The Best of 2015
European Heart Journal
- XANTUS: a real-world, prospective, observational study of patients treated with rivaroxaban for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation
A. John Camm, Pierre Amarenco, Sylvia Haas, Susanne Hess, Paulus Kirchhof, Silvia Kuhls, Martin van Eickels, Alexander G.G. Turpie - Digoxin-associated mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature
Mate Vamos, Julia W. Erath, Stefan H. Hohnloser - Heart failure outcomes with empagliflozin in patients with type 2 diabetes at high cardiovascular risk: results of the EMPA-REG OUTCOME® trial
David Fitchett, Bernard Zinman, Christoph Wanner, John M. Lachin, Stefan Hantel, Afshin Salsali, Odd Erik Johansen, Hans J. Woerle, Uli C. Broedl, Silvio E. Inzucchi - The year in cardiology 2015: acute coronary syndromes
Gilles Montalescot, Filippo Crea - Rivaroxaban vs. vitamin K antagonists for cardioversion in atrial fibrillation
Riccardo Cappato, Michael D. Ezekowitz, Allan L. Klein, A. John Camm, Chang-Sheng Ma, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Mario Talajic, Maurício Scanavacca, Panos E. Vardas, Paulus Kirchhof, Melanie Hemmrich, Vivian Lanius, Isabelle Ling Meng, Peter Wildgoose, Martin van Eickels, Stefan H. Hohnloser - Statin-associated muscle symptoms: impact on statin therapy—European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel Statement on Assessment, Aetiology and Management
Erik S. Stroes, Paul D. Thompson, Alberto Corsini, Georgirene D. Vladutiu, Frederick J. Raal, Kausik K. Ray, Michael Roden, Evan Stein, Lale Tokgözo?lu, Børge G. Nordestgaard, Eric Bruckert, Guy De Backer, Ronald M. Krauss, Ulrich Laufs, Raul D. Santos, Robert A. Hegele, G. Kees Hovingh, Lawrence A. Leiter, Francois Mach, Winfried März, Connie B. Newman, Olov Wiklund, Terry A. Jacobson, Alberico L. Catapano, M. John Chapman, Henry N. Ginsberg - The year in cardiology 2015: valvular heart disease
Bernard Iung, Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, Alec Vahanian - Questions and answers on antithrombotic therapy: a companion document of the 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation
Jean-Philippe Collet, Marco Roffi, Christian Mueller, Marco Valgimigli, Carlo Patrono, Helmut Baumgartner, Oliver Gaemperli, Jose Luis Zamorano - Alcohol consumption and risk of heart failure: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
Alexandra Gonçalves, Brian Claggett, Pardeep S. Jhund, Wayne Rosamond, Anita Deswal, David Aguilar, Amil M. Shah, Susan Cheng, Scott D. Solomon - The year in cardiology 2015: heart failure
Michel Komajda, Frank Ruschitzka - The management of acute coronary syndromes: towards optimal treatment of STEMI and non-STEMI
Thomas F. Lüscher - Management of antithrombotic therapy in atrial fibrillation patients presenting with acute coronary syndrome and/or undergoing percutaneous coronary or valve interventions: a joint consensus document of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Thrombosis, European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA), European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI) and European Association of Acute Cardiac Care (ACCA) endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society (HRS) and Asia-Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)
Gregory Y.H. Lip, Stephan Windecker, Kurt Huber, Paulus Kirchhof, Francisco Marin, Jurriën M. Ten Berg, Karl Georg Haeusler, Giuseppe Boriani, Davide Capodanno, Martine Gilard, Uwe Zeymer, Deirdre Lane, , Robert F. Storey, Hector Bueno, Jean-Philippe Collet, Laurent Fauchier, Sigrun Halvorsen, Maddalena Lettino, Joao Morais, Christian Mueller, Tatjana S. Potpara, Lars Hvilsted Rasmussen, Andrea Rubboli, Juan Tamargo, Marco Valgimigli, Jose L. Zamorano - Atrial fibrillation in heart failure: what should we do?
