This content is machine translated Cardiac diseases in women Arrhythmias during pregnancy Arrhythmias are one of the most common cardiac complications during pregnancy in women with and without known structural heart disease. Arrhythmias that were previously infrequent may become more frequent during…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Zurich Review Course in Clinical Cardiology Are mechanical heart valves “out”? It was a long way from the development of the first artificial heart valve in the 1960s to modern biological heart valves made from animal tissue. At least in Europe,…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Alcohol consumption Low-risk consumption limits need to be reconsidered How does regular alcohol consumption of more than 100 g/week affect all-cause mortality and the risk of cardiovascular sequelae? A recent study by the University of Cambridge has recorded the drinking…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Nutrition and chronic diseases A sweet reckoning 41% of the Swiss population is overweight. The Swiss Diabetes Association estimates that nearly 500,000 people in Switzerland have diabetes. Insulin-resistant obese diabetics are at increased risk for an army…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated ACC 2018 Success story of PCSK9 inhibition continues For the first time after the highly acclaimed FOURIER trial, a PCSK9 inhibitor now also shows a mortality benefit in secondary prevention. The product in question is alirocumab. Experts are…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Multivalvular heart disease Aortic Stenosis and Mitral Valve Regurgitation – Diagnosis and Therapy Multivalvular heart disease is a common condition whose incidence will continue to increase as a result of demographic change. A combination of aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation is most common.…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Coronary heart disease (CHD) Clarification by means of coronary CT Coronary CT allows direct visualization and assessment of the coronaries after i.v. contrast administration and can exclude CAD in symptomatic patients with high negative predictive value. It takes little time…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Cardiac imaging What is the role of myocardial scintigraphy, PET, and SPECT? Myocardial perfusion studies using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) are established methods with high diagnostic accuracy for noninvasive ischemia diagnosis in suspected and known CAD.…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 13th Zurich Hypertension Day The difficult to adjust blood pressure 50% of hypertensives are not well controlled with prescribed medications, and about 40% of sufferers in Switzerland are not diagnosed at all. Thilo Burkard, MD, spoke at the Zurich Hypertension…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Swiss study Cancer and heart attack – a problematic combination More and more Swiss people are surviving their cancer. However, as a result, they run the risk of dying from cardiovascular problems. Unfortunately, it is in these patients that the…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Pacemaker Pacemaker knowledge for family physicians The most common indications for pacing are symptomatic second- and third-degree AV blocks, a sick sinus node with symptomatic pauses, and symptomatic chronotropic incompetence. To avoid patient hazards during surgery…
