Background Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at risk of perioperative conduction system damage leading to permanent ...

Background Fulminant myocarditis is a rare but life-threatening condition frequently complicated by malignant ventricular ...

While heart transplantation (HT) is the optimal therapy for end-stage heart failure patients, longevity of HT recipients ...

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 ...

1 Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute A90, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Evaluation of reversible ischaemia and understanding the physiological significance of known coronary lesions is one of the most important applications of functional cardiac testing. Myocardial ...

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 ...