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

Objectives This study evaluates the 5-year clinical outcomes of transcatheter mitral valve (MV) repair with the MitraClip device in patients at high risk for MV surgery treated in the Endovascular ...

2 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background and aims Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) reduce mortality and hospitalisation in heart failure with ...

Introduction Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) with adenosine by paramedics has been investigated and proven to be safe in the USA, but patients (pts) are transferred to hospital. We ...

Objective Using a large national database of people hospitalised with COVID-19, we investigated the contribution of cardio-metabolic conditions, multi-morbidity and ethnicity on the risk of ...

2 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4 ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of plaque erosion as a substrate for coronary thrombosis. DESIGN Pathological study in patients with acute myocardial infarction not treated with thrombolysis or ...

2 Department of Paediatrics and Surgery, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Objective: To establish normal values of left atrial and left ventricular volumes and function in children and young ...

2 Non-Profit Research Association Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine (APPREMED), Mechelen, Belgium Objective Heart failure (HF) is characterised by collagen deposition. Urinary ...

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Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Professor H J G M Crijns, Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, Postbus 5800, 6202 ...

6 Department of Medicine/Geriatrics and Gerontology Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA 7 Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 8 ...