Background The National Heart Failure Audit gathers data on patients coded at discharge (or death) as having heart failure as ...

Background Emergency Medical Services (EMS) patients with chest pain are often suspected of having non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (NSTE-ACS). Current risk stratification protocols for ...

Hypertension remains one of the leading risk factors for cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality, making its effective treatment and control a critical public health priority.1 2 In response to the ...

Background Up to half of patients with infective endocarditis (IE) require cardiac surgery. Although anaemia is common, its precise prevalence, transfusion practices and impact on outcomes in ...

Background Exercise stress echocardiography (ESE) is widely used to detect inducible myocardial ischaemia. However, a substantial proportion of ESEs remains inconclusive or shows abnormal ...

Composite endpoints are widely used in large randomised cardiovascular outcome trials. They are frequently referred to as ...

In this issue of the journal, Shoji et al showed that isolated non-specific ST-segment and T-wave abnormalities (NSSTTAs) are associated with incident heart failure (HF).1 The authors conducted a ...

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Background Pregnancy in women with Marfan syndrome (MFS) is associated with increased maternal and neonatal risks, yet most existing studies are limited by small sample sizes and short follow-up. This ...

Correspondence to: Michael Weber MD, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Department of Cardiology, Benekestraße 2–8, 61231 Bad Nauheim, Germany; M.Weber{at}kerckhoff-klinik.de In recent years biomarkers have ...

Objective Despite proven effectiveness, participation in traditional supervised exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation (exCR) remains low. Telehealth interventions that use information and ...