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Original research: Mortality associated with moderate and severe mitral regurgitation in 608 570 men and women undergoing ...
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Impact of angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on post-coronary artery bypass interleukin 6 release
Background: Angiotensin 1 converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors reduce morbidity and mortality after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). This benefit may result from an anti-inflammatory action.
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Prevalence of geriatric syndromes and impact on clinical and functional outcomes in older patients with acute cardiac diseases
1 Department of Geriatric Medicine, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain 2 Department of Cardiology, Hospital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón, Madrid, Spain ...
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Patient-prosthesis mismatch following aortic valve replacement
Patient-prosthesis mismatch (PPM) occurs when an implanted prosthetic valve is too small for the patient; severe PPM is defined as an indexed effective orifice area (iEOA) <0.65 cm 2 /m 2 following ...
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Influence of depression trajectories in heart failure patients with preserved ejection fractions: a secondary analysis of adverse outcomes in the TOPCAT trial ...
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Health related quality of life and psychological wellbeing in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy
a Department of Psychology, St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London, Cranmer Terrace, London SW17 0RE, UK, b Division of Cardiological Sciences, St George's Hospital Medical School ...
BMJ12d
Mortality from infective endocarditis: clinical predictors of outcome
1 Department of Cardiology, The Middlesex Hospital, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust, London, UK 2 Department of Clinical Microbiology, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust 3 ...
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Cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands, 1975 to 1995: decline in mortality, but increasing numbers of patients with chronic conditions
OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between trends over time in mortality and hospital morbidity caused by various cardiovascular diseases in the Netherlands. DESIGN Trend analysis by Poisson regression ...
BMJ11d
The transseptal approach for ablation of cardiac arrhythmias: experience of 104 procedures
Objective To report retrospectively on the training and subsequent experience of two operators in transseptal ablation of arrhythmias arising in the left atrium and left atrioventricular annulus, to ...
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Brugada syndrome: update and future perspectives
Correspondence to Dr Carol Ann Remme, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands; c.a.remme{at}amsterdamumc.nl Brugada syndrome (BrS) is an inherited cardiac disorder, ...
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136 The use and efficacy of ffr-ct – a real-world multi-centre audit of clinical data and cost-analysis
Introduction UK and US Guidelines now recommend HeartFlow FFR-CT (Fractional Flow Reserve-Computed Tomography) in stable chest pain (CP), but its clinical effectiveness and costs in real-world ...