Ventricular arrhythmias were looked for in 35 patients with mitral valve prolapse. Their frequency is estimated to 35% in the 31 cases studied prospectively. Ventricular tachycardia is observed in 23% of them. Two patients in emergency had to undergo an external electric shock, one of them for ventricular fibrillation. The interest of different methods of detection and investigation of arrhythmia is questioned. Ventricular ectopic depolarizations are usually detected in the first routine ECG when arrhythmia is severe, but the degree of arrhythmia is generally underestimated. The 24 hour electrocardiographic ambulatory monitoring appears as the choice method but it might be inefficient as shown in some observations. In the latter cases, the exercise testing appears as an indispensable complement for the evaluation and long term follow-up of ventricular arrhythmias in mitral valve prolapse.

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Promoting health through the use of storytelling.

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[Use of the genogram in the day care center: how the personal and familial history provides sense to time arrested].

This paper is about a therapeutic group created 3 years ago in our psychiatric day care unit: the genogram group. We will explain first how was born the idea of a work based on familial history and relationship, and how it was organised in practice. Then, we will speak about genogram interpretation and the different themes that the genogram can reveal: the nuclear family, the familial culture (her myths, her repeating model), the familial life cycle. We will also expose the theoretical models on which are based these themes. Finally, we will present our observations based on the experience with this group and about the characteristics and advantages of his use in institution.

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