Abstract. Brugada syndrome is a rare, mostly autosomal dominant genetic disorder. The syndrome represents an important differential diagnosis of arrhythmogenic syncope or sudden cardiac arrest in young adults without structural heart ...

Abstract. Epidemiological evidence in humans as well as studies in animal models of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) indicate an association between IUGR and risk of cardiovascular ...

Abstract. The care of severly injured patients is a major task in trauma. Due to a high mortality, especially in the first 24 hours after the accident, and ...

Abstract. In this short review three forms of secondary hypertension (renal artery stenosis, primary hyperaldosteronism, phaeochromocytoma) will be discussed regarding ...

Abstract. 6 to 8 % of young adults seek emergency care due to chest pain. In young patients chest pain is usually non-specific, unrelated to severe pathologies and not life-threatening. Herein we report ...