Correspondence to Dr Stuart D Rosen, Imperial College, National Heart and Lung Institute Division of Cardiovascular Sciences, London, SW7 2AZ, UK; stuart.rosen{at}imperial.ac.uk Mortality from ...

5 Department of Pathology, University of Tampere and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland Correspondence to: Dr Johanna Kuusisto Cardiology Unit, Department of Medicine, Kuopio University ...

3 First Department of Cardiology, University of Athens, Heart Centre of Young and Athletes (EKKAN), Unit of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Athens, Greece Correspondence to Professor Perry M ...

Introduction Careful, stepwise assessment is required in all patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) to exclude pulmonary vascular or left ventricular (LV) disease. Fluid challenge and balloon ...

Correspondence to Professor Arie Pieter Kappetein, Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam 3015CE, The Netherlands; a.kappetein{at}erasmusmc.nl If you wish ...

Iron deficiency, heart failure and ageing: what do we know?

Background Cardiac surgery carries a heightened risk of bradyarrhythmias, but current permanent pacemaker (PPM) implantation ...

Iron is an essential component of two vital compounds: haemoglobin and myoglobin. The two share a basic Haeme architecture. Myoglobin is a single polypeptide chain containing iron and has a single ...

Background The role of female-specific factors in the occurrence and progression of cardiometabolic disease (CMD) across ...

Aims Cardiovascular (CV) deaths were reduced by atorvastatin during a 16-year follow-up of participants in the ...

Coronary atherosclerosis is a chronic condition characterised by the development of an atherosclerotic plaque in the inner layer of the coronary artery, mainly associated with cholesterol accumulation ...