Dipak Kotecha, Jonathan P. Piccini - Uninterrupted rivaroxaban vs. uninterrupted vitamin K antagonists for catheter ablation in non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Riccardo Cappato, Francis E. Marchlinski, Stefan H. Hohnloser, Gerald V. Naccarelli, Jim Xiang, David J. Wilber, Chang-Sheng Ma, Susanne Hess, Darryl S. Wells, George Juang, Johan Vijgen, Burkhard J. Hügl, Richard Balasubramaniam, Christian De Chillou, D. Wyn Davies, L. Eugene Fields, Andrea Natale - Antithrombotic therapy in the elderly: expert position paper of the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Thrombosis
Felicita Andreotti, Bianca Rocca, Steen Husted, Ramzi A. Ajjan, Jurrien ten Berg, Marco Cattaneo, Jean-Philippe Collet, Raffaele De Caterina, Keith A.A. Fox, Sigrun Halvorsen, Kurt Huber, Elaine M. Hylek, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Gilles Montalescot, Joao Morais, Carlo Patrono, Freek W.A. Verheugt, Lars Wallentin, Thomas W. Weiss, Robert F. Storey - The year in cardiology 2015: arrhythmias and device therapy
Jan Steffel, Pierre Jais, Gerhard Hindricks - The year in cardiology 2015: prevention
M. John Chapman, Stefan Blankenberg, Ulf Landmesser - Questions and answers on coronary revascularization: a companion document of the 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation
Marco Valgimigli, Carlo Patrono, Jean-Philippe Collet, Christian Mueller, Marco Roffi - Questions and answers on diagnosis and risk assessment: a companion document of the 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes in patients presenting without persistent ST-segment elevation
Christian Mueller, Carlo Patrono, Marco Valgimigli, Jean-Philippe Collet, Marco Roffi - Recommendations on pre-hospital and early hospital management of acute heart failure: a consensus paper from the Heart Failure Association of the European Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Emergency Medicine and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine – short version
Alexandre Mebazaa, M. Birhan Yilmaz, Phillip Levy, Piotr Ponikowski, W. Frank Peacock, Said Laribi, Arsen D. Ristic, Ekaterini Lambrinou, Josep Masip, Jillian P. Riley, Theresa McDonagh, Christian Mueller, Christopher deFilippi, Veli-Pekka Harjola, Holger Thiele, Massimo F. Piepoli, Marco Metra, Aldo Maggioni, John J.V. McMurray, Kenneth Dickstein, Kevin Damman, Petar M. Seferovic, Frank Ruschitzka, Adelino F. Leite-Moreira, Abdelouahab Bellou, Stefan D. Anker, Gerasimos Filippatos
Cardiovascular Research
- Decreasing mitochondrial fission diminishes vascular smooth muscle cell migration and ameliorates intimal hyperplasia
Li Wang, Tianzheng Yu, Hakjoo Lee, Dawn K. O'Brien, Hiromi Sesaki, Yisang Yoon - Genetic advances in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies: state of the art
Carolyn Y. Ho, Philippe Charron, Pascale Richard, Francesca Girolami, Karin Y. Van Spaendonck-Zwarts, Yigal Pinto - A step closer to cardiac optogenetics in vivo
Emilia Entcheva - Retraction of: FAK mediates the activation of cardiac fibroblasts induced by mechanical stress through regulation of the mTOR complex
Ana Paula Dalla Costa, Carolina F.M.Z. Clemente, Hernandes F. Carvalho, José B. Carvalheira, Wilson Nadruz, Kleber G. Franchini - Atrial fibrillation: effects beyond the atrium?
Rohan S. Wijesurendra, Barbara Casadei - Functional crosstalk between cardiac fibroblasts and adult cardiomyocytes by soluble mediators
James E. Cartledge, Christopher Kane, Priyanthi Dias, Meron Tesfom, Lucy Clarke, Benjamin Mckee, Samha Al Ayoubi, Adrian Chester, Magdi H. Yacoub, Patrizia Camelliti, Cesare M. Terracciano - Monocyte trafficking across the vessel wall
Teresa Gerhardt, Klaus Ley - Crosstalk between fibroblasts and inflammatory cells
Sophie Van Linthout, Kapka Miteva, Carsten Tschöpe - Pre-eclampsia and cardiovascular disease
Christina W. Chen, Iris Z. Jaffe, S. Ananth Karumanchi - PKCε-CREB-Nrf2 signalling induces HO-1 in the vascular endothelium and enhances resistance to inflammation and apoptosis
Hayley Mylroie, Odile Dumont, Andrea Bauer, Clare C. Thornton, John Mackey, Damien Calay, Shahir S. Hamdulay, Joan R. Choo, Joseph J. Boyle, Allen M. Samarel, Anna M. Randi, Paul C. Evans, Justin C. Mason - Targets for therapy in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies
Jil C. Tardiff, Lucie Carrier, Donald M. Bers, Corrado Poggesi, Cecilia Ferrantini, Raffaele Coppini, Lars S. Maier, Houman Ashrafian, Sabine Huke, Jolanda van der Velden - Animal and in silico models for the study of sarcomeric cardiomyopathies
