Background Percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVAD) have been increasingly used to support haemodynamics during ...

Background Renal denervation (RDN) has emerged as a guideline-recommended therapeutic option in hypertension management with ...

Background Recent cardiovascular risk equations from the USA and United Kingdom use routinely collected electronic medical records (EMRs), while current equations used in Australia (AusCVDRisk) have ...

Correspondence to Dr Carl J Lavie, Cardiology, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA; clavie{at}ochsner.org In their Heart paper, O'Keeffe and colleagues4 use data from ...

1 Department of Heart Disease, Division of Cardiothoracic and Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of Northern Norway, Tromsø, Norway 2 Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences ...

Background Blood culture-negative infective endocarditis (BCNIE) remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to uncertainty in pathogen identification and treatment decisions. Existing ...

Objectives In AL amyloidosis, organ response assessment is based on surrogates (eg, cardiac biomarkers). An objective functional test, such as the 6 min walk test (6MWT), capturing overall clinical ...

Correspondence to Dr Tom Marshall, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; t.p.marshall{at}bham.ac.uk Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most ...

Correspondence to Dr Andrew D Krahn, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, 9th floor, 2775 Laurel St., Vancouver ...

Background Premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) predict coronary heart disease, heart failure, atrial fibrillation and death, all of which are also related to sodium intake. We studied estimated ...

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Correspondence to Dr Jeroen M L Hendriks, Centre for Heart Rhythm Disorders, Department of Cardiology, Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia; jeroen.hendriks{at}adelaide.edu.au ...