Introduction. Valve disease is a major concern in patients having non-cardiac surgery. First, it is common (table 1) 1–4 particularly in the elderly who may also have other comorbidities. The adult ...

Knowledge of the anatomy of the ‘conduction tissues’ of the heart is a 20th century phenomenon. Although controversies still continue on the topic, most could have been avoided had greater attention ...

Background The Buckberg index, a diastolic to systolic pressure-time integral ratio, is a resting measure of myocardial oxygen supply and demand. It compares the delivery of oxygen to the heart muscle ...

Objective β-blockers are the standard treatment for myocardial infarction (MI) based on evidence from the pre-thrombolytic era. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of β-blocker treatment ...

Methods The nationwide study includes 22 488 intensive care patients in Uppsala, Karolinska and Lund University Hospitals, Sweden, between 2004 and 2015. Creatinine and cystatin C were analysed with ...

OBJECTIVE To characterise the central and regional haemodynamic effects of insulin in patients with chronic heart failure. DESIGN Single blind, placebo controlled study. SETTING University teaching ...

Findings Incident MACCE was reported in 4,082 (9.9%) individuals in the study population and 3,463(9.7%) individuals with valid ECG parameters over a median follow-up period of 12.5 years. We found ...

The term “cardiomyopathy” refers to specific diseases affecting the myocardium which generally lead to clinical manifestations of heart failure, including exercise intolerance, dyspnoea, and fluid ...

Junctional ectopic tachycardia (JET) is a rare arrhythmia presenting either as a primary form1 or more often as a transient phenomenon immediately after heart surgery.2 Congenital JET usually occurs ...

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), the most common inherited cardiac disorder, is defined by unexplained left ventricular hypertrophy. HCM is associated with a range of clinical expressions, including ...

Objective In the majority of studies, the effect of physical activity (PA) on cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality is estimated at a single time point. The impact of long-term PA is likely to ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained arrhythmia. Approximately seven million people suffer from AF in Europe, and it is likely that several more millions suffer from ‘silent’, ...