Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 1

Bereits zum sechsten Mal wurde am 23. [...]

In this issue, the Working Group of Interventional Cardiology of the Swiss Society of Cardiology reports about activities in interventional cardiology in the year 2007, 30 years after the world’s first case of coronary angioplasty on September 16, 19...

In February 2009, the Universities of Bern, Geneva, Lausanne and Zurich joined forces for the project “Inflammation and acute coronary syndromes (ACS) – Novel strategies for prevention and clinical management”. This clinical research program underwen...

A 79-year-old male was admitted to our outpatient clinic with symptomatic heart failure (HF). [...]

The authors report on a patient with ischaemic cardiopathy and chronic congestive heart failure treated with a cardiac resynchronisation therapy device with a defibrillator back-up (CRT-D), who experienced two syncopal episodes. The first syncope was...

Cardioembolic stroke is the second cause of ischemic stroke, with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Echocardiography, mainly transesophageal echocardiography, is very useful for the diagnosis and risk stratification of the various potential car...

This report describes a case of involvement of inferior vena cava and the right atrium (RA) by a hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), incidentally discovered during a transthoracic echocardiography in a patient with segmental left ventricular dysfunction,...

Background: Since 1987, a nationwide annual survey of percutaneous cardiac interventions is performed in Switzerland in order to assess trends with respect to type and frequency of endovascular cardiac procedures. Methods: Volume and type of endovasc...