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Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 10

10 2015 - 6 articles

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Articles (6)

  • Viewpoint
  • Open Access
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6 Pages

21 October 2015

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) started with a first patient in Zurich, Switzerland, treated by Andreas Grüntzig on September 16, 1977. Having been part of that intervention, I enjoy the privilege of taking care of this patient since. He is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
199 Views
3 Pages

21 October 2015

Introduction: Delayed recognition of congenital heart disease (CHD) is not infrequent and may have a negative impact on the child’s prognosis. A study from our institution published in 2001 showed a rate of late diagnosis as high as 10% of all releva...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Views
9 Pages

The Weak Heart: Perioperative Management

  • Dominique Anne Bettex,
  • Pierre-Guy Chassot and
  • Alain Rudiger

21 October 2015

Heart failure (HF) is known to be a major risk factor in perioperative care. It should be subdivided into systolic or diastolic dysfunction as well as left or right ventricular failure. The perioperative management of HF patients is complex, consisti...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
62 Views
3 Pages

Prolonged Complete AV Block After Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty in a Child

  • Dina-Maria Jakob,
  • Sabine Pallivathukal,
  • Bernhard Meier and
  • Jean-Pierre Pfammatter

21 October 2015

A case is presented of prolonged complete atrioventricular block after elective balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) of a congenital aortic stenosis in a 10-year-old patient. Implantation of a transient transvenous pacemaker for hemodynamic stabilizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Views
6 Pages

Regelmässige Breitkomplextachykardie bei Dekrementaler Präexzitation

  • Ardan M. Sagunera,
  • Andreas Metzner,
  • Sebastian Deiss,
  • Tilman Maurer,
  • Christine Lemes,
  • Kentaro Hayashi,
  • Christian Heeger,
  • Karl-Heinz Kuck,
  • Feifan Ouyang and
  • Erik Wissner

Ein 46-jähriger Mann stellte sich aufgrund von wöchentlich auftretenden Palpitationen mit plötzlichem Beginn und abruptem Ende (on–off) in unserer Ambulanz vor. Diese bestünden seit dem 15­. Lebensjahr, hätten jedoch in den letzten Monaten an Häufigk...

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