Dirk J. Duncker, Jeroen Bakkers, Bianca J. Brundel, Jeff Robbins, Jil C. Tardiff, Lucie Carrier - Defining phenotypes and disease progression in sarcomeric cardiomyopathies: contemporary role of clinical investigations
Iacopo Olivotto, Giulia d'Amati, Cristina Basso, Albert Van Rossum, Monica Patten, Michele Emdin, Yigal Pinto, Benedetta Tomberli, Paolo G. Camici, Michelle Michels - Modelling sarcomeric cardiomyopathies in the dish: from human heart samples to iPSC cardiomyocytes
Thomas Eschenhagen, Christine Mummery, Bjorn C. Knollmann - Reversible and irreversible differentiation of cardiac fibroblasts
Ronald B. Driesen, Chandan K. Nagaraju, Joëlle Abi-Char, Tamara Coenen, Paul J. Lijnen, Robert H. Fagard, Karin R. Sipido, Victor V. Petrov - Study familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy using patient-specific induced pluripotent stem cells
Lu Han, Yang Li, Jason Tchao, Aaron D. Kaplan, Bo Lin, You Li, Jocelyn Mich-Basso, Agnieszka Lis, Narmeen Hassan, Barry London, Glenna C.L. Bett, Kimimasa Tobita, Randall L. Rasmusson, Lei Yang - Extracellular vesicles from human cardiac progenitor cells inhibit cardiomyocyte apoptosis and improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction
Lucio Barile, Vincenzo Lionetti, Elisabetta Cervio, Marco Matteucci, Mihaela Gherghiceanu, Laurentiu M. Popescu, Tiziano Torre, Francesco Siclari, Tiziano Moccetti, Giuseppe Vassalli - Emerging regulators of vascular smooth muscle cell function in the development and progression of atherosclerosis
Jason Lee Johnson - Intracellular signalling during neutrophil recruitment
Attila Mócsai, Barbara Walzog, Clifford A. Lowell - MicroRNA-150 protects the mouse heart from ischaemic injury by regulating cell death
Yaoping Tang, Yongchao Wang, Kyoung-mi Park, Qiuping Hu, Jian-peng Teoh, Zuzana Broskova, Punithavathi Ranganathan, Calpurnia Jayakumar, Jie Li, Huabo Su, Yaoliang Tang, Ganesan Ramesh, Il-man Kim
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
- Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
Thomas H. Marwick, Thierry C. Gillebert, Gerard Aurigemma, Julio Chirinos, Genevieve Derumeaux, Maurizio Galderisi, John Gottdiener, Brian Haluska, Elizabeth Ofili, Patrick Segers, Roxy Senior, Robyn J. Tapp, Jose L. Zamorano - Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Victor Mor-Avi, Jonathan Afilalo, Anderson Armstrong, Laura Ernande, Frank A. Flachskampf, Elyse Foster, Steven A. Goldstein, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Patrizio Lancellotti, Denisa Muraru, Michael H. Picard, Ernst R. Rietzschel, Lawrence Rudski, Kirk T. Spencer, Wendy Tsang, Jens-Uwe Voigt - Definitions for a common standard for 2D speckle tracking echocardiography: consensus document of the EACVI/ASE/Industry Task Force to standardize deformation imaging
Jens-Uwe Voigt, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Peter Lysyansky, Tom H. Marwick, Helen Houle, Rolf Baumann, Stefano Pedri, Yasuhiro Ito, Yasuhiko Abe, Stephen Metz, Joo Hyun Song, Jamie Hamilton, Partho P. Sengupta, Theodore J. Kolias, Jan d'Hooge, Gerard P. Aurigemma, James D. Thomas, Luigi Paolo Badano - The multi-modality cardiac imaging approach to the Athlete's heart: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Maurizio Galderisi, Nuno Cardim, Antonello D'Andrea, Oliver Bruder, Bernard Cosyns, Laurent Davin, Erwan Donal, Thor Edvardsen, Antonio Freitas, Gilbert Habib, Anastasia Kitsiou, Sven Plein, Steffen E. Petersen, Bogdan A. Popescu, Stephen Schroeder, Christof Burgstahler, Patrizio Lancellotti, , Rosa Sicari, Denisa Muraru, Massimo Lombardi, Raluca Dulgheru, Andre La Gerche - Appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in heart failure: report of literature review
Madalina Garbi, Theresa McDonagh, Bernard Cosyns, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Thor Edvardsen, Anastasia Kitsiou, Koen Nieman, Patrizio Lancellotti - Expert consensus for multimodality imaging evaluation of adult patients during and after cancer therapy: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Juan Carlos Plana, Maurizio Galderisi, Ana Barac, Michael S. Ewer, Bonnie Ky, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, Javier Ganame, Igal A. Sebag, Deborah A. Agler, Luigi P. Badano, Jose Banchs, Daniela Cardinale, Joseph Carver, Manuel Cerqueira, Jeanne M. DeCara, Thor Edvardsen, Scott D. Flamm, Thomas Force, Brian P. Griffin, Guy Jerusalem, Jennifer E. Liu, Andreia Magalhães, Thomas Marwick, Liza Y. Sanchez, Rosa Sicari, Hector R. Villarraga, Patrizio Lancellotti - Role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Endorsed by the Saudi Heart Association
