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 Tub bathing is considered to have a preventive effect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by improving haemodynamic function. However, no prospective studies have investigated the long-term ...

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.

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 ...

Objectives Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) is often complicated by pulmonary hypertension (PH), which is mainly characterised by postcapillary PH and occasionally accompanied by ...

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Correspondence to: Michael Weber MD, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, Benekestraße 2–8, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany; M.Weber{at}kerckhoff-klinik.de In recent years biomarkers have ...