The Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Remodeling and Function Research, Chinese Ministry of Education and Chinese Ministry of Health, Shandong University Qilu Hospital, Jinan, Shandong, China ...

Background Loop diuretics are commonly prescribed in the community, not always to patients with a recorded diagnosis of heart failure (HF). The rate of HF events in patients prescribed loop diuretics ...

Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia Correspondence to: Dr Angus Nightingale Department of Cardiology, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, ...

a Department of Cardiology, Istituti Clinici di Perfezionamento, via Commenda, 12, Milan, 20121, Italy, b Fetal Cardiology Study Group of the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology: OBJECTIVES To ...

Correspondence to Dr Kevin Vernooy, Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht 6202 AZ, The Netherlands; kevin.vernooy{at}mumc.nl The adverse effects of ventricular dyssynchrony ...

DESIGN Detailed macroscopic and histological examination at 19 segments of the left and right ventricle and the left atrial free wall. PATIENTS 72 patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy who had ...

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 ...

4 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Brompton Hospital and Imperial College, London, UK Correspondence to Dr Dipak Kotecha, Clinical Trials and Evaluation Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, ...

Objective To investigate dietary determinants of ischaemic heart disease (IHD) in health conscious individuals to explain the reduced risk in vegetarians, and to examine the relation between IHD and ...

1 Department of Internal Medicine and Hypertension , The Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Radiology, The Medical University of Warsaw 3 Department of Internal Medicine, The ...

Dubowitz Neuromuscular Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, London, UK Correspondence to: Professor F Muntoni Dubowitz Neuromuscular Unit, Department ...