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.

[Coronary-pulmonary arterial fistula in the adult: report of 6 cases and review of the literature].

Six new patients and 33 previously reported with coronary-to-pulmonary artery fistula were reviewed. The mean age at the time of diagnosis was 51 years. A male predominance was found (65%).

[Congenital sick sinus syndrome in a healthy heart: case report].

Isolated congenital sick sinusal syndrome on non harmed heart is a rare affection. Its association with an atrio-ventricular block is exceptional. The authors report a case of a 19 year-old patient, with an early history of bradycardia, hospitalised for effort intolerance.

[Permanent ventricular tachycardia: prognostic and therapeutic problems: three case reports].

The permanent ventricular tachycardia (PVT) represent a rare and dangerous arrhythmia that causes prognostic and therapeutic difficulties. Three patients admitted during last year for PVT complicating ischemic cardiomyopathy in two cases and idiopathic cardiomyopathy in the last case. These patients were admitted from emergency department for sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia.