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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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Recurrent syncope: differential diagnosis and management

Correspondence to Dr Andrew D Krahn, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Gordon and Leslie Diamond Health Care Centre, 9th floor, 2775 Laurel St., Vancouver ...
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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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Heartbeat: prevalence and treatment of severe aortic stenosis in older patients

Correspondence to Professor Catherine M Otto, Division of Cardiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA; cmotto{at}uw.edu In an editorial, Iung and Arangalage2 point out that this ...
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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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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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Mode of death in heart failure: findings from the ATLAS trial

Objective: To investigate markers that predict modes of death in patients with chronic heart failure. Design: Randomised, double blind, three period, comparative, parallel group study (ATLAS, ...
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Recent advances in percutaneous coronary intervention

Percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) continues to advance at pace with an ever-broadening indication. In this article we will review the recent technological advances in PCI that have enabled more ...
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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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Assessing the effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis and its relationship to time delay: a Bayesian evidence synthesis

Centre for Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester, UK Dr M Sculpher, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, ...
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The management of atrial fibrillation after cardiac surgery

Robert W Rho, MD, Associate Professor, Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Catheter Ablation Program, University of Washington School of Medicine, HSB AA 121C, 1959 NE Pacific Street, Seattle, WA ...