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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Vardenafil treatment for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a multicentre, open-label study
Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Professor Z-C Jing, Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai ...
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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 ...
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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.
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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Standard ECG for differential diagnosis between Anderson-Fabry disease and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Objectives To evaluate the role of the ECG in the differential diagnosis between Anderson-Fabry disease (AFD) and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Methods In this multicentre retrospective study, ...
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Cardiac transplantation: indications, eligibility and current outcomes
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