Aims Heart failure (HF) has a lower public profile compared with other serious health conditions, notably cancer. This discourse analysis study investigates the extent to which HF is discussed in ...

Objectives (1) Develop a programme theory of why, for whom and in what contexts integrated palliative care (PC) and heart failure (HF) services work/do not work; (2) use the programme theory to ...

Background Heart failure (HF) is associated with high levels of resource use and mortality, but prior UK studies have not compared outcomes by HF subtype (HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and ...

Cellular oxygen. Under normal conditions, the intracellular partial pressure of oxygen near mitochondria in a myocyte is very low, with reported values ranging from 1 to 10 mm Hg.15 It follows that ...

Objectives Non-dilated left ventricular cardiomyopathy (NDLVC) is a novel cardiomyopathy characterised by normal LV size and non-ischaemic myocardial scarring or fatty tissue replacement. This study ...

Introduction The current standard treatment for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction is prompt reperfusion through primary percutaneous coronary intervention. However, myocardial infarction ...

Background The effectiveness of risk stratification using the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Risk Score (GRS) for patients presenting to hospital with suspected non-ST elevation ...