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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:65–9

What do angina patients understand of options for myocardial revascularisation?

Patient knowledge and understanding of their condition is important in every field of medicine. It is particularly relevant in cardiology where choices between treatment options

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:71–5

Planning for end-of-life care in heart failure: experience of two integrated cardiology-palliative care teams

We previously reported retrospective data on the place of death for people with heart failure (HF) known to heart failure nurse specialists (HFNS) working in

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:76–8

Routine follow-up for patients with prosthetic valves: the value of a nurse-led valve clinic

To see whether a nurse-led clinic might be useful we audited how often patients discharged from follow-up were elsewhere seen in the community and how

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:79–84

Omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease: re-assessing the evidence

With conflicting findings from studies of omega-3 fatty acids in cardiovascular disease, many healthcare professionals are uncertain of whether they show any benefit. BJC seminars

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:85–9

Drugs for diabetes: part 9 prescribing for patients with cardiac disease

Up to one-third of patients with heart disease have diabetes. Cardiological status should be considered when deciding on treatment for diabetes. Patients with stable coronary

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:90–4

Pacemaker complications in a district general hospital

Pacemakers are being implanted with increasing frequency. As with every procedure, there is the potential for complications. There are little recent data on implant complications

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May 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:95–6

Post-myocardial infarction (Dressler’s) syndrome following early reperfusion

We present a case of a 55-year-old female with a successfully reperfused myocardial infarction in whom Dressler’s syndrome was subsequently diagnosed. There have been no

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March 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:21–3

Optimised beta blocker therapy in heart failure: is there space for additional heart rate control?

The importance of heart rate reduction in chronic stable heart failure (HF) has been highlighted in the recently published Systolic Heart Failure Treatment with If

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March 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:24

Current prescribing of statins and persistence to statins following ACS in the UK: a MINAP/GPRD study

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) guideline CG67 recommends that acute coronary syndrome (ACS) cases are treated with high-intensity statins (defined as statins

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March 2012
Br J Cardiol 2012;19:25

Hearing the voice of the heart failure patient: key experiences identified in qualitative interviews

Although morbidity and mortality are the most commonly used end points in clinical trials of heart failure treatments, it is also important to consider how

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