Design and Rationale of the National Tunisian Registry of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Protocol for a Prospective Multicenter Observational Study.

Background: Coronary artery diseases remain the leading cause of death in the world. The management of this condition has improved remarkably in the recent years owing to the development of new technical tools and multicentric registries.

Objective: The aim of this study is to investigate the in-hospital and 1-year clinical outcomes of patients treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in Tunisia.

[False left ventricular aneurysm: report of 5 cases].

Between 1972 and 2000, left ventricular false aneurysm was diagnosed in 5 patients. These patients consisted of three man and 2 women, aged between 58 and 70 years. Clinical presentation was characterized by severe heart failure, complicating a posterior myocardial infarction, in 4 patients.