Past issues

2024, Volume 31, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Cardiorenal benefits of newer diabetes therapies
• Grüntzig's technique, relearnt
• Assessment of donor heart echocardiography pathway
• Nurse-led radial access programme

2024, Volume 31, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Artificial intelligence in heart valve disease
• Prescribing drugs with cardiorenal benefits
• App-led weight loss support for patients with AF
• Prescribing SGLT2 inhibitors for inpatients

2024, Volume 31, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Factor XI/XIa inhibition: the evolution of anticoagulant therapy
• How artificial intelligence will revolutionise cardiology
• ESC heart failure 2023 guidance: a practical guide
• Reducing heart failure deaths by 25% in 25 years

2024, Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Coronary calcium scoring in women
• Rewriting heart failure pillars of care
• NT-proBNP to diagnose HFpEF
• Inpatient initiation of SGLT2 inhibitors

2023, Volume 30, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Personal smart devices for detection of atrial fibrillation
• Mitral valve transcatheter edge-to-edge repair
• Future proofing UK echocardiography
• Drug therapies for stroke prevention

2023, Volume 30, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Navigating the research landscape in cardiology
• The delusion of measuring blood pressure
• Icosapent ethyl and atrial fibrillation
• Managing transradial vascular access

2023, Volume 30, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Gender inequalities among cardiologists and trainees
• Access to echocardiography for heart valve disease
• Diagnosis and acute management of type A aortic dissection
• Metabolic syndrome, obesity and subclinical atherosclerosis

2023, Volume 30, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Acute aortic dissection – a lethal disease
• Real–world experience with dapagliflozin in HFrEF
• SGLT2 inhibitors in CKD and HFpEF
• Antibiotic prophylaxis for infective endocarditis

2022, Volume 29, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Lipid management in a local cardiac rehabilitation service
• Clinical psychology in people with heart failure
• Screening for atrial fibrillation in people with diabetes
• Nutrition training for medical professionals

2022, Volume 29, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Age, zero calcium and cardiac risk
• Evolution of circulatory support systems
• Heart failure management and the pandemic
• Pain after pacemaker and ICD implantation

2022, Volume 29, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Post-stroke arrhythmia service monitoring
• Viruses, vaccines and cardiovascular effects
• Marijuana: clinical and legal aspects
• Self-fitting of ambulatory ECGs

2022, Volume 29, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Transforming heart failure care pathways for earlier diagnosis
• Rapid sequencing for heart failure drugs
• PoTS and long COVID
• New agents for anticoagulation reversal

2021, Volume 28, Issue 4, pages 121–168

Topics include:-

• Pain during device implantation
• Motivational interviewing in preventive cardiology
• CVD risk and intellectual disability
• QoL and atrial fibrillation

2021, Volume 28, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Is too much exercise dangerous?
• 'Real-life' outcomes and admissions after TAVI
• Outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy
• Selexipag in PAH

2021, Volume 28, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• ECG changes in hospitalised patients with COVID-19
• A national heart disease strategy for Scotland
• Dapagliflozin in heart failure
• Lipids and ACS

2021, Volume 28, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• COVID-19 treatments and potential for cardiotoxicity
• Mobile detection of AF in primary care
• Focus on Takotsubo syndrome
• Driving after cardiac intervention

2020, Volume 27, Issue 4, pages 105–144

Topics include:-

• Implantable devices - using physical activity data better
• Nephrilysin inhibition, angiotensin and COVID-19
• Anticoagulation and cancer
• Women not in cardiology: where are we going wrong?

2020, Volume 27, Issue 3, pages 73–104

Topics include:-

• The cardiorenal MDT: closer collaborations
• Coronary lithotripsy – cracking calcium
• Personalised aortic root surgery
• Shared decisions on ICDs

2020, Volume 27, Issue 2, pages 41–72

Topics include:-

• COVID-19 and the heart
• The quest for a vaccine
• Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and exercise restrictions
• Improving outlook in refractory angina

2020, Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Cardiac surgery in the very elderly
• Cancer immunotherapy and cardiac complications
• Will heart failure become the first cyber-specialty?
• CVD prevention with aspirin in the older patient

2019, Volume 26, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Depression screening in heart patients
• Real-life management of lipid disorders
• The decline in temporary pacing
• Women in cardiology

2019, Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Identifying CAD in end-stage renal disease
• Heart failure specialist nurses: what is the national picture?
• Focus on aortic stenosis: avoiding needless deaths
• Managing GI in patients with PoTS

2019, Volume 26, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Assessing nurse-led angiography
• The impact of frailty on heart failure outcomes
• Rapid rule-out of NSTEMI with undetectable troponin
• Is it time for the BMI to gracefully retire?

