Summary Background Compliance with guidelines for the management of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) may be difficult in hard-to-access areas. Aims To analyse the characteristics, management and outcome of STEMIs…
Summary Telomeres are structures composed of deoxyribonucleic acid repeats that protect the end of chromosomes, but shorten with each cell division. They have been the subject of many studies, particularly…
Summary Background Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy is a clinical entity mimicking acute coronary syndrome. Assessment of left ventricular function may be difficult using conventional echocardiography. Aims To characterize left ventricular systolic function…
Summary Background The CONNECT study compared clinician adherence to guideline-recommended secondary prevention therapies prescribed at discharge for patients hospitalized for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) in those managed initially with percutaneous…
Summary Background Vagal hyperreactivity (VHR) is a frequent etiology of infant fainting spells; but it is sometimes difficult to diagnose. A biochemical test would therefore be useful, especially as the…
Recently, a great ‘buzz’ has surrounded dronedarone – the new benzofuran antiarrhythmic drug developed for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. The development of dronedarone has been protracted and complex. The…
We thank Drs Stöllberger and Finsterer for their comments, and take this opportunity to respond to and clarify important issues they have raised. Some works suggest that current echocardiographic diagnostic…
A 16-year-old youth was admitted to our cardiology department because of echocardiographic evidence of an aneurysmal cavity close to the right atrium. The patient was asymptomatic, and was referred initially…
A 42-year-old man with no cardiac history underwent total gastrectomy with a Roux-en-Y reconstruction for a cardial adenocarcinoma classified pT3N0Mx. During the postoperative period, the patient experienced sharp and steady…
With interest, we read the article by Thuny et al. about the side-by-side comparison of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (CMRI) and echocardiography in 16 patients with echocardiographically suspected left ventricular hypertrabeculation/non-compaction…
