Objectives: To quantify the incidence of major adverse events (AEs) occurring in hospital or within 30 days after surgery in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and to ...

Correspondence to Dr Diederik E van der Feen, Center for Congenital Heart Diseases, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen GZ 9713, The Netherlands; d.e.van.der.feen01{at}umcg.nl Pulmonary ...

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Background: Some sociodemographic and psychological variables such as patients’ belief about illness are associated with attendance at cardiac rehabilitation. Exploration of patients’ beliefs about ...

The progressive improvement in cardiac troponin (cTn) assay performance has culminated in the current generation of cTn assays. These are typically referred to as high-sensitivity cardiac troponin (hs ...

3 Cardiovascular Center, The Tazuke Kofukai Medical Research Institute, Kitano Hospital, Osaka, Japan Objective To elucidate the factors associated with high left ventricular mass index (LVMI) and to ...

Correspondence to Dr Abdullahi O Oseni, Department of Internal Medicine, Section on Cardiology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Medical Center Boulevard, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA; ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension , The Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Radiology, The Medical University of Warsaw 3 Department of Internal Medicine, The ...

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