This content is machine translated Iron and heart failure Iron deficiency and anemia worsen prognosis in heart failure Iron deficiency is a common comorbidity in chronic heart failure and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality independent of the presence of anemia. In chronic heart failure, annual anemia…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 1st Bern Atrial Fibrillation Day Current questions and answers about the most common cardiac arrhythmia Atrial fibrillation (VHF), the most common cardiac arrhythmia, already affects about 100,000 people in Switzerland. Within the next 50 years, the prevalence is expected to double. Reason enough to give…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Congress of the American College of Cardiology (ACC 2014 Washington) News and scientific highlights At the end of March, more than 13,000 cardiologists from around the world gathered in Washington DC to present and discuss the latest scientific findings in the field of prevention,…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Heart failure and heart replacement procedures When should the primary care physician refer the patient? Heart replacement procedures are increasingly important and highly effective therapeutic procedures for affected patients. Despite the progress made in recent years, they are still mistakenly seen as the “ultima ratio”.…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Iron deficiency One finding, different patients The 7th Iron Academy in Zurich was all about iron deficiency. This occurs with or without anemia, at any age and in very different situations. In chronic diseases such as…
View Post 10 min This content is machine translated Central pain after stroke Tricyclics and calcium channel modulators as first-line therapeutic options The occurrence of pain as a result of stroke presents a pain medicine challenge. Although the knowledge of pathophysiological mechanisms of neuropathic pain after stroke has increased significantly in recent…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Aortic valve stenosis What is the role of the primary care physician? Various heart specialists from the University Hospital Zurich discussed the diagnosis and treatment of aortic valve stenosis at the Zurich Heart House, Foundation for Cardiovascular Research. The disease, treated purely…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Chronic heart failure and stroke prevention in VHF. Optimized treatment regimens and new therapeutic options The December lecture series in Zurich featured a presentation by PD Georg Noll, MD, on the treatment of chronic heart failure, in which he shared his practical clinical experience. The…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated 4th Bern Heart Valve Symposium New transfemoral TAVI systems and the Swiss TAVI Registry The new transfemoral TAVI systems, either in development or already certified, address potential vulnerabilities and limitations, such as paravalvular insufficiency or risk of vascular complication. This article, based on a…
View Post 4 min This content is machine translated Interview on the ACC/AHA guidelines Lipid treatment recommendation meets with little approval Statins continue to be the drug of choice for LDL-C therapy, although not all patients achieve their target levels with therapy alone. However, the paradigm shift implemented in the new…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Anticoagulation in cardiac assist devices No study results with new oral anticoagulants to date. Anticoagulation must be individualized to the support system and patient. Patients with non-pulsatile systems have been shown to have acquired von Willebrand syndrome, which increases the risk for bleeding complications.…
