This content is machine translated Carotid stimulation Update on the current state of research The carotid stimulator is a device that electrically activates the baroreflex mechanism. As a result, sympathetic tone is attenuated and the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is dampened, causing a reduction in blood…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Heart failure Guidelines, telemonitoring, and lessons from negative studies. At the three-country meeting in Bern on the topic of heart failure, experts spoke about the implementation of the guidelines in practice and went into more detail about the possibilities…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated PAVK Rehabilitation Comprehensive therapy for a disease whose risk is underestimated Peripheral arterial disease (pAVD) is the manifestation of a disease that is often misjudged in its importance by patients, but also by physicians. Even if the overall prevalence is between…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Subclinical atrial fibrillation Do you remember? Compared with patients without AF, ischemic insults are significantly more frequent in patients with AF and are associated with more severe impairment and higher mortality. Adequate oral anticoagulation can effectively…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Symptomatic vertebral body hemangioma with neurological complaints Minimally invasive interventional therapy Case Report: In a 30-year-old female patient with lower extremity sensory disturbances, an MRI examination revealed multiple, vascular, tumor-like vertebral body lesions in the upper thoracic spine that corresponded to…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated From different normal values to erectile dysfunction The top 10 problems of hypertension therapy Although the treatment of arterial hypertension is part of the “daily bread” in family practice, it also causes headaches time and again. This is because there are a number of…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Pierre Fabre Pharma Prices of Zanidip and Zanipress lowered For almost 10 years, we have successfully marketed the calcium antagonist Zanidip® (lercanidipine) in Switzerland. In 2012, Zanipress®, a fixed combination with lercanidipine and enalapril (ACE inhibitor), was launched. Zanidip®…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Prevention Summit Lowering blood pressure to prevent dementia? Vascular dementia was the subject of a presentation at the Prevention Summit at the University Hospital Zurich. PD Dr. med. Urs Schwarz, University Hospital Zurich, gave an overview of this…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Hot Line Sessions Which studies were “hot” this year? The Hot Line Sessions are traditionally the best-attended sessions at the ESC Congress, as they present new results of practice-relevant and potentially practice-changing studies from the entire field of cardiology…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Guidelines at the ESC Congress 2014 What is different, what is new? Several new guidelines were also presented at this year’s ESC Congress in Barcelona. Enclosed is an overview of recommendations from pulmonary embolism, myocardial revascularization, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, aortic disease, and noncardiac…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Cholesterol Management Impressive results of PCSK9 inhibitors Cholesterol management was the subject of discussion at the Prevention Summit at the University Hospital Zurich. The new lipid guidelines from the AHA/ACC are generating a lot of criticism. This…
