Correspondence to Professor Kausik K Ray, Imperial Centre for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health, Imperial College, Reynolds Bldg, ...

Correspondence to: Tim C Clayton Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; tim.claytonlshtm.ac.uk Role of the funding source: The ...

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence, characteristics, and haemodynamic consequences of pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--Clinical, echocardiographic, and Doppler evaluations before ...

Objective To investigate heart rate differences between non-dihydropyridine calcium channel blockers and beta-blockers in patients with non-permanent atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods Using data from ...

Cardiac myxomas (CM) are the most common type of primary cardiac tumours in adults, which have an approximate incidence of up to 0.2% in some autopsy series. The purpose of this review is to summarise ...

Objectives: To define the ability of early exercise testing and coronary angiography to predict prognosis in young survivors of myocardial infarction (MI). Methods: 255 consecutive patients (210 men) ...

1 Division of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Center, National Yang-Ming University School of Medicine and Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 2 Department of Biomedical Engineering, ...

Background Hyperlipidaemia is responsible for 25% of cardiovascular deaths (NHS England 2019). Despite this, the Cardiovascular Disease Prevention Audit (CVDPREVENT) and local data have shown that ...

Correspondence to: Professor A van Oosterom Department of Medical Physics, University of Nijmegen, Geert Grooteplein 21, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, Netherlands; avoecgsim.org Background: Discussion about the ...

Three cases with supraventricular tachyarrhythmias related to oesophageal transit are reported. A 61 year old man had episodes of atrial tachycardia on each swallow of food but not liquid; this has ...