Preventing atrial fibrillation by combined right isthmus ablation and cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation in patients with typical atrial flutter: PAF-CRIOBLAF study.

Background: Although less common, typical atrial flutter shares similar pathophysiological roots with atrial fibrillation. Following successful cavo-tricuspid isthmus ablation using radiofrequency, many patients, however, develop atrial fibrillation in the mid-to-long-term. This study sought to assess whether pulmonary vein isolation conducted at the same time as cavo-tricuspid isthmus ablation would significantly modify the atrial fibrillation burden upon follow-up in patients suffering from typical atrial flutter.

Exclusion of Intra-Atrial Thrombus Diagnosis Using D-Dimer Assay Before Catheter Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation.

Objectives: This study hypothesized that the association of D-dimer blood level and several clinical items in a new risk score could predict the absence of atrial thrombus.

Background: Symptomatic and drug resistant atrial fibrillation (AF) can be treated by catheter ablation. The procedure-related risk of thromboembolism is limited by the pre-operative use of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) to detect atrial thrombi.

[An unusual shoulder stiffness: metastasis in the infraspinatus muscle as the first clinical manifestation of lung carcinoma].

Purpose Of The Study: Malignant metastases are rarely located in skeletal muscles. We report a case of lung adenocarcinoma disclosed by metastatic dissemination to the infraspinatus muscle.

Case Report: A 66-year-old man consulted for a painful stiff right shoulder.

Wavelength and atrial vulnerability: an endocavitary approach in humans.

If atrial vulnerability parameters are well defined, wavelength (WL) measurement (conduction velocity x refractory period), has never been assessed through an endocavitary electrophysiological exam. We investigated 30 patients (14 female, mean age 63.4 +/- 13 y.

[Rare hemoglobins in Guadeloupe and in the Lesser Antilles (author's transl)].

Screening of abnormal hemoglobins on 25 136 samples allowed us to detect from 1974-1979 rare or uncommon hemoglobins as N Baltimore, Korle Bu, Lepore, K Woolwich, J Broussais and J Baltimore. Hemoglobins N Baltimore, J Broussais, and J Baltimore are detected for the first time in Guadedoupe. The identification of these asymptomatic hemoglobins in this part of the Carribbean region provides information concerning the exact origin of the black population of these islands; e.

[3 new cases of Korle-Bu hemoglobin in the Antilles].

After the case of haemoglobin Korle-Bu found in Martinique by Bookchin (2) in 1970, we have also detected one case of haemoglobin S/Korle-Bu in 1975 from a man native of Martinique. A family study allowed us to find again this abnormal haemoglobin from his two children with the form A/Korle-Bu. We study the different possibilities to detect haemoglobin S/Korle-Bu by singlet ests of laboratory whose some ones do appear antagonist effect given by haemoglobin Korle-Bu for haemoglobin S.