2010, Volume 17, Issue 03, pages 97-152

If we consider gastro-oesopageal endoscopy as a similar procedure to transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE) then we might be alarmed at the 30-day mortality of 1:2,000 reported...

Cardiovascular disease is the biggest killer in the UK causing 198,000 deaths per year, and stroke is the most common cause of disability in women....

A new guideline has been published by the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the National Clinical Guidelines Centre for Acute and...

It is hoped that a new National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline on recent onset chest pain will lead to a reduction...

Dronedarone included in new appraisal consultation document

An independent Appraisal Committee has revised NICE’s original recommendation that dronedarone should not be used to treat atrial fibrillation...

Neither intensive blood pressure reduction, or adding a fibrate to a statin, appear to be justified in patients with diabetes at high risk of cardiovascular...

News in brief from the world of cardiology....

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,...

Correspondence from the world of...

There is much debate about the optimal sedation strategy for transoesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Despite previous studies demonstrating the potential benefits of combining opiates and benzodiazepines...

From the days of Virchow and the analysis of post-mortem coronary specimens, an enormous amount of knowledge has been built about coronary pathophysiology. In the...

In UK cardiac rehabilitation programmes, exercise training is often set at a percentage of maximal heart rate or heart rate reserve, either predicted or measured....

Diabetes mellitus is caused by an absolute or relative lack of insulin.¹ This article covers people with type 2 diabetes, as most people with...

To establish whether the medication received by patients post-myocardial infarction was prescribed at therapeutic doses, we performed a retrospective audit of discharge summaries. Over three...

Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) has much to offer in the clinical assessment of intra-cardiac space-occupying lesions (SOL). Below we describe the use of CMR as...

For more than 30 years, the term ‘cardioprotection’ has been applied widely and often without precision to sundry interventions that reduce the incidence and severity...

My initial reaction on reading this slim, elegant volume was a twinge of professional jealousy which was rapidly replaced by enjoyment. An important feature is...

There are no guidelines on the practice of antibiotic prophylaxis in pacemaker implantation resulting in wide variation in practice. We sought to investigate this and...