Idarucizumab for dabigatran reversal in cardiac tamponade complicating percutaneous intervention in ST elevation myocardial infarction.

An 83-year-old man with a history of permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) anticoagulated by dabigatran 150 b.i.d.

Echocardiographic Assessment of Right Ventricle Dimensions and Function After Exposure to Extreme Altitude: Is an Expedition to 8000 m Hazardous for Right Ventricular Function?

Kurdziel, Marta, Jarosław Wasilewski, Karolina Gierszewska, Anna Kazik, Gracjan Pytel, Jacek Wacławski, Adam Krajewski, Anna Kurek, Lech Poloński, and Mariusz Gąsior. Echocardiographic assessment of right ventricle dimensions and function after exposure to extreme altitude: Is an expedition to 8000 m hazardous for right ventricular function? High Alt Med Biol 18:330-337, 2017.-Although the right ventricle (RV) is under great hypoxic stress at altitude, still little is known what happens to the RV after descent.

[Hybrid revascularisation in a patient with multivessel and left main coronary disease].

According to current guidelines surgical revascularisation is a gold standard of treatment in patients with multivessel and left main coronary disease. Hybrid revascularisation, in two stages: first - minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting procedure with left internal mammary artery conduit to left anterior descending artery and second stage - percutaneus coronary intervention with drug eluting stent in non-left anterior descending vessels may be safe and effective alternative in patients with multivessel and left main coronary disease.

Management of diastolic heart failure.

Diastolic heart failure (HF) is also referred to as HF with preserved left ventricular systolic function. The distinction between systolic and diastolic HFs is a pathophysiological one and isolated forms of left ventricular dysfunction are rarely observed. In diastolic HF left ventricular systolic function is normal or only slightly impaired, and the typical manifestations of HF result from increased filling pressure caused by impaired relaxation and compliance of the left ventricle.