Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 13, Issue 4

Background: Diagnosis of ventricular dyssynchrony may play a role in patient selection for cardiac resynchronisation therapy. Various imaging techniques are available for diagnosis of dyssynchrony, including echocardiography and radionuclide imaging....

A 34-year-old primigravida was referred for foetal ultrasound due to irregular heart beat at 31 weeks’ gestation [...]

Objectives: One of the less controversial indications for percutaneous closure (C) of a patent foramen ovale (PFO) may be reduction of recurrent cerebral thromboembolic events, although these may sometimes recur after PFO-C. Hypercoagulable states ar...

Anlässlich der letztjährigen Jahrestagung der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Kardiologie wurden bekannte Persönlichkeiten der Kardiologie mit der Ehrenmitgliedschaft unserer Gesellschaft ausgezeichnet [...]

A 24-year-old Caucasian male presented to the emergency room with palpitations [...]

Many patients with severe mitral regurgitation and a high operative risk are treated conservatively despite their high morbidity and mortality. Here we report the first Swiss experience of a new technique for transvenous mitral valve reconstruction u...

We report the case of a 69-year-old man with known atherosclerosis and a typical history of abdominal angina. Angiography of his splanchnic arteries revealed severe stenosis of two of the three main splanchnic arteries. The patient was completely cur...

The Annual Swiss Cardiovascular Biology and Clinical Implications Meeting, organised by the Swiss Society of Cardiology Working Group of Cardiovascular Biology, took place from October 1–2, 2009 in Muntelier. The meeting highlighted recent progress o...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) patients are at inherent risk for thromboembolic stroke. Since the left atrial appendage (LAA) is known to be the primary site for thrombus formation in nonvalvular AF, its exclusion may offer an attractive alternative to lon...