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β blocker treatment is associated with improvement in renal function and anaemia in patients with heart failure
Heart Failure Unit, North West Regional Cardiac Centre, South Manchester University Hospital, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: S Williams Heart Failure Unit, South Manchester University Hospitals ...
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Association of increased carotid intima-media thickness with the extent of coronary artery disease
Objective: To investigate (a) the relation between intima-media thickness (IMT) in carotid arteries and the extent of coronary artery disease (CAD); and (b) whether IMT is predictive of coronary ...
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Systemic inflammation as a novel QT-prolonging risk factor in patients with torsades de pointes
Objective Increasing evidence indicates systemic inflammation as a new potential cause of acquired long QT syndrome (LQTS), via cytokine-mediated changes in cardiomyocyte ion channels. Torsade de ...
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Cardiac arrest survivors: short residual risk of death, long life expectancy
Correspondence to Dr Kristian Kragholm, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Sdr. Skovvej 15, Aalborg 9000, Denmark; kdks{at}rn.dk ...
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NOAC dosing and monitoring: really as simple as it seems?
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Value of fractional flow reserve in making decisions about bypass surgery for equivocal left main coronary artery disease
OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of coronary pressure derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements in supporting decisions about medical or surgical treatment in patients with angiographically ...
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Survival and risk of recurrence of takotsubo syndrome
Correspondence to Dr Ming-Sum Lee, Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90027, USA; mingsum.lee{at}kp.org Objective The goal of this study is to evaluate ...
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Grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) disease: current needs and provision of service for adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease in the UK
Executive summary: This report addresses the needs and problems of grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) patients and makes recommendations on organisation of national medical care, training of specialists ...
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Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH)
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Perioperative management of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy
Correspondence to Dr James Douketis, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, 50 Charlton Ave East, Hamilton, ON L8N 4A6, Canada; jdouket{at}mcmaster.ca To underscore clinical scenarios when anticoagulation ...
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Mortality associated with moderate and severe mitral regurgitation in 608 570 men and women undergoing echocardiography
Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear in moderate MR. We therefore explored the prognostic impact of both ...
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BACPR scientific statement: British standards and core components for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation
Correspondence to Jennifer L Jones, British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR), c/o The British Cardiovascular Society, 9 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 5HW, UK; ...