who was hospitalized with a right cardiac failure. A pulmonary hypertension was discovered on echocardiography. After adequate antithyroid therapy, the right cardiac failure regressed rapidly and pulmonary pressure normalised.

[Health care services and regional development, a medicometric approach].

Health care services and regional development, a medicometric approach. If regional development is defined in terms of job creation and increased quality of life, health services can be seen as an investment contributing to employment and local structural changes. Spendings to increase health services, especially in peripherical regions, increase the level of economic development.

Effect of sexual activity on cycle ergometer stress test parameters, on plasmatic testosterone levels and on concentration capacity. A study in high-level male athletes performed in the laboratory.

Background: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sexual activity on cycle ergometer stress test parameters, on plasmatic testosterone levels and on concentration capacity in high-level male athletes.

Methods: Experimental design. Analysis of two days of testing accomplished in a laboratory setting, comparing a day with to a day without sexual activity (control day).

[Plea for a medicometric vision of the health care system].

It is the goal of regional medicometrics, a new discipline devoted to analysis of cost and benefit of the health care chain, to change the image of the latter to an indispensable economic and social investment for developed societies. Using some swiss data this article shows that while health care is costly it also contributes to society as a whole. This analysis permits us to propose a counsel of experts for management of the future health resources without sacrifices to pressure-groups and actual economic conditions.