The destination decision after successful resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is made within minutes, ...

The common cause of sudden cardiac death is ischaemic heart disease. Such patients may have an occlusive recent thrombosis in a major coronary artery but the largest group has no recent occlusion.

Background Chronic activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis due to long-term stress, reflected by elevated hair ...

Carbon emissions and environmental pollutants are responsible for deaths, property damage and reduction in population health ...

Background Rotational atherectomy (RA) is an established treatment of heavily-calcified coronary stenoses. Previous data suggest higher procedural complication rates when Burr-to-Artery (BTA) ratios ...

Objective Tub bathing is considered to have a preventive effect against cardiovascular disease (CVD) by improving haemodynamic function. However, no prospective studies have investigated the long-term ...

3 University of Birmingham Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences, City Hospital, Birmingham, UK Correspondence to Professor Torben Bjerregaard Larsen, Department of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Research ...

Eosinophil-mediated endomyocardial damage is a well-known complication in patients with hypereosinophilic syndromes (HES). Although management and survival have improved significantly, some patients ...

Objectives Institutional studies suggest robotic mitral surgery may be associated with superior outcomes. The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes of robotic, minimally invasive (mini), ...

Experimental & Molecular Cardiology Group, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr Arthur A M Wilde Experimental & Molecular Cardiology Group, Academic Medical Center ...

1 Second University of Naples, Division of Paediatric Cardiology, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy 2 Division of Cardiology, Monaldi Hospital Congenital JET has been described in sporadic case reports ...

1 British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence and National Institute for Health Research Centre, Cardiovascular Division, St Thomas' Hospital Campus, King's College London, UK ...