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Background Cardiology training is demanding and associated with high workloads. Poor lifestyle and health among clinicians ...

1 British Heart Foundation/University of Edinburgh Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2 Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, ...

Correspondence to Dr Christina Christersson, Department of Medical Sciences, Cardiology, Uppsala University, Uppsala SE-751 85, Sweden; christina.christersson{at}medsci.uu.se Objectives Compare the ...

South America comprises widely different environments consisting of many complex and heterogeneous ethnicities, societies and cultures. During recent decades conspicuous advances in human and societal ...

Objective The relationship between dietary patterns and development of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is not well understood. Thus, we prospectively evaluated the association between the ...

Gadolinium-based contrast media are widely used in cardiovascular MRI to identify and to highlight the intravascular and extracellular space. After gadolinium, manganese has the second highest ...

Right ventricular (RV) size and function are important predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with various conditions. However, non-invasive assessment of the RV is a ...

Correspondence to Dr Rowlens Melduni, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA; melduni.rowlens{at}mayo.edu Objective To investigate the association of mitral ...

The peak pressure drop across the aortic valve in aortic stenosis has been measured by Doppler ultrasound. Maximum velocity in the Doppler signal from the aortic jet was recorded using a maximum ...

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 ...

Correspondence to: Professor Neil Poulter, Cardiovascular Studies Unit, Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Imperial College London, NHLI, Faculty of Medicine, St Mary’s Campus, London W2 1PG, UK; ...