2014 10 - 8 articles
22 October 2014
Pathomechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation (AF) are very complex and include various electrical and structural remodelling processes involving focal ectopic activity of atrial cells and reentry mechanisms through atrial tissue. This article revie...
A 25-year-old patient was referred to our outpatient clinic because of unexplained exercise intolerance and occasional left-side chest pain [...]
We share a case of unsuccessful use of the SoloPath® balloon-expandable sheath (Onset Medical, a subdivision of Terumo Medical Corporation, Irvine, CA) in a transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement due to kinking in a patient with large di...
We report the case of a 76-year-old man who had a dual-chamber pacemaker implanted 17 years before and was initially admitted due to a Campylobacter fetus bacteraemia without any evident source of infection. He was treated by imipenem/cilastatin foll...
In this review we describe an unusual case report of familial fibromuscular dysplasia with involvement of coronary arteries which manifested as two distinct types of acute coronary syndrome. This case report allows us the opportunity to discuss the d...
Case report. A 78-year-old lady was referred for a pre-operative assessment after a fall with a consecutive fracture of the olecranon [...]
Primary tumours of the heart are mostly benign, consisting mainly of myxomas, with an incidence of less than 0.5% [...]
Important changes in personnel and organisation. Ernst Lüthy, who had become assistant professor, pushed for a quick expansion of the cardiovascular division of the Policlinic and requested more personnel [...]
