2009 08 - 5 articles
In cardiovascular imaging, every year there are exciting new findings and advances. This was also obvious at the Swiss Society of Cardiology Meeting 2008 in Berne. In this article we summarise the findings of the most important international and espe...
Die Arbeitsgruppe Herzschrittmacher und Elektrophysiologie verzeichnete im Berichtsjahr 2008 einen weiteren Mitgliederzuwachs auf 229 Mitglieder [...]
Une patiente de 73 ans, connue pour une hypertension artérielle et une dyslipidémie présente un flutter auriculaire symptomatique récidivant sur coeur structurellement normal [..]
Varenicline, a partial agonist of α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, is the most recently approved drug for smoking cessation. Varenicline triples the abstinence rates compared with placebo, and is statistically more effective for smoking cessat...
Carotid artery dissection (CAD) is a potentially lifethreatening disease and mainly affects young and middle- aged people. In recent years dissections have been diagnosed more frequently, probably because new imaging techniques allow more reliable di...
