Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 17, Issue 9

The fact that non-valvular (non-rheumatic) atrial fibrillation creates detectable thrombi in 17% of patients without oral anticoagulation and that 16% of the 17% (over 90% relatively) reside in the left atrial appendage (LAA), suggest that patients w...

Against all odds, as a foreign body in a coronary artery was considered too thrombogenic, coronary artery stents have become a standard feature of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). After initial reluctance to employ coronary stents based on m...

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection is a rather rare cause of chest pain. Recurrent spontaneous dissection is even more uncommon and the extant literature reports very few cases. We describe the case of a 46-year-old woman, who presented two spont...

Membranous ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a rare complication of surgical aortic valve replacement. We describe a complex case of iatrogenic VSD following surgical aortic valve replacement with a bioprosthetic aortic valve. VSD could be successfu...

Case report A 20-day-old neonate was referred to our tertiary care institute for evaluation of increased precordial activity and feeding difficulty [...]

Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of complications in pregnancy worldwide and the number of patients who develop cardiac problems during pregnancy is increasing. The physiological changes occurring during pregnancy and in the peripartum period...

Thanks to the outstanding surgical talent and competence of Åke Senning, since 1961 head of cardiovascular and visceral surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich, the indications for operative corrections were gradually extended to most congenital...