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Percutaneous ventricular assist devices for percutaneous coronary interventions in older patients with heart failure: a target trial emulation

Background Percutaneous ventricular assist devices (pVAD) have been increasingly used to support haemodynamics during ...
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Menopause and hormone replacement therapy in the 21st century

Correspondence to Dr Carl J Lavie, Cardiology, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, New Orleans, LA 70121, USA; clavie{at}ochsner.org In their Heart paper, O'Keeffe and colleagues4 use data from ...
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Association of right atrial strain and long-term outcome in severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation

Objective Severe secondary tricuspid regurgitation (STR) causes significant right atrial (RA) volume overload, resulting in structural and functional RA-remodelling. This study evaluated whether ...
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Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum: a commonly misdiagnosed mass often leading to unnecessary cardiac surgery

3 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College Correspondence to: Dr I Nadra Department of Cardiology, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, ...
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Cardiovascular Risk and Risk Scores: ASSIGN, Framingham, QRISK and others: how to choose

Correspondence to Prof Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, Cardiovascular Epidemiology Unit, Institute of Cardiovascular Research, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee DD1 9SY, UK; ...
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Atrial fibrillation and thromboembolism in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: systematic review

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 ...
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Pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery: incidence, site, size, and haemodynamic consequences.

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the incidence, characteristics, and haemodynamic consequences of pericardial effusion after cardiac surgery. DESIGN--Clinical, echocardiographic, and Doppler evaluations before ...
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The athlete's heart

1 Department of Cardiology, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia 2 Department of Medicine, St Vincent's Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia 3 Department of Cardiovascular ...
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Estimates of lifetime attributable risk of cancer after a single radiation exposure from 64-slice computed tomographic coronary angiography

Aims To estimate the life attributable risk (LAR) of cancer incidence over a wide range of dose radiation exposure and a large spectrum of possible diagnostic computed tomographic coronary angiography ...
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Status of rheumatic heart disease in rural Pakistan

1 Cardiology Department, Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yaar Khan, Pakistan 2 Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Rahim Yaar Khan, Pakistan Objectives: To determine the community based prevalence of rheumatic heart ...
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Minimally invasive mitral valve repair

Correspondence to Dr Rakesh M Suri, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH 44195, USA; surir{at}ccf.org Contemporary ...
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Independent prognostic value of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with heart failure. A quantitative analysis of 1256 patients with ischaemic and non-ischaemic ...

1 Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy 2 Dipartimento Cardiaco, Toracico e Vascolare, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy Background Functional mitral ...