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Correspondence to Professor Demosthenes Panagiotakos, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Attica 176 71, Greece; dbpanag{at}hua.gr Contributors Both authors met the ICMJE ...

Background The relationship between objectively measured hearing ability and the risk of incident heart failure (HF) remains unclear. This study aimed to assess this association, explore potential ...

Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron. Barcelona, Spain Professor Jordi Soler-Soler, Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital General Universitari Vall d'Hebron, P Vall ...

Acute coronary syndromes are due to rupture or erosion of an atherosclerotic coronary artery plaque with superimposed platelet aggregation and coronary thrombosis. Complete thrombotic occlusion of a ...

Background Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a rare variant of HCM, often considered to have a benign prognosis. This study aimed to compare the clinical characteristics and genetic ...

Department of Cardiology, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Background: The transradial approach for percutaneous coronary procedures has the advantage of reduced access ...

Introduction External transthoracic direct current (DC) cardioversion is a commonly used method of terminating arrhythmias, emergently or electively. It is known that external DC cardioversion can ...

Correspondence to Dr Alexander C Egbe, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; egbe.alexander{at}mayo.edu Background Aortic dilation and aortic valve disease are ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data. Objective To characterise minimum ‘indicative’ prevalences and mortality data for all forms of PHT in a selected ...

Objective Clinical decision making in chronic heart failure (CHF) is based primarily on left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), and only secondarily on aetiology of the underlying disease. Our aim ...

Correspondence to Dr Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Manuel de Falla, Majadahonda, Madrid, 28222, Spain; pablogpavia{at}yahoo.es To understand the ...