Summary Background Optical coherence tomography is an imaging method that enables cardiologists to study atheromatous plaques, and to check the implantation and evolution of coronary stents. It is an invasive…
Summary Background A substantial number of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) have polyvascular disease (PolyVD), defined as cerebrovascular disease (CVD), peripheral arterial disease (PAD) or both. Aim To investigate…
By March 2010, more than 14,000 patients had been treated with transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), 8 years after the first-in-man implantation performed in France in April 2002 . Since then,…
Summary Deficient neurological disorders after heart surgery are destructive and affect vital prognosis. They concern between 3% to 9% of patients and are related mainly to embolic episodes or brain…
Summary Three-dimensional echocardiography of colour Doppler flow developed quickly with the advent of three-dimensional echocardiography. An increasing amount of research has shown that three-dimensional echocardiography of colour Doppler flow is…
A 57-year-old woman was referred for dyspnoea during mild exercise, especially during the past year. Electrocardiogram and chest X-ray demonstrated no significant anomaly. Nt-pro brain natriuretic peptide was moderately elevated…
A 75-year-old man underwent transoesophageal echocardiography after having several transient ischaemic attacks. Cardiac examination was unremarkable. The transverse view of the descending thoracic aorta by conventional two-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography (…
A 14-year-old boy was referred to our institution for evaluation of heart failure potentially related to a tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy. The condition was first diagnosed at the age of 7 years, because…
A 34-year-old woman presented to our hospital with a 9-month history of exertional dyspnoea and fatigue. She was a long-distance runner but over the preceding 9 months had developed progressive…
Summary Background Recent studies have demonstrated that blockade of the angiotensin II type 1 receptor with losartan decreases aortic damage in an animal model of Marfan syndrome (a KI mouse…
