[A comparative evaluation of a prosthetic operation and balloon valvuloplasty in aortic valve stenosis in elderly people].

The results of surgical treatment of aortic stenosis (AS) in elderly patients were studied in a group of 602 patients aged from 70 to 90 years (average age 74.6 years) chosen from a total number of 1,643 persons who underwent operation for AS in 1975-1988. Total operative mortality with consideration for mortality connected with combined interventions was 11.

[Partial interruption of the inferior vena cava by an endovenous filter. Apropos of 98 patients].

94 partial interruptions of the inferior vena cava (PIIVC) were carried out in 98 patients between May 1979 and November 1983 with a Mobin-Uddin umbrella filter (58 cases) or a Kim-Ray Greenfield filter (36 cases); one patient who had a double inferior vena cava underwent double PIIVC with a Greenfield filter. The patients (56 women and 42 men) were between 22 and 84 years old (average 60.6 years).

[Surgery of calcified aortic stenosis in patients aged 70 and over. Immediate results. Apropos of a series of 229 cases].

229 patients aged 70 or over with aortic stenosis (AS) underwent surgery between January 1972 and July 1983 (21.8% of 814 cases of AS operated on during the same period). The Björk Shiley prosthesis was used at the beginning of the series (115 cases, 50.

[Surgery of aneurysms of the abdominal aorta. Clinical study and surgical results. Apropos of a series of 54 cases].

54 patients with an abdominal aortic aneurysm were hospitalized between 1969 and 1980 in the Clinic of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Rennes (Pr. Y. Logeais): 35 were ruptured aneurysms, 19 non-ruptured.

[Surgical treatment of constrictive pericarditis and life-threatening pericardic effusions (author's transl)].

Total excision of both pericardic sac and epicardium is the basic surgical procedure for chronic constrictive pericarditis. Approach being through a vertical sternotomy. In case of either cardiac injury or poor haemodynamic of either cardiac injury or poor haemodynamic conditions, it is sometimes indicated to get help from an extracorporal circulation with femoro-femoral shunt.

[Evaluation of cardiovascular disturbances in patients with erythrodermic skin diseases by echocardiography (author's transl)].

Echocardiography was performed in seventeen patients with acute or chronic erythrodermic skin disease, to assess the cardiovascular disturbances. Fundamental difference is between the acute erythrodermic skin diseases, in which the cardiac output is low and the chronic erythrodermic skin diseases in which the cardiac output is very high, during the attacks. The reasons of this difference are studied.

[Apparently primary acute heart failure in infants. Long-term outcome].

Cases of acute cardiac failure which are apparently primary, and occurring in babies or young children have one characteristics clinical picture. There are three etiological agents, which cannot be differentiated clinically: myocarditis, fibroelastosis, and primary non-obstructive cardiomyopathies. When the critical early period, which still carries a high mortality, has been passed, the outlook is relatively favourable.