2010 09 - 8 articles
Modern technologies in catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation. Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation has become an accepted therapy. The arrhythmia affects around 6% of the population over the age of 65 years. Electrical isolation of the pulmo...
A 63-year-old Japanese tourist presented to the emergency department with increasing shortness of breath and palpitations over the previous two weeks [...]
We report the case of a patient who became symptomatic with clinical signs of, predominantly, right sided heart failure caused by multiple pulmonary emboli from a large thrombus attached to the tricuspid valve, despite oral anticoagulation. Based on...
Concepts and evidence of the importance of resting heart rate in the prevention and management of cardiovascular diseases This article summarises the latest available data in the literature concerning heart rate as a risk factor in cardiovascular dis...
Objective: The objective is to report an easy and fast way of out-of-hospital induction of mild therapeutic hypothermia after prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Method: Retrospective case report. Case reports: We report two cases of witnessed o...
This paper addresses primary care physicians, cardiologists, internists, angiologists and doctors desirous of improving vascular risk prediction in primary care. Many cardiovascular risk factors act aggressively on the arterial wall and result in ath...
A 52-year-old female was admitted for further evaluation of a continuous heart murmur. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a secundum type atrial septal defect (ASD II) with a size of 13 × 16 mm and considerable left-to-right shunt (Qp/Qs = 2), a...
An 83-year-old man on permanent haemodialysis was admitted to the emergency department in cardiogenic shock after prolonged electromechanical resuscitation because of ventricular fibrillation [...]
