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C Hubscher

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[Central vein catheters. Four unusual accidents (author's transl)].

Malpositioning of the tip of a central vein catheter is an accident whose frequency depends in part upon the puncture site. Certain dispositions are especially rare; the authors thus describe. Knotting in the left innominate vein after left internal jugular vein puncture. Catheterisation of the left internal mammary vein from the left subclavian vein. Intertion of a catheter in a pulmonary vein from the femoral route through a septal defect. And finally a thoracic aorta catheterisation by an unnoticed puncture of the left subclavian artery. The diagnostic steps and the conditions necessary to avoid the complications inherent to these malpositions are thereafter discussed.

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[An indication for a permanent pacemaker : digitialis therapy for cardiac failure with disturbed atrioventricular conduction (author's transl)].

In twenty patients with advanced heart disease with severe cardiac failure and the presence of conduction disturbances before digitalis therapy, but in whom such disturbances were worsened or revealed by the treatment, it was necessary to insert a permanent pacemaker in order to make effective long term digitalisation possible without the risk of excessive bradycardia or pauses due to worsening of atrioventricular block. Six patients died within a period of 9 days to 34 months after insertion of the pacemaker, two were lost from sight, and the other 12 were followed-up regularly for an average period of 20 months, their condition remaining stationary and, in general, satisfactory.

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Aortic valve replacement with Smeloff-Cutter prosthesis: 1 to 8 year follow-up.

Two hundred patients had an aortic valve replacement with the Smeloff-Cutter prosthesis between 1972 and 1980. One hundred and seventy six patients had aortic valve replacement alone (mortality 2.8%) and 24 patients had additional procedures. The overall mortality was 6.5%. One hundred and eighty seven patients have been followed up for from 4 months to 8 years (mean 33 months). The 14 patients who died later are analysed; half of these deaths were prosthesis related. There has been no instance of structural failure, ball variance or massive thrombosis in this series. All but 4 of the survivors showed functional improvement. We consider the Smeloff-Cutter valve a good choice for aortic valve replacement.

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