Q fever endocarditis of the tricuspid valve transmitted in an urban setting with no livestock exposure: Case report.

Background: Coxiella burnetii is a bacterium with extreme tenacity and contagiousness that is mainly transmitted by inhalation of contaminated aerosols. Nevertheless, a transmission by ticks is under discussion. We report a case of Q fever in an urban environment and far away from sheep breeding that caused a rare right-sided endocarditis.

[Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) in an adult male].

Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) results from an autoimmune reaction following Streptococcus pyogenes-induced tonsilitis. It is a disease that has become uncommon in Germany and is rare in adults. Treatment recommendations are controversial in this age group.

Ventricular fibrillation and Takotsubo cardiomyopathy triggered by media panic on COVID-19: A case report.

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy has potentially lethal complications and can be caused by a media-induced diffuse atmosphere of life threatening and panic in preconditioned patients.

Single-centre survey of the application of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in clinical routine.

Aims: Awareness of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is growing due to increasing evidence for providing relevant functional and morphologic information. This single-centre survey aimed at providing descriptive data about the clinical application and potential impact of CMR.

Methods And Results: All 2598 clinically indicated CMR exams were prospectively registered during 1 year in one single centre.

Beyond the sarcomere: CSRP3 mutations cause hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a frequent genetic cardiac disease and the most common cause of sudden cardiac death in young individuals. Most of the currently known HCM disease genes encode sarcomeric proteins. Previous studies have shown an association between CSRP3 missense mutations and either dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) or HCM, but all these studies were unable to provide comprehensive genetic evidence for a causative role of CSRP3 mutations.