Background Hypothyroidism has been suggested as a predisposing and prognostic factor in patients with spontaneous coronary ...

Introduction European valvular heart disease guidelines define women as a ‘special group’. To explore what factors have led ...

Coronary artery disease (CAD) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and CT imaging plays a crucial ...

Background Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has significantly improved outcomes for ST-segment elevation ...

Background Guidelines strongly recommend reperfusion therapy, including thrombolysis and percutaneous coronary intervention, ...

Background Pulsed field ablation (PFA) has emerged as a promising non-thermal alternative to conventional atrial fibrillation ...

Background Stroke after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an infrequent but serious complication with ...

Background Fabry disease (FD) is an X linked lysosomal disorder with ventricular myocardial involvement that drives morbidity and mortality. Early diagnosis of cardiac involvement can be difficult.

Background The life-long exposure of the left heart chambers to systemic blood pressures may be important to changes in left atrial (LA) function with age, but long-term follow-up studies are scarce.

Upregulated transforming growth factor-beta (TGFβ) signalling, driving mesenchymal cells to increase their production of ground substance and undergo a transition to a myofibroblast phenotype, is ...

Background Postoperative cerebral infarction following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for multivessel coronary artery disease (CAD) is a major complication and is associated with insulin ...