03 2018 - 7 articles
The Swiss Society of Cardiology (SSC) has created the Otto Hess Trainee Award to recognise and support trainees in cardiology who have made a significant contribution to research in the field at an early stage of their career [...]
14 March 2018
Rules for entry: 1 The Swiss Amgen Cardiology Research Award is awarded for original research work in cardiovascular disease [...]
BACKGROUND: Chronic total occlusions (CTOs) are a common finding in patients with coronary artery disease; however, their best management is currently debated. OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to assess treatment strategies in patients with CTOs...
Loop recorders continuously monitor a patient’s ECG and have a “retrospective” programmable memory to store heart rhythm abnormalities [1] [...]
An 84-year-old woman known to have arterial hypertension was sent to our division because of new onset symptomatic typical atrial flutter with a heart rate of about 130 bpm (fig. 1) [...]
Takotsubo cardiomyopathy (TSC) is characterised by a transient left ventricular dysfunction typically induced by stressful events, such as invasive procedures, in the absence of obstructive coronary artery disease. However, to date, no cases of TSC d...
Myocardial revascularisation by means of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) has an established role for the treatment of coronary artery disease. During the past years, the introduction of new-generatio...
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