Background Anticoagulation therapy reduces stroke risk in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), but it is often underused ...

Background Intravenous iron therapy with ferric derisomaltose (FDI) has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with heart ...

Background Iron deficiency (ID) is common in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter (AF), but its prognostic implications and optimal diagnostic criteria, particularly in those with and without ...

Background The Prognostic Nutritional Index (PNI), calculated from serum albumin levels and lymphocyte counts, is a simple ...

Background Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a significant public health challenge in China. This study aimed to project ...

Heightened interest in left ventricular thrombus (LVT) stems from the consistent association of subsequent stroke and systemic embolism after LVT, and many aspects of its management still exist in a ...

Pericardial complications are very common following cardiac surgery. It is estimated that up to 30–40% of patients may develop a postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) and >50–60% of patients show ...

Background: Some sociodemographic and psychological variables such as patients’ belief about illness are associated with attendance at cardiac rehabilitation. Exploration of patients’ beliefs about ...

Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China Correspondence to Professor Z-C Jing, Department of Pulmonary Circulation, Shanghai ...

OBJECTIVE Many patients fail to attend cardiac rehabilitation. Attempts to identify sociodemographic or clinical predictors of non-attendance have not been very successful; therfore, this study aimed ...

Department of Research, Development and Education, Centre for Integrated Rehabilitation of Organ Failure (CIRO), Horn, The Netherlands Objective: To systematically review the methodological quality of ...