OBJECTIVE Previous studies have suggested that resting myocardial blood flow is within normal limits in most chronically dysfunctional left ventricular segments which improve function after coronary ...

Objective We hypothesised that abnormal global longitudinal strain (GLS) would predict outcome in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) better than current echocardiographic measures. Methods ...

Cancer and cardiovascular disease share many risk factors. Due to improved survival of patients with cancer, the cohort of cancer survivors with heart failure referred for heart transplantation (HT) ...

Heart disease is the leading cause of death and morbidity in Western countries, and ischaemic heart disease (IHD) accounts for most cardiac deaths in both sexes.1 This review focuses on gender related ...

Since the outbreak of the pandemic until early 2022, SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) has affected more than 410 million individuals worldwide, and of those almost 5.9 million people have died.

Introduction Growing numbers of public access defibrillators aim to improve the effectiveness of bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation prior to ambulance arrival. In the UK, however, public access ...

In 1958, Paul Wood defined Eisenmenger syndrome as ‘Pulmonary hypertension due to a high pulmonary vascular resistance with reversed or bidirectional shunt at aortopulmonary, ventricular, or atrial ...

Objective Grip strength is a well-characterised measure of weakness and of poor muscle performance, but there is a lack of consensus on its prognostic implications in terms of cardiac adverse events ...