2006 05 - 6 articles
The incidence of heart failure is increasing and patients are threatened to die of pump failure as well as of sudden cardiac death (SCD). Lately, cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) has been introduced to treat patients with persistent heart fail...
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy may lead to remarkable improvement in clinical status in selected patients with heart failure. However, approximately 20% of patients may not respond to this treatment. A major challenge lies in reducing the number o...
Der Traum von der Unsterblichkeit hat das Denken der Menschen von Anbeginn beherrscht. Der durch Krankheit und Alter bedingte Verfall [...]
Die antithrombotische Behandlung hat sich als wichtige Stütze bei der Therapie akuter Koronarsyndrome etabliert [...]
Patiente de 78 ans, adressée par son médecin traitant pour une «tachycardie sinusale» présente depuis plusieurs semaines [...]
Anomalous origin of coronary arteries represents a rare anomaly affecting around 1% of the population out of which the aberrant origin of the left main stem is its rarest form. Clinically it may cause recurrent ischaemia, heart failure or sudden deat...
