Background The usefulness and modalities of cardiovascular screening in young athletes remain controversial, particularly concerning the role of 12-lead ECG. One of the reasons refers to the presumed ...
1 AP-HP, Functional Unit of Cardiogenetics and Myogenetics, department of Biochemistry, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, Paris, France 2 AP-HP, National referral centre for inherited cardiac diseases, ...
Should a treadmill test (TMT), the ubiquitous part of a cardiac examination, be used for routine screening or as part of the executive health check-ups to rule out heart disease risk? No, it shouldn’t ...
The human heart is similar to a pump that maintains the circulation of oxygenated blood in the body. But sometimes, due to ...
SINCE Friedreich's original description 1 of 6 cases of familial hereditary ataxia in 1863, numerous papers have been written on this subject. The vast majority of these elaborate on the neurologic ...
A 71-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with confusion, general fatigue and a history of falls over the preceding several weeks. She had no recent symptoms of infection nor any ...