Background The use of artificial chords for mitral valve prolapse during minimally invasive mitral valve repair (MIMVR) has ...

Introduction Reduced exercise performance is common in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (rToF) and relates to ...

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) affects over 113 million people worldwide and is a marker of systemic atherosclerosis ...

In 2010, the British Cardiovascular Society (BCS) commissioned a working group to produce a report on cardiovascular ...

A male adolescent suffered a sudden syncopal episode lasting 15 s, accompanied by loss of consciousness without convulsions.

Background Early identification of patients at risk of heart failure (HF) provides opportunities for preventative management. Though models have been developed to predict HF incidence, their ...

Objective Patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction (AMI) in the setting of left bundle branch block (LBBB) present an important diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to the clinician.

Objective Distinguishing early dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) from physiological left ventricular (LV) dilatation with LV ejection fraction <55% in athletes (grey zone) is challenging. We evaluated the ...

Background The Fontan procedure is associated with long-term cardiac and non-cardiac complications and early mortality. Recent data suggest that some fibrosis scores may offer prognostic insight for ...

Background The natural history of asymptomatic moderate or severe aortic regurgitation (AR) remains uncertain, with conflicting reports about its progression and surgical timing. We aimed to quantify ...

International Centre for Circulatory Health, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, UK Dr T H Jafar, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Department of Community Health Sciences and ...