2011 09 - 5 articles
A patient with Morbus Behçet was admitted with severe symptomatic aortic regurgitation caused by aortitis that mimicked infective endocarditis. After aortic valve replacement and antibiotic treatment, regurgitation and systemic inflammation recurred....
Background: In view of the potential benefit of direct renin inhibition, this post-marketing survey was undertaken to assess blood pressure lowering and target blood pressure attainment in 905 patients with and without metabolic syndrome and with bod...
Primary neoplasms of the heart are relatively rare. Their incidence varies between 0.001% to 0.3% of individuals in autopsy series. Even the most common primary tumour—cardiac myxoma—is estimated to occur in fewer than two or three people per 100 000...
Als die Mitglieder der Familie Carnegie, verarmte Weber aus Dunfermline nahe Edinburgh, am 17.[...]
A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency department of a district general hospital early in the morning with substernal burning chest pain radiating to the scapulae.[...]
