2016 12 - 8 articles
The Swiss Heart Foundation awards an annual prize of Swiss Francs 20 000 for one or several outstanding publications/accepted manuscripts of scientific research in the field of prevention, diagnosis and/or treatment of cardiovascular diseases [...]
The 2015 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a European update of the joint guidelines with American College of Cardiology/American...
Patients with a myocardial injury during and after noncardiac surgery have an elevated risk of death. They may have significant coronary artery disease amenable to revascularisation, but over 50% of these patients develop an infarct in territories wi...
At : in the morning, a -year-old male patient in cardiogenic shock was admitted from an outside hospital. Four hours earlier, the patient had become symptomatic with epigastric pain, emesis and syncope, and suffered cardio respiratory arrest [...]
We present a rare case of a 75-year-old man with recurrent Streptococcus pneumoniae endocarditis caused by septic knee arthritis and complicated by a severe second infection after implantation of a total knee endoprosthesis. During the first episode...
Most current guidelines on hypertension regard thiazide and thiazide-like diuretics as equivalent for the first-line treatment of essential hypertension. However, hydrochlorothiazide has been favoured over the thiazide-like chlortalidone in clinical...
«Cardiovascular Medicine», gegründet als «Kardiovaskuläre Medizin/Medecine cardiovasculaire», hat sich als die wichtigste kardiologische Fachzeitschri der Schweiz etabliert [...]
We report the case of a 59-year old patient with a history of orthotopic heart transplantation, who was referred to us because of recurrent syncope due to atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia. This case report is one of few in the literature...
