04 2011 - 6 articles
Anfang der 60er Jahre beschloss die medizinische Fakultät der Universität Zürich, den Chefarztposten der neu geschaffenen chirurgischen Klinik A mit dem Herzchirurgen Ake Senning aus Schweden zu besetzen. Es war dies in der damaligen Zeit eine mutige...
In industrialised countries, chronic heart failure affects 2–3% of the general population. It is an increasingly recognised cause of morbidity and mortality. In the past decades, a successful launch of new therapeutic means has led to improved outcom...
The left ventricular “apical ballooning” syndrome, also known as “Tako-Tsubo syndrome”, has been the subject of numerous studies and reports in the literature, to the point that the term “stress-induced cardiomyopathy” has been coined. It is characte...
The Swiss Heart Foundation (SHF) awards an annual prize of 20,000 Swiss Francs for one or more outstanding publications / accepted manuscripts of scientific research in the field of the prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of cardiovascular disease...
Impending paradoxical embolism is a rare condition defined as the presence of an entrapped thrombus through the patent foramen ovale. This diagnosis is usually made from echocardiography or a thoracic-CT scan performed in patients with suspected pulm...
Background: This study in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction sought to test the hypotheses that collateral flow index (CFI) is reduced after unprotected recanalisation, or unaltered wi...
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