Background Anticoagulation therapy reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but it is often underused ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Background Intravenous iron therapy with ferric derisomaltose (FDI) has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with heart ...

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant public health challenge in China. This study aimed to project ...

Objective To test the effect of patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure on neurological events in divers. Design Prospective, non-randomised, longitudinal three-arm study. Setting Tertiary referral centre.

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

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 ...

Care pathways for management of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) including screening for structural heart disease, PVC burden, cause and effect relation with left ventricular dysfunction when ...

This paper reviews the methods, benefits and challenges associated with the adoption and translation of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling within cardiovascular medicine. CFD, a specialist ...

Correspondence to Shirley Sze, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences and NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester LE3 9QP, UK; shirley.sze{at}nhs.net While progress has been ...

1 AKH Linz, Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, Krankenhausstrasse, Austria 2 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II, AKH, Waehringerguertel, Vienna, ...

Heightened interest in left ventricular thrombus (LVT) stems from the consistent association of subsequent stroke and systemic embolism after LVT, and many aspects of its management still exist in a ...