Safety, usability, and performance of a wireless left atrial pressure monitoring system in patients with heart failure: the VECTOR-HF trial.

Aims: In heart failure (HF), implantable haemodynamic monitoring devices have been shown to optimize therapy, anticipating clinical decompensation and preventing hospitalization. Direct left-sided haemodynamic sensors offer theoretical benefits beyond pulmonary artery pressure monitoring systems. We evaluated the safety, usability, and performance of a novel left atrial pressure (LAP) monitoring system in HF patients.

Atrial Giant Cell Myocarditis as a Cause of Heart Failure: Diagnostic Pathway and Successful Treatment.

We present a patient with acute heart failure and new onset atrial fibrillation secondary to giant cell myocarditis with lone atrial involvement. The diagnosis was managed with cardiac magnetic resonance and confirmed by interventionally guided biopsy. In the future, diagnosis could be managed noninvasively for this rare entity as the gold standard.

Results of the ALSTER BP real-world registry on renal denervation employing the Symplicity system.

Aims: To prove the efficacy and safety of renal sympathetic denervation as a new treatment option for patients suffering from resistant hypertension in a real-world setting.

Methods And Results: This single-centre real-world registry included 93 patients who underwent renal denervation employing the Symplicity system. Patients were followed for six months.

Bone defects caused by high-energy injuries, bone loss, infected nonunions, and nonunions.

Bone defects represent a difficult problem for the clinician. They entail a sustained increase in hospitalization, risk of complications, and associated increase in expenses. This article discusses bone defects caused by high-energy injuries, bone loss, infected nonunions, and nonunions.

Continuous psoas and sciatic block after knee arthroplasty: good effects compared to epidural analgesia or i.v. opioid analgesia: a prospective study of 63 patients.

Introduction: For endoprosthetic knee surgery, intensive postoperative pain therapy is necessary. We therefore evaluated whether the combination of continuous psoas compartment and sciatic analgesia (PSC) is as effective as epidural analgesia (EPI) and whether it provides better analgesia than patient-controlled intravenous analgesia with piritramide (PCA).

Methods: We studied 63 patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty (TKA).