Background Although treatment options for heart failure (HF) have improved, advanced HF (AdHF) remains a challenging ...

Background The burden of cardiovascular events in Africa is projected to rise significantly in the coming decade, placing ...

Background Coarctation of the aorta (CoA) has good modern results, but large multicentre longitudinal data on outcomes, especially hospital resource utilisation through childhood and adolescence, are ...

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited cardiomyopathy characterised by fibrofatty replacement of predominantly the right ventricle and high risk of ventricular ...

Radiation-induced coronary heart disease (RICHD) is the second most common cause of morbidity and mortality in patients treated with radiotherapy for breast cancer, Hodgkin’s lymphoma and other ...

Objective We conducted the first systematic review and meta-analysis to estimate the specific prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant, pseudo-resistant and true-resistant hypertension among treated ...

Background Stereotactic arrhythmia radioablation (STAR) is a novel, non-invasive treatment for therapy-refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT). In STAR, a high dose of radiation is used to ...

Objective The comparative efficacy and safety of prasugrel and ticagrelor in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) treated with percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) remain unclear. We aimed to ...

Objective To estimate the risk of atrial fibrillation (AF) and stroke and the impact of closure in patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) compared with a general population cohort. Methods All adult ...

Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm2/m2 following ...

Background The circadian clock influences a number of cardiovascular (patho)physiological processes including the incidence of acute myocardial infarction. A circadian variation in infarct size has ...

Background A Mediterranean diet is favourable for cardiometabolic risk. Objective To examine the residual effect of a green Mediterranean diet, further enriched with green plant-based foods and lower ...