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Grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) disease: current needs and provision of service for adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease in the UK
Executive summary: This report addresses the needs and problems of grown-up congenital heart (GUCH) patients and makes recommendations on organisation of national medical care, training of specialists ...
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Cardiac arrest survivors: short residual risk of death, long life expectancy
Correspondence to Dr Kristian Kragholm, Department of Health Science and Technology, Aalborg University, Sdr. Skovvej 15, Aalborg 9000, Denmark; kdks{at}rn.dk ...
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NOAC dosing and monitoring: really as simple as it seems?
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Value of fractional flow reserve in making decisions about bypass surgery for equivocal left main coronary artery disease
OBJECTIVE To investigate the value of coronary pressure derived fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements in supporting decisions about medical or surgical treatment in patients with angiographically ...
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Mortality associated with moderate and severe mitral regurgitation in 608 570 men and women undergoing echocardiography
Background Although the prognostic implications of severe mitral regurgitation (MR) are well recognised, they are less clear in moderate MR. We therefore explored the prognostic impact of both ...
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Swallow syncope associated with complete atrioventricular block and vasovagal syncope
A 21 year old man presented with multiple, recurrent episodes of complete atrioventricular (AV) block associated with swallowing. Electrophysiological study revealed an AV block with swallowing of ...
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Assessment and classification of patients with myocardial injury and infarction in clinical practice
BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Dr Andrew R Chapman, BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Science, Chancellors Building, University of ...
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Survival and risk of recurrence of takotsubo syndrome
Correspondence to Dr Ming-Sum Lee, Cardiology, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, Los Angeles, California 90027, USA; mingsum.lee{at}kp.org Objective The goal of this study is to evaluate ...
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β blocker treatment is associated with improvement in renal function and anaemia in patients with heart failure
Heart Failure Unit, North West Regional Cardiac Centre, South Manchester University Hospital, Manchester, UK Correspondence to: S Williams Heart Failure Unit, South Manchester University Hospitals ...
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Perioperative management of anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy
Correspondence to Dr James Douketis, St Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, 50 Charlton Ave East, Hamilton, ON L8N 4A6, Canada; jdouket{at}mcmaster.ca To underscore clinical scenarios when anticoagulation ...
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Myocardial perfusion defects and associated systemic ventricular dysfunction in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries
Dr T S Hornung, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, Freeman Hospital, High Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK. Background Patients with systemic ventricles of right ventricular morphology are at ...
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How to measure severity of mitral regurgitation
Paul A Grayburn, MD, Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute, 621 North Hall Street, Suite H030, Dallas, TX 75226, USA; paulgr{at}baylorhealth.edu If you wish to reuse ...