To assess whether men and women are evaluated and treated differently by medical students. We evaluated patient care provided by 110 fifth-year medical students during an objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), using two clinical cases with standardized patients (SPs): generalized anxiety...
Contexte : Le syndrome de Marfan (SDM) est une maladie génétique autosomique dominante rare provoquée par la mutation du gène FBN1 codant pour la protéine fibrilline-1. La fibrilline-1 est le principal composant des microfibrilles, éléments présents dans l’ensemble des tissus de l’organisme. Ce synd...
Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a rare condition, but together with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and pulmonary embolism (PE) it belongs to the most relevant and life-threatening causes of acute chest pain. Until now, there has been no specific blood test in the diagnostic workup of AAD. To ide...
Current guidelines recommend prophylactic replacement of the ascending aorta at an aneurysmal diameter of >55 mm to prevent acute Type A aortic dissection (TAAD) in non-Marfan patients. Several publications have challenged this threshold, suggesting that surgery should be performed in smaller aneury...
Background In the past 3 decades, the arterial switch procedure has replaced the atrial switch procedure as treatment of choice for transposition of the great arteries. Although survival is superior after the arterial switch procedure, data on pregnancy outcomes are scarce and transposition of the g...
Objectives: To report a new classification scheme for acute aortic dissection (AAD) that considers the aortic arch as a separate entity and integrates patterns of malperfusion syndrome (MPS). The proposed classification was evaluated retrospectively in a large population. Materials and Methods: We r...
Aortic rupture or dissection as immediate cause of sudden death is encountered in forensic and clinical autopsy practice. Despite a common denominator of 'sudden aortic death' (SAD), we expect that in both settings the diagnostic workup, being either primarily legal or primarily disease related, dif...
Objective: The present study aimed at quantifying mal-positioning during thoracic endovascular aortic repair and analysing the extent to which anatomical factors influence the exact stent graft positioning.Methods: A retrospective review was conducted of patients treated between 2007 and 2014 with a...
Context Pseudoaneurysms of the ascending aorta (PSAA) is a high-risk complication following cardiac surgery. Surgical repair is the conventional treatment but carries high morbidity and mortality rate. If left untreated PSA can reach to aortic dissection, thrombosis, distal embolization and fistula...
Ce cours vidéo est tiré du cédérom Échocardiographie Doppler (éd. 2011), comportant plus de trente leçons (Écho-doppler transthoracique, Fonction systolique, Valvulopathies, Myocardiopathies, Péricardites, Doppler tissulaire…). Cet ensemble de cours d’échocardiographie Doppler est destiné tant à l’e...
OBJECTIVE: This retrospective study was designed to assess the risks of acute ascending aorta dissection (AAD) as a rare but potentially fatal complication of open heart surgery. METHOD: Among 8624 cardiac surgical procedures under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and cardioplegic myocardial protection...