This content is machine translated Ablation for atrial fibrillation When and for whom? The three basic pillars of therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF) are reduction of stroke risk, prevention of tachycardiomyopathy, and improvement of quality of life through symptom relief. Catheter…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Stress, depression and CHD Which depression is particularly “cardiotoxic”? At the SGIM Congress in Basel, Prof. Roland von Känel, MD, Head of Psychosomatic Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Barmelweid Clinic, gave an update on the relationship between stress,…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Mechanical vaccination can save lives Atrial appendage closure in patients with atrial fibrillation More than 95% of all emboli in patients with atrial fibrillation originate in the left atrial ear. Atrial appendage closure can be performed by means of a 20-minute procedure under…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated ESC Congress in London Much discussed results on myocardial infarction and pacemakers. Once again this year, numerous exciting events took place at the ESC Congress in London. As always, the hot-line sessions with cutting-edge and practice-relevant study results generated a lot of…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated From HIV to smoking to coffee News and study results from the European Hypertension Congress In June 2015, the “25th European Meeting on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Protection” was held in Milan. In various oral sessions, the latest study results on subfields of hypertension research were…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Endovascular therapy for stroke Which patients benefit from stent retriever thrombectomy? Mechanical thrombectomy with stent retrievers for the treatment of ischemic stroke in proximal cerebral vascular occlusion is superior to intravenous thrombolysis alone. In particular, patients with proven occlusion of a…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated Cardiac arrhythmias News about atrial fibrillation At a symposium on cardiac arrhythmias at the Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, the epidemiology, diagnostics and risk assessment of atrial fibrillation were discussed. In addition, the study situation regarding direct oral…
View Post 5 min 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…