Nuno Cardim, Maurizio Galderisi, Thor Edvardsen, Sven Plein, Bogdan A. Popescu, Antonello D'Andrea, Oliver Bruder, Bernard Cosyns, Laurent Davin, Erwan Donal, Antonio Freitas, Gilbert Habib, Anastasia Kitsiou, Steffen E. Petersen, Stephen Schroeder, Patrizio Lancellotti, , Paolo Camici, Raluca Dulgheru, Andreas Hagendorff, Massimo Lombardi, Denisa Muraru, Rosa Sicari - Reporting nuclear cardiology: a joint position paper by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Elin Trägårdh, Birger Hesse, Juhani Knuuti, Albert Flotats, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Anastasia Kitsiou, Marcus Hacker, Hein J. Verberne, Lars Edenbrandt, , Victoria Delgado, Erwan Donal, Thor Edvardsen, Maurizio Galderisi, Gilbert Habib, Patrizio Lancellotti, Koen Nieman, Raphael Rosenhek, , Denis Agostini, Alessia Gimelli, Oliver Lindner, Riemert Slart, Christopher Übleis - Cardiovascular imaging practice in Europe: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Patrizio Lancellotti, Edyta P?o?ska-Go?ciniak, Madalina Garbi, Chiara Bucciarelli-ducci, Bernard Cosyns, Nuno Cardim, Maurizio Galderisi, Thor Edvardsen, Danilo Neglia, Sven Plein, Anastasia Kitsiou, Koen Nieman, Alexandros Stefanidis, Gerald Maurer, Bogdan A. Popescu, Gilbert Habib - Recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography: EACVI update 2014
Frank A. Flachskampf, Patrick F. Wouters, Thor Edvardsen, Artur Evangelista, Gilbert Habib, Piotr Hoffman, Rainer Hoffmann, Patrizio Lancellotti, Mauro Pepi - Characteristics of high-risk coronary plaques identified by computed tomographic angiography and associated prognosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Camilla Thomsen, Jawdat Abdulla - Indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance in children with congenital and acquired heart disease: an expert consensus paper of the Imaging Working Group of the AEPC and the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Section of the EACVI
E.R. Valsangiacomo Buechel, L. Grosse-Wortmann, S. Fratz, J. Eichhorn, S. Sarikouch, G.F. Greil, P. Beerbaum, C. Bucciarelli-Ducci, B. Bonello, L. Sieverding, J. Schwitter, W.A. Helbing, , , Maurizio Galderisi, Owen Miller, Rosa Sicari, John Simpson, Erik Thaulow, Thor Edvardsen, , Konrad Brockmeier, Shakeel Qureshi, Joerg Stein - Left ventricular global longitudinal strain is associated with exercise capacity in failing hearts with preserved and reduced ejection fraction
Nina E. Hasselberg, Kristina H. Haugaa, Sebastian I. Sarvari, Lars Gullestad, Arne K. Andreassen, Otto A. Smiseth, Thor Edvardsen - Updated standards and processes for accreditation of echocardiographic laboratories from The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging: an executive summary
Bogdan A. Popescu, Alexandros Stefanidis, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Kevin F. Fox, Simon Ray, Nuno Cardim, Fausto Rigo, Luigi P. Badano, Alan G. Fraser, Fausto Pinto, Jose Luis Zamorano, Gilbert Habib, Gerald Maurer, Patrizio Lancellotti - Congenital defects of the pericardium: a review
Ankit B. Shah, Itzhak Kronzon - Appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in clinical practice: a position statement of the ESC/EACVI taskforce
Madalina Garbi, Gilbert Habib, Sven Plein, Danilo Neglia, Anastasia Kitsiou, Erwan Donal, Fausto Pinto, Jeroen Bax, Stephan Achenbach, Bogdan A. Popescu, Thor Edvardsen, Luigi P. Badano, Alexandros Stefanidis, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Genevieve Derumeaux, Jose Luis Zamorano, Thomas F. Lüscher, Gerald Maurer, Patrizio Lancellotti - Differentiation of thrombus from pannus as the cause of acquired mechanical prosthetic heart valve obstruction by non-invasive imaging: a review of the literature
Wilco Tanis, Jesse Habets, Renee B.A. van den Brink, Petr Symersky, Ricardo P.J. Budde, Steven A.J. Chamuleau - Cardiac computed tomography core syllabus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Koen Nieman, Stephan Achenbach, Francesca Pugliese, Bernard Cosyns, Patrizio Lancellotti, Anastasia Kitsiou - The mitral valve is an actively adapting tissue: new imaging evidence
Jacob P. Dal-Bianco, Robert A. Levine - The year 2014 in the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging. Part I
Thor Edvardsen, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Antti Saraste, Luc A. Pierard, Juhani Knuuti, Gerald Maurer, Gilbert Habib, Patrizio Lancellotti
EP - Europace
