Background: Infective endocarditis is still a frequent, life-threatening condition, despite advances in diagnosis and treatment. It can occur in a healthy heart, but more often in a pathological heart, as the congenital heart disease without surgery, or with a residual shunt or p...
Background: Association of pulmonary embolism and pericardial effusion is rarely described in the literature, it is associated in the majority of cases with a neoplastic origin followed by a tuberculous origin. Within the limits of our research, no cases of lupus associated with...
Background: Ramadan fasting is a religious obligation for Muslims, and data on the effects of fasting on cardiovascular disease are scarce. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in Moroccan patients during Ramadan. Methods: We conducted a...
Introduction: Interventricular septal rupture occurring in the acute phase of a myocardial infarction is a rare complication, its incidence varies between 1 and 2%. We present the observation of two patients with myocardial infarction complicated by apical rupture of the interven...
Background: Pacemaker (PM) devices are increasingly used to treat cardiac conduction abnomality especially in elderly population. Twiddler syndrome (TS) in PM patients is a condition where patient manipulation of a pacemaker leads to its retraction and dysfunction. TS can be extr...