Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 2

A 16-year-old male presented at our outpatient clinic with palpitations and worsening dyspnoea during the preceding five days. [...]

Without wishing to encroach on the editorials [1,2] that have accompanied the annual reports on interventional cardiology activities in Switzerland in the last two years and in the face of growing and justified criticism on the objectives of a regist...

Background: Since 1987, a nationwide annual survey of percutaneous cardiac interventions has been performed in Switzerland to assess trends in endovascular cardiac procedures. Methods: The volume and type of endovascular cardiac procedures performed...

A 70-year-old lady presented to the emergency room due to palpitations. She reported occasional self-limiting tachycardias occurring for more than 15 years. [...]

The following awards were given during the last “Wintermeeting” (Montreux, January 20–21, 2012) of our working group “Interventional Cardiology and Acute Coronary Syndrome” [...]

Mit dem Velo von Bern nach Paris zum ESC (European Society of Cardiology), eine verrückte Idee einiger passionierter Velofahrer oder doch eine Herzenssache für die, die einfach gerne per Velo unterwegs sind? [...]

Today exposure to high altitudes is relatively common. Thus, basic knowledge is important also for physicians that are not specialised in this topic. Exercise capacity is limited at high altitude, mainly due to hypoxia. Additional factors (circumstan...

Primary cardiac tumours are a rare pathogical entity. In the vast majority of cases these tumours are benign [1,2]; among malignant histotypes, angiosarcoma is the most common, representing 15–35% of all cardiac tumours [2,3]. Primary cardiac angiosa...

We describe a case of a so far unknown complication after failed extraction of defibrillator leads. Perforation of the LIMA bypass caused by Excimer laser created an arterio-venous fistula from the proximal bypass to the superior subclavian vein and...