His-Purkinje conduction system pacing

His bundle pacing and left bundle branch area pacing are increasingly being adopted as alternatives to current standard right ventricular and biventricular pacing techniques.

The new ESC core curriculum for cardiology: implications for revision of the Swiss cardiology training programme

The current version of the ESC core curriculum offers an updated content, and a focus on clinical competencies and their assessment in the clinical context.

Vericiguat in heart failure – who benefits the most?

This article aims to provide concise insight into one of the promising heart failure drugs, the oral sGC stimulator vericiguat.

Diagnosis and optimal medical treatment of lower limb artery diseases

In this review, the authors summarise the ESC guidelines on diagnosis and optimal medical treatment of lower extremity artery disease, focusing especially on what is new since the previous recommendations.

Determinants of career development in cardiology – results from a Swiss national survey

The overall satisfaction among Swiss cardiologists is high regarding training in health care and the working atmosphere. However, women and men plead for better compatibility of work and family and better structured training curricula.

AV synchronous pacing with a single-chamber leadless pacemaker in a patient with COVID-19 and complete AV block

The authors present the first case of implantation of a novel single-chamber leadless pacemaker capable of atrioventricular (AV) synchronous pacing in a patient with COVID-19 and complete AV block.

Spontaneous premature atrial contractions facilitate diagnosis in a patient with typical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia

His refractory atrial extrastimulus can help for differential diagnosis between atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and junctional tachycardia.

Von der Panikattacke zum kongenitalen Long-QT-Syndrom

Die Beschwerden wurden bei frühren ähnlichen Episoden als psychogene Bewusstseinsstörungen oder als Panikattacken interpretiert.

Large native mitral valve vegetation in a previously healthy 19-year-old woman

A 19-year-old female on a return journey from France to Finland presented with progressive weakness, diffuse limb pain, headache, vomiting and diarrhoea for 3 days. Additionally, she described intermittent periods of impaired vision and fever.

Otto Hess Trainee Award 2021 of the Swiss Society of Cardiology