2012 10 - 7 articles
An 83-year-old man with ischaemic heart disease and a triple bypass in 2007 presented to the emergency department with increasing shortness of breath and weight gain of 5 kg over one month [...]
A 67-year-old male patient presented with dyspnoea and chest discomfort during mild physical activity. The medical history was unremarkable, apart from a tick bite five years ago [...]
Neoatherosclerosis has been termed to define neointimal atherosclerotic changes occurring within a coronary stent [1,2]. Based on histological [2] and angioscopic studies [3], rupture within the neointima has been reported in the long-term after coro...
Ever since the publication of the PARTNER trials, the spotlight has turned to neurologic events during transcatheter aortic valve i mplantation ( TAVI). Recently published long-term follow-up data mitigated the initial concerns, however, stroke preve...
Percutaneous mitral valve repair (MVR) using the MitraClip system is a novel and promising technique for the treatment of mitral regurgitation (MR) which involves mechanical edge-to-edge coaptation of the mitral leaflets and has been employed in over...
Renal denervation is a new promising intervention for refractory hypertension. It uses ablation of the renal sympathetic nerves with a radio-frequency-emitting catheter inserted percutaneously via the femoral artery into the lumen of both renal arter...
A 45-year-old male with recent anterior wall infarction underwent coronary angiogram. [...]
