Background Insomnia symptoms are prevalent in older adults and linked to cardiovascular disease (CVD), but the role of ...

Transthyretin amyloidosis (ATTR) is a condition caused by TTR protein misfolding and amyloid deposition, particularly in the ...

Correspondence to Dr Shuang Liu, Department of Cardiovascular Ultrasound, The First Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China; liushuang_cmu1h{at}163.com Methods This cross-sectional ...

Correspondence to Dr Richard Paul Steeds, Department of Cardiology, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham B15 2TH, UK; rick.steeds{at}uhb.nhs.uk To understand the advantages and disadvantages of ...

Objective Biochemical analysis of pericardial fluid (PF) is commonly performed for the initial assessment of PF, and the results are usually interpreted according to Light’s traditional criteria for ...

Introduction Women are under-represented in cardiology in the UK (28% of cardiology trainees and 13% of cardiology consultants are female despite women accounting for >50% of medical students). Lack ...

Introduction The clinical effectiveness of a ‘rule-out’ acute coronary syndrome (ACS) strategy for emergency department patients with chest pain, incorporating a single undetectable high-sensitivity ...

Heart failure (HF) is the most common and serious cardiovascular complication of cancer therapy. As succinctly stated in an editorial by Lyon, ‘Success in the diagnosis and treatment of many cancers ...

Correspondence to Professor Takeshi Kimura, Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan; taketaka{at}kuhp.kyoto-u.ac.jp There still remain three major ...

Objective We retrospectively analysed outcome data from the Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis (SEAS) study to assess the incidence and potential risk factors of sudden cardiac death (SCD) ...

Introduction Coronary artery disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. For those undergoing PCI, there are 20–30% with disease of small coronary arteries. It is often diffuse ...