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Maternal cardiac risk stratification in contemporary practice: external validation of mWHO, CARPREG II and ZAHARA in a 14-year tertiary cohort

Background Pregnancy in women with cardiac disease carries substantial maternal risk. The modified WHO classification, Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy Study II (CARPREG II) and Zwangerschap bij ...
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Prevalence of aortic findings among patients with multifocal fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) seen at a specialised referral centre

Background Fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) is a non-atherosclerotic vascular disease that affects medium-sized arteries with multifocal (beaded) or focal stenotic lesions, aneurysms, dissections and ...
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Association between delayed transcatheter aortic valve replacement beyond 6 months and clinical outcomes in severe aortic stenosis: a retrospective observationa…

Objective Early intervention for asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis (AS) has shown prognostic benefits; however, some ...
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Does increasing model complexity improve HEART-based chest pain risk stratification? A multicentre development and held-out emergency department validation study

Background and objectives The History, ECG, Age, Risk factors and Troponin (HEART) score is widely used for emergency department (ED) chest pain risk stratification, but its fixed-point structure may ...