2009 09 - 7 articles
Lipid-lowering drugs, especially HMGCoA reductase inhibitors, are widely used in the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular disease. They are generally well tolerated. The main, but uncommon, adverse effects of statins are myopathy and an increas...
Surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) may be followed by various conditions and residual findings, early postoperatively or late during follow-up. Most of these conditions affect the right ventricular outflow tract and the pulmonary arteries a...
«Lies, damn lies, and statistics»…
Benjamin Disraeli, britischer Premierminister von 1874–1880 (Abb. 1), soll diese Worte gesprochen haben, die später von Mark Twain popularisiert wurden: «There are three kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistic...
Tätigkeit der Arbeitsgruppe
Das wissenschaftliche Meeting 2008 hat als «14. Cardiovascular Biology and Clinical Implications Meeting» am 2. und 3 [...]
Case presentation
A 33-year old woman was admitted for persistent palpitations over the past six years [...]
An der SGK 2008 in Bern wurden keine neuen ordentlichen oder ausserordentlichen Mitglieder aufgenommen [...]
Management of pulmonary hypertension – news from Dana Point
Recently, the 4th WHO conference on pulmonary hypertension (PH) was hold in Dana Point. Thereby, new treatment algorhythms were developed. Specific PH therapy with prostanoids, endothelin-r...
