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Association between mutation status and left ventricular reverse remodelling in dilated cardiomyopathy

Objective To explore the genetic landscape of a well selected dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) cohort, assessing the possible relation between different genotypes and left ventricular reverse remodelling ...
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Permanent pacemaker implantation after cardiac surgery and long-term outcome

Background Patients undergoing cardiac surgery are at risk of perioperative conduction system damage leading to permanent ...
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Sex differences in early ventricular fibrillation among patients with fulminant myocarditis in a nationwide registry

Background Fulminant myocarditis is a rare but life-threatening condition frequently complicated by malignant ventricular ...
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Silent myocardial infarction: the risk beyond the first admission

Department of Internal Medicine B, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Greifswald, Germany Correspondence to Dr Marcus Dörr, Department of Internal Medicine B, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University, Friedrich ...
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The impact of baseline left ventricular size and mitral regurgitation on reverse left ventricular remodelling in response to carvedilol: size doesn’t matter

Cardiology Department, St Vincent’s Hospital, Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, Australia Correspondence to: Associate Professor P Macdonald Heart & Lung Transplant Unit ...
Heart

Post-heart transplantation immunosuppression and rejection: what the general cardiologist needs to know

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

From task-specific AI to cardiovascular foundation models: a new era of multimodal interpretation

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

Atrial fibrillation and coronary artery disease: interactions, outcomes and evolving management strategies

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

Prospective evaluation of a self-report-guided strategy for targeted coronary artery calcium imaging

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

Correspondence to Dr Dirk Westermann, Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg Eppendorf, 20251 Hamburg, Germany; d.westermann{at}uke.de Importantly, ...
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Cardiovascular benefits of obesity therapies: an overview of obesity medicines and metabolic bariatric surgery

Obesity is an independent driver of cardiovascular disease (CVD), mediated through adverse haemodynamic loading, insulin resistance, systemic inflammation, endothelial dysfunction and prothrombotic ...
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Gut-brain-heart axis in congenital heart disease: emerging roles of the microbiome in cardiac physiology and neurodevelopment

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is increasingly recognised as a multisystem condition extending beyond structural cardiac abnormalities to include gastrointestinal, immunological and neurodevelopmental ...