Clinical Articles

Coronary heart disease is a leading cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Risk factor modification through a robust cardiac rehabilitation programme is rewarding and accounts...

Low-dose aspirin is of value in the long-term management of vascular disease, and the giving of aspirin to patients believed to be experiencing an acute...

Intra-coronary imaging has become a cornerstone of visualising atherosclerotic coronary artery disease and also to guide the therapy in selected high-risk cases. Optical coherence tomography...

Infective endocarditis (IE) causes high rates of morbidity and mortality. Clinical management is problematic if there are uncertainties over the identity, viability or antibiotic susceptibility...

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...