This content is machine translated Anticoagulation for atrial fibrillation (AFib) HAS-BLED score as a reference point for risk stratification Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a common cardiac arrhythmia and increases the risk of suffering a stroke. According to the current ESC guideline, patients with VHF without a clear contraindication should…
View Post 5 min This content is machine translated Atrial Fibrillation (VHF) - Swiss-AF Study Physical activity and vascular brain lesions in elderly VHF patients Swiss-AF is a prospective observational study conducted throughout Switzerland at a total of 14 centers investigating the relationship between atrial fibrillation and impaired brain performance. A substudy analyzed whether there…
View Post 7 min This content is machine translated WPW Syndrome Diagnosis and therapy in Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) syndrome In patients with WPW syndrome, orthodromic AV reentry tachycardia (regular narrow complex tachycardia) is most common, but antidromic AV reentry tachycardia (regular wide complex tachycardia) or atrial fibrillation with conduction…
View Post 9 min This content is machine translated Atrial fibrillation Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: a pathophysiology-based update. Catheter ablation of symptomatic paroxysmal atrial fibrillation is an established therapeutic procedure with good prospects of success and low risk. Pulmonary vein isolation remains the basis of successful catheter ablation.…
View Post 6 min 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 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 6 min This content is machine translated Symposium Interventional Cardiology Too much of a good thing or not enough? The Interventional Cardiology Symposium at the University Hospital Zurich was also dedicated to anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents. Here, the question was “one, two, or three?” As it turned out, the…
View Post 8 min This content is machine translated Update and outlook Ebola and other viral hemorrhagic fevers The clinical presentation of viral hemorrhagic fever (VHF) is mostly nonspecific (flu-like syndrome) and difficult to distinguish from other common infectious diseases. For risk assessment, the case definition of the…
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 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 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…
