Martin Yates

TL;DR: Modulatory effects of MEF that may contribute to increase the vulnerability to arrhythmia are discussed and MEF interaction with clinical conditions where mechanically induced changes in cardiac electrophysiology are likely to be more relevant are described.

TL;DR: The outcome of cardiac surgical patients who contracted COVID-19 infection perioperatively is extremely poor and units must implement rigorous protocols aimed at maintaining a CO VID-19 protective environment to minimize additional life-threatening complications related to this virus infection.

TL;DR: This initial report outlines the experience of setting up and delivering a pan‐regional service for the delivery of urgent and emergency cardiac surgery with a focus on maintaining a COVID‐free in‐hospital environment and hopes that other regions can use this as a starting point in developing their own region‐specific pathways if the spread of coronavirus necessitates similar measures be put in place across the United Kingdom.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors quantify the impact of regional myocardial deformation provoked by a sudden increase in ventricular loading (aortic occlusion) on human cardiac electrophysiology.

TL;DR: An interesting case of a 26‐year‐old female who presented with a 6‐month history of cough, breathlessness, palpitations, dizziness, and fever, who developed decompensated cardiac failure with bilateral pleural effusions and pulmonary edema and underwent successful surgical resection with histological confirmation of a benign atrial myxoma.