Background Cardiovascular (CV) disease remains the second leading cause of mortality in Japan, yet real-world estimates of ...

Background Evidence supporting dietary interventions for heart failure (HF) prevention remains limited. The Dietary ...

Background Quality of life (QoL) measures are commonly used in randomised trials assessing therapies for stable angina. As ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the most common cause of death in women. Early identification of CVD risk factors in women is ...

Background The optimal revascularisation strategy for patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) after ...

Objectives Updated knowledge about perioperative myocardial ischaemia (MI) after coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and treatment of acute graft failure is needed. We analysed main factors ...

Objective To test the effectiveness of an impedance cardiography (ICG) guided treatment strategy on improving blood pressure (BP) control in real-world clinical practice. Design A single-centre, ...

Background Pericardium is considered electrically inert, but diffuse ST-elevation is an electrocardiographic marker of acute pericarditis. We hypothesised that ST-elevation in acute pericarditis may ...

Introduction Resistant hypertension remains a clinical challenge, often linked to elevated aldosterone levels not fully controlled by mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists. Aldosterone synthase ...

Original research: Operational performance of the 2023 World Heart Federation screening criteria for rheumatic heart disease in a high-risk, resource-limited population (8 July, 2026) ...

Introduction International guidelines emphasise the role of heart valve centres (HVC) and specialist heart valve clinics (SHVC) to deliver optimal care to patients with heart valve disease (HVD). We ...

Background Cardiogenic shock (CS) induced by severe aortic stenosis (AS) is a life-threatening condition with high mortality. Despite advancements in emergency interventions, the optimal treatment ...