2013 08 - 7 articles
We report the case of a 13-year-old boy admitted to our hospital with a history of febrile watery diarrhoea and some features suggesting Kawasaki disease. Treatment with intravenous polyvalent immunoglobulin and aspirin was started with rapid resolut...
The European Heart Journal (fig. 1) is on the move: for the first time in its history, the European Heart Journal is now ranked number 2 of all journals in the field of cardiovascular medicine worldwide, with an impact factor of 14.097 [...]
Idiopathic ventricular tachycardia originates from the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) in the majority of cases, but origins from structures adjacent to the RVOT are well known. The proximity of the posterior RVOT, the aortic cusps and the dis...
Background: Cardiac rehabilitation programmes are effective for implementing secondary prevention in coronary heart disease. Variables influencing the rate of rehabilitation enrollment after PCI or CABG are largely unknown.
Methods: A cohort of conse...
Ein 19-jähriger Patient stellte sich in der Nacht von Samstag auf Sonntag aufgrund akuter Thoraxschmerzen selbständig auf unserer Notfallstation vor. Rund eine Stunde zuvor habe er Ketamin oral sowie Marihuana inhalativ konsumiert [...]
Transthoracic and transoesophageal echocardiography was performed on a 32-year-old, asymptomatic patient nine years after commissurotomy of a stenotic bicuspid aortic valve and supracoronary graft replacement of an aneurysmal ascending aorta [...]
From June 12 to 14, 2013, the joint annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC) and the Swiss Society of Cardiac and Vascular Thoracic Surgery took place in Lugano with over 800 participants [...]
