Background Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is essential for assessing patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) ...

All pilots in the USA must undergo medical certification by an aeromedical examiner (AME) at regular intervals. The Federal ...

Vascular endothelial growth factor inhibitors (VEGFIs) have transformed treatment paradigms for several malignancies. By ...

OBJECTIVE To ascertain the surgical risk and long term outcome of patients over 80 years old undergoing aortic valve replacement (AVR). DESIGN Consecutive cases with respective case note audit and a ...

2 University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK Background and aims Mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (MRAs) reduce mortality and hospitalisation in heart failure with ...

2 Non-Profit Research Association Alliance for the Promotion of Preventive Medicine (APPREMED), Mechelen, Belgium Objective Heart failure (HF) is characterised by collagen deposition. Urinary ...

BACKGROUND Endothelial dysfunction plays an important role in the development of atherosclerotic vascular disease, which is the leading cause of mortality in patients with chronic renal failure.

Correspondence to Dr Shamir R Mehta, Division of Cardiology, Hamilton General Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario ON L8L 2X2, Canada; smehta{at}mcmaster.ca Objective Approximately 10% of patients with ...

6 Department of Medicine/Geriatrics and Gerontology Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA 7 Department of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA 8 ...

2 School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 3 Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia 4 ...

Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Catholic University Medical School, Rome, Italy Dr Felicita Andreotti, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Catholic University, Largo F Vito 1 - 00136 Rome, ...