A study led by scientists at King's has revealed how the physical orientation of the heart inside the chest dramatically ...

The lack of access to cardiology resources in many regions of the world has motivated the development of automatic diagnostic systems based on cardiac signals. In recent years, a wide range of ...

In recent years, many approaches have been proposed for automated heart sound analysis. However, most of these algorithms separate the two steps required for an accurate detection of abnormal cardiac ...

A heart murmur is, as the name suggests, a sound that occurs during a heartbeat, caused by rapid, turbulent blood flow ...

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PH)-targeted therapy in the setting of pulmonary fibrosis (PF) is controversial; the main clinical concern is worsening of systemic hypoxaemia. We sought to ...

During a check-up, a geriatrician detected a heart murmur – a whooshing sound that occurs when blood moves abnormally over the heart valves – and referred her to the National Heart Centre ...

I'm 64 and recently found out my new partner is HPV positive. I want to get tested but my GP is also my neighbour, and I'm embarrassed to talk to her about my sex life. What should I do?

Shefali Jariwala death: By incorporating these lifestyle changes, women can help reduce their risk of cardiac arrest and promote overall cardiovascular health.

Therefore, during premature stimulation of the heart, biphasic changes in vulnerability to fibrillation coincided exactly with coupling-interval–dependent changes in dispersion of repolarization but ...

Our aim was to determine the time course of changes in autonomic balance in the acute (1 and 3 days), sub-acute (7 days) and chronic (28 days) phases of myocardial infarction (MI) in rats. Autonomic ...

Objective Early prediction of atrial fibrillation (AF) development would improve patient outcomes. We propose a simple and cheap ECG based score to predict AF development. Methods A cohort of 16 316 ...

Background The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recently published revised criteria for ECG interpretation in the athlete. Objective To examine the performance of the 2010 ESC ECG criteria in a ...