Introduction Heart failure (HF) is growing global epidemic. Given the high morbidity and mortality associated with HF, and the impact it has on an already stretched health care system, its effective ...

Correspondence to Dr Christina Christersson, Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden; christina.christersson{at}medsci.uu.se Objectives Compare the ...

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children and UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK Dr Alison Hislop, UCL Institute of Child Health, 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH, UK; a.hislop{at}ich.ucl.ac ...

OBJECTIVE To address a potential role for p53, Bcl2 associated protein X (Bax), and apoptosis in the processes associated with cell turnover during cystic medial degeneration (CMD) of the aorta.

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 ...

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 ...

Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands Professor H J G M Crijns, Maastricht University Medical Center, Department of Cardiology, Postbus 5800, 6202 ...

a Cardiac Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine at the National Heart and Lung Institute, London SW3, UK, b Department of Medical Statistics and Evaluation, Imperial College School of Medicine ...

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 ...

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

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the prevalence of plaque erosion as a substrate for coronary thrombosis. DESIGN Pathological study in patients with acute myocardial infarction not treated with thrombolysis or ...