[Conduction disorders in chronic parietal endocarditis or endomyocardial fibrosis. 170 cases at the Cardiology Institute of Abidjan].

The authors have conducted research on conduction disturbances in the endomyocardial fibrosis, synonymous with chronic parietal endocarditis, about 170 cases at the Institute of Cardiology in Abidjan, from January 1977 to June 1991. The anatomical and/or angiographic examination have permitted to describe 64 cases of right fibrosis, 24 cases of left fibrosis and 82 cases of bilateral fibrosis. Conduction anomalies have been observed among 42.

[Coronary disease with normal coronarography in the black Africans: epidemiological and clinical data in 31 cases. Role of abnormal hemoglobins].

The authors studied 31 cases of coronary artery disease with normal or minimally diseases coronary arteries in black Africans, 29.8% of 104 coronary patients undergoing coronary angiography in this series. These 31 cases comprised 16 cases of infarction, 10 cases of angina, 3 ventricular aneurysms and 2 cases of silent ischemia in diabetic patients.

[Total anomalous pulmonary venous return into the coronary sinus. Apropos of 1 case with a difficult diagnosis and surgical success].

The case of an 8 year-old boy with total anomalous pulmonary venous return into the coronary sinus is reported. The coronary malformation comprised a considerable dilatation of the coronary sinus which made diagnosis very difficult even at open heart. The surgical success was obtained by resecting the interatrial septum and partitioning the atrium.

[Systematic cardiologic study in 37 schistosomiasis patients].

1) A systematic search was made for cardiac abnormalities (clinical, radiological and EKG) and for haemodynamic disorders (catheterisation of the right side of the heart and pulmonary artery). It was generally found that: -- 14 patients (37.8%) had no symptoms; -- 8 patients (21.

[Clinical features of constrictive endomyocardial fibrosis (author's transl)].

Constrictive endomyocardial fibrosis is very frequent in tropical areas with a hot and rainy climate. Young patients and specially male ones are generaly concerned. The onset is gradual and low-giving an adiastolic condition which may prevail on the right or the left heart.

[Heart and schistosomiasis (author's transl)].

The review is based on three studies previously reported and involving the clinical, epidemiological and hemodynamic aspects of this problem. Schistosomasis may give frequently (21.6 p.

[Study of 20 cases of apparently primary pulmonary arterial hypertension].

The authors have studied the clinical, electrocardiographic, radiological, phonomechanographic and haemodynamic features of 20 cases of apparently primary pulmonary hypertension of fairly severe degree. An attempt has been made to correlate on the one hand the haemodynamic values, and on the other the clinical findings, ECG signs of right-sided preponderance, the size of the artery to the right lower lobe on X ray, and the phonomechanographic results. Particular importance is given to a discussion on the aetiology.