Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 14, Issue 5

Aims: Optimal management of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) presenting with multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) is controversial. We compared the outcome of three different treatment strategies: single-vessel (SV) PCI of the infarc...

Ein 72-jähriger Patient wurde uns via Notfallpraxis mit der Verdachtsdiagnose Pneumonie zugewiesen. Klinisch präsentierte sich der Patient afebril [...]

Otto Hess hat uns verlassen, und wir können es noch nicht fassen [...]

A 71-year-old woman suffered a symptomatic cerebrovascular accident with hemiplegia and dysphasia. Work up revealed a patent foramen ovale which was occluded percutaneously after excluding relevant atherosclerosis of intra- and extracranial cerebral...

Aims: Though indicated in guidelines, AAI1 pacemakers are scarcely used in patients with sick sinus syndrome (SSS) due to fear of AV block during follow-up, necessitating device upgrade. The Wenckebach block point (WBP) is often used to determine AV...

Objective: Lipid lowering therapy represents a cornerstone of secondary prevention in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Current national and international guidelines on the use of lipid lowering therapy recommend a low density lipoprotein c...

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A 75-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with progressive dyspnea and fever due to an acute, community-acquired pneumonia. On examination, the heart rate was irregular and slow (43 beats per minute), and there was a soft end-diastolic and a s...