2016 09 - 6 articles
Students of cardiac disease acquire, with good reason, knowledge on clinical presentation and associated mechanical and electrical derangements of heart function. Myocardial energy metabolism has largely remained a research topic without much impact...
Acute success rate for ablation of supraventicular tachycardia Experiences of a tertiary care center Background: Catheter ablation is considered standard therapy for most patients with supraventricular tachycardia (SVT), with high success and low com...
Percutaneous left ventricular assist devices (pVADs) can provide temporary circulatory support during high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs). We describe the first case in Switzerland of high-risk PCI with a new pVAD, the HeartMate PHP...
Case presentation The 84-year-old patient, who lived abroad, was known to have ischaemic heart disease with an old posterobasal transmural infarction [...]
This case report describes a cause of precordial voltage loss with normal voltage in the peripheral leads in patients with obesity and/or temporal causes of increased intra-abdominal pressure. Important differential diagnoses were excluded with blood...
Recurrent surgery in device patients carries a certain risk of infection and should therefore be kept to a minimum. We present the case of a patient in whom a new pacemaker had to be implanted from the left side and the question was, what should be d...
