Evaluation at patients with ventricular arrhythmias and coronary artery disease of myocardial revascularization effects.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the relations between myocardial revascularization therapy--coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and coronary angioplasty (PTCA)--and ventricular potentially malignant arrhythmia (VPMA) (coupled VPC, VPC > 10/hour, NSVT--Morganroth classification), in patients (pts) with stable CAD.

Methods: 765 patients with stable angina and ventricular potentially malignant arrhythmia were evaluated angiochoronarographically, echographically, by programmed electrical stimulation (PES), standard ECG, Holter ECG, radiologically, and by stress test. From 765 patients with CAD and VPMA 169 pts.

Microcoil embolization for ablation of septal hypertrophy in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

Background: Percutaneous transcatheter occlusion with ethanol injection of septal arteries is an efficient treatment procedure of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). The aim of our study is to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of septal artery embolization with microcoils.

Methods: The microcoils were delivered through the guide-wire lumen of a 2mm-diameter coaxial balloon positioned inside the target vessel as distally as possible.

Microcoil embolisation for ablation of septal hypertrophy in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy.

Background And Aim: Percutaneous transcatheter occlusion with ethanol injection of septal arteries is an efficient treatment procedure of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). The aim of our study was to evaluate the feasibility and efficiency of septal artery embolisation with microcoils.

Methods: Microcoils were delivered through the guide-wire lumen of a 2mm-diameter coaxial balloon positioned inside the target vessel as distally as possible.

Centrofacial lentiginosis. A survey of 40 cases.

Forty patients with centrofacial lentiginosis have been studied. A greater than normal number of bone abnormalities, malformations due to dysraphia, endocrine dysfunctions, and neurological diseases, but not psychiatric impairment, were found.

[Camptodactyly. Apropos of 25 cases].

In a group of 120 mental patients, the authors found obvious camptodactyly in 65 patients (46%), especially in psychopaths, neurotics and related conditions. Clinical, psychological, radiological and laboratory investigations were carried out in 25 of these cases. The disease was accompanied by disorders of glucose metabolism, endocrine abnormalities, EEG and bone abnormalities together with arthrosis.

[Camptodactylia. A study of 33 cases].

A marked camptodactylia, or a mere suggestion of it, was found in 91 (56; 5%) of 161 mentally ill patients, particularly in psychopaths, neurotics and patients in a neurotic state. Clinical, psychological, radiological and biological investigations were carried out in 33 patients. The camptodactylia was frequently associated with distrubances of the carbohydrate metabolism, especially with spontaneous hypoglycemias, as well as arthrotic skeletal changes.

[Osseous anomalies of centrofacial lentiginosis (39 cases) (author's transl)].

The authors present the results of an investigation on 39 cases of centrofacial lentiginosis. Eleven patients urged to be examined because of their alarming health condition, and 28 cases were found out following an inquiry within some collectivities. With centrofacial lentiginosis the cutaneous hereditary polydysplasia (characterized by typical lentigines), the dysraphic state and neuro-psychic troubles are usual and awaken the interest of the radiologist due to the frequency of various dysmorphoses, growth disturbances and a trend for arthrosis.