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…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Amyloidoses Heart complaints can give first indication In the field of rare diseases, there is an enormous need to catch up in terms of knowledge, correct diagnosis and therapy. Many primary care physicians are also feeling this…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated PARTNER study To what extent do diabetic patients with severe aortic valve stenosis benefit from TAVI? The PARTNER trial was the first randomized trial to demonstrate that TAVI (transcatheter aortic valve implantation) is a valid alternative to surgical aortic valve replacement in patients at high surgical…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Stroke Outreach Mobile Experts advocate complementary studies When a clot blocks a blood vessel in the brain, as happens in strokes, every minute counts. The Stroke Emergency Mobile (STEMO) of the Berlin STEMO Consortium of the Fire…
View Post 3 min This content is machine translated Edwards SAPIEN 3 How does the new generation perform in practice? With CARDIOVASC, PD Patrick Diemert, MD, of the University Heart Center Hamburg, Germany, discussed the advantages of Edwards’ new generation of TAVI heart valves. He discussed the advances over older…
View Post 2 min This content is machine translated Heart failure Cofactors and therapeutic approaches This issue of CARDIOVASC focuses on “Heart Failure.” This is a still underestimated condition that mainly affects the elderly population and is associated with a progressive deterioration in quality of…
