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

Objective—To assess prevalence and type of non-atherosclerotic coronary artery disease in young people (≤35 years) who died suddenly. Design—A necropsy study of 150 consecutive cases of sudden death ...

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 ...

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Correspondence to: Steve R Ommen, MD, Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, 200 First Street SW, Rochester, MN 55906, USA; omen.stevemayo.edu At the cellular level diastole can be ...

Correspondence to Professor Arthur A M Wilde, Amsterdam Universitair Medische Centra, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; a.a.wilde{at}amsterdamumc.nl Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) is characterised by ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Shamir R Mehta, Division of Cardiology, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario ON L8L 2X2, Canada; smehta{at}mcmaster.ca Objective Approximately 10% of patients with ...

Over the last 20 years, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB) has evolved as a standard technique for surgical myocardial revascularisation, and although it is used routinely in many centres ...

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 ...