Pacienti po infarktu nechtějí být zdraví

Jindřich Špinar, Jiří Vítovec

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):443-444  

Čtyřicet let od první transplantace srdce

Ivan Málek

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):445  

Prognosis of patients with mechanical ventilation in the acute phase of myocardial infarction in the era of primary coronary intervention

Radovan Jirmář, Martin Pěnička, Zuzana Moťovská, Petr Widimský

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):448-453 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.158  

Aim:1. To determine the prognosis of patients treated by primary coronary intervention (PCI) for acute myocardial infarction (MI) requiring mechanical ventilation (MV) in the acute phase of MI.2. To analyze the causes of death of these patients.3. To compare the long-term mortality of the group of acute IM patients receiving MV with the group without MV. Patient group:The long-term prognosis of a group of 510 patients from Prague region, admitted for acute MI (STEMI and non-STEMI) over the period from January 2003 through December 2005, and indicated for PCI, was assessed retrospectively. Results:In...

Left ventricular lateral wall pseudoaneurysm

Karel Kopřiva, Ondřej Aschermann, Eva Mandysová, Petr Kmoníček, Pavel Formánek, Miloš Táborský, Josef Vymazal

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):454-458 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.159  

Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm is a rare complication of myocardial infarction. Since the risk of rupture is many times higher compared with that of true aneurysm, an ability to distinguish one condition from the other is critical for the decision-making on the therapeutic procedure. As symptoms, physical examination, ECG, and chest x-ray are non-specific in most cases, the techniques playing the most important role in the diagnosis of pseudoaneurysm include ventriculography, echocardiography, and more recently, magnetic resonance imaging and cardiac computed tomography. The authors present the case of a 75-year-old female patient developing a lateral...

A rare neurological complication after a cardiac surgical procedure

Ingrid Porubčinová, František Sabol, Jana Jevčáková

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):460-462 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.160  

The authors describe the case of a 61-year-old man with several diseases, admitted to a department of cardiac surgery to undergo elective revascularization for multiple-vessel disease. In the early postoperative period, the patient was shown to have suffered a perioperative myocardial infarction. Massive pharmacotherapy and mechanical cardiac support were required to stabilize the patient s condition. After extubation, the patient s state was again complicated by dysphonia and dysphagia. Given the progression of these conditions, we started an extensive differential diagnosis process (chest x-ray, examination of the ear, nose and neck, gastroscopy,...

Komplikovaná infekční endokarditida aortální a mitrální chlopně

Josef Šťastný, Ivo Skalský, Jana Vrbská, Tomáš Marek, Josef Kautzner

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):447 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.157  

The ADVANCE trial published. A fixed perindopril/indapamide combination for all patients with diabetes?

Jiří Widimský

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):463-465  

The ADVANCE trial is the largest randomized prospective study in type-2 diabetes. The trial compared the effects of addition of a fixed combination of perindopril/indapamide to current treatment versus placebo in over 11,000 patients with diabetes. Active therapy resulted in a significant decrease in macrovascular and microvascular complications as the primary endpoint of the trial. There was also a significant decrease in total and cardiovascular mortality. The total number of coronary events likewise fell significantly. Further, this therapy led to a significant decrease in new-onset microalbuminuria. The main mechanism is thought to be blood pressure...

Mitral stenosis and regurgitation.

Vladimír Rozsíval, Pavel Žáček, Libor Hemžský

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):467-480 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2007.162  

This article addresses various aspects of mitral stenosis and regurgitation from communication with the patient, through auscultation to ultrasound examination, and to catheterization. After quantifying mitral valve disease, the pharmacological, catheter-based, and surgical therapeutic options with each condition are discussed.

Od léčení nemocí a rizika k léčení celé populace

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K316  

Kongres Evropské kardiologické společnosti (European Society of Cardiology - ESC)

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K317  

Plicní hypertenze na kongrese Evropské kardiologické společnosti

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K318  

Praktické naplňování triády "Znalosti - postoje - chování" v prevenci kardiovaskulárních onemocnění: Světový den srdce v Olomouci

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K319  

Zápis ze schůze výboru ČKS, konané dne 16. října 2007 v Praze

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K320-321  

Domácí akce

Cor Vasa 2007, 49(12):K322-323