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Michael Aschermann

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):254  

Implantation of stents into significant carotid artery stenoses using the FilterWire EZ^TM system

Josef Veselka, Petra Zimolová, Pavel Stanka, Lucie Martinkovičová, Daniela Černá, Jiří Fiedler, Petr Hájek, Martin Malý, David Zemánek, Radka Adlová, David Tesař, Aleš Tomek, Martin Šrámek

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):255-259 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.064  

Objectives: To report on the early outcomes of a prospective single-center registry, which evaluated the feasibility, safety and effectiveness of carotid artery stenting using the FilterWire EZ^TM Embolic Protection System in high-risk patients.Methods: Between September 2005 and November 2008, 185 consecutive patients (70±9 years, 34% symptomatic, 87% at high risk) underwent 226 carotid artery stenting procedures with the FilterWire EZ^TM Embolic Protection System and different carotid stents. This study included both symptomatic (≥50% carotid artery stenosis) as well as asymptomatic (≥70% carotid artery stenosis)...

The story of surgical treatment of transposition of the great arteries in childhood and results of such treatment at our department

Bohumil Hučín, Marie Voříšková, Milan Šamánek, Václav Chaloupecký, Oleg Reich, Jan Škovránek

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):260-267 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.065  

Aim: To demonstrate the complicated evolution of techniques of the surgical treatment of transposition of the great arteries in the world as well as in our country. The successful mastery of the total correction of transposition of the great arteries using our own results has been demonstrated.Evolution of surgery of transposition: Palliative procedures were initiated in the world by Blalock and Hanlon atrioseptectomy in 1948. Successful correction of transposition at the atrial level was started by Senning in 1959 and Mustard in 1963. Correction of transposition at the ventricular level was suggested by Rastelli in 1969, and with correction at...

The characteristics and drug therapy of patients with chronic systolic heart failure of ischemic etiology in the Czech Republic

Jaromír Hradec, John Wikstrand, Lubica Černáková

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):268-273 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.066  

Introduction: There is a lack of reliable information about the clinical characteristics and treatment of patients with chronic heart failure in the Czech Republic (CR). Nationwide data from the IMPROVEMENT-HF survey carried out in the offices of general practitioners, and the EUROHEART-HF survey in hospitals are inaccurate and have numerous limitations.Aim: To obtain data about the clinical status and drug therapy of patients with chronic systolic heart failure of ischemic origin in the CR.Methods: Data from a total of 497 patients enrolled within the CR into the international multicenter clinical CORONA trial were analyzed. The characteristics...

Beneficial effect of antioxidants and polarized light on selected metabolic and echocardiographic parameters in diabetics

Patrik Palacka, Ján Murín, Jarmila Kucharská, Iveta Waczulíková, Katarína Dostálová, Mária Čížová, Štefánia Moricová, Anna Gvozdjáková

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):274-278 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.067  

Background: Enhanced production of reactive oxygen species and decreased antioxidant function play a role in the development of chronic diabetic complications.Objective: To determine whether supplementation with antioxidants (coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), α-lipoic acid (ALA), α-tocopherol) and simultaneous polarized light (PL) application can improve selected metabolic and echocardiographic parameters of the left ventricle (LV) in diabetics.Patients and methods: Twenty patients with type 2 diabetes were enrolled in a prospective study. Antioxidants were taken in two daily doses (60 mg hydrosoluble CoQ10, 100 mg ALA and 200 mg α-tocopherol)...

Karotický stenting - "evidence based" vs. realita

Michael Želízko

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):302-303  

Treatment of severe pulmonary hypertension with sildenafil in a heart transplant candidate for advanced heart failure

Milada Cihlová, Hikmet Al-Hiti, Vojtěch Melenovský, Ivan Málek, Josef Kautzner

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):279-281 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.068  

In patients with end-stage heart failure, severe pulmonary hypertension is a contraindication to heart transplantation because of the risk for right ventricular failure in the early postoperative period, when the ventricle becomes suddenly exposed to high pressure in the pulmonary circuit. We present the case report of a patient with advanced heart failure and severe pulmonary hypertension, whose -hemodynamic parameters were favorably modulated with sildenafil therapy.

Amyloidosis, a systemic disease with less common involvement of the heart

Simona Michálková, Marek Janotka, Eva Mandysová, Karel Koubek, Jan Škoda, Hana Malíková, Lucie Šedivá, Miloš Táborský

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):282-284 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.069  

Amyloidosis is a systemic disease in which amyloid protein is deposited in various organs. One of the clinically significant presentations of the disease is myocardial involvement. In their report, the authors present the case of a man in whom the disease had initially only atypical presentations, yet with rapid progression of problems. It was not until repeat echocardiographic examination was undertaken and combined with the results of other imaging techniques that the correct diagnosis was established.

The case report of a patient with sinus arrest

Andrej Myjavec, Jiří Kvasnička, Aleš Havlíček, Petr Vojtíšek

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):285-289 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.070  

A challenging area of differential diagnosis in consciousness disorders due to short-term circulatory arrest (syncope) are acute neurological syndromes mimicking syncope. The most common of these syndromes is epilepsy. In about 10% of patients diagnosed to have and treated for epilepsy (mostly those experiencing seizures as the dominant symptom), the underlying cause of a consciousness disorder is short-term circulatory arrest. We report the observation of a patient assessed for recurrent consciousness disorders whose clinical picture of disorders made us consider mainly a neurological cause. The diagnosis - an unusual form of sinus arrest - could...

Combined percutaneous intervention in the coronary and renal arterial beds

Michael Želízko, Martin Polák, Martin Zatloukal, Marcela Burgelová

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):290-293 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.071  

We report the case of a patient with combined prognostically significant coronary artery disease and chronic renal insufficiency in the presence of renal artery disease, whereby both findings were managed by percutaneous coronary intervention.

A left ventricular inferior wall pseudoaneurysm as a complication of an asymptomatic inferior wall myocardial infarction, combined with ischemic mitral regurgitation

Radim Karlík, Martin Tesák, Ondřej Ludka, Tereza Poledníková, Pavel Piler, Petr Kala, Otakar Boček, Jindřich Špinar

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):294-296 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.072  

We report the case of an atypically evolving myocardial infarction in a 47-year-old man, complicated with an inferior wall pseudoaneurysm and ischemic mitral regurgitation.

Jan Lukl a spolupracovníci: Fibrilace síní

Prof. MUDr. Jan Petrášek, DrSc.

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):308  

Farmakoterapie po infarktu myokardu

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):304 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.076  

Izolovaná infekční endokarditida trojcípé chlopně s protrahovanou pleuropneumonií

Jiří Král, Eva Kábrtová, Hana Sedláková, Jan Theuer

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):297-298 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.073  

Raritní komplikace při uzávěru defektu septa síní Amplatzovým okluderem

Martin Běhounek, Antonín Novák, Radim Špaček, Marian Bystroń, Jozef Jakabčin, Jan Dvořák, Pavel Červinka

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):299-300 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.074  

XXXIV. angiologické dny s mezinárodní účastí

Doc. MUDr. Debora Karetová, CSc.

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):307 | DOI: 10.33678/cor.2009.078  

Zápis ze schůze výboru ČKS, konané dne 27. února 2009 v Praze
Plánované výdaje ČKS na rok 2009
Udělování grantů ČKS od roku 2009

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Kalendář odborných akcí

Cor Vasa 2009, 51(4):313-314  

Instructions to Authors

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Co všechno (ne)víme o statinech

Prof. MUDr. František Kölbel, DrSc.

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Tiráž a obsah

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