Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...
Background Fluid restriction is a commonly prescribed non-pharmacological intervention in the management of heart failure (HF). However, data on its efficacy and safety are scarce. Recent randomised ...
Constrictive pericarditis (CP) is a form of diastolic heart failure that arises because an inelastic pericardium inhibits cardiac filling. This disorder must be considered in the differential ...
Correspondence to Professor Philip MacCarthy, Department of Cardiology, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, USA; philip.maccarthy{at}nhs.net To learn the optimal management of ...
Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Correspondence to Professor Thomas H Marwick, Menzies Research Institute Tasmania, University of Tasmania, ...
Objective To analyse whether levels of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs-cTn) below their respective 99th percentile can be used as a single parameter to rule out acute myocardial infarction (AMI) ...
Correspondence to Dr Alida L P Caforio, Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiological, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, Centro ‘V. Gallucci’, University of Padova-Policlinico, Via Giustiniani, 2, ...
Correspondence to: Ramachandran S Vasan, MD, Framingham Heart Study, 73, Mt Wayte Avenue, Framingham, MA 01702, USA; vasan{at}fram.nhlbi.nih.gov ...
Introduction Assessment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a common indication for transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). PAH is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP)>25 mmHg and is ...
Correspondence to Professor Richard J McManus, Nuffield Department of Primary Care Health Sciences, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK; ...
Over the past 40 years in England and Wales the rise in mortality from coronary heart disease has continued unabated among working-class men, whereas among professional men the rate has changed little ...
Myocardial infarction with non-obstructive coronary arteries (MINOCA) was first described over 80 years ago. The term has been widely and inconsistently used in clinical practice, influencing various ...
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