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Preventable causative factors leading to hospital admission with decompensated heart failure
Objective To determine the distribution and importance of various factors, especially the preventable ones, that contribute to cardiac decompensation and subsequent hospital admission for heart ...
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Echocardiography in differentiating tuberculous from chronic idiopathic pericardial effusion
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Time course of temperature effects on cardiovascular mortality in Brisbane, Australia
1 School of Public Health and Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia 2 Department of Epidemiology,School of Population Health, ...
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Current state of home-based exercise interventions in patients with congenital heart disease: a systematic review
Home-based exercise training is a promising alternative to conventional supervised training for patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Even though the beneficial effect of exercise ...
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Adherence and persistence to direct oral anticoagulants in atrial fibrillation: a population-based study
Background Despite simpler regimens than vitamin K antagonists (VKAs) for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (AF), adherence (taking drugs as prescribed) and persistence (continuation of drugs) ...
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Left atrial pressure is associated with iatrogenic atrial septal defect after mitral valve clip
Correspondence to Dr Takahiro Shiota, The Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; shiotat{at}cshs.org Objectives Mitral valve (MV) clip procedure requires interatrial ...
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Coronary vasospasm as the underlying cause for chest pain in patients with PVB19 myocarditis
Objective: To evaluate the incidence of coronary vasospasm as a possible pathophysiological mechanism causing chest pain symptoms in patients with clinically suspected myocarditis. Design and setting: ...
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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 ...
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Pulmonary vasoreactivity predicts long-term outcome in patients with Eisenmenger syndrome receiving bosentan therapy
Background Vasoreactivity testing is recommended in the management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but its clinical relevance in congenital heart disease (CHD)-associated PAH has not been ...
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Management of pericardial effusion
Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain Dr J Soler-Soler, Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Universitari Vall d'Hebron, Pg. Vall d'Hebron 119-129, 08035 Barcelona, ...
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Chronic nicotine ingestion and atrial fibrillation.
Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation occurred in a fit 35 year old man who consumed large doses of nicotine chewing gum (Nicorette Leo) over a prolonged period.
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Managing palpitations and arrhythmias during pregnancy
Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK Dr Catherine Nelson-Piercy, Guy’s & St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, 10th floor Directorate Office, North Wing, St Thomas’ Hospital, ...