Jacques Rizkallah

TL;DR: A diagnosis of PE should be considered in patients with exacerbation severe enough to warrant hospitalization, especially in those with an intermediate-to-high pretest probability of PE.

TL;DR: It is argued that it may be both the exclusion of certain patient categories as well as the erroneous selection of studies that has artificially augmented the result presented by Rizkallah and colleagues.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors performed a survey on the implantation and outcomes associated with conduction system pacing (CSP), between November 15, 2020, and February 15, 2021, and reported HBP and LBBAP outcomes for bradycardia pacing and cardiac resynchronization CRT indications.

TL;DR: New data are provided that suggest reduced BMI and use of domiciliary oxygen therapy were the two major independent risk factors for mortality in patients with COPD and, notably, over 50% of these patients required readmission to hospital within 1 year of being discharge from their index hospitalization, which is quite encouraging.

TL;DR: In this article , an elderly, thin-skinned patient presented with a pacemaker pocket erosion 4 years after elective generator change, potentiated by a small pocket size with a superficial suture fixating the generator in the subcutaneous pocket.