Pierre Bareiss

TL;DR: A distance walked in 6 minutes < or =300 m can predict outcome and in these cases there is a significant correlation between the 6-minute walk test and peak VO2 demonstrating the potential of this simple procedure as a first-line screening test for this subset of patients.

TL;DR: D-Dimers are elevated in patients with AAD and provide valuable diagnostic and prognostic information and might be a useful complementary tool to the current diagnostic work-up of patients with suspected AAD.

TL;DR: MR appeared to be a significantly more reproducible examination tool, when compared with M-mode echo, for the evaluation of left ventricular mass (variability, 63% higher with echo than with MR), the main practical consequence lies in the reduced number of patients required to demonstrate a significant change in the LVM with MR as compared with echography.

TL;DR: Elevation of procoagulant MPs within the occluded coronary artery of patients with STEMI suggests their pathophysiological role in coronary atherothrombosis.

TL;DR: To assess the potential improvement in left ventricular ejection fraction after cardioversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 17 patients were studied prospectively by radionuclide angiocardiography at rest.