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 ...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether the concentrations of serum advanced glycation end products (AGE) in diabetic patients with obstructive coronary artery disease differ from those in type 2 diabetic ...

OBJECTIVE To examine patients' individual requirements for risk disclosure before surgery. DESIGN Structured interview and questionnaire. SETTING 50 patients interviewed following coronary artery ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK Dr Alison Hislop, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK; a.hislop{at}ich.ucl.ac ...

Correspondence to David M Shavelle, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Southern California, 1510 San Pablo Street, Suite 322, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA; shavelle{at}usc.edu ...

Background The phenomenon of eosinophilic myocarditis in explanted hearts was first reported in a series in 1991. The phenomenon remains under-recognised and the incidence uncertain, current published ...