This content is machine translated Acute heart failure Diagnostics and initial stabilization Acute heart failure is a life-threatening situation that requires rapid and planned action. How does the clarification take place? What therapeutic measures are available? A look at initial stabilization in…
View Post 1 min This content is machine translated Heart attack risk The microbiome can beat on the heart Every year, around 280,000 people suffer a heart attack in Germany alone. In addition to high blood pressure, high blood cholesterol levels, smoking, obesity and lack of exercise are the…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated 123. Congress of the DGIM, Mannheim Gender Medicine Gender medicine is becoming increasingly important. At the annual meeting of the German Society of Internal Medicine (DGIM) in Mannheim in April 2017, gender differences in selected diseases were among…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated After the heart attack What medication does the patient need? Heart attack patients should receive aspirin 100 mg and the maximum tolerated statin dose for life. Regardless of the type of revascularization, all myocardial infarction patients should take a P2Y12 inhibitor…
View Post 6 min This content is machine translated Update Refresher Internal Medicine “Fat kills” – or is it? At the Update Refresher Internal Medicine, the two cardiologists from the Stadtspital Triemli Prof. Dr. med. Franz Eberli and PD Dr. med. David Kurz discussed news and views from current…
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…
