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Maintenance of sinus rhythm with an ablation strategy in patients with atrial fibrillation is associated with a lower risk of stroke and death
1 Department of Cardiology Research, Barts and The London NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Cardiology, The Heart Hospital, London, UK Objective To investigate whether catheter ablation of atrial ...
BMJ7d
Trends in the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease in the UK
Correspondence to Dr Prachi Bhatnagar, British Heart Foundation Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention, Nuffield Department of Population Health, Old Road Campus, ...
BMJ1d
Percutaneous cardiac support devices for cardiogenic shock: current indications and recommendations
Correspondence to Dr José P S Henriques, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Department of Cardiology, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; j.p.henriques{at}amc.uva.nl ...
BMJ5d
Prevalence and functional impact of chronotropic incompetence in amyloid cardiomyopathy: a multicentre analysis
Background Little evidence is available about heart rate (HR) response to exercise as well as its relationship with functional capacity in amyloid cardiomyopathy. Then, in a multicentre cohort of ...
BMJ3d
Automated non-invasive measurement of cardiac output: comparison of electrical bioimpedance and carbon dioxide rebreathing techniques.
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford Park, South Australia. Two commercial automated, non-invasive systems for estimation of cardiac output were evaluated. Values of ...
BMJ1d
202 Qrs fragmentation and low qrs voltages in veteran athletes
Background QRS fragmentation (FQRS), characterized by multiple peaks within the QRS, and low voltage QRS complexes (LQRS), are considered adverse risk markers that may indicate underlying myocardial ...
BMJ1d
Fluid challenge and balloon occlusion testing in patients with atrial septal defects
Introduction Careful, stepwise assessment is required in all patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) to exclude pulmonary vascular or left ventricular (LV) disease. Fluid challenge and balloon ...
BMJ2d
Diagnosis of patients with angina and non-obstructive coronary disease in the catheter laboratory
Around 40% of all patients undergoing angiography are found to have normal coronary arteries or non-obstructive coronary artery disease (NOCAD). Despite the high prevalence, this is a group who rarely ...
BMJ4d
Atrial fibrillation and risk of incident heart failure with reduced versus preserved ejection fraction
Objective Associations between atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) have been established. We compared the extent to which AF is associated with each primary subtype of HF, with reduced ...
BMJ1d
A straightforward guide to the sarcomeric basis of cardiomyopathies
The sarcomere is the principal contractile unit of striated muscle. Mutations in genes encoding sarcomeric proteins are responsible for a range of diseases including hypertrophic, dilated and ...
BMJ5d
Long-term prognosis of low high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T in the emergency department compared with the general population
Background Long-term prognosis associated with low–high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) concentrations in patients with chest pain is unknown. We investigated these prognostic implications ...
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Machine learning with convolutional neural networks for clinical cardiologists
Correspondence to Dr James Philip Howard, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London W12 0NN, UK; research{at}cardiologists.london Understand the paradigm of machine learning.