Objectives To assess mid-term outcomes in patients with early silent coronary bypass occlusion.Methods 292 consecutive patients who underwent isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) between ...

Objectives To explore changes over time in the 30-day mortality rate for paediatric cardiac surgery and to understand the role of attendant changes in the case mix.

Background Drug-eluting stents (DESs) have become the gold standard of coronary angioplasty since their inception in 2002. Biodegradable polymer DESs (BP-DESs) have been postulated to be superior to ...

Objective Electrical cardioversion is frequently performed to restore sinus rhythm in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). However, AF recurs in many patients and identifying the ...

Background The alert-based HeartInsight algorithm predicts risk of worsening heart failure hospitalisations (WHFHs) by evaluating temporal trends of seven physiologic parameters obtained through ...

Background Type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) significantly increase the risk of cardiovascular events, including death and heart failure (HF). The FLOW trial demonstrated that ...

Background Atrioesophageal fistula (AEF) is a rare but serious adverse event of atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation.Objective To identify the clinical characteristics of AEF following ablation ...

Metabolic acidosis is a chronic condition that many people in the Western world have but do not realise it. 1–3 It occurs when there is retention of acid in the body, which leads to a depletion in the ...

Background The effectiveness of risk stratification using the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Risk Score (GRS) for patients presenting to hospital with suspected non-ST elevation ...

Background The ageing population has led to an increased prevalence of chronic diseases, posing challenges for the management of critically ill cardiac patients with multiple comorbidities. The ...

Objective Patients with Fontan surgery experience late complications in adulthood. We studied the factors associated with the development and maintenance of atrial arrhythmias and thromboembolic ...