1 British Heart Foundation/University of Edinburgh Centre for Cardiovascular Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK 2 Clinical Research Imaging Centre, University of Edinburgh, ...

Gadolinium-based contrast media are widely used in cardiovascular MRI to identify and to highlight the intravascular and extracellular space. After gadolinium, manganese has the second highest ...

South America comprises widely different environments consisting of many complex and heterogeneous ethnicities, societies and cultures. During recent decades conspicuous advances in human and societal ...

Objective The relationship between dietary patterns and development of abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is not well understood. Thus, we prospectively evaluated the association between the ...

Background Through a proteomics approach we have recently identified a novel blood-based biomarker for heart failure called CLEC3B, which exhibits improved diagnostic accuracy over BNP. We have ...

Introduction Careful, stepwise assessment is required in all patients with atrial septal defect (ASD) to exclude pulmonary vascular or left ventricular (LV) disease. Fluid challenge and balloon ...

Objectives Currently, 80% of all CVD deaths worldwide occur in developing countries. China, with the largest population in the world, has experienced increasing economic burden of CVD. A systematic ...

Right ventricular (RV) size and function are important predictors of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in patients with various conditions. However, non-invasive assessment of the RV is a ...

BACKGROUND The QT interval is strongly and inversely related to heart rate. To compare QT intervals between different subjects with different heart rates requires the application of a QT interval rate ...

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First Department of Medicine (Cardiology), Medical Faculty Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, 68167 Mannheim, Germany Professor Jens J Kaden, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Mannheim, ...

In 129 electrocardiograms from 129 patients showing bifid T waves as well as U waves the intervals from the beginning of the QRS complex to the two T wave apices (QaT1, QaT2), to the end of the T wave ...