Stroke, one of the most severe complications of atrial fibrillation (AF), can be prevented by oral anticoagulants in patients ...

AIMS To evaluate illness knowledge and understanding in children and adolescents with congenital and acquired heart disease, and whether the degree of understanding is related to age, sex, or ...

Background Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) progression following left-sided valvular heart disease (VHD) correction is a critical clinical concern. This study aimed to determine the incidence, predictors ...

Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal Hospital, Shimada City, Shizuoka, Japan Correspondence to: Makoto Kondo, MD, Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal ...

Correspondence to Dr Lazaros K Kochilas, Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Atlanta GA 30341, USA; lazaros.Kochilas{at}emory.edu ...

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Background Patients with psychotic illness have increased risk of cardiovascular death. Arrhythmias [particularly Torsades de Points (TdP)] and sudden cardiac deaths (SCD) are the most serious ...

In a study of 1000 consecutive coronary arteriograms, 12 patients (all men) had coronary artery ectasia. Ectasia was found most frequently in the circumflex or right coronary artery. Only 1 patient ...

Objectives Vascular stiffness (VS) and vascular calcification (VC) are surrogate markers of vascular health associated with cardiovascular events. Vitamin K-dependent proteins (VKDP) are associated ...

Care provided by specialist nurses has been shown to improve outcomes for patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), significantly reducing the number of unplanned readmissions, length of hospital ...