Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 18, Issue 4

A 41-year-old women with Ebstein’s anomaly required tricuspid valve replacement six years ago. At that time a biological prosthesis was implanted. The tricuspid valve prosthesis became severely stenotic within five years. Instead of re-do surgery, th...

Background: Contrast-guided axillary vein puncture has gained popularity for pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implantation in adults owing to its low risk profile, and could be an alternative to subclavian vein puncture, whi...

Shortly after the World Economic Forum, the 21st Postgraduate Course in Cardiovascular Disease, the Cardiology Update 2015 was held at the Congress Centre in Davos from February 8–12, 2015. [...]

An 82-year-old man presented to the emergency department with severe pain and progressive blue discolouration of the left foot. [...]

Grown-up congenital heart disease (GUCH) is a rapidly growing field in adult cardiology with specific needs.[...]

Gastroenterological contraindications to transoesophageal echocardiography. Transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is considered a safe procedure. Serious or even fatal complications are rare. The most relevant gastrointestinal complication is oesop...

There is abundant evidence indicating that pathological events during early life predispose to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases later in life. Recent evidence suggests that assisted reproductive technologies (ART) represent a novel important exa...

Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) and complications occur prematurely and approximately 1.5 times more frequently in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) compared to the general population. The higher level of CV complications is insufficiently explai...

Introduction. The first “Guidelines for quality maintenance in echocardiography“ were published by the Working Group of Echocardiography of the Swiss Society of Cardiology in 1999, then revised in 2009 [...]