[Multiple arterial aneurysms].
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V Julien
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[Post-traumatic carotid-cavernous sinus fistula].
The authors report the case of a 51 year-old man who developed a carotid-cavernous sinus fistula after a blunt trauma. In view of an exophthalmia, an impressive chemosis, a pupillary dilatation due to parasympathetic paralysis and a bruit over the right orbit, a carotid-cavernous sinus fistula was diagnosed. The existence of the fistula was confirmed by a brain CT scan and a cerebral angiogram. Carotid-cavernous sinus fistulas are rare. They are spontaneous or posttraumatic. Cerebral angiography is the diagnostic procedure of choice. The authors review the signs and symptoms, diagnostic procedures, treatment, and prognosis of this complication.
Arteriovenous Fistula↗
A short standardized protocol for measuring the QKD interval: comparison with 24 h monitoring and reproducibility.
BACKGROUND: Ambulatory measurement for the QKD interval is a new method for evaluation of the rigidity of large arterial trunks. Reliable indices of arterial rigidity can be distilled from the large number of measurements (usually around 100) obtained during 24 h monitoring. OBJECTIVE: To describe a shorter standardized protocol (4 h) including a 15 min effort test on an ergometric bicycle designed to reduce examination time and generate a wider range of heart rates and blood pressures, to test the equivalence of this short protocol with 24 h monitoring and to test its reproducibility. DESIGN: The results of the short protocol were compared with 24 h monitoring results for 15 subjects. The reproducibility of the short protocol for 15 subjects examined twice within 7 days was studied. RESULTS: We found a good correlation between the values obtained with this method and those from 24 h recordings, with comparable reproducibilities in the determination of QKD for systolic blood pressure 100 mmHg and heart rate 60 beats/min. CONCLUSION: A short (4 h) standardized protocol including an exercise test could replace 24 h ambulatory monitoring to assess arterial distensibility through QKD measurement.
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