The optimal treatment of chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) represents to date a matter of debate as revascularisation has not ...

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk increases with age. Statins reduce cardiovascular risk but their effects are ...

Background Participation in regular exercise activities is recommended for patients with chronic heart failure. However, less ...

Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA W Patricia Bandettini, Laboratory of Cardiac Energetics, National ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cardiac adaptation to intense physical exercise is determined by factors including age, gender, body size, sporting discipline and ethnicity. Differentiating physiology from pathological conditions ...

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, ...

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 ...

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