Objectives Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy (NDLVC) is a novel cardiomyopathy characterised by normal LV size and non-ischaemic myocardial scarring or fatty tissue replacement. This study ...

Background The clinical effectiveness of ablating non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (non-PAF) relies on proper patient selection. We developed and validated a scoring system to predict non-PAF ...

Objectives We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies that compared levels of molecular biomarkers in women with peripartum cardiomyopathy (PPCM) to those in healthy pregnant and ...

Over the past decades, prognosis of patients with cancer has strongly improved and the number of cancer survivors is rapidly growing. Despite this success, cancer treatment is associated with ...

Objective To conduct a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to evaluate the impact of ILR use on occurrence of recurrent stroke.Methods PubMed, EMBASE, CENTRAL and ClinicalTrials.gov ...

Background There is no available information on the risk of permanent pacemaker implantation following transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in Spain. Our objective was to investigate the ...

Background Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) can cause left atrial (LA) and left ventricular (LV) remodelling, which is linked to atrial fibrillation (AF). Whether continuous positive airway pressure ...

Background The effectiveness of risk stratification using the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Risk Score (GRS) for patients presenting to hospital with suspected non-ST elevation ...

Background The evaluation of long-term inflammatory response and function in postoperative patients with aortic valve replacement (AVR) deserves special analysis because it is important to try to ...

Objective Left ventricular non-compaction (LVNC) is morphologically characterised by excessive trabeculations and deep recesses in the ventricular wall. The risk of thromboembolic disease in the ...

Background Right atrial pressure (RAP) is a key variable that cardiac MRI (CMR) cannot currently measure. We aimed to develop a model to estimate mean RAP (mRAP) using CMR and assess the prognostic ...

For reasons that remain unclear, endogenous synthesis and tissue levels of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) tend to decline with increasing age in at least some tissues. When CoQ10 levels are sufficiently low, ...