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Cardiovascular Medicine, Volume 26, Issue 4

2023 08 - 10 articles

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Articles (10)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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Percutaneous Coronary Interventions During Automated Chest Compression for Arrest

  • Thomas Fishman,
  • Vincent Ribordy,
  • Serban Puricel,
  • Mario Togni,
  • Sébastien Doll,
  • Diego Arroyo and
  • Stéphane Cook

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...

  • Review
  • Open Access
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5 Pages

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...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
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Intracardiac Echocardiography to Guide Biopsy of an Intracardiac Right-Sided Mass

  • Teodor Serban,
  • Diego Mannhart,
  • Otmar Pfister,
  • Michael Kühne,
  • Christian Sticherling and
  • Patrick Badertscher

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...

  • Interesting Images
  • Open Access
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Wide-Complex Tachycardia in a Patient with Previous Accessory Pathway Ablation

  • Tolga Çimen,
  • Nadine Molitor,
  • Thomas Wolber,
  • Fırat Duru and
  • Ardan Muammer Saguner

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) [...]

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
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3 Pages

The Turkish Sabre

  • Teresa Podstatzky-Lichtenstein,
  • Pascal Berdat and
  • Lars Englberger
Cardiovasc. Med.2023, 26(4), 133;https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2023.02235 
(registering DOI)

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...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
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Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia with Upper Common Pathway Block

  • Jan Berg,
  • Daniel Hofer,
  • Feifan Ouyang and
  • Ardan M. Saguner

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.

  • Review
  • Open Access
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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...

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