2019, Volume 26, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Manage frailty effectively or manage decline
• Low anticoagulant prescribing in stroke and atrial fribrillation
• Using cardiac physiologists to implant devices
• Is first outpatient review after cardiac surgery too delayed?

2018, Volume 25, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Cardiovascular outcomes and diabetes drugs
• Quality of life in PoTS sufferers
• ECG shared by multiple pathologies
• Thrombus aspiration and PPCI

2018, Volume 25, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• CardioTweeters: Twitter use by UK cardiologists
• Artificial intelligence in cardiology
• Hyerkalaemia in cardiorenal disease
• The role of CTCA in stable chest pain

2018, Volume 25, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Ageing with congenital heart disease
• Implications of Brexit for medical research
• Advances in 3D echocardiography
• Syncope diagnosis and management

2018, Volume 25, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Cardio-oncology: a new sub-specialty
• What next for troponin? Does diagnostic precision help treatment decisions?
• Palpitations: rhythm analysis and smartphone investigation
• Older antidiabetic drugs

2017, Volume 24, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Heart rate trackers: friend or foe?
• How hard do we look for AF?
• Drugs for diabetes: GLP-1s
• Controlled hypertension: a forgotten diagnosis

2017, Volume 24, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Self-monitoring BP in pregnancy
• The age of diagnostic coronary angiography is over
• NOACs in catheter ablation of AF
• Drugs for diabetes: glitazones

2017, Volume 24, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Diagnostic yield and CT angiography in a DGH
• Improving heart failure discharge summaries
• News from ACC

2017, Volume 24, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Drugs for diabetes
• Setting up cardio-oncology services
• Cardiorespiratory fitness in rehabilitation and prevention

2016, Volume 23, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Improving discharge communication
• PoTS – an OT view
• Experience with new heart failure drug

2016, Volume 23, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• Imaging: seeing the woods from the trees
• Angiography guide for trainees
• Same day pacing
• Cardiology apps

2016, Volume 23, Issue 2, pages 41–81

Topics include:-

• Refractory angina
• Midrodrine and reflex syncope
• Training in adult congenital heart disease
• Triple valve infective endocarditis

2016, Volume 23, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Warfarin dosing pre and post-cardiac surgery
• Hand-held ultrasound devices versus the stethoscope
• PoTS clinical review

2015, Volume 22, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Lipids in high-risk CVD: a large UK study
• CoQ10 and cardiovascular disease
• Atypical chest pain in young adults

2015, Volume 22, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• London welcomes ESC 2015
• CAD and inflammation
• Anticoagulation: missed opportunities
• Foundation training in heart failure

2015, Volume 22, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Debating NICE AF guidance and NOACs
• Integrated care and impact on workloads
• Troponin: too much testing?
• News from the ACC

2015, Volume 22, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Smartphones and ECG screening
• Self-management of chronic pain after cardiac surgery
• End-of-life care – trainee views
• Cannabinoids and cardiovascular risk

2014, Volume 21, Issue 4, pages 121–160

Topics include:-

• Hypoglycaemia and cardiovascular risk
• Biomarkers in ACS
• Outcomes in patients with AF
• Highlights of ESC 2014

2014, Volume 21, Issue 3, pages 81–120

Topics include:-

• New opportunities for cholesterol lowering
• NICE guidance on atrial fibrillation
• TAVI and surgical back up
• News round-up of major meetings

2014, Volume 21, Issue 2, pages 41–80

Topics include:-

• Focus on the ECG in primary and secondary care
• Anticoagulation and bleeding management
• Exercise in heart failure
• Angiography guidance: too much or too little?

2014, Volume 21, Issue 1, pages 1–40

Topics include:-

• Pre-pregnancy counselling in heart disease
• Dabigatran in cardioversion
• Troponins and heart failure
• Do your patients understand you?

2013, Volume 20, Issue 4, pages 121-160

Topics include:-

• Resistant hypertension and renal denervation
• Pacing in congenital heart disease: part 2
• Echocardiography and CTR
• ESC 2013 news

2013, Volume 20, Issue 3, pages 81-120

Topics include:-

• Cardiac MRI in the UK – a growing demand
• Islam and the cardiovascular patient
• High-sensitivity troponin
• National survey of AF

2013, Volume 20, Issue 2, pages 41-80

Topics include:-

• Importance of renal function in heart disease
• Is exercise safe in rehab?
• Imaging – reducing radiation burden
• Quality of life in heart failure

2013, Volume 20, Issue 1, pages 5-40

Topics include:-

• Angioplasty in the very elderly: effective or intrusive
• Primary PCI for acute STEMI
• Cardiac and non-cardiac pain
• 2012 BJCA trainee survey

2012, Volume 19, Issue 4, pages 145-184

Topics include:-

• Preventing a second heart attack
• Physician assistant: a new role
• Atrial fibrillation in Scotland
• News from ESC and HRC

