Background Bacteraemia and infective endocarditis (IE) are rare but severe complications of transcatheter aortic valve ...

Background Accurate discrimination of functionally significant coronary stenosis using intravascular imaging remains ...

The use of positron emission tomography (PET) in cardiology is growing rapidly. Technical features make PET a strong technology for the non-invasive evaluation of cardiac physiology. It is currently ...

Cardiology training in the UK is facing significant challenges due to a range of factors. Recent curriculum changes have further compounded this issue and significantly risk the ability to produce ...

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Valvular heart disease affects 1%–2% of young individuals, many of whom aspire to partake in competitive sport or high intensity recreational exercise. There are limited reports on the impact of ...

Objective: To assess health related quality of life of patients with congestive heart failure; to compare their quality of life with the previously characterised general population and in those with ...

1 AKH Linz, Department of Internal Medicine I - Cardiology, Krankenhausstrasse, Austria 2 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Internal Medicine II, AKH, Waehringerguertel, Vienna, ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate mortality, cause of death, survival, and quality of life in all types of cardiac malformation with congenital pulmonary atresia. DESIGN Retrospective analysis. SETTING The ...

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Objectives Although a life-preserving surgery for children with single ventricle physiology, the Fontan palliation is associated with striking morbidity and mortality with advancing age. Our primary ...

Correspondence to Dr Julio A Lamprea-Montealegre, Cardiology Department, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; jlamprea{at}uw.edu Objective This study sought to ...