This content is machine translated Smoking cessation A difficult task for those affected Tobacco consumption in Switzerland remains high: according to an estimate based on the CoRolAR survey, more than a quarter of the Swiss population aged 15 and over smokes. How can…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Dyspnea Important questions, dangerous traps, special facets “Try to relax and breathe calmly. Very calmly. If you now find breathing uncomfortable, you have already experienced the problem of dyspnea” – in this or a similar way, the…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Pneumology Do not jump to conclusions, but make an accurate diagnosis Dear colleagues, can you imagine that in an emergency department, when a heart attack is suspected, a registration to the cath lab is made without an ECG being derived beforehand?…
View Post 14 min This content is machine translated Cardiogenic and transcardiac embolic ischemic strokes. Causes and prophylaxis Cardiogenic emboli are mostly embolized thrombi from the left atrial ear in atrial fibrillation. Primary and secondary prophylaxis of ischemic cerebral events is based on their causality, if this can…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Stroke from a neuroradiological point of view Clarification of some interventional issues Endovascular therapy for acute ischemic stroke focuses primarily on mechanical removal of thrombi from the affected cerebral vessel (mechanical thrombectomy). Using second-generation techniques (stent retrievers), high recanalization rates can be…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated News from nephrology Renal insufficiency and hypertension Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is classified according to the type of underlying disease, filtration rate and extent of proteinuria. Patients with CKD are cardiovascular risk patients. Cardiovascular morbidity increases with…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated ARUBA study Drug therapy continues to perform better A new extrapolation on the ARUBA trial shows that the benefit of simple drug therapy over intervention in patients with asymptomatic arteriovenous malformations may last much longer than originally thought.
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Diabetes, hypertension and stable CHD The latest guidelines of the European Society of Cardiology In 2013, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) published new guidelines on various cardiovascular diseases. These were presented in a Main Session at the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated TAVI From good to better At the first Scientific Session of the Annual Meeting of the Swiss Society of Cardiology on June 11, 2014, the focus was on TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation). Cardiac surgeons…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Nutrition in cardiovascular diseases Do food additives lower the risk of heart attack? One of the workshops at the annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Cardiology on June 12, 2014, examined the role of diet in cardiovascular disease. How do alcohol, omega-3…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Congress of the European Society of Hypertension (ESH) Fat people think faster Dozens of new study results were presented at this year’s European Society of Hypertension (ESH) and International Society of Hypertension Congress in Athens. The focus was not only on high…
