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

Objectives Characterisation of trends in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) outcomes are critical to informing clinical practice and quality improvement, but there are few recent population studies for ACS ...

Vagally mediated atrioventricular (AV) block is defined as a paroxysmal AV block, localised within the AV node, associated with slowing of the sinus rate. All types of second-degree AV block, ...

Management of asymptomatic patients with severe aortic valve stenosis (AVS) remains a source of debate. Exercise testing is no longer contraindicated and needs now to be considered when evaluating ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason M Tarkin, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK; jt545{at}cam.ac.uk Learn how imaging can be applied to ...

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 Dr Peter Ong, Department of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus GmbH, Stuttgart 70376, Germany; Peter.Ong{at}rbk.de To learn the most commonly used methods of intracoronary function ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China 2 Department of Cardiology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University, Wuhan ...

Correspondence to: Tim C Clayton Medical Statistics Unit, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT, UK; tim.claytonlshtm.ac.uk Role of the funding source: The ...

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the available data on antithrombotic therapy after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI). In the absence of large randomised clinical trials, ...

Three cases with supraventricular tachyarrhythmias related to oesophageal transit are reported. A 61 year old man had episodes of atrial tachycardia on each swallow of food but not liquid; this has ...

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