Heart failure, a prevalent global health issue affecting over 64 million people worldwide1 and the leading single cause of hospitalization in the USA and Europe. Previously regarded as a dismal condition, the heart failu...
Cardiovascular risk stratification is an essential evaluation for physicians in tailoring specific treatment objectives for individual patients. SCORE2-Diabetes was developed to predict the 10-year risk of cardiovascular...
This article reviews three of the most pivotal studies on the advancement of cardiac arrhythmia treatment in 2023, addressing the need for safer methods that ensure no loss in efficacy. The MANIFEST-PF survey reflects th...
Tricuspid regurgitation (TR) is a severe condition and is highly prevalent, has poor outcomes which are associated with high mortality in all clinical contexts. TR is prominently undertreated by surgery. TR is often dete...
This year there are many trials, guidelines and congress in CAD. The highlights are the intravascular inmaging studies especially OCT in complex lesions; the value of CCTA in diagnostic, estimate lesions and decision-mak...
Since the publication of the 2015 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Guidelines for the management of infective endocarditis, important new data have been published mandating an update of recommendations. Therefore, in...
In 2023, there are some new studies in the field of peripheral vascular interventions. The Cardiology journal would like to highlight 2 points that could lead to changes in clinical practice
In the past decade, efforts to improve blood pressure control have looked beyond conventional approaches of lifestyle modification and drug therapy to embrace interventional therapies. Based upon animal and human studies...
Introduction: Percutaneous mitral valve intervention is still a great challenge for interventional cardiologists in Vietnam as well as around the world.
Content: So far, some technical solutions have been introduced to...
Extracranial carotid artery stenosis is one of the leading causes of ischemic stroke, accounting for up to 15% of all causes. In these patients, the recurrence rate is up to 11.5% in the first 14 days without secondary p...
Although angiography is the technique most interventional cardiologists use to assess the severity of coronary artery disease and guide treatment, conventional angiography has some limitations such as providing a 2D silh...
The year 2023 is a memorable one with the release of the first comprehensive guidelines on cardiomyopathies by the European Society of Cardiology in November. Although these guidelines do not completely replace the exist...
The presence of myocardial ischemia is an important prognostic factor in patients with ischemic heart disease. Fractional flow reserve (FFR) and hyperemia-free indexes are used as invasive methods to detect and identify...
Atrial fibrillation (AF) is one of the most common and complex cardiac arrhythmias. AF has been, is, and will continue to be an enormous health burden in communities, especially among the elderly population. The rates of...
**The American Heart Association (AHA)** annual scientific sessions have always been the largest international cardiovascular scientific event closing out each calendar year. AHA 2023, held in Philadelphia this past Nove...
Brugada syndrome, first described in 1992, is an autosomal dominant genetic disorder characterized by a distinctive ECG pattern and a risk of dangerous ventricular arrhythmias leading to sudden death. Most Brugada patien...
Genomic and proteomic technologies have become integral components of precision medicine, revolutionizing the field of cardiovascular disease management. These advanced technologies play a crucial role in enhancing scree...
Iron is an essential micronutrient for several physiological processes in the body beyond erythropoiesis. Iron deficiency (ID) is a common comorbidity observed in about 50% of patients with stable heart failure (HF) irre...
Cardiogenic shock is a complex and heterogeneous pathological condition characterized by impaired contractile function of the heart. The goal of cardiogenic shock treatment is to improve abnormal hemodynamics and maintai...
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) is an advanced imaging technique designed to evaluate cardiovascular morphology, heart function, and tissue characteristics. CMR is applicable in cardiomyopathies, cardiac ischemia, arrhy...
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a cardiovascular emergency that continues to pose a substantial clinical challenge because of its high rates of in-hospital mortality that do not appear to be declining with time. Nationa...
This review by Prof. Pham Manh Hung, marking the 40th anniversary of the Department of Cardiology at Hanoi Medical University, traces the historical development of cardiology worldwide, beginning with William Harvey's De...
This commemorative article by Prof. Nguyen Lan Viet reflects on the 40-year history of the Department of Cardiology at Hanoi Medical University — the first dedicated cardiology department among Vietnamese medical schools...