Background Chronic total occlusion (CTO) often triggers collateral coronary development, yet the relationship between ...

Background Acute inflammatory responses during and after percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) are associated with subsequent cardiovascular event risk, but limited data exist on acute immune cell ...

Background Recurrent pericardial effusion remains a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge due to high recurrence rates. Laparoscopic pericardioperitoneal window represents an understudied method in the ...

Introduction Serum chloride has been recently recognised as a predictor of short-term mortality in patients hospitalised with ...

Objective Cardiovascular risk estimation is an essential step to reduce the onset of adverse cardiovascular events. For this purpose, the Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation (SCORE) risk chart method ...

Objective To characterise the relationship between opioid dose and myocardial infarct size in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Methods Patients given opioid treatment by ...

Background Patients with single ventricles after bidirectional Glenn (BDG) are placed on ACE inhibitors (ACEIs) to reduce afterload and to decrease systemic to pulmonary collateral flow (SPC). The ...

Objective Antimicrotubular agents are among the most commonly used classes of chemotherapeutic agents, but the risk of cardiovascular adverse events (CVAEs) remains unclear. Our objective was to study ...

Capsaicin, the phytochemical responsible for the spiciness of peppers, has the potential to modulate metabolism via activation of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) receptors, which are ...

Background The current guideline recommends a peak tricuspid regurgitation velocity (TRV) ≥2.9 m/s on echocardiography for pulmonary hypertension (PH) screening; however, this threshold was based on ...

Objective Patients with structural abnormalities of cardiac valves, including bicuspid aortic valve (BAV), are said to be at higher risk of infective endocarditis (IE). We sought to determine the risk ...