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 ...
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 ...
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 Atrial fibrillation (AF) often progresses from paroxysmal AF (PAF) to more permanent forms. To improve personalised medicine, we aim to develop a new AF progression risk prediction model in ...
Correspondence to Professor Martin Ng, Department of Cardiology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Martin.ng{at}sydney.edu.au Background Despite restoration of epicardial ...
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 ...
Cardiovascular diseases, in particular coronary artery disease (CAD), are the leading cause of death in industrialised countries. Established options for revascularisation include angioplasty and ...
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 ...
1 Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK 2 Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, Institute of Health & Wellbeing, ...