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24 Feb 2015

The Program on the Surgical Control of the Hyperlipidemias (POSCH) and the Lipid Regulatory Hypothesis

The Lipid Regulatory Hypothesis (LRH) states that the best way to regress atherosclerotic plaque is to simultaneously decrease the cholesterol being…
24 Feb 2015

How I Treat: Coronary Heart Disease: The Pleiotropic Effects of Statins

Cardiovascular (CV) diseases currently represent the first cause of death in industrialised countries with coronary heart disease (CHD) corresponding to…
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18 Feb 2015

Serving the Underserved—Making Strides to Improve Women’s Cardiovascular Health

At the age of four, my daughter Bek began to have troubles with fatigue. Her mother noted that she was drinking more water and seemed to have to go to…
11 Dec 2014

Use of N-Terminal Natriuretic Peptide in a Real-World Setting Of Patients Admitted With Acute Dyspnoea and the Implication for Triaging Patients in the Emergency Department

The aim of this review is to determine, among patients admitted with dyspnoea, the proportion of patients that can be excluded from having acute…
11 Dec 2014

Case Report: Ventricular Fibrillation and Atrial Tachyarrhythmia in 4th Decade Restrictive Ventricular Septal Defect

Congenital cardiac patients have benefitted from the advent and refinement of corrective and palliative cardiac surgery and echocardiography.
20 Oct 2014

Emerging Options for Patients with Atrial Fibrillation

Dr Jeffrey Weitz chaired the symposium and welcomed Dr Christian Ruff, who discussed and summarised recent results from key trials of new oral…
20 Oct 2014

Meeting the Challenges in Atrial Fibrillation Management: The Role of New Anticoagulants

Prof Gregory Lip opened the symposium with a discussion on determining stroke and bleeding risk in atrial fibrillation (AF) patients and their management.
20 Oct 2014

Premature Heart Attacks: Bad Lifestyle, Bad Luck, or Bad Genes?

Homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia (HoFH), a rare inherited lipid disorder usually caused by bi-allelic defects in the LDLR gene, is characterised…