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Does angina vary with the menstrual cycle in women with premenopausal coronary artery disease?

OBJECTIVE To determine whether angina in women with established coronary heart disease varies with changes in hormone concentrations during the menstrual cycle. DESIGN Subjects were prospectively ...
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Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition: from viper to patient

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Fitness to fly for passengers with cardiovascular disease

2 Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Faculty Member of the NIHR Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Leicester, UK Following this review of evidence and ...
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Spontaneous coronary artery dissection

Spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD) is a rare cause of acute coronary syndrome or sudden cardiac death. Initial reports on this condition were scarce as they were based on postmortem ...
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Varicella zoster myocarditis progressing to cardiomyopathy and cardiac transplantation.

The case of a 12 year old schoolgirl with heart failure due to varicella myocarditis is reported. Heart failure and cardiogenic shock were evident 21 days after the appearance of the rash, and cardiac ...
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Surgery of valve disease: late results and late complications

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120 Echocardiographic versus cardiac catheterisation derived measures of right heart pressures: a retrospective analysis from the university hospitals of north midlands

Introduction Assessment for pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a common indication for transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE). PAH is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure (PAP)>25 mmHg and is ...
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Breathing training improves exercise capacity in patients with tetralogy of Fallot: a randomised trial

Objective Patients with tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) have limited pulmonary blood flow before corrective surgery and ongoing dysfunction of the pulmonary valve and right ventricle throughout life leading ...
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Hypereosinophilic syndrome: cardiac diagnosis and management

Hypereosinophilic syndrome (HES) is a heterogeneous group of conditions that is defined at its core by hypereosinophilia (HE) (blood eosinophil count of >1.5×10 9 /L) and organ damage directly ...
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Twenty-five-year trends in myocardial infarction attack and mortality rates, and case-fatality, in six European populations

Objective Due to the burden of coronary heart disease (CHD), the monitoring of CHD trends is required. This study sought to examine the acute myocardial infarction (AMI) trends in attack and mortality ...
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Social class and coronary heart disease.

Over the past 40 years in England and Wales the rise in mortality from coronary heart disease has continued unabated among working-class men, whereas among professional men the rate has changed little ...
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Congenital anomalies of the coronary arteries

Normal coronary artery anatomy is characterised by two ostia centrally placed in the right and left sinus of Valsalva. The main left coronary artery (LCA) originates from the left ostium, branching ...