While we already have an understanding of the trajectories of babies who undergo different surgical/interventional procedures ...

Background A single assessment of psychological distress, which includes depression and anxiety, has been associated with increased mortality in patients with coronary heart disease, but the ...

3 First Department of Cardiology, University of Athens, Heart Centre of Young and Athletes (EKKAN), Unit of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Athens, Greece Correspondence to Professor Perry M ...

Correspondence to Dr David Nanchen, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; david.nanchen{at}chuv.ch ...

Pacemaker lead infection is a rare condition, most often occurring when intervention is needed after pacemaker implantation. Diagnosis is by blood cultures and confirmation by transoesophageal ...

1 Department of Cardiology, King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence, The Rayne Institute, St. Thomas’ Hospital Campus, London, UK 2 Department of Cardiology, National ...

Objective: To assess whether use of oral glucocorticoids is associated with cardiovascular and cerebrovascular morbidity. Design and setting: Nested case–control study within a cohort of patients (⩾ ...

Acute aortic syndrome and in particular aortic dissection (AAD) persists as a cause of significant morbidity and mortality despite improvements in surgical management. This clinical review aims to ...

Objective: To develop, in patients referred for syncope to an emergency department (ED), a diagnostic score to identify those patients likely to have a cardiac cause. Design: Prospective cohort study.

1 Health Economics Research Centre, Department of Public Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK 2 British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Department of Public Health, University of ...

Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, UK Correspondence to Dr Stephen P Harden, Department of Cardiothoracic Radiology, University ...

Correspondence to Dr Jaimini Cegla, Imperial College London Division of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, London, UK; j.cegla{at}ic.ac.uk This article provides a summary of the available ...