Cardiovascular Medicine

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Differentiation Between Sinus Bradycardia and Second-Degree Atrioventricular Block by Left Ventricular Pressure Tracing

by Peter Gnehm, Matthias E. Pfisterer and Piero O. Bonetti

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 453; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01137 - 30 Dec 2005

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Case report A66-year-old man with a subacute non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction (Creatinkinase 1540 U/L, Troponin-I 10.7 ng/L) was referred to our hospital for urgent coronary angiography [...] Full article

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Tachycardie Après l’effort

by Jürg Schläpfer

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 452; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01139 (registering DOI) - 30 Dec 2005

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Patient de 65 ans coronarien connu pour un ancien infarctus antérieur avec dysfonction ventriculaire (FE: 30%) adressé pour une ergométrie en raison de la réapparition d’un angor d’effort et de malaises [...] Full article

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Roboter-Assistierte Plazierung Einer Linksventrikulären Elektrode

by O. Reuthebuch, J. Grünenfelder, J. Holzmeister, M. Rahn, U. Schurr, G. Zünd and M. Genoni

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 448; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01141 - 30 Dec 2005

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Biventricular pacing is an accepted therapy in patients suffering from terminal heart failure. Main obstacle however is the positioning of the left ventricular electrode via coronary sinus as well as its reliable fixation. This article describes in a 77-year-old patient an alternative technique [...] Read more.

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Update der Lipidmodulierenden Therapie

by Walter F. Riesen and Giorgio Noseda

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 435; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01138 - 30 Dec 2005

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Lowering LDL-cholesterol in patients with high risk for cardiovascular diseases nowadays is absolutely undebated. Clinical trials with statins have shown that the more LDL-cholesterol is lowered the greater the obtained benefit is. The drugs of choice for LDL-cholesterol lowering are the various statins which either in their highest dose or in combination with ezetimibe in most incidences allows to achieve the required target values. Apart from LDL lowering the increase in HDL is of growing importance. Lowering of LDL-cholesterol is usually associated with a reduction in clinical endpoints of about 30%, while preliminary studies suggest as much as 90% reduction by the combination of decrease in LDL- and increase in HDL-cholesterol. Increasing HDL may be achieved by fibrates or a new form of nicotinic acid with delayed effect, the infusion of reconstituted HDL, apo A-I or apo A-I-Milano, inhibition of the cholesterol ester transfer protein or the inhibition of the cannabinoid receptor 1. The combination of these drugs with statins promise to further improve the prevention of cardiovascular diseases in patients at high risk by drug therapy. Full article

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Echokardiographie bei Kardialer Resynchronisationstherapie

by Ole-A. Breithardt, Björn Göbel, Michael Becker and Andreas Franke

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 426; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01136 - 30 Dec 2005

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Echocardiogaphy in cardiac resynchronisation therapy. An uncoordinated contraction process in patients with cardiac failure is a contributory factor in restricting haemodynamic function independently of myocardial damage at cell level. Cardiac resynchronisation therapy, usually in the form of biventricular stimulation, has brought considerable progress in the treatment of this patient population in the last few years. One difficulty that remains, however, is the selection of suitable patients. In addition to the ECG criteria of asynchronism (QRS broadening over 130–150 ms), echocardiography offers a variety of complementary approaches to quantification of the asynchronism. These are discussed here. Full article

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Computertomographische Koronarangiographie: Teures Spielzeug Oder Diagnostischer Fortschritt?

by Thomas F. Lüscher, Roberto Corti and Philipp A. Kaufmann

Cardiovasc. Med. 2005, 8(12), 421; https://doi.org/10.4414/cvm.2005.01140 - 30 Dec 2005

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Das Herz ist ein verborgenes Organ und der klinischen Untersuchung nur indirekt zugänglich [...] Full article

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