Summary Background Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) share risk factors and impair each other’s prognosis. Aims To assess the prevalence of airflow limitation (AL) compatible with…
Foreign bodies in the heart may confront a clinician as a result of trauma or gun-shot injury, or may be secondary to the iatrogenic introduction of wires, catheters etc., or…
We report the case of a 37-year-old man with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Echocardiography showed a left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) on the septal area (25 mm), without intraventricular obstruction or systolic anterior…
Direct visualization of myocardial fibrosis in vivo remains a challenge. In hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, myocardial fibrosis is usually imaged by late gadolinium enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance (LGE-CMR), with major prognostic implications….
We report the case of a 4-year-old girl for whom a CAF between the left coronary artery and the right atrium ( Fig. 1A , Video 1 ) was diagnosed…
Summary Direct oral anticoagulants (DOAs) – inhibitors of thrombin or factor-Xa – are expected to replace vitamin K antagonists in most of their indications. Patients receiving long-term treatment with DOAs…
Summary Cardiovascular diseases remain a major public health problem. The involvement of several occupational factors has recently been discussed, notably the organization of work schedules, e.g. shift work. To analyse…
Summary In the past 10 years, stent implantation has become a real alternative to surgery in the management of both native and recurrent coarctation of the aorta in adolescents and…
Summary Background Primary systemic amyloidosis is a severe plasma cell disorder characterized by the extracellular deposition of amyloid fibrils in different organs. Echocardiography is usually performed to assess cardiac involvement….
Summary Background It is unknown whether the efficacy and safety of drug-eluting stents (DES) apply in patients with chronic renal failure (CRF). Aims To compare DES with bare metal stents…
