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G Gougne

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[Environment and permanent cardiac pacing].

The increasing technological sophistication of cardiac pacemakers make them potentially more vulnerable to electrical interference. The clinical consequence are of variable importance depending on the type of pacemaker and the nature of the interference. Electrical interference is present in the domestic, industrial and, above all, the medical environment. Apart from controlling the sources of emission, prevention requires standards of protection for the casing and electronic circuitry. Patient education remains primordial.

Electric Countershock↗

Chronic tricuspid regurgitation and bifascicular block due to blunt chest trauma.

Closed-chest trauma in a young man was followed by rupture of a right ventricular papillary muscle and bifascicular block. This produced signs and symptoms of tricuspid regurgitation and recurrent syncope. Treatment by valve replacement and pacemaker implantation was successful. Review of 30 cases of traumatic tricuspid regurgitation reveals that this patient had characteristic findings: adult onset of isolated tricuspid regurgitation, a history of trauma, right bundle branch block, and cardiomegaly without signs of left ventricular failure. In addition, right atrial hypertension of longstanding may produce cyanosis because of right-left shunting through a patent foramen ovale.

Adult↗