You are currently viewing a new version of our website. To view the old version click .
  • Cardiovascular Medicine is published by MDPI from Volume 28 Issue 1 (2025). Previous articles were published by another publisher in Open Access under a CC-BY (or CC-BY-NC-ND) licence, and they are hosted by MDPI on mdpi.com as a courtesy and upon agreement with Editores Medicorum Helveticorum (EMH).

Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 17, Issue 2

02 2014 - 10 articles

  • Issues are regarded as officially published after their release is announced to the table of contents alert mailing list .
  • You may sign up for email alerts to receive table of contents of newly released issues.
  • PDF is the official format for papers published in both, html and pdf forms. To view the papers in pdf format, click on the "PDF Full-text" link, and use the free Adobe Reader to open them.

Articles (10)

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
77 Views
3 Pages

This review indicates that the incidence of left ventricular hypertrophy which was a hallmark of hypertensive heart disease is decreasing. This review describes the work to assess hypertensive heart disease today. Proof of hypertension has to be docu...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
80 Views
3 Pages

Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) is a specialised form of advanced cardiac life support that can be utilised in critically ill patients who require short term cardiac support. Cardiac imaging, especially with echocardiograph...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
101 Views
2 Pages

Coronary Spasm Provocation Testing: Still Useful?

  • Felipe Andres Molina Jaque,
  • Andrew Christopher Rahardja,
  • Timothy Watson and
  • Mark Webster

This short and interesting case demonstrates very aptly the potential clinical utility of provocation testing for coronary artery spasm and briefly discusses the uncertainty encountered in interpreting the test.

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
91 Views
4 Pages

Role of Foetal Programming and Epigenetic Mechanisms in the Pathogenesis of Arterial Hypertension

  • Emrush Rexhaj,
  • Stefano F. Rimoldi,
  • Roman Brenner,
  • Agim Pireva,
  • David Cerny,
  • Robert Von Arx,
  • Claudio Sartori,
  • Urs Scherrer and
  • Yves Allemann

Essential hypertension remains poorly understood, despite the enormous efforts of research, which brought understanding of certain physiopathological and treatment mechanisms. New insights have emerged from recent data showing that environmental insu...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
87 Views
2 Pages

When is echocardiography necessary? Patients with arterial hypertension frequently have cardiovascular complications. Echocardiography is needed in those patients for whom cardiac damage is suspected. However, systematic echocardiographic screening t...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
91 Views
12 Pages

Important advances have been made in the past few years in the fields of clinical cardiac electrophysiology and pacing. Researchers and clinicians have a greater understanding of the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying atrial fibrillation (AF),...

Get Alerted

Add your email address to receive forthcoming issues of this journal.

XFacebookLinkedIn
Cardiovasc. Med. - ISSN 1664-204X