2013 06 - 8 articles
Dass es Regeln für den Alltag braucht, scheint uns selbstverständlich – wir erlernen sie in der Schule, in der Kirche, für die Fahrprüfung, im Militär, im Studium, und wir geben sie an unsere Kinder weiter, richten unseren Hund ab (nur die Katze will...
A 36-year-old woman was seen at the Cardiac Congenital Clinic for her annual visit. She was born with a dtransposition of the great arteries (d-TGA) and underwent a Rashkind procedure shortly after birth, followed by a Senning procedure (atrial switc...
Cardiac patients with acute symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnoea and arrhythmias are in need of immediate and professional care. In the old days, rapid appropriate measures were of less importance because of the inefficacy of many treatment modaliti...
A 73-year-old male patient was transferred to our institution for endovascular treatment of mesenteric isch aemia [...]
In the past, female physicians, especially cardiologists, were a rarity. The first physicians were officially trained only at the end of the 19th century. In the last decades of the 20th century, the number of women in medicine increased tremendously...
The innovative Spotlight of the Congress is “The heart interacting with systemic organs”. For our patients, the interaction of cardiac conditions with other organs is fundamentally important to outcome, to safety and to clinical management. Related s...
A 27-year-old male with no previous medical history presented with dyspnoea during exercise and intermittent irregular heartbeats [...]
A 65-year-old male presented with acute anterior wall myocardial infarction for which he received fibrinolytic therapy [...]
