Objectives: Definite diagnosis of myocarditis requires an endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) showing an inflammatory infiltrate. However, there are important limitations on establishing the diagnosis solely upon histological criteria. The main objective of this case report is to highlight the difficulty of diagnosis, but also to evaluate treatment in viru...
This subanalysis of the Euro-CRT survey II specifically focus on Belgian practice for CRT implantation. It explores Belgian adherence with the guidelines but also benchmark CRT practice in Belgium against the other European countries. Overall, Belgian management of CRT implantation is performed with great agreement with guidelines. This report coul...
Published in Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Valve-in-valve (VIV) transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) and redo surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) represent the 2 treatments for aortic bioprosthesis failure. Clinical comparison of both therapies remains limited by the number of patients analyzed. The purpose of this study was to analyze the outcomes of VIV TAVR versus redo SAVR...
PURPOSE: Intensive care unit health care professionals must be skilled in providing end-of-life care. Crucial in this kind of care is end-of-life decision-making, which is a complex process involving a variety of stakeholders and requiring adequate justification. The aim of this systematic review is to analyse papers tackling ethical issues in rela...
AIMS: The European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) Atlas of Interventional Cardiology has been developed to map interventional practice across European Society of Cardiology (ESC) member countries. Here we present the main findings of a 16-country survey in which we examine the national availability of interventiona...
Published in Nature Reviews Rheumatology
The majority of European patients with spondyloarthritis (SpA) have subclinical gut inflammation, and a minority have coexisting inflammatory bowel disease. Many genetic risk factors for ankylosing spondylitis (AS) are shared with inflammatory bowel disease, and some of these AS risk factors cluster in pathways that are important in gut immunity.Ty...
Background Advanced lung disease in adult cystic fibrosis (CF) drives most clinical care requirements. The aim was to evaluate outcome (time to death while in the study) in a cohort of adult CF patients with severe lung disease, and to determine the association among baseline patient characteristics and outcome. Methods A retrospective cohort study...
Published in BMJ Open
Introduction Effective doctor–patient communication in oncology settings can be challenging due to the complexity of the cancer disease trajectory. The challenges can become greater when doctors and patients do not share a common language and need to rely on language mediators. The aim of this study is to provide evidence-based recommendations for ...
Published in Current opinion in anaesthesiology
This review focuses on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in the obstetric context for airway management and assessment of aspiration risk, the placement of neuraxial blocks and the diagnosis and follow-up of cardiorespiratory dysfunction. Gastric ultrasound is a useful aspiration risk assessment tool in pregnant patients. Total gastric fl...
В статье исследуются особенности влияния информационно-технического прогресса на выбор молодежью своей жизненной позиции применительно к России. Выявляются основные тенденции этого процесса в советский и постсоветский периоды. Отмечается, что в настоящее время отсутствуют четко определенные ориентиры для поведенческих установок молодых людей, и в т...
