Introduction Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the developed world. Computed tomography coronary angiography (CTCA), with a spatial resolution of ...

Objective To investigate dietary determinants of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in health conscious individuals to explain the reduced risk in vegetarians, and to examine the relation between IHD and ...

Correspondence to Dr Liwen Liu, Department of Ultrasound, Xijing Hospital, Xian, Shaanxi, 710032, China; liuliwen{at}fmmu.edu.cn; Professor David H Hsi, Heart & Vascular Institute, Stamford Hospital, ...

A classification with clinical significance is proposed for ventricular septal defect based on the study of 220 hearts with defects of the ventricular septum. All had atrioventricular and ...

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Background: The total atrial conduction time (TACT) is an independent predictor of atrial fibrillation (AF). A new transthoracic echocardiographic tool to determine TACT by tissue Doppler imaging ...

Background Little evidence is available about heart rate (HR) response to exercise as well as its relationship with functional capacity in amyloid cardiomyopathy. Then, in a multicentre cohort of ...

Dr S H Schirmer, Department of Cardiology, Academic Medical Centre, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Stephan.schirmer{at}uks.eu Collateral artery growth is a potent natural defence ...

2 Clinical Medical Research Center of Imaging in Liaoning Province, Shenyang, Liaoning, China Correspondence to Dr Chunyan Ma, Department of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, The First Hospital of China ...

Correspondence to Dr James Philip Howard, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; research{at}cardiologists.london Understand the paradigm of machine learning.

Correspondence to Professor Antonio Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil; tom1963br{at}yahoo.com.br Objective ...

Objective: To determine whether smaller atrial shunts (large persistent foramen ovale (PFO) and small atrial septal defect (ASD)) are inherited and whether this has a role in the inheritance of ...