[Auricular fibrillation: a cause of reversible myocardiopathy].
A chronic supraventricular tachycardia may alone be responsible for a picture of severe congestive cardiac insufficiency, which is totally reversible after return to a sinus rhythm. The two cases reported here emphasize this particular fact, the physiopathology of which still remains unknown. There is also a prognostic advantage to such cases: in the presence of a congestive cardiopathy with atrial fibrillation, apparently idiopathic, it is important to try to obtain a sinus rhythm and to study from a distance the left ventricular performance indexes which may return to normal after regularization of the rhythm.
Haiat
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Service de Cardiologie et Urgences Cardiovasculaires, Centre Hospitalier, Saint-Germain-en-Laye.
Halphen
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Stoltz
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Leroy
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Soussana
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D001281:Atrial Fibrillation / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging
La fibrillation auriculaire: une cause de cardiomyopathie réversible.