October 2024

Peer Reviewed Feature Articles
Pulmonary hypertension

Pulmonary hypertension. What’s new in diagnosis and treatment?

Visopiano Sanyü, Andrew Burns, David Prior

Pulmonary hypertension may be the underlying cause of, or an important prognostic feature when investigating, shortness of breath. A systematic diagnostic approach is needed to determine the underlying diagnosis, leading to the optimal treatment, often in partnership with an expert pulmonary hypertension centre.

Peer Reviewed Regular Series
ECG education

Why is this patient feeling faint?

Vivienne Miller

A 74-year-old man feels faint when he stands up and goes to walk. You organise an ECG, which shows rapid atrial fibrillation. The specific ECG features are discussed, as well as the physiological and medical causes of atrial fibrillation.

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