[Spanish adaptation of the European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention].

We are pleased to present the European Guidelines on Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, translated and adapted by the Interdisciplinary Spanish Committee for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention. This guide is focused on the prevention of cardiovascular disease as a whole, recommending the SCORE model for risk assessment and placing priority on the care of patients and high-risk individuals. The objective is to prevent premature death due to CVD by means of dealing with its related risk factors in clinical practice.

[Postmenopausal arterial hypertension and cardiovascular risk].

Hypertension is a condition affecting a great number of women, mainly after menopause, with an incidence over 50% up to the sixth decade of life. As in men, hypertension in women involves a great risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, especially from stroke and ischaemic heart disease. A good treatment of high blood pressure has shown a reduction in the number of cardiovascular events, although the results on mortality have not been totally conclusive in the trials conducted up to date.

[Cardiac amyloidosis. Diagnostic and prognostic value of Doppler echocardiography].

We report two cases of cardiac amyloidosis. The echocardiographic features of this infrequent disease, and the doppler study of the ventricular diastolic function in these patients, together with its possible prognostic significance, is revised.

Psychiatric care of coronary artery disease in a cardiac rehabilitation unit.

The present work describes the psychiatric intervention in the Ramón y Cajal Hospital (Madrid) Cardiac Rehabilitation Program for Coronary Disease patients. The psychopathological concepts in relation to coronary heart disease are reviewed and studied in the foregoing acute and rehabilitation phases. The evaluation and therapeutic intervention methods are related in detail.

[Endocarditis due to Pseudomonas aeruginosa (author's transl)].

A case of pseudomonas endocarditis of biliary origin with impairment of the mitral and tricuspid heart valves is reported. Former history of the patient did not reveal narcotic addiction or previous open-heart surgery. Osteomyelitis is an uncommon complication of pseudomonas endocarditis.