Atrial fibrillation—a curable condition?

Atrial fibrillation — a curable condition?

1 year and 56% vs 82% after 2 years. Therefore, in diabetic patients with multivessel disease amenable to percutaneous intervention the increased rate of major cardiac events in the follow-up period must be emphasized and carefully weighed against the increased perioperative mortality and morbidity. Most patients with multivessel coronary artery disease, including patients with high operative r...

Tumour-induced osteomalacia: a curable condition

Osteomalacia is a condition characterised by failure of bone mineralisation. While abnormalities of vitamin D supply, metabolism or action are the most common and well-known causes, chronic phosphate deficiency, due to either insufficient input (intake or absorption) or renal losses are also important causes of rickets or osteomalacia.1 Hypophosphataemia also commonly co-exists with vitamin D d...

Oesophageal perforation: a dangerous but potentially curable condition.

A series of three cases of oesophageal perforation are described. All three presented differently and the X-ray findings were different in the three patients.

Thyrotoxic atrial fibrillation: an underdiagnosed condition?

Coarctation of the aorta from fetus to adult: curable condition or life long disease process?

Correspondence to: Dr Eric Rosenthal, Guy’s Hospital, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, St Thomas Street, London, UK; [email protected] _________________________ C oarctation of the aorta was described pathologically in the 1700s and clinical recognition occurred from the early 1900s. w2 Postmortem data suggested a median age of death of 31 years—mainly from complications of the coa...