Feasibility and Prognostic Value of Stress Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance in Patients With End-Stage Renal Disease.

Background: Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) are at high cardiovascular risk. The safety and prognostic value of stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) in ESRD patients remains unclear as data are lacking due to perceived contrast agent-related risk.

Objectives: The authors aimed to assess the safety and prognostic value of stress CMR in asymptomatic ESRD patients on waitlist for kidney transplantation.

Nine years' experience of an educational programme for patients treated with oral anticoagulants in a cardiology department.

Objectives: Oral anticoagulants present significant risks of iatrogenic complications. An educational programme dedicated to patients treated with vitamin-K antagonists (VKAs) or direct oral anticoagulants (DOACs) was set up in our cardiology department in 2013. The aim of this study is to describe and assess our programme's effectiveness, through evaluation of patients' skills and adherence, and to identify associated factors.

Promoting the use of the PRECISE score for prostate MRI during active surveillance: results from the ESOR Nicholas Gourtsoyiannis teaching fellowship.

Objectives: The PRECISE criteria for serial multiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the prostate during active surveillance recommend the use of a dedicated scoring system (PRECISE score) to assess the likelihood of clinically significant radiological change. This pilot study assesses the effect of an interactive teaching course on prostate MRI during active surveillance in assessing radiological change in serial imaging.

Methods: Eleven radiology fellows and registrars with different experience in prostate MRI reading participated in a dedicated teaching course where they initially evaluated radiological change (based on their previous training in prostate MRI reading) independently in fifteen patients on active surveillance (baseline and follow-up scan), and then attended a lecture on the PRECISE score.

Long-Term Imaging Follow-Up in DIPNECH: Multicenter Experience.

Diffuse pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH) is a rare pre-invasive disease whose pathophysiology remains unclear. We aimed to assess long-term evolution in imaging of DIPNECH, in order to propose follow-up recommendations. Patients with histologically confirmed DIPNECH from four centers, evaluated between 2001 and 2020, were enrolled if they had at least two available chest computed tomography (CT) exams performed at least 24 months apart.

Medication reconciliation: Predictors of risk of unintentional medication discrepancies in the cardiology department.

Background: Medication reconciliation is a powerful formal process to decrease medication errors, but it has proved to be complex and time consuming.

Aims: To describe the frequency and types of medication discrepancies (between previous treatment and medication order at admission), and to identify predictors of unintentional medication discrepancies (UMDs).

Methods: This interventional study was carried out in the cardiology department of a French teaching hospital.