Acute & Interventional Cardiology 2005; Volume 12: pages AIC 1- AIC 104

Microvascular perfusion is considered a key factor with respect to preservation of left ventricular function and prognosis. No-reflow is recognised in the context of acute...

Coronary angiography is an imperfect tool for assessing the functional significance of lesions: while this may be determined non-invasively using myocardial perfusion scintigraphy or stress...

Early invasive management in patients with unstable angina and non-ST elevation myocardial infarct (NSTEMI) is now well established. However, patients can wait for weeks at...

This article aims to provide a primer on decision modelling to assess the cost-effectiveness of interventions in cardiology. The paper uses a cost-effectiveness model developed...

Due to advances in paediatric congenital heart surgery in recent years, the number of patients who survive into adulthood with complex congenital heart disease has...

Drug-eluting stents (DES) have been available commercially in the UK for over three years. The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) produced a technology appraisal...

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) stent appraisal (2003) defined criteria for the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) on the basis of lesion length,...

As confidence in the use of drug-eluting stents (DES) increases, they are being used in patients with progressively more complex disease. Diabetes is still an...

The objective of this study was to assess the feasibility and impact of providing a primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) programme for ST elevation myocardial...

A 62-year-old man presented with chronic stable angina, how coronary angiography revealed a chronic proximal occlusion of the right coronary artery (RCA) with retrograde filling...

The management of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) has changed dramatically over the last decade. Where once the physician had only limited tools to combat this...

The current specialist registrar (SpR) training system in the UK is necessarily built on the foundation of general training in cardiology. The acquisition of skills...

Previous studies have identified a significant incidence of clinically unrecognised myocardial ischaemia in intensive care unit (ICU) patients, as determined by elevation of serum troponin....

Abstract Prior studies have suggested a gradation in clinical risk with increasing elevations of cardiac troponins in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndromes (ACS)....

The volume and complexity of patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is growing steadily. This, and the increasing tendency for these procedures to be unplanned,...

Cardiac myxomas are the most common benign intracardiac tumour, and are more common in women. Since many patients suffer from cerebral or systemic embolism, early...

Low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) and unfractionated heparin (UFH) are used to prevent rethrombosis and distal platelet embolisation in acute coronary syndromes. LMWH have a...