- Updated European Heart Rhythm Association Practical Guide on the use of non-vitamin K antagonist anticoagulants in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Hein Heidbuchel, Peter Verhamme, Marco Alings, Matthias Antz, Hans-Christoph Diener, Werner Hacke, Jonas Oldgren, Peter Sinnaeve, A. John Camm, Paulus Kirchhof - Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants: considerations on once- vs. twice-daily regimens and their potential impact on medication adherence
Bernard Vrijens, Hein Heidbuchel - Drug persistence with rivaroxaban therapy in atrial fibrillation patients—results from the Dresden non-interventional oral anticoagulation registry
Jan Beyer-Westendorf, Kati Förster, Franziska Ebertz, Vera Gelbricht, Thomas Schreier, Maria Göbelt, Franziska Michalski, Heike Endig, Kurtulus Sahin, Luise Tittl, Norbert Weiss - Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants and atrial fibrillation guidelines in practice: barriers to and strategies for optimal implementation
A. John Camm, Fausto J. Pinto, Graeme J. Hankey, Felicita Andreotti, F.D. Richard Hobbs - Chronic kidney disease in patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances or implantable electrical devices: clinical significance and implications for decision making-a position paper of the European Heart Rhythm Association endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society
Giuseppe Boriani, Irina Savelieva, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan, Jean Claude Deharo, Charles Ferro, Carsten W. Israel, Deirdre A. Lane, Gaetano La Manna, Joseph Morton, Angel Moya Mitjans, Marc A. Vos, Mintu P. Turakhia, Gregory Y.H. Lip
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
- Recommendations on the use of echocardiography in adult hypertension: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) and the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE)
Thomas H. Marwick, Thierry C. Gillebert, Gerard Aurigemma, Julio Chirinos, Genevieve Derumeaux, Maurizio Galderisi, John Gottdiener, Brian Haluska, Elizabeth Ofili, Patrick Segers, Roxy Senior, Robyn J. Tapp, Jose L. Zamorano - Recommendations for Cardiac Chamber Quantification by Echocardiography in Adults: An Update from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Roberto M. Lang, Luigi P. Badano, Victor Mor-Avi, Jonathan Afilalo, Anderson Armstrong, Laura Ernande, Frank A. Flachskampf, Elyse Foster, Steven A. Goldstein, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Patrizio Lancellotti, Denisa Muraru, Michael H. Picard, Ernst R. Rietzschel, Lawrence Rudski, Kirk T. Spencer, Wendy Tsang, Jens-Uwe Voigt - Definitions for a common standard for 2D speckle tracking echocardiography: consensus document of the EACVI/ASE/Industry Task Force to standardize deformation imaging
Jens-Uwe Voigt, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Peter Lysyansky, Tom H. Marwick, Helen Houle, Rolf Baumann, Stefano Pedri, Yasuhiro Ito, Yasuhiko Abe, Stephen Metz, Joo Hyun Song, Jamie Hamilton, Partho P. Sengupta, Theodore J. Kolias, Jan d'Hooge, Gerard P. Aurigemma, James D. Thomas, Luigi Paolo Badano - The multi-modality cardiac imaging approach to the Athlete's heart: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Maurizio Galderisi, Nuno Cardim, Antonello D'Andrea, Oliver Bruder, Bernard Cosyns, Laurent Davin, Erwan Donal, Thor Edvardsen, Antonio Freitas, Gilbert Habib, Anastasia Kitsiou, Sven Plein, Steffen E. Petersen, Bogdan A. Popescu, Stephen Schroeder, Christof Burgstahler, Patrizio Lancellotti, , Rosa Sicari, Denisa Muraru, Massimo Lombardi, Raluca Dulgheru, Andre La Gerche - Appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in heart failure: report of literature review
Madalina Garbi, Theresa McDonagh, Bernard Cosyns, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Thor Edvardsen, Anastasia Kitsiou, Koen Nieman, Patrizio Lancellotti - Expert consensus for multimodality imaging evaluation of adult patients during and after cancer therapy: a report from the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Juan Carlos Plana, Maurizio Galderisi, Ana Barac, Michael S. Ewer, Bonnie Ky, Marielle Scherrer-Crosbie, Javier Ganame, Igal A. Sebag, Deborah A. Agler, Luigi P. Badano, Jose Banchs, Daniela Cardinale, Joseph Carver, Manuel Cerqueira, Jeanne M. DeCara, Thor Edvardsen, Scott D. Flamm, Thomas Force, Brian P. Griffin, Guy Jerusalem, Jennifer E. Liu, Andreia Magalhães, Thomas Marwick, Liza Y. Sanchez, Rosa Sicari, Hector R. Villarraga, Patrizio Lancellotti - Role of multimodality cardiac imaging in the management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: an expert consensus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging Endorsed by the Saudi Heart Association
