5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Centre Singapore, Singapore 6 Department of Cardiology, National University Heart Centre, Singapore Objective To investigate the prognostic ...

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 ...

In his song ‘Envelhecer’ (‘Aging’), Arnaldo Antunes states that “the most modern thing there is in this life is to grow old”.1 In this piece, he reframes aging not only as an inevitable biological ...

Objectives This updated hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis aims to integrate the latest randomised controlled trials (RCTs) on the use of cerebral embolic protection (CEP) in transcatheter aortic ...

For patients with heart failure and reduced or mildly reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, iron deficiency is common and associated with more severe symptoms, worse quality of life and an ...

Background The Assessing cardiovascular risk using Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (ASSIGN) risk score, developed in 2006, is used in Scotland for estimating the 10-year risk of first ...

Deep learning promises to revolutionise cardiac imaging with more accurate and more reproducible interpretation delivered almost instantaneously. But transferring promise into clinical delivery is a ...

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 ...

Objective To assess the performance of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk equations in Indigenous Australians. Methods We conducted an individual participant meta-analysis using longitudinal data of ...

Introduction Current guidelines recommend surgical or transcatheter aortic valve replacement (AVR) for severe aortic stenosis (AS) once symptoms or left ventricular dysfunction develop, whilst those ...

Correspondence to Dr Yucheng Chen, Cardiology Division, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, Sichuan 610041, China; chenyucheng2003{at}126.com If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...

Objective We retrospectively analysed outcome data from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) study to assess the incidence and potential risk factors of sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...