Michel Redonnet

TL;DR: Surgical repair of coarctation in adults has proved to be an effective procedure and significantly reduces arterial hypertension, however, long-term surveillance is mandatory and should include exercise testing to identify patients with potential hypertension.

TL;DR: Basiliximab offers improved tolerability with similar efficacy compared with current polyclonal antibody induction therapy in de novo heart transplant patients, and this 6-month, prospective, randomized, multicenter, open-label study examined whether basiliximrab offers a tolerability benefit compared with anti-thymocyte globulin.

TL;DR: Preliminary results indicate that dobutamine stress echocardiography may have a predictive value for further ischemic events in heart transplant recipients and is a useful technique for the diagnosis of coronary artery disease after heart transplantation.

TL;DR: The existence of arrhythmogenic atrioatrial conduction should be taken into account when evaluating atrial arrhythias in the transplanted heart because it is potentially curable by radiofrequency catheter ablation.

TL;DR: Dobutamine stress echocardiography is a sensitive, noninvasive method to diagnose the progression of allograft vasculopathy, and a negative test result is a strong predictor of absence ofallograft coronary vasculopathic disease.