2009, Volume 16, Issue 05, pages 201-256

Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is the process by which patients with cardiac disease, in partnership with a multi-disciplinary team of health professionals, are encouraged and supported...

This year’s European Society of Cardiology (ESC) congress, held in Barcelona, Spain, from August 29th–September 2nd 2009, was awash with promising new data, including results...

HEART UK – The Cholesterol Charity held its 23rd annual conference in Liverpool in June, focussing on understanding clinical trials and the evidence base for...

News in brief from the world of...

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,...

Within a prospective observational study we investigated whether patients undergoing coronary angiograms present a more accessible and significant cohort for abodominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening....

This article is an enlightened approach to reducing strokes in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). It discusses some freely available software called ‘The Auricle’ and...

A 29-year-old man was admitted with new onset atrial fibrillation (figure...

The impetus of national initiatives highlighting the importance of lipid modification, the sheer number of people involved, and the continuous nature of therapy, mean that...

A 24-year-old male who had been bedridden for the last three weeks and was recovering from a traumatic injury to his leg presented to our...

We surveyed 510 patients to measure levels of patient satisfaction with our cardiac rehabilitation service and to compare health-related outcomes between patients who did, and...

Predicting uptake and adherence to cardiac rehabilitation (CR) continues to challenge providers of the service in the UK. This study included optimism with the more...

A 58-year-old woman presented with a five-month history of epigastric pain, lower extremity oedema and orthopnoea. On examination she had postural hypotension, raised jugular venous...

Editors: Shenasa M, Hindricks G, Borgreffe M, Breithardt G Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2009 ISBN: 978-1-4051-75722 Price:...

Editors: Ellenbogen K, Wood M Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, 2008 ISBN: 978-1-4051-6350-7 Price:...

This is the first in a regular series of ‘Case Conferences’ dealing with ‘difficult’ angina, or patients who present with challenging myocardial ischaemia (even in...