Background Despite advances in acute coronary syndrome (ACS) management, contemporary data assessing long-term prognosis ...

Background Double sequential defibrillation (DSD) is a promising treatment for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest ...

We thank Calcaterra et al for their thoughtful comments and for providing an embryological perspective on patent foramen ovale (PFO) and platypnoea-orthodeoxia syndrome in response to our editorial.1 ...

Objective This study sets out to compare morbidity, mortality and reintervention rates after stenting of the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) versus modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (mBTS) for ...

BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Dr Andrew R Chapman, BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Chancellors Building, University of ...

Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Medical Center, Berlin, Germany Correspondence to: Dr J Müller-Nordhorn Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology ...

Objective Cardiac output, a fundamental parameter of cardiovascular function, has consistently been shown to increase across healthy pregnancy; however, the time course and magnitude of adaptation ...

1 Departments of Cardiology and Pathology, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 2 Departments of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Background The aorta ...

1 British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence and National Institute for Health Research Centre, Cardiovascular Division, St Thomas' Hospital Campus, King's College London, UK ...

Objective: To establish a classification of bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) that includes both leaflet morphology and aortic shape. Setting: Two academic medical centres of the University of Washington, ...

Introduction Heart failure (HF) is a growing epidemic with significant morbidity and mortality, estimated to affect over half a million people in the U.K., and contributes to a large burden of cost on ...

1 Department of Medicine, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 2 Department of Cardiology, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway ...