The Etiology of Syncope in an Emergency Hospital.

Background: Syncope is a commonly encountered problem in an emergency hospital. Global cerebral hypoperfusion is the final pathway common to all presentations of syncope, but this symptom presentation has a broad differential diagnosis. It is important to identify patients for whom syncope is a symptom of a potentially life-threatening condition.

The management of patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication. Actual recommendations.

In the general context of increasing prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors in European population, we face with a significant rise of the incidence of atherothrombotic diseases. Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) represented for a long time a peripheral interest for cardiologist. The epidemiological studies in the latest years determine a reconsideration of the medical attitude in respect of PAD, motivated by an increase in its prevalence and, on the other hand, by the significant cardiovascular risk this disease carries with.

The prevalence of peripheral arterial disease in relationship with cardiovascular risk factors in Romania.

Unlabelled: Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) represents a disease with high prevalence and related mortality and morbidity. However, there are spearing epidemiological information regarding PAD in Romania. The objective of our study was to evaluate the prevalence of PAD in relationship with cardiovascular risk factors (RF) in Romania.