Cardiology

One of my first ‘house jobs’ was in cardiology, in a District General Hospital, with two great Consultants, one male and one female…

Patients with HF embark on a vicious cycle characterised by progressive worsening over time, recurrent hospitalisations associated…

The clinical syndrome of paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia (PSVT) is characterised by recurrent, acute episodes of rapid heart rate…

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) was designed to penalise hospitals for excess readmission…

The prevalence of heart failure (HF) worldwide is 64.34 million cases, and almost 10 million years have been lost due to HF-related disability.1 The global trend prevalence of HF with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) over the last decade has shown an increase in HFpEF and tendency to stabilisation of newly diagnosed cases of HFrEF.2

Percutaneous coronary intervention has become a fundamental diagnostic and treatment strategy in coronary artery disease. Much like any…

Cardiomyopathy is a group of diseases that affect the heart muscle. Early on, there may be few or no symptoms. As the disease worsens…

Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus (referred to as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-Cov-2]) in December 2019 in Wuhan City, China, and up until now, several studies and trials have been conducted to manage infected patients. Over the last few weeks, the focus moved from fear to hope in the form of the recently approved regimen (the combination of hydroxychloroquine [HCQ] and azithromycin [AZT])