Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 15, Issue 3

Since the first description of the athlete’s heart in 1899 by Henschen and Darling, the knowledge on cardiovascular adaptations to exercise conditioning h as expanded considerably. There is an ongoing debate about the true nature of the athlete’s hea...

Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is a chronic, progressive atherosclerotic process limiting the blood flow to the lower limbs which causes an imbalance between oxygen supply and metabolic needs during physical activity with typical claudication symp...

There are anatomical limitations in the effective use of distal protection devices, related to the fact that a balloon or stent can only be deployed at a certain distance from the filter. We describe a way to limit the embolic load in a vein graft an...

Sport after thoracic aortic surgery and aortic valve operations. The pre- and postoperative management of athletes with diseases of the aortic valve and/or the ascending aorta is challenging for the surgeon and the cardiologist. The choice of surgica...

A 49-year-old man without any medical history of note was admitted to our hospital because of haemodynamically compromising wide-complex tachycardia requiring electrical cardioversion. [...]

A 87-year-old female patient was hospitalised for decline in general health status, fatigue and oedema following a fall two weeks earlier. [...]

Sports and grown-up congenital heart disease in adults The number of patients with “Grown-up Congenital Heart Disease” (GUCH) is steadily growing. The mortality of today’s GUCH patients is low (around <1% per year), but one third of these patients...