Completed Doctoral Thesis 2005 • Jasna Rudez: „Einfluss der intrakardialen Füllungsdrücke auf die Ausschüttung von BNP 2006 • Bocek Tina: “Use of pro-atrial natriuretic peptide in the detection of myocardial ischemia” • Purek Lesek: “Coronary artery disease and outcome in acute congestive heart failure” 2007 • Myriam Ritter: „Gender differences in acute congestive heart failure “ • Jürg Wermuth: „Neurohormonal activation and left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with suspected myocardial ischemia“ 2008 • Daniel Rodriguez: „B-Typ Natriuretisches Peptid und Dyspnoe bei Lungenerkrankungen“ • Barbara Frana "Der Nutzen des B-Typ natriuretischen Peptids in der Behandlung bei Frauen mit Atemnot" • Daniel Jauslin: „ Use of changes in B-type natriuretic peptides to detect ischemia in selected patients “ • Karin Wetzel: “Comparison of Midregional Pro-Atrial Natriuretic Peptide with N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in the Diagnosis of Acute Heart Failure” • Anne Strohmeyer: „Medizinischer Langzeiteffekt einer BNP-basierten Behandlungsstrategie bei Patienten mit akuter Dyspnoe “ • Keiko Yonekawa: „Use of B-type natriuretic peptide in the risk stratification of patients undergoing major orthopedic surgery “ • Kathrin Zobrist: „Use of B-type natriuretic peptide in the risk stratification of community-acquired pneumonia“ 2009 • Raphael Twerenbold: „Infrared ear temperature measurement in clinical practice“ • Tujana Boldanova • Delia Schrafl: „QRS and QTc interval prolongation in the prediction of long-term mortality of patients with acute destabilised heart failure“ • Christina Bürge: „Early diagnosis of myocardial infarction with sensitive cardiac troponin assays“ • Miriam Matti: „QRS and QTc interval prolongation in the prediction of long-term mortality of patients with acute destabilized heart failure“ • Annatina Thürlimann: „Long-term prognostic value of B-type natriuretic peptide level in cardiac and non-cardiac causes of acute dyspnea“ • Lorenz Buser: „Midregional pro-adrenomedullin in addition to b-type natriuretic peptides in the risk stratification of patients with acute dyspnea: an observational study“ • Natalia Muravitskaya: „Effect of oral beta-blocker on short and long-term mortality in patients with acute respiratory failure: results from the BASEL-II-ICU study“ 2010 • Moreno Futterer: „B-type natriuretic peptide in patients undergoing orthopaedic surgery: a prospective cohort study“ • Natalia Gianoli • Sabine Hartwiger: „Diagnostic and prognostic value of uric acid in patients with acute dyspnea.“ • Sevgi Cayir: „B-type natriuretic peptide-guided management and outcome in patients with obesity and dyspnea - results from the BASEL study.“ • Ramona Merki: „Incremental value of copeptin for rapid rule out of acute myocardial infarction“ • Nadine Niederhauser • Patrick Egli: „Use of myeloperoxidase for risk stratification in acute heart failure“ • Yves Sunier: „Determinants of absolute and relative exercise-induced changes in B-type natriuretic peptides“ • Nils Corson • Cedric Jaeger: „Interleukin family member ST2 and mortality in acute dyspnoea“ • Martina Viglino: „The use of B-type natriuretic peptide in the management of patients with atrial fibrillation and dyspnea.“ • Patrick Schur • Alexandra Müller: „Copeptin and risk stratification in patients with acute dyspnea.“ • Sabine Kurz • Claudia Maushart: „Use of B-type natriuretic peptide to predict blood pressure improvement after percutaneous revascularisation for renal artery stenosis“ • Thomas Krebs • Federico Peter • Bettina Düsler: „Impact of soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1 and placental growth factor serum levels for risk stratification and early diagnosis in patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction“ • Benjamin Benz • Maria Kovacs: „Endogenous stress response in Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy and acute myocardial infarction“ • Sybille Stalder: „Direct comparison of serial B-type natriuretic peptide and NT-proBNP levels for prediction of short- and long-term outcome in acute decompensated heart failure“ • Sarah Mutschmann-Sanchez: „Central venous pressure at emergency room presentation predicts cardiac rehospitalization in patients with decompensated heart failure“ • Ilker Acemoglu: „Economic benefit of copeptin for the early rule out of acute myocardial infarction“ doctoral thesis in progress • Hanna Crettol • Patricia Paniz • Mariusz Wasila • Rebekka Ringger • Konstantinos Sakarikos • Nadine Marti • Michael Schärer • Anina Zbinden • Kathrin Roost • Shino Oshima