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Introduction The 2025 conference was opened by Professor Andre Ng (BCS President, and Professor of Cardiac Electrophysiology, University of Leicester) who celebrated its continued growth. He paid tribute to the late Professor Douglas Chamberlain CBE OStJ KSG, a former BCS President, and a former Consultant Cardiologist at Royal Sussex County Hospital, who was one of the ‘greats’ of cardiology. He leaves a legacy in resuscitation medicine and his pioneering work includes establishing Europe’s first paramedic unit. Advancing preconception care in women with cardiovascular disease Professor Deborah Lawlor Professor Deborah Law

The late 2024 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) AF guidelines2 recognise ‘trigger-induced AF’ as a distinct clinical entity, which, we propose, might be defined as incident AF in the face of physiological stress and potentially reversible arrhythmogenic substrate(s). The temporal pattern of AF is almost invariably paroxysmal, and typically self-terminates within 48 hours, once the underlying cause has been addressed. Peri-operative AF (POAF) in non-cardiac surgery is frequently encountered throughout all phases of the peri-operative journey, and is multi-faceted in aetiology. A single 12-lead resting electrocardiogram (ECG) or a 30-sec

Introduction Retinal ischaemic perivascular lesions (RIPL) describe characteristic atrophic changes of the inner nuclear layer (INL) as a consequence of ischaemic injury.1 These are illustrated by spectral domain optical coherence tomography (SD-OCT) as focal thinning of the retinal INL, contemporaneous with enhanced hypo-reflectivity of the outer nuclear layer (ONL).2 RIPLs are chronic lesions originating from paracentral acute middle maculopathy (PAMM); these are hyperacute ischaemic lesions of the middle retina and are associated with multifarious vascular diseases.3,4 As opposed to their hyperacute predecessors (PAMMs), which resolve with

Background Some paroxysmal arrhythmias are either too short in duration, or result in symptoms too severe, to allow patients to be able to activate and record an electrocardiogram (ECG) on a portable patient-activated monitor. Non-sustained ventricular tachycardia, sinus pauses and transient high-grade atrioventricular block can be examples of this. Many paroxysmal arrhythmias, however, have a duration of at least a few minutes during which, a patient familiar with the use of a personal ECG-recording device, can activate the device and record an ECG that is of sufficient quality for a cardiologist to review the recording and determine the di

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