2005 08 - 6 articles
Drugs to prevent ischaemic stroke. Stroke is the third leading cause of death, the second most common cause of dementia and the leading reason for long-term disability in most industrialised populations. A healthy lifestyle (no smoking, regular physi...
Diagnostic work-up of patients with suspicion of a symptomatic obstruction of the extracranial carotid artery should be performed on an emergency basis. The applied diagnostic method should be (1.) non-invasive and cause no harm to the patient, and (...
Case Report. We report on a 15-year-old and apparently healthy boy, who was in search of work [...]
Fallbeschreibung. Ein 24jähriger Patient mit symptomatischen Tachykardien und seit längerem bekannter Delta-Welle im Oberflächen-EKG (Abb. 1) meldet sich in Ihrer Sprechstunde. Die Indikation für eine Radiofrequenz-Ablation ist aufgrund der Symptomat...
Woody Allens’Weisheit – wohl nicht ganz so gemeint wie hier verwendet – trifft das Thema dieses Bandes [...]
The role of a distal protection device in percutaneous coronary interventions is still controversial, although the concept of reducing thrombus load, distal embolisation with consecutive “no-flow” and ultimately negative remodelling due to myocardial...
