Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 24, Issue 5

During the COVID-19 pandemic postgraduate education is quite challenging, as face-to-face meetings are prohibited, particularly where infection rates are high.[...]

A 46-year-old male smoker, with a positive family history of premature coronary artery disease and a history of arterial hypertension and hyperlipidaemia was referred for coronary angiography because of episodes of stabbing precordial chest pain elic...

The Zurich team, with an amazing editorial staff at the Zurich Heart House and excellent editors covering the entire spectrum of cardiovascular medicine from Europe, USA and Asia, took over the European Heart Journal from Frans von de Werf in 2009 wi...

The Swiss Society of Hypertension (SSH) has the privilege to announce the first Publication Award of the SSH [...]

A 76-year-old male presented to the emergency room with a sudden progression of chronic intermittent retrosternal chest pain for 2 hours [...]

The authors present a case of acute coronary syndrome caused by a covered rupture of the aorta compressing the left main coronary artery. The cause of the rupture was later revealed to be a giant cell aortitis in a patient who had no other symptoms a...

We present three cases of patients who devel-oped acute, non-severe myocarditis following messenger RNA-1273 vaccine from Moderna (Moderna Inc.) against the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). A brief review of the literatur...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the major cause of mortality and healthcare costs worldwide [...]

Dual antiplatelet therapy (DA PT) is the evidence-based standard of care in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) managed invasively or noninvasively, as well as for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease (CAD). The optimal treatment d...

After intervention on the thoracic aorta, various early and late complications can occur. Here we present the case of a 63-year-old patient with a false aortic aneurysm 17 years after the last aortic surgery, stressing the importance of life-long fol...