Background Heart auscultation is a widely used and cost-effective clinical tool for detecting valvular heart disease (VHD), ...

Background Cancer survivors have an increased risk of heart failure, but this is balanced by the risk of death from other ...

Background Surgical ablation (SA) is a key treatment for atrial fibrillation (AF) patients undergoing heart surgery. However, direct comparisons between SA and non-mitral valve (non-MV) surgery alone ...

Background Chronic kidney disease is common in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and can significantly affect drug excretion and efficacy. This study focuses on the effects of modification ...

Objective To evaluate the association between chocolate intake and incident clinically apparent atrial fibrillation or flutter (AF). Methods The Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study is a large ...

In the context of a steadily ageing population, there is a continuous increase in the prevalence and incidence of all primary chronic conditions.1 Among the chronic conditions, heart failure (HF), ...

Objective Patients with unoperated single ventricle (SV) rarely survive into adulthood with good functional status and may develop Eisenmenger's syndrome (ES). We report outcomes of a 30-year cohort ...

Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (ccTGA) is a rare defect representing approximately 0.5% of all congenital heart disease. ccTGA is characterised by the combination of ...

The syndrome variously called Da Costa's syndrome, effort syndrome, neurocirculatory asthenia, etc has been studied for more than 100 years by many distinguished physicians. Originally identified in ...

The aorta represents a complex organ system which begins in the aortic ring adjacent to the aortic root with the origin of the two major coronary arteries, and ends at the iliac bifurcation. The ...

Prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) is present when the effective orifice area of the inserted prosthetic valve is too small in relation to body size. Its main haemodynamic consequence is to generate ...