Background Early heart failure (HF) diagnosis is crucial to ensure that optimal guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT) is ...

Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dr Stephen P Harden, Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University ...

Rationale The accumulated prevalence of obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome is more than 25% of the world’s population. These are all conditions that have been repeatedly related to a higher ...

Correspondence to Dr Russell James Everett, BHF/Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH16 4SB, UK; russell.everett{at}ed.ac.uk To review the pathophysiology of ...

Objective: To assess health related quality of life of patients with congestive heart failure; to compare their quality of life with the previously characterised general population and in those with ...

Pathology Department, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr Mary N Sheppard Department of Pathology, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK; ...

Objectives Non-contrast CT aortic valve calcium scoring ignores the contribution of valvular fibrosis in aortic stenosis. We assessed aortic valve calcific and non-calcific disease using ...

a Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Rennes, France, b Department of Infectious Diseases and Medical Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital Dr Claude Daubert, Centre Hospitalier ...

2 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4 ...

Background: Angiotensin 1 converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors reduce morbidity and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). This benefit may result from an anti-inflammatory action.

The structural and functional abnormalities that lead to cardiac death are coronary artery disease and left ventricular abnormalities related to remodelling (left ventricular hypertrophy, left ...

OBJECTIVE--To assess the arrangement of myocardial bridges. DESIGN--A necropsy study of 90 consecutive hearts (56 male, 34 female). RESULTS--Myocardial bridges, either single or multiple, were seen in ...