2008 02 - 7 articles
Case report A 72-year-old man was admitted because of cardiogenic shock due to acute anterior myocardial infarction with ST-segment elevation. Percutaneous coronary intervention was performed with stenting of the occluded proximal left anterior desce...
Case report A 57-year-old man underwent coronary angiography for angina and had a Cypher® stent (eluting sirolimus; Cordis Corporation, Miami, Florida USA) implanted into his tortuous right coronary artery (fig. 1A) [...]
New treatments have emerged in the field of cardiac electrophysiology and their use will continue to expand. The most important changes are related to the management of atrial fibrillation and heart failure. Trials comparing drug treatments for rate...
The role of COUP-TF and c-fos in the process of angiotensin IIinduced cardiac hypertrophy
Alessandro M. Capponi, Carine Wang Buholzer
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Nutrition, University Hospital, Geneva
Cardiomyocyte hypertrophy is a major...
In the present case we report on a 64-year-old male patient who had a painless perforation of an iliacal aneurysm of the inferior cava vein which led, caused by the subsequent left-right shunt, to an impressiv sinus tachycardia, slight oedemas of bot...
22 February 2008
Catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) is challenging and needs a combination of different techniques targeting a wider substrate to be effective. The so-called stepwise approach progressively targets structures potentially contribu...
During a 5-years consecutive observational study, we collected all out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrests for which an emergency team was required on site in the Lausanne area. Data were collected and registered according to the recommendations of th...
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