News and views
March 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:64-6
“Doctor knows best”… Perhaps; but which one?
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, he considers the choice between surgery and percutaneous coronary intervention....
March 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:67-8 Meeting report
Cardiorenal syndrome: one disease – two paths?
A report from the fourth Annual Scientific Meeting of the Cardiorenal Forum....
March 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:69-70 Meeting report
The British Society for Heart Failure 12th Annual Autumn Meeting
Highlights of this year’s British Society for Heart Failure (BSH) meeting, held in November in London, included a call for specialist heart failure units which could see more patients receiving optimum treatment, how to treat ‘difficult’ cases and how devices are showing benefit in those patients with less severe disease....
February 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:13-18 Meeting report
News from the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions 2009
Highlights from the recent American Heart Association meeting held in Orlando, Florida, USA, from 14th–18th November 2009, included good news for niacin but not for ezetimibe in atherosclerosis, more promising results for dabigatran in acute coronary syndromes, and warnings that the benefits of eating fish depend on how it is cooked. ...
February 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:19
Cardiac rehabilitation: we should all be doing it
Correspondence to Cardiac Cardiac rehabilitation: we should all be doing it...
February 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:22-3
Publish or perish
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, he considers the pressures to publish....
February 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:46
Book review – Novel techniques for imaging the heart
With advances in cardiac imaging modalities, this book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of cardiac computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The book is edited by Marcelo Di Carli and Raymond Kwong from Harvard Medical School, US, leading figures in their respective fields....
February 2010 Br J Cardiol 2010;17:46
Book review – Making sense of the ECG: cases for self-assessment
A wealth of ECG textbooks exist but this pocketbook tackles ECGs with a remarkably practical approach while still providing essential knowledge. The entire book reads in landscape and each of the 70 cases begins with a two-page spread of a 12-lead ECG or rhythm strip followed by the patient’s history, examination and investigations. The subsequent questions not only relate to what the ECG shows, but to mechanisms, causes and management. Fortunately, questions are limited to four per case so as not to overwhelm the reader....
November 2009 Br J Cardiol 2009;16:269-71
Pericardial fat – a good predictor of future heart disease
Fat around the heart— known as pericardial fat— may be a better predictor of future heart disease than either body mass index (BMI) or waist circumference, a new study suggests....
