Conventional surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) is the ‘gold standard’ for treatment of severe or symptomatic aortic valve stenosis. The increasing age of patients and increasing comorbidities ...

The use of positron emission tomography (PET) in cardiology is growing rapidly. Technical features make PET a strong technology for the non-invasive evaluation of cardiac physiology. It is currently ...

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Valvular heart disease affects 1%–2% of young individuals, many of whom aspire to partake in competitive sport or high intensity recreational exercise. There are limited reports on the impact of ...

Background Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis (IE) are rare but severe complications of transcatheter aortic valve ...

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 ...

Cardiology training in the UK is facing significant challenges due to a range of factors. Recent curriculum changes have ...

Background Accurate discrimination of functionally significant coronary stenosis using intravascular imaging remains ...

Introduction MicroRNA (miRNA) molecules are a class of small non-coding RNA molecules (∼22 nucleotides), which target the 3’ untranslated region (3’ UTR) of mRNA and either induce mRNA degradation or ...

1 AKH Linz, Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, Krankenhausstrasse, Austria 2 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II, AKH, Waehringerguertel, Vienna, ...

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Background In patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), malnutrition might be related to right heart dysfunction and venous congestion, which predispose to bowel oedema and malabsorption, thereby ...