2006, Volume 13, Issue 01, pages 1-76

According to World Health Organization estimates, 16.7 million people die of cardiovascular diseases each year. By the year 2010, it is estimated that cardiovascular disease...

Our understanding of the pathophysiology of acute coronary syndromes and, in particular, the interplay of a number of complex parallel processes, continues to develop.1 These...

We continue our series where Consultant Interventionist Dr Michael Norell takes a sideways look at life in the cath lab ..... and beyond. In this...

Studies indicate that increased heart rate is a risk factor for ischaematic cardiac events; accordingly heart rate reduction may improve outcome. Beta blockers and some...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) remains the leading cause of premature death in the United Kingdom. The mortality from myocardial infarction (MI) can be reduced by...

Converging from a number of disciplines, non-linear systems theory and, in particular, chaos theory, offers new descriptive and prescriptive insights into physiological systems that may...

In an observational study, we sought to determine the effect of applying the Duke’s treadmill score on patient assessment and prioritisation to coronary angiography waiting...

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) 2002 acknowledge the multiprofessional membership of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) teams required to deliver comprehensive CR. The clinical groups chiefly...

In his contribution to The auditory culture reader, Murray Schafer introduces the notion of clairaudience. Clairaudience refers, most fundamentally, to an ability to hear and,...

Alcohol septal ablation is a percutaneous alternative to surgical myotomy-myomectomy for symptomatic patients who have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) and left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction....

Pathological findings compatible with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) were first described in the nineteenth century by the French pathologists, Hallopeau and Liouiville. However, it was...

This paper considers the role for glitazones in the treatment of type 2 diabetes following publication of the PROactive study, the first major outcome study...

DISCOVERY-UK (the DIrect Statin COmparison of LDL-C Values: an Evaluation of Rosuvastatin therapY) was an open-label, parallel-group, multicentre study designed to compare the efficacy of...