- Editorial
Ein Paradoxon zum Nachdenken
- Thomas Lüscher
Damals, in tiefer Vergangenheit, ging es gelegentlich wild zu und her [...]
2023 08 - 10 articles
Damals, in tiefer Vergangenheit, ging es gelegentlich wild zu und her [...]
Background: The Lund University Cardiopulmonary Assist System-2/-3 was developed for auto-matic chest compressions during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (mechanical CPR or MCPR) and often allows a patient suffering from cardiac arrest to be taken to t...
A relevant proportion of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) have a high risk of bleeding. The associated individual risk of ischaemia can be differentiated by an app-based approach and helps to determine the duration of inte...
A 38-year-old male smoker with serum LDL-cholesterol of 6.4 mmol/l and a family history of coronary artery disease (father with acute myocardial infarction at the age of 45)[...]
Introduction: The diagnosis and characterisation of intracardiac tumours is challenging. Transoesophageal echocardiographic guided biopsy is an established method to confirm the pathology. Intracardiac echography (ICE) may help to increase the diagno...
Case Presentation. A 60-year-old man with a history of a right-sided accessory pathway ablated at age 50, presented to a smaller hospital with recurrent palpitations and a regular wide-complex tach ycardia (WCT) (fig. 1) [...]
2 August 2023
Scimitar syndrome manifesting in adulthood can easily be overlooked owing to mild symptoms. Once diagnosed, operative correction should not be delayed as it can cause severe right heart dysfunction. There are several surgical approaches to recreating...
We present the case of a 34-year-old man with paroxysmal narrow complex tachycardias. An EP study revealed AVNRT with upper common pathway block. Our case shows a diagnostic ap proach and treatment for this rare scenario in the EP lab.
Valve interventions in left sided valvular heart disease, mainly such as transcatheter aortic valve implantations (TAVI) and transcatheter edge-to-edge repairs (TEER) have emerged as alternative treatments in symptomatic severe aortic stenosis and se...
Syncope is defined as a transient loss of consciousness due to transient cerebral hypoperfusion. It is a frequent cause of consulting in the emergency department, and cardiac arrhythmias play an important role in differential diagnosis. This review a...