European Heart Journal

Editorials:

Freek W.A. Verheugt

Combining glycoprotein blockers with fibrinolysis: a bold stroke?
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1801-1803. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan J. Piek and Robbert J. de Winter

Type II secretory phospholipase A2: The emerging role of biochemical markers of plaque inflammation
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1804-1806. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical research:

S. Savonitto, P.W. Armstrong, A.M. Lincoff, G. Jia, C.A. Sila, J. Booth, P. Terrosu, C. Cavallini, H.D. White, D. Ardissino, R.M. Califf, and E.J. Topol for the GUSTO V Investigators

Risk of intracranial haemorrhage with combined fibrinolytic and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor therapy in acute myocardial infarction: Dichotomous response as a function of age in the GUSTO V trial
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1807-1814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Moscucci, K.A.A. Fox, Christopher P. Cannon, W. Klein, José López-Sendón, G. Montalescot, K. White, and R.J. Goldberg for the GRACE Investigators

Predictors of major bleeding in acