Publications by authors named "Marco Studer"
A 61-year-old woman with a congenital double-chamber left ventricle (DCLV) was admitted because of an anterior ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Urgent coronary angiography showed a thrombotic occlusion of the distal part of the left anterior descending artery (LAD). The left ventricular injection revealed a slightly reduced ejection fraction, antero-apical akinesia and an accessory chamber.
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- A Johann-type spectrometer was developed with five spherically bent crystals and a pixel detector, covering Bragg angles from 60° to 88°.
- It achieves high energy resolution from sub-eV to a few eV, with excellent calibration under 1.5 eV across all angles.
- The device has a low concentration detection limit of below 0.4 wt% and is designed to be modular for integration into various hard x-ray synchrotron setups.
Background: Guidelines for the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia are often based on trials using combined clinical end points. Mortality data are the most reliable data to assess efficacy of interventions. We aimed to assess efficacy and safety of different lipid-lowering interventions based on mortality data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To assess if lipid-lowering interventions (statins, fibrates, resins, n-3 fatty acids, diet) prevent nonfatal and fatal strokes in patients with and without coronary heart disease.
Methods: We systematically searched the literature up to August 2002 to retrieve all randomized controlled trials of lipid-lowering interventions that reported nonfatal and fatal stroke and mortality data. The search yielded 65 trials with 200,607 patients for a meta-analysis to determine whether treatment effects differed between types of lipid-lowering interventions and between patient samples with and without coronary heart disease.