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Timing of heart failure diagnosis and uptake of newly recommended therapies following clinical guideline updates

Background Clinical guideline updates aim to ensure that patients benefit from emerging evidence, yet it is unclear whether ...
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Mitral stenosis and atrial fibrillation

Correspondence to Dr Dirk Westermann, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany; d.westermann{at}uke.de Importantly, ...
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Update on management of atrial fibrillation in heart failure: a focus on ablation

Atrial fibrillation is increasingly encountered in patients with heart failure. Both diseases have seen tremendous rises in incidence in recent years. In general, the treatment of atrial fibrillation ...
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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 ...
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Aortic stenosis: treat the patient not the numbers

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Hypereosinophilic syndrome: considerations for the cardiologist

Eosinophil-mediated endomyocardial damage is a well-known complication in patients with hypereosinophilic syndromes (HES). Although management and survival have improved significantly, some patients ...
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A propensity matched analysis of robotic, minimally invasive, and conventional mitral valve surgery

Objectives Institutional studies suggest robotic mitral surgery may be associated with superior outcomes. The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes of robotic, minimally invasive (mini), ...
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Diagnosis, imaging and clinical management of aortic coarctation

Coarctation of the aorta (CoA ) is a well-known congenital heart disease (CHD) , which is often associated with several other cardiac and vascular anomalies, such as bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), ...
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Relationship between fine particulate air pollution and ischaemic heart disease morbidity and mortality

Correspondence to Professor Jing Liu, Department of Epidemiology, Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases, No. 2 Anzhen Street, ...
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Apical ballooning of the left ventricle: a distinct entity?

Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal Hospital, Shimada City, Shizuoka, Japan Correspondence to: Makoto Kondo, MD, Division of Cardiology, Shimada Municipal ...
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Contraindications to magnetic resonance imaging

Department of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Imaging, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Bad Nauheim, Germany Thorsten Dill, MD, Department of Cardiology/Cardiovascular Imaging, Kerckhoff Heart Center, Benekestrasse ...
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Myocardial bridges: morphological and functional aspects.

OBJECTIVE--To assess the arrangement of myocardial bridges. DESIGN--A necropsy study of 90 consecutive hearts (56 male, 34 female). RESULTS--Myocardial bridges, either single or multiple, were seen in ...