Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK Dr Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, 10th floor Directorate Office, North Wing, St Thomas’ Hospital, ...

Correspondence to Dr Maryam Kavousi, Department of Epidemiology, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam 3000 CA, The Netherlands; m.kavousi{at}erasmusmc.nl Objective To evaluate changes in left ventricular diastolic ...

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Around 40% of all patients undergoing angiography are found to have normal coronary arteries or non-obstructive coronary artery disease (NOCAD). Despite the high prevalence, this is a group who rarely ...

Correspondence to: Dr Steve W Goodacre Medical Care Research Unit, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield, S1 4DA, UK; s.goodacresheffield.ac.uk Each year, over 15 million ...

1 Department of Cardiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Department of Clinical Physiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, ...

Vagally mediated atrioventricular (AV) block is defined as a paroxysmal AV block, localised within the AV node, associated with slowing of the sinus rate. All types of second-degree AV block, ...

Almost every week there is an article published in a major national newspaper on the epidemic proportions reached by obesity in various countries. The pathophysiology of obesity is complex and some ...

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

OBJECTIVE To describe clinical outcomes of a paediatric population with histologically confirmed lymphocytic myocarditis. DESIGN A retrospective review between November 1984 and February 1998. SETTING ...

1 British Heart Foundation/University of Edinburgh Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2 Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, ...

Objective: To assess psychomotor development and neurological sequelae in infants after surgery for congenital heart defects. Design and setting: Single institution prospective cohort study. Patients: ...