2007, Volume 14, Issue 03, pages 121-180

The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) recently published a comprehensive guideline of the management of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Here, Dr Kevin Jennings and Professor Lewis...

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of death in the UK (accounting for 105,000 deaths in 2004) and exerts a huge burden, both...

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

The demand for non-invasive diagnostic imaging in cardiology increases with the advancing age of the population. Whilst exercise testing and myocardial perfusion scintigraphy have provided...

The European Working Time Directive (EWTD) ensures doctors do not work excessive hours. On 1st August 2004, junior doctors were no longer excluded from the...

Complications of arterial access are an important cause of morbidity following percutaneous coronary intervention. Recently published data suggest a rate of around 3.5% of major...

This short report describes a questionnaire study undertaken in two London teaching hospitals, addressing the true pharmacokinetic implications of aspirin use. It suggests that the...

Viral myocarditis is a well-recognised complication of many viruses leading to subsequent cardiomyopathies (dilated type). There are limited data available with respect to dengue virus...

Clinical practice should follow evidence-based medicine, which is derived from clinical trials. The outcomes of clinical practice, however, may not equal that of trials if...