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Introduction Patients undergoing cardiac catheterisation are understandably anxious. This is due to a lack of familiarity with both the hospital environment and the planned procedure. Anxiety may ...
Background Significant secondary mitral regurgitation (SMR) is known to be associated with worse prognosis. However, data ...
Background New-onset postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) increases ...
Objectives Although a life-preserving surgery for children with single ventricle physiology, the Fontan palliation is associated with striking morbidity and mortality with advancing age. Our primary ...
Acute stress-induced (takotsubo) cardiomyopathy has a dramatic clinical presentation, mimicking an acute myocardial infarction and is triggered by intense emotional or physical stress. In this paper, ...
Background Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is a common cause of non-ischaemic sudden cardiac death (SCD). Left ventricular ...
Discrete delicate fibromuscular structures crossing the cavity of the left ventricle were identified on morphological examination in 329 (48%) of 686 hearts from patients of all ages with congenital ...
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Objective To determine the distribution and importance of various factors, especially the preventable ones, that contribute to cardiac decompensation and subsequent hospital admission for heart ...
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