2012, Volume 19, Issue 3, pages 97-144

Topics include:-

• Lessons learned from sudden death
• Academic cardiology opportunities
• The future of CETP inhibitors
• Anti-arrhythmic drugs consensus statement

2012, Volume 19, Issue 2, pages 49-96

Topics include:-

• Focus on the patient
• End-of-life care in heart failure
• Understanding options for revascularisation
• Nurse-led valve clinics

2012, Volume 19, Issue 1, pages 01-48

Topics include:-

• Statin prescribing in acute coronary syndrome
• Hearing the voice of the heart failure patient
• Beta blockers: CHF and heart rate control
• Fabry disease review

2011, Volume 18, Issue 5/6, pages 195-248

Topics include:-

• PFO – diagnosis closure and complications
• Drugs for diabetes: insulin
• Multidisciplinary valve clinics
• Alcohol septal ablation

2011, Volume 18 Issue 04, pages 145-192

Topics include:-

• Focus on cardiovascular disease prevention
• MyAction: an innovative approach to prevention
• Community-based risk reduction
• Current practice in secondary prevention

2011, Volume 18 Issue 03, pages 97-144

Topics include:-

• The risk of peripheral circulatory diseases
• Drugs for diabetes: DPP-4 inhibitors
• Coronary artery calcium scoring
• Cracking down on the problem

2011, Volume 18 Issue 02, pages 49-96

Topics include:-

• Public perception of atrial fibrillation
• Drugs for diabetes: acarbose
• Evolving trends in coronary angioplasty
• FH: a developing English scandal

2011, Volume 18 Issue 01, pages 1-48

Topics include:-

• The impact of the ageing population on cardiac surgery
• Exercise ECG: here today gone tomorrow
• Drugs for diabetes: glitazones
• Aortic valvuloplasty

2010, Volume 17, Issue 06, pages 250-296

Topics include:-

• Cardiac auscultation
• Aortic stenosis surveillance clinics
• Drugs for diabetes: sulphonylureas
• Atrial fibrillation ablation

2010, Volume 17, Issue 05, pages 201-248

Topics include:-

• Epilepsy and the heart
• New series: drugs for diabetes
• From patient to plaque: cardiac CT imaging
• News from the ESC

2010, Volume 17, Issue 04, pages 153-200

Topics include:-

• Endocarditis: diagnostic progress
• Optical coherence tomography
• Time is muscle
• Meeting the psychological needs of cardiac patients

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

Topics include:-

• 10 steps before you refer for diabetes
• Safe sedation for TOE
• Antibiotic prophylaxis and pacing
• Contemporary coronary imaging

2010, Volume 17, Issue 02, pages 49-96

Topics include:-

• Whatever happens to the cardioverted?
• 10 steps before you refer for CKD
• BNP consensus statement
• State financial support: heart failure lags cancer

2010, Volume 17, Issue 01, pages 1-48

Topics include:-

• Primary angioplasty in the DGH
• Temporary pacing - comparing consultants and juniors
• 10 steps before you refer syncope
• Auscultation a skill in decline

2009, Volume 16, Issue 06, pages 257-304

Topics include:-

• Risk scores and acute coronary syndrome
• 10 steps before you refer for PAD
• Intervention and the multidisciplinary team
• Pharmaceutical salts: a trick or a clinical conundrum?

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

Topics include:-

• 10 steps before you refer for lipids
• Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening
• Cardiac rehabilitation: let’s be optimistic
• Atrial fibrillation: why are we bad at initiating warfarin?

2009, Volume 16, Issue 04, pages 153-200

Topics include:-

• 10 steps before you refer for palpitations
• GI disorders and heart disease
• Post-MI guidance
• Heart failure and palliative care

2009, Volume 16, Issue 03, pages 105-152

Topics include:-

• News from ACC
• Post-MI guideline variability
• Cardiovascular risk in rheumatoid arthritis
• Nurse-led ACS management

2009, Volume 16, Issue 02, pages 49-104

Topics include:-

• Cardiac rehabilitation: what is the take up and benefit?
• Heart disease in pregnancy
• Cardiotoxicity of anti-cancer drugs
• Ten steps before referral for chest pain

2009, Volume 16, Issue 01, pages 1-48

Topics include:-

• Dental disease and CVD risk
• Amyloid heart disease
• Teaching cardiac anatomy
• Falls in the elderly: emergence of rapid access blackout clinics

2008, Volume 15, Issue 06, pages 274-328

Topics include:-

• Co-morbidities in heart failure
• 10 steps before you refer for…atrial fibrillation
• Infective endocarditis prophylaxis: a new controversy
• Improving clopidogrel prescribing – the South East London experience

