OBJECTIVE To assess how much adults with congenital heart disease understand about their heart defect, its treatment, and the preventive measures necessary to avoid complications. DESIGN Descriptive, ...

Background Fulminant myocarditis is a rare but life-threatening condition frequently complicated by malignant ventricular ...

Background Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at risk of perioperative conduction system damage leading to permanent ...

While heart transplantation (HT) is the optimal therapy for end-stage heart failure patients, longevity of HT recipients ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the role of healed plaque disruption in the generation of chronic high grade coronary stenosis. METHODS Coronary arteries obtained at necropsy were perfuse fixed with formal ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping cardiovascular medicine, evolving from task-specific supervised models towards ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) and coronary artery disease (CAD) are prevalent cardiovascular disorders that increasingly coexist as populations age and cardiometabolic comorbidities rise. Their ...

Background Coronary artery calcium (CAC) imaging directly assesses subclinical calcified coronary atherosclerosis but population-wide imaging is not recommended. Simple prescreening may help identify ...

Background Heart-type fatty acid-binding protein (H-FABP), a principal intracellular transporter of long-chain fatty acids ...

Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) represents one of the most significant risk factors for adverse cardiovascular events and mortality. Data on real-world clinical practice of Chinese patients ...

Sleep breathing disorders (SBDs)—including obstructive sleep apnoea, central sleep apnoea and sleep-related hypoventilation syndromes—represent a major yet under-recognised contributor to global ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathleen W. Zhang, Cardiovascular Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA; ...