1 Department of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Respiratory Institute A90, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 2 Department of Internal Medicine, Cleveland Clinic ...

Queen Mary University of London, Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Charterhouse Square, London, UK Correspondence to Dr ...

Introduction Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) with adenosine by paramedics has been investigated and proven to be safe in the USA, but patients (pts) are transferred to hospital. We ...

Stroke, one of the most severe complications of atrial fibrillation (AF), can be prevented by oral anticoagulants in patients ...

Because of a desire to reduce the morbidity of a well-established and effective procedure for coronary artery disease, up to 30% of coronary bypass operations are being performed without the use of a ...

Over the last 20 years, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery (OPCAB) has evolved as a standard technique for surgical myocardial revascularisation, and although it is used routinely in many centres ...

Background Recent work has shown no difference in change of LVEF between RV apical (RVA) pacing and non-RVA pacing in patients with normal LV function. We hypothesised that a more sensitive marker ...

Correspondence to: Dr Adrian P Banning, Department of Cardiology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DU, UK; adrian.banning{at}orh.anglox.nhs.uk Despite dramatic advances in ...

Evidence of dual atrioventricular nodal pathwats (a sudden jump in H1-H2 at critical A1-A2 coupling intervals) was shown in 41 out of 397 patients studied with atrial extrastimulus techniques. In 27 ...

Introduction Heart failure (HF) is growing global epidemic. Given the high morbidity and mortality associated with HF, and the impact it has on an already stretched health care system, its effective ...

Background Limited strategies have been developed to evaluate and address the alarming discrepancy in early mortality between Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Objective To assess heart ...

Correspondence to Dr Christina Christersson, Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden; christina.christersson{at}medsci.uu.se Objectives Compare the ...