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 ...

St George's Hospital Medical School, Histopathology Department, London, UK Professor M J Davies, St George's Hospital Medical School, Histopathology Department ...

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 ...

Dr de Leeuw, Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Maastricht, PO Box 5800, 6202 AZ Maastricht, the Netherlands. Objective To assess the degree of agreement between impedance ...

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 ...

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, ...

Correspondence to Professor Philip MacCarthy, Cardiology, King"s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London SE5 9RS, UK; philip.maccarthy{at}nhs.net To understand the impact of the COVID-19 ...

Correspondence to Dr Simon W Dubrey, Department of Cardiology, Hillingdon Hospital, Pield Heath Road, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3NN, UK; simon.dubrey{at}thh.nhs.uk The amyloidoses are a group of ...

Objectives This study evaluates the 5-year clinical outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve (MV) repair with the MitraClip device in patients at high risk for MV surgery treated in the Endovascular ...

Objective: To describe the investigation and management of patients admitted to hospitals in China with suspected acute coronary syndromes (ACS) and to identify potential areas for improvement in ...

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