Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 2

This manuscript covers the history of Cardiovascular Pathology and the tradition of the study of the cardiovascular system since the Renaissance time, when the University of Padua was the Gymnasium of the Republic of Venice. The anatomy of the heart...

Platelet inhibition in coronary artery disease. Acetylsalicylic acid has been used for over 100 years but its potential to inhibit platelets has only been taken advantage of for about 30 years. For about 10 years the thienopyridines (initially ticlop...

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a widely accepted tool for the diagnosis of a variety of disease states. However, due to safety concerns the presence of an implanted cardiac pacemaker is considered to be a contraindication to MRI in most medical...

An 89-year-old sister who presented with angina pectoris and signs of acute left ventricular failure had a history of chronic dyspnoea aggravated a few days prior to admission by orthopnoea and nycturia. [...]

The first artificial pacemaker was implanted 51 years ago. Considerable progress has been made in recent decades and pacemakers have become fully automated cardiac rhythm management (CRM) systems representing a new, growing, and important set of ther...

We report the case of a 76-year-old woman with palpitations and chest discomfort, who presented with elevated concentrations of cardiac biomarkers (Troponin T and creatine kinase CK) but no ST elevation. A coronary angiogram showed no evidence of obs...