Background: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) improves symptoms and prognosis in patients with heart failure and cardiac dyssynchrony. Guidelines from the National Institute of Health and ...

Background Heart failure (HF) guidelines recommend routine testing for iron deficiency (ID) and, for those with ID, ...

Correspondence to Dr Rohan S Wijesurendra, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; rohan.wijesurendra{at}cardiov.ox.ac.uk; Professor Barbara Casadei, Division of ...

Objectives To compare effectiveness of warfarin and antiplatelet exposure regarding both thrombotic and bleeding events, following surgical aortic valve replacement ...

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1053-7840Paul M Haydock, http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8126-9583Andrew S Flett To review the pathophysiology of heart failure with reduced ...

Objective To compare normothermic (35°C–36°C) versus hypothermic (28°C) cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in paediatric patients undergoing open heart surgery to test the hypothesis that normothermic CPB ...

Correspondence to Hualiang Lin, Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China; linhualiang{at}mail.sysu.edu.cn Objectives We aimed to ...

Correspondence to Dr Christina Christersson, Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden; christina.christersson{at}medsci.uu.se Objectives Compare the ...

Nutrition has a central role in both primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease yet only relatively recently has food been regarded as a treatment, rather than as an adjunct to ...

Background Long-term prognosis associated with low–high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) concentrations in patients with chest pain is unknown. We investigated these prognostic implications ...

Preterm birth affects 1 in 10 pregnancies worldwide, with increasing survival rates over the last 30 years. However, as this new generation of long-term survivors approaches middle age, recent studies ...