2008, Volume 15, Issue 05, pages 217-272

Topics include:-

• Delivering PCI in the UK – the Bournemouth model
• Cardiorenal disease – parallels and pitfalls
• Protecting the heart during revascularisation
• 10 steps before you refer for…hypertension

2008, Volume 15, Issue 04, pages 169-216

Topics include:-

• Cost consequences of BNP assays
• Ezetemibe audit in refractory patients
• Latest NICE guidance
• Angina burden revealed

2008, Volume 15, Issue 03, pages 113-168

Topics include:-

• Practice-based commissioning: a slow start
• Cardiac rehabilitation and BNP
• GP equipment audit: shock findings
• Tomorrow’s cardiologists

2008, Volume 15, Issue 02, pages 57-112

Topics include:-

• FH: recognising the unrecognised
• Anticoagulant strategies in STEMI
• What now for glitazones?
• Another NICE chapter in interventional cardiology

2008, Volume 15, Issue 01, pages 1-56

Topics include:-

• Iron overload and the heart
• Heart failure and the GP
• Controlling blood pressure over 24 hours
• Implantable cardiac devices – past, present and future

2007, Volume 14, Issue 05, pages 245-296

Topics include:-

• Can switching statins impact on patient outcomes?
• Cardiology training – 2007 and beyond
• Financial support in heart failure – improving patient access
• Making JBS 2 work in diabetes

2007, Volume 14, Issue 04, pages 181-244

Topics include:-

• Living with heart failure – the patient’s perspective
• Chronic kidney disease in primary care
• Saving money or saving lives? Generic or intensive statin therapy
• Commissioning echocardiography – opportunities and risks to patients

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

Topics include:-

• European Heart Health Charter
• Postconditioning
• SIGN guidance
• Non-invasive cardiac imaging
• Training
• Intervention
• Audit
• Cardiac rehabilitation

2007, Volume 14, Issue 02, pages 61-120

Topics include:-

• SIGN guidance on CHD
• Homocysteine
• Stress echocardiography
• UK echocardiography survey
• Anxiety and depression post-MI
• Septic embolism
• QOF audit

2007, Volume 14, Issue 01, pages 1-60

Topics include:-

• Adult congenital heart disease
• Atrial fibrillation management
• Coronary artery calcification and alcohol
• Intervention
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Primary care screening
• Obesity and diabetes

2006, Volume 13, Issue 06, pages 373-440

Topics include:-

• Refractory angina
• PFO and migraine
• Albuminuria
• Drug-eluting stent safety
• The Angina Plan
• Hypertension
• Lipids
• GMS2

2006, Volume 13, Issue 05, pages 301-372

Topics include:-

• Cardiovascular risk
• Maternal cardiovascular medicine
• Health economics
• Eisenmenger syndrome
• Cardiac arrest guidelines
• Amiodarone and sunlight
• Clinical study – lercanidipine

2006, Volume 13, Issue 04, pages 225-300

Topics include:-

• Heart failure - in older patients - and primary care management
• Marfan syndrome
• Lipid goals
• Antiplatelet therapy
• In-stent restenosis
• PSI education

2006, Volume 13, Issue 03, pages 157-224

Topics include:-

• Portable echocardiography
• FH in children
• Statin costs
• Lessons from FIELD
• Waiting lists
• Cardiac angiosarcoma
• Primary care ECG
• Post-MI anxiety

2006, Volume 13, Issue 02, pages 77-156

Topics include:-

• CIBIS III
• Minimally invasive surgery
• Reverse cholesterol transport: HDL-C
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Cholesterol management

2006, Volume 13, Issue 01, pages 1-76

Topics include:-

• EDTA chelation therapy
• Vitamin D and ACS
• Sinus node inhibitors
• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Auscultation
• Alcohol septal ablation
• Glitazones
• Lipid goals

2005, Volume 12, Issue 06, pages 405-476

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2005, Volume 12, Issue 05, pages 321-404

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2005, Volume 12, Issue 04, pages 245-320

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2005, Volume 12, Issue 03, pages 161-244

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2005, Volume 12, Issue 02, pages 81-160

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2005, Volume 12, Issue 01, pages 1-80

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 06, pages 413-496

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 05, pages 333-412

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 04, pages 257-332

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 03, pages 169-256

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 02, pages 81-168

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2004, Volume 11, Issue 01, pages 1-80

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 06, pages 401-488

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 05, pages 321-400

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 04, pages 241-320

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 03, pages 161-240

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 02, pages 77-160

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2003, Volume 10, Issue 01, pages 1-76

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 10, pages 561-644

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 09, pages 493-560

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 08, pages 425-492

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 07, pages 369-424

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 06, pages 305-368

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 05, pages 245-304

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 04, pages 185-244

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 03, pages 125-184

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 02, pages 57-124

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2002, Volume 09, Issue 01, pages 1-56

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