Objective To study abnormalities in the resting ECG as independent predictors for all cause, cardiovascular disease (CVD), and coronary heart disease (CHD) mortality in a population based random ...

Objective: To study the role of echocardiography in the stepwise evaluation of syncope. Design: A prospective observational study with an 18 month follow up. Setting: University teaching hospital ...

1 Imperial College, National Heart & Lung Institute, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK 2 Imperial College, National Heart & Lung Institute, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to: Dr ...

Christian Stumpf, MD, Dept of Cardiology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Ulmenweg 18, 91054 Erlangen, Germany; ch.stumpf{at}web.de Background: Increasing scientific data suggest a role for ...

Background Recent molecular biological investigations have identified abnormal genes in familial forms of long QT syndrome, but in bradycardia dependent acquired long QT syndrome, no such genetic ...

Objective To analyse the main characteristics, associated conditions and outcome of right aortic arch (RAA) detected in fetal life, and to assess if further investigation is required in cases of ...

Anthracycline chemotherapy causes dose-related cardiomyocyte injury and death leading to left ventricular dysfunction. Clinical heart failure may ensue in up to 5% of high-risk patients. Improved ...

1 Division of Cardiovascular Epidemiology, Institute of Environmental Medicine, IMM, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden 2 Division of Biostatistics, Institute of Environmental Medicine, IMM, ...

Dr J Greenwood, Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, Academic Unit of Cardiovascular Medicine, G Floor, Jubilee Wing, Leeds General Infirmary, Great George Street, Leeds LS1 3EX, UK; j.greenwood{at}leeds.ac ...

South America comprises widely different environments consisting of many complex and heterogeneous ethnicities, societies and cultures. During recent decades conspicuous advances in human and societal ...

Correspondence to Dr Matthias Michal, Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Mainz 55131, Germany; ...

3 National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA 4 UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA Methods 427 subjects with a ...