This content is machine translated Pacemaker What the internist should know At the Internal Medicine Update Refresher in Zurich, Christine Franzini, MD, from the Stadtspital Triemli, vividly explained the tasks that cardiac pacemakers can perform in modern medicine. She discussed the…
View Post 11 min This content is machine translated Myocarditis and pericarditis Inflammatory Heart Diseases – Clinic and Importance of Laboratory Diagnostics. There are no validated, sufficiently sensitive and specific laboratory chemistry parameters for the diagnosis of myocarditis or pericarditis. When myocarditis is clinically suspected, elevated cardiac troponins have positive predictive value…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated European Stroke Conference Diabetes, CHD, and cardiac surgery studied in more detail as stroke risk factors From May 12-15, 2015, the “European Stroke Conference” took place in Vienna. The spectrum of studies and abstracts presented ranged from basic research to clinical trials to stroke rehabilitation and…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated SGK Annual Conference 2015 Acute heart failure deserves more attention At the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Cardiology in Zurich, a main session was dedicated to acute heart failure. New findings and studies from the pharmacological field were…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Zurich Review Course in Clinical Cardiology. Always take syncope in athletes seriously The first day of the Zurich Review Course focused on current news in cardiology. What is the benefit of iron deficiency therapy in heart failure? When should which of the…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated New guidelines for acute pulmonary embolism Close monitoring in patients at intermediate risk of mortality. The ESC issued new recommendations on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism toward the end of last year [1]. The most relevant innovations compared with the 2008 version…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) 1-year results of the SAPIEN 3 study At EuroPCR, the Congress of Interventional Medicine, held in Paris in May 2015, the latest results of various studies on TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) were presented, among other topics.…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Overweight and sport How can you improve your energy balance? The Federal Statistical Office is merciless! The publication released by the FSO at the end of 2014, based on the Swiss Health Survey conducted every five years, makes it clear:…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Therapy update on atrial fibrillation Important concepts and new paradigms in the treatment of atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation is a dynamic arrhythmia that requires individual and broad investigations and therapeutic approaches. Comprehensive treatment of atrial fibrillation patients is based on five pillars: 1. prevention of thromboembolic…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Phytotherapeutic treatment of hypertension Field reports from a family practice The following article deals with the opinion that only harmless complaints can be treated with phytotherapy and that synthetic drugs are needed for “real” diseases. Experienced doctors can successfully treat…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated ACC Congress in San Diego “Universal antidote” of the future? An antidote to Factor Xa inhibitors is making great progress in clinical trials: Andexanet alfa. New results were presented at the American College of Cardiology Congress in San Diego: According…
