Background Studies predating widespread COVID-19 vaccination identified patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) as a ...

Regular physical activity combined with structured exercise training has well described benefits for quality of life and ...

Background Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinics (RACPC) are widely used for the outpatient assessment of chest pain, but there ...

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence, characteristics, and haemodynamic consequences of pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--Clinical, echocardiographic, and Doppler evaluations before ...

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Objectives: To define the ability of early exercise testing and coronary angiography to predict prognosis in young survivors of myocardial infarction (MI). Methods: 255 consecutive patients (210 men) ...

1 Department of Cardiology, The Middlesex Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust 3 ...

Objectives Bullying of trainee doctors has been shown to be associated with detrimental outcomes for both doctors and patients. However, there is limited evidence regarding the level of bullying of ...

Cardiac myxomas (CM) are the most common type of primary cardiac tumours in adults, which have an approximate incidence of up to 0.2% in some autopsy series. The purpose of this review is to summarise ...

Correspondence to: Professor A van Oosterom Department of Medical Physics, University of Nijmegen, Geert Grooteplein 21, 6525 EZ, Nijmegen, Netherlands; avoecgsim.org Background: Discussion about the ...

Correspondence to Dr Holly R Middlekauff, Division of Cardiology, UCLA Medical School, Los Angeles, California, USA; hmiddlekauff{at}mednet.ucla.edu Tobacco cigarette smoking is the most prevalent ...

Discrete delicate fibromuscular structures crossing the cavity of the left ventricle were identified on morphological examination in 329 (48%) of 686 hearts from patients of all ages with congenital ...