BMJ2d
Manganese-enhanced MRI of the myocardium
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 ...
BMJ5d
Anti-inflammatory diet and risk of abdominal aortic aneurysm in two Swedish cohorts
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 ...
BMJ4d
Left ventricular hypertrophy: reduction of blood pressure already in the normal range further regresses left ventricular mass
Department of Radiology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK Correspondence to Professor Allan Struthers, Division of Medical Sciences, Mail Box 2, Ninewells, Ninewells Hospital and ...
BMJ3d
Cardiac and coronary CT comprehensive imaging approach in the assessment of coronary heart disease
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, ...
BMJ3d
Advanced imaging of right ventricular anatomy and function
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 ...
BMJ1d
Cardiac adaptation in athletes of black ethnicity: differentiating pathology from physiology
Cardiac adaptation to intense physical exercise is determined by factors including age, gender, body size, sporting discipline and ethnicity. Differentiating physiology from pathological conditions ...
BMJ4d
Intravascular stents: a new technique for tissue processing for histology, immunohistochemistry, and transmission electron microscopy
Background Study of the vascular response to stent implantation has been hampered by difficulties in sectioning metal and tissue without distortion of the tissue stent interface. The metal is often ...
BMJ5d
Fluid challenge and balloon occlusion testing in patients with atrial septal defects
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 ...
BMJ5d
41 Novel heart failure biomarker CLEC3B is associated with cardiac fibrosis, and impacts cardiac fibroblast cell function in vitro
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 ...
BMJ3d
Cardiovascular disease in South America: current status and opportunities for prevention
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 ...
BMJ5d
A new physiological method for heart rate correction of the QT interval
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 ...