Background Anticoagulation therapy reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but it is often underused ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Background Intravenous iron therapy with ferric derisomaltose (FDI) has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with heart ...

Background Aortic stenosis is a degenerative condition with high mortality in its severe stages and no preventive treatment.

Objective To test the effect of patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure on neurological events in divers. Design Prospective, non-randomised, longitudinal three-arm study. Setting Tertiary referral centre.

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant public health challenge in China. This study aimed to project ...

Dr Bernard Iung, Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, 46, rue Henri Huchard, 75018 Paris, France email: bernard.iung{at}bch.ap-hop-paris.fr If you wish to reuse ...

Objectives Bullying of trainee doctors has been shown to be associated with detrimental outcomes for both doctors and patients. However, there is limited evidence regarding the level of bullying of ...

Correspondence to Dr Rohan S Wijesurendra, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; rohan.wijesurendra{at}cardiov.ox.ac.uk; Professor Barbara Casadei, Division of ...

Care pathways for management of premature ventricular complexes (PVCs) including screening for structural heart disease, PVC burden, cause and effect relation with left ventricular dysfunction when ...

Objective Myocardial ischaemia is a leading cause of acute heart failure (AHF). However, optimal revascularisation strategies in AHF are unclear. We aimed to compare two revascularisation strategies, ...