Background Perioperative mortality has declined substantially after cardiac surgery, but morbidity, mortality and readmission ...

Correspondence to Dr Julianne Holt-Lunstad, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Brigham Young University, Provo UT 84602, USA; julianne_holt-lunstad{at}byu.edu How should these data inform ...

DESIGN A prospective cross sectional study in which patients were assessed immediately before treatment and 12 months later. PATIENTS Three groups of children aged 3.5–17 years: a group with ...

1 Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden 2 Department of Cardiology, University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark 3 Department of Cardiology, Ullevål University ...

1 Second University of Naples, Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy 2 Division of Cardiology, Monaldi Hospital If you wish to reuse any ...

Background Exercise has the potential to unmask ventricular arrhythmias in arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM). The aim of ...

Objective To examine the association between nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based [metabolomics][1] and aortic stenosis (AS) risk, and determine whether metabolomic profiling can enhance AS ...

Background Pregnancy in women with Marfan syndrome (MFS) is associated with increased maternal and neonatal risks, yet most existing studies are limited by small sample sizes and short follow-up. This ...

Objective Severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) causes significant right atrial (RA) volume overload, resulting in structural and functional RA-remodelling. This study evaluated whether ...

Background Drug-coated balloon (DCB) angioplasty has emerged as a potential stent-free strategy for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) in de novo coronary artery disease, but robust randomised ...

Methods Six databases were searched for original publications on the topic. Title/abstract and included full-text publications were reviewed in duplicate. Data extraction and critical appraisal for ...

Cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) is a rare and complex disease that requires a multidisciplinary approach for diagnosis and treatment. The diagnosis of CS can be confirmed by histological examination of ...