Objective To explore the psychosocial determinants and interhospital variability on a major acute cardiovascular event (MACE), during follow-up of a multicenter cohort of patients hospitalised with ...

For reasons that remain unclear, endogenous synthesis and tissue levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) tend to decline with increasing age in at least some tissues. When CoQ10 levels are sufficiently low, ...

Background Point of care viscoelastic measures with thromboelastography (TEG; Haemonetics Corporation, Switzerland) and thromboelastometry (ROTEM, Tem Innovations GmbH, Germany) now supersede ...

Objective Patients with Fontan surgery experience late complications in adulthood. We studied the factors associated with the development and maintenance of atrial arrhythmias and thromboembolic ...

Objective The aim of this study was to undertake a contemporary review of the impact of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (CR) targeted at patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). Methods We ...

Objective When advising patients about possible initiation of primary prevention treatment, clinicians currently do not have information on expected impact on lifespan, nor how much this increment ...

Background Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) has shown to be useful for preoperative risk stratification in various types of intra-abdominal and thoracic surgery. However, data about the ...

Objectives To evaluate bare-metal Optimus and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)-covered Optimus-CVS balloon-expandable, cobalt–chromium, hybrid cell–designed stents in congenital heart disease (CHD) ...

Background The detection of atrial fibrillation (AF) after a cryptogenic stroke (CS) carries important therapeutic implications. In this study, we aimed to accurately assess the incidence of AF among ...

Background Over the past three decades, significant disparities in the global burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) have been observed, particularly CVD attributed to secondhand smoke. However, a ...

Objective To compare the clinical outcomes and haemodynamic performance following transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with severe bicuspid versus tricuspid aortic stenosis (AS) ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited cardiovascular disease, accounts for a substantial number of cases of heart failure and sudden death.1 2 Resting or physiologically ...