Nuno Cardim, Maurizio Galderisi, Thor Edvardsen, Sven Plein, Bogdan A. Popescu, Antonello D'Andrea, Oliver Bruder, Bernard Cosyns, Laurent Davin, Erwan Donal, Antonio Freitas, Gilbert Habib, Anastasia Kitsiou, Steffen E. Petersen, Stephen Schroeder, Patrizio Lancellotti, , Paolo Camici, Raluca Dulgheru, Andreas Hagendorff, Massimo Lombardi, Denisa Muraru, Rosa Sicari - Reporting nuclear cardiology: a joint position paper by the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Elin Trägårdh, Birger Hesse, Juhani Knuuti, Albert Flotats, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Anastasia Kitsiou, Marcus Hacker, Hein J. Verberne, Lars Edenbrandt, , Victoria Delgado, Erwan Donal, Thor Edvardsen, Maurizio Galderisi, Gilbert Habib, Patrizio Lancellotti, Koen Nieman, Raphael Rosenhek, , Denis Agostini, Alessia Gimelli, Oliver Lindner, Riemert Slart, Christopher Übleis - Cardiovascular imaging practice in Europe: a report from the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging
Patrizio Lancellotti, Edyta Płońska-Gościniak, Madalina Garbi, Chiara Bucciarelli-ducci, Bernard Cosyns, Nuno Cardim, Maurizio Galderisi, Thor Edvardsen, Danilo Neglia, Sven Plein, Anastasia Kitsiou, Koen Nieman, Alexandros Stefanidis, Gerald Maurer, Bogdan A. Popescu, Gilbert Habib - Recommendations for transoesophageal echocardiography: EACVI update 2014
Frank A. Flachskampf, Patrick F. Wouters, Thor Edvardsen, Artur Evangelista, Gilbert Habib, Piotr Hoffman, Rainer Hoffmann, Patrizio Lancellotti, Mauro Pepi - Characteristics of high-risk coronary plaques identified by computed tomographic angiography and associated prognosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Camilla Thomsen, Jawdat Abdulla - Indications for cardiovascular magnetic resonance in children with congenital and acquired heart disease: an expert consensus paper of the Imaging Working Group of the AEPC and the Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Section of the EACVI
E.R. Valsangiacomo Buechel, L. Grosse-Wortmann, S. Fratz, J. Eichhorn, S. Sarikouch, G.F. Greil, P. Beerbaum, C. Bucciarelli-Ducci, B. Bonello, L. Sieverding, J. Schwitter, W.A. Helbing, , , Maurizio Galderisi, Owen Miller, Rosa Sicari, John Simpson, Erik Thaulow, Thor Edvardsen, , Konrad Brockmeier, Shakeel Qureshi, Joerg Stein - Left ventricular global longitudinal strain is associated with exercise capacity in failing hearts with preserved and reduced ejection fraction
Nina E. Hasselberg, Kristina H. Haugaa, Sebastian I. Sarvari, Lars Gullestad, Arne K. Andreassen, Otto A. Smiseth, Thor Edvardsen - Updated standards and processes for accreditation of echocardiographic laboratories from The European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging: an executive summary
Bogdan A. Popescu, Alexandros Stefanidis, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Kevin F. Fox, Simon Ray, Nuno Cardim, Fausto Rigo, Luigi P. Badano, Alan G. Fraser, Fausto Pinto, Jose Luis Zamorano, Gilbert Habib, Gerald Maurer, Patrizio Lancellotti - Congenital defects of the pericardium: a review
Ankit B. Shah, Itzhak Kronzon - Appropriateness criteria for cardiovascular imaging use in clinical practice: a position statement of the ESC/EACVI taskforce
Madalina Garbi, Gilbert Habib, Sven Plein, Danilo Neglia, Anastasia Kitsiou, Erwan Donal, Fausto Pinto, Jeroen Bax, Stephan Achenbach, Bogdan A. Popescu, Thor Edvardsen, Luigi P. Badano, Alexandros Stefanidis, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Genevieve Derumeaux, Jose Luis Zamorano, Thomas F. Lüscher, Gerald Maurer, Patrizio Lancellotti - Differentiation of thrombus from pannus as the cause of acquired mechanical prosthetic heart valve obstruction by non-invasive imaging: a review of the literature
Wilco Tanis, Jesse Habets, Renee B.A. van den Brink, Petr Symersky, Ricardo P.J. Budde, Steven A.J. Chamuleau - Cardiac computed tomography core syllabus of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
Koen Nieman, Stephan Achenbach, Francesca Pugliese, Bernard Cosyns, Patrizio Lancellotti, Anastasia Kitsiou - The mitral valve is an actively adapting tissue: new imaging evidence
Jacob P. Dal-Bianco, Robert A. Levine - The year 2014 in the European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging. Part I
Thor Edvardsen, Chiara Bucciarelli-Ducci, Antti Saraste, Luc A. Pierard, Juhani Knuuti, Gerald Maurer, Gilbert Habib, Patrizio Lancellotti
EP - Europace
- Updated European Heart Rhythm Association Practical Guide on the use of non-vitamin K antagonist anticoagulants in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
Hein Heidbuchel, Peter Verhamme, Marco Alings, Matthias Antz, Hans-Christoph Diener, Werner Hacke, Jonas Oldgren, Peter Sinnaeve, A. John Camm, Paulus Kirchhof - Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants: considerations on once- vs. twice-daily regimens and their potential impact on medication adherence
Bernard Vrijens, Hein Heidbuchel - Drug persistence with rivaroxaban therapy in atrial fibrillation patients—results from the Dresden non-interventional oral anticoagulation registry
Jan Beyer-Westendorf, Kati Förster, Franziska Ebertz, Vera Gelbricht, Thomas Schreier, Maria Göbelt, Franziska Michalski, Heike Endig, Kurtulus Sahin, Luise Tittl, Norbert Weiss - Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants and atrial fibrillation guidelines in practice: barriers to and strategies for optimal implementation
A. John Camm, Fausto J. Pinto, Graeme J. Hankey, Felicita Andreotti, F.D. Richard Hobbs - Chronic kidney disease in patients with cardiac rhythm disturbances or implantable electrical devices: clinical significance and implications for decision making-a position paper of the European Heart Rhythm Association endorsed by the Heart Rhythm Society and the Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society
Giuseppe Boriani, Irina Savelieva, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan, Jean Claude Deharo, Charles Ferro, Carsten W. Israel, Deirdre A. Lane, Gaetano La Manna, Joseph Morton, Angel Moya Mitjans, Marc A. Vos, Mintu P. Turakhia, Gregory Y.H. Lip - EHRA/HRS/APHRS expert consensus on ventricular arrhythmias
Christian Torp Pedersen, G. Neal Kay, Jonathan Kalman, Martin Borggrefe, Paolo Della-Bella, Timm Dickfeld, Paul Dorian, Heikki Huikuri, Youg-Hoon Kim, Bradley Knight, Francis Marchlinski, David Ross, Frédéric Sacher, John Sapp, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Kyoko Soejima, Hiroshi Tada, Mark E. Alexander, John K. Triedman, Takumi Yamada, Paulus Kirchhof, , Gregory Y. H. Lip, Karl Heinz Kuck, Lluis Mont, David Haines, Jukia Indik, John Dimarco, Derek Exner, Yoshito Iesaka, Irene Savelieva - Better management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest increases survival rate and improves neurological outcome in the Swiss Canton Ticino
Romano Mauri, Roman Burkart, Claudio Benvenuti, Maria Luce Caputo, Tiziano Moccetti, Alessandro Del Bufalo, Augusto Gallino, Carlo Casso, Luciano Anselmi, Tiziano Cassina, Catherine Klersy, Angelo Auricchio - Current trends in the use of cardiac implantable electronic devices and interventional electrophysiological procedures in the European Society of Cardiology member countries: 2015 report from the European Heart Rhythm Association
M.J. Pekka Raatikainen, David O. Arnar, Katja Zeppenfeld, Jose Luis Merino, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Gerhardt Hindricks - Antithrombotic management in patients undergoing electrophysiological procedures: a European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) position document endorsed by the ESC Working Group Thrombosis, Heart Rhythm Society (HRS), and Asia Pacific Heart Rhythm Society (APHRS)
Christian Sticherling, Francisco Marin, David Birnie, Giuseppe Boriani, Hugh Calkins, Gheorghe-Andrei Dan, Michele Gulizia, Sigrun Halvorsen, Gerhard Hindricks, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Angel Moya, Tatjana Potpara, Vanessa Roldan, Roland Tilz, Gregory Y.H. Lip - Statistics on the use of cardiac electronic devices and electrophysiological procedures in the European Society of Cardiology countries: 2014 report from the European Heart Rhythm Association
M.J. Pekka Raatikainen, David O. Arnar, Katja Zeppenfeld, Jose Luis Merino, Francisco Levya, Gerhardt Hindriks, Karl-Heinz Kuck - Efficacy and safety of rivaroxaban compared with vitamin K antagonists for peri-procedural anticoagulation in catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Mate Vamos, Riccardo Cappato, Francis E. Marchlinski, Andrea Natale, Stefan H. Hohnloser - Comparison of CHADS2 and CHA2DS2-VASC anticoagulation recommendations: evaluation in a cohort of atrial fibrillation ablation patients
Roger A. Winkle, R. Hardwin Mead, Gregory Engel, Melissa H. Kong, Rob A. Patrawala - Anticoagulation reversal in the era of the non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants
Andres Enriquez, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Adrian Baranchuk - EHRA/EAPCI expert consensus statement on catheter-based left atrial appendage occlusion
Bernhard Meier, Yuri Blaauw, Ahmed A. Khattab, Torsten Lewalter, Horst Sievert, Claudio Tondo, Michael Glikson - 2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the prevention of sudden cardiac death
- The Task Force for the Management of Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias and the Prevention of Sudden Cardiac Death of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Endorsed by: Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology (AEPC)
Silvia G. Priori, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Andrea Mazzanti, Nico Blom, Martin Borggrefe, John Camm, Perry Mark Elliott, Donna Fitzsimons, Robert Hatala, Gerhard Hindricks, Paulus Kirchhof, Keld Kjeldsen, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Antonio Hernandez-Madrid, Nikolaos Nikolaou, Tone M. Norekvål, Christian Spaulding, Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen - Radiofrequency ablation vs. antiarrhythmic drug therapy as first line treatment of symptomatic atrial fibrillation: systematic review and meta-analysis
Antti Hakalahti, Fausto Biancari, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, M.J. Pekka Raatikainen - Management of atrial fibrillation in seven European countries after the publication of the 2010 ESC Guidelines on atrial fibrillation: primary results of the PREvention oF thromboemolic events—European Registry in Atrial Fibrillation (PREFER in AF)
Paulus Kirchhof, Bettina Ammentorp, Harald Darius, Raffaele De Caterina, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Richard John Schilling, Josef Schmitt, Jose Luis Zamorano - Incidence of sudden cardiac death in Germany: results from an emergency medical service registry in Lower Saxony
Eimo Martens, Moritz F. Sinner, Johannes Siebermair, Carsten Raufhake, Britt M. Beckmann, Stefan Veith, Dieter Düvel, Gerhard Steinbeck, Stefan Kääb - Longevity of implantable cardioverter-defibrillators for cardiac resynchronization therapy in current clinical practice: an analysis according to influencing factors, device generation, and manufacturer
Maurizio Landolina, Antonio Curnis, Giovanni Morani, Antonello Vado, Ernesto Ammendola, Antonio D'onofrio, Giuseppe Stabile, Martino Crosato, Barbara Petracci, Carlo Ceriotti, Luca Bontempi, Martina Morosato, Gian Paolo Ballari, Maurizio Gasparini - New devices in heart failure: an European Heart Rhythm Association reportDeveloped by the European Heart Rhythm Association; Endorsed by the Heart Failure Association
Karl-Heinz Kuck, Pierre Bordachar, Martin Borggrefe, Giuseppe Boriani, Haran Burri, Francisco Leyva, Patrick Schauerte, Dominic Theuns, Bernard Thibault, , Paulus Kirchhof, Gerhard Hasenfuss, Kenneth Dickstein, Christophe Leclercq, Cecilia Linde, Luigi Tavazzi, Frank Ruschitzka
European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Pharmacotherapy
- A novel approach indirectly comparing benefit–risk balance across anti-thrombotic therapies in patients with atrial fibrillation
Ariel Dogliotti, Robert P. Giugliano - New oral anticoagulants: a practical guide for physicians
Rocio Hinojar, Jose Julio Jiménez-Natcher, Covadonga Fernández-Golfín, Jose Luis Zamorano - Dual antiplatelet therapy: optimal timing, management, and duration
Pierre Sabouret, Sophie K. Rushton-Smith, Mathieu Kerneis, Johanne Silvain, Jean-Philippe Collet, Gilles Montalescot - Iron deficiency in patients with heart failure
Sarah Fitzsimons, Robert Neil Doughty - Drug therapy in cardiac arrest: a review of the literature
Andreas Lundin, Therese Djärv, Johan Engdahl, Jacob Hollenberg, Per Nordberg, Annika Ravn-Fischer, Mattias Ringh, Susanne Rysz, Leif Svensson, Johan Herlitz, Peter Lundgren
European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes
- Big biomedical data and cardiovascular disease research: opportunities and challenges
Spiros C. Denaxas, Katherine I. Morley - Replacing the hypertension control paradigm with a strategy of cardiovascular risk reduction
Johan Sundström, Bruce Neal - Risk prediction (or crystal ball gazing) for coronary disease
M. Justin Zaman - Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: global cardiovascular risk assessment and management in clinical practice
Tamryn K. Law, Andrew T. Yan, Aanika Gupta, Mahesh Kajil, Michelle Tsigoulis, Narendra Singh, Subodh Verma, Milan Gupta - Impact of operator volume for percutaneous coronary intervention on clinical outcomes: what do the numbers say?
Muhammad Rashid, Matthew Sperrin, Peter F. Ludman, Darragh O'Neill, Owen Nicholas, Mark A. de Belder, Mamas A. Mamas