Background—Routine methods for surveillance of cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) are
coronary angiography and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS). This study analyzed the …

Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common disease and cause of death in women,
accounting for over 250,000 deaths in women per year. Over the last two decades, multiple …

Alexis Carrell, having perfected techniques of vascular anastomosis, published a report on
the successful heterotopic heart transplantation in the dog in 1905 (1). It awaited a better …

Aims Patients attending hospital with suspected acute coronary syndrome (ACS), non-
diagnostic electrocardiogram (ECG), and negative troponin present a diagnostic dilemma for …

Background. Myocardial perfusion is widely used for risk stratification of patients with
suspected or known coronary artery disease (CAD). Recent years have seen an increasing …

Aims Recent data have shown that exercise electrocardiogram (ECG) has no incremental
prognostic value over clinical and rest ECG parameters in chest pain patients without a …

The direct effects of dobutamine on capillary blood volume (VOL) and blood flow velocity
(VEL) are not known. We hypothesized that these would be more similar to that of adenosine …

Objective To compare exercise electrocardiography (ExECG) and stress echocardiography
(SE) in the risk stratification of patients presenting to hospital with cardiac-sounding chest …

Aims: To determine the prognostic value of a normal stress echocardiogram in the setting of
a large district general nonuniversity hospital in the United Kingdom. Methods: Between …

Objectives: To examine the hypothesis that glyceryl trinitrate (GTN) may cause headache in
patients with normal coronary arteries more often than in patients with obstructive coronary …