Background A major challenge in managing left-sided infective endocarditis (LSIE) is identifying patients who will benefit ...

The therapeutic landscape of transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy (ATTR-CM) has undergone a remarkable transformation over ...

Objective Tub bathing is considered to have a preventive effect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by improving haemodynamic function. However, no prospective studies have investigated the long-term ...

Correspondence to Dr Dirk Westermann, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany; d.westermann{at}uke.de Importantly, ...

Objectives Diastolic dysfunction (DD), a key driver of long-term Fontan outcomes, may be concealed during standard haemodynamic evaluation. We sought to identify Fontan patients with occult DD using ...

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Prevention of stroke and systemic thromboembolism remains the cornerstone for management of atrial fibrillation (AF) and flutter. Multiple risk assessment models for stroke and systemic ...

Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Albert L Waldo, MD, Division of Cardiology, Room 3080, Lakeside ...

1 AKH Linz, Department of Internal Medicine I – Cardiology, Linz, Austria 2 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II, AKH, Vienna, Austria Correspondence to ...

Background For the treatment of breathlessness in heart failure (HF), most textbooks advocate the use of opioids. Yet, meta-analyses are lacking. Methods A systematic review was performed for ...

Objectives The association between obesity and atrial fibrillation (AF) is well-established. We aimed to evaluate the impact of index body mass index (BMI) on AF recurrence at 12 months following ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...