Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) has emerged over the last decade as an increasingly recognised cause of myocardial infarction, especially among younger women. The advances in our ...

1 The Affiliated Luohu Hospital, Shenzhen University Health Science Center, Shenzhen, China Objective Studies investigating the impact of chocolate consumption on cardiovascular disease (CVD) have ...

Objective The prevalence of atrial fibrillation (AF) and the risk of stroke and bleeding vary according to age. To estimate effects of dabigatran, compared with warfarin, on stroke, bleeding and ...

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Professor Ian R Reid, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University ...

Background Complete revascularisation has been associated with improved short-term outcomes in patients with coronary artery ...

The aim of GRACE was to provide a large multinational registry of the full spectrum of patients with acute coronary syndromes (ACS) in order to define patient characteristics and outcomes and derive ...

Correspondence to Dr Tom Marshall, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK; t.p.marshall{at}bham.ac.uk Objective Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most ...

Background Recurrent mitral regurgitation (MR) remains a major limitation of mitral valve (MV) repair in patients with ...

Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death (SCD) among young individuals and ...

Introduction Triple rule-out (TRO) computed tomography angiography (CTA) can provide a cost-effective assessment of the coronary arteries, pulmonary arteries, and aorta in appropriately selected ...

Correspondence to: Professor Robert H Anderson, Cardiac Unit, Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1H 1EJ, UK; r.anderson{at}ich.ucl.ac.uk Through the 20th century, knowledge of the ...

Correspondence to Professor Jing Liu, Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, No. 2 Anzhen Street, ...