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Registry data on congenital heart disease trajectories from fetal life through infancy empower patients, relatives and healthcare professionals and expose blind angles

While we already have an understanding of the trajectories of babies who undergo different surgical/interventional procedures ...
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Prediction of worsening heart failure in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using plasma proteomics

Correspondence to Dr Yuichi J Shimada, Department of Medicine, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York NY, 10032, USA; ys3053{at}cumc.columbia.edu Objective Heart failure (HF) is one of ...
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Atrial fibrillation: global burdens and global opportunities

Correspondence to Dr Jelena Kornej, Cardiovascular Medicine and Preventive Medicine, Boston University Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118, USA; jkornej{at}bu.edu If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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The Swedish Web-system for Enhancement and Development of Evidence-based care in Heart disease Evaluated According to Recommended Therapies (SWEDEHEART)

5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden 6 Uppsala Clinical Research Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, ...
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Atrial fibrillation and thromboembolism in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: systematic review

3 First Department of Cardiology, University of Athens, Heart Centre of Young and Athletes (EKKAN), Unit of Inherited Cardiovascular Diseases, Athens, Greece Correspondence to Professor Perry M ...
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Resting heart rate: what is normal?

Correspondence to Dr David Nanchen, Department of Ambulatory Care and Community Medicine, University of Lausanne, CH-1011 Lausanne, Switzerland; david.nanchen{at}chuv.ch ...
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Cardiac tumours: diagnosis and management

Dr Leonard M Shapiro, Department of Cardiology, Papworth Hospital, Papworth Everard, Cambridge CB3 RE, UKlms{at}doctors.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this ...
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Management of Marfan syndrome

Correspondence to: Dr John CS Dean, Department of Medical Genetics, Medical School, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 9ZD, UK; j.dean{at}abdn.ac.uk If you wish to reuse any ...
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Cardiac hypertrophy, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and hyperparathyroidism--an association.

Left ventricular hypertrophy (symmetric, asymmetric, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy) is an almost invariable accompaniment of primary hyperparathyroidism. Five of 18 patients with hypertrophic ...
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Management of stable angina: summary of NICE guidance

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The risk of misdiagnosis in acute thoracic aortic dissection: a review of current guidelines

Acute aortic syndrome and in particular aortic dissection (AAD) persists as a cause of significant morbidity and mortality despite improvements in surgical management. This clinical review aims to ...
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Significance of commissural calcification on outcome of mitral balloon valvotomy

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the significance of commissural calcification, identified by transthoracic echocardiography, on the haemodynamic and symptomatic outcome of mitral balloon valvotomy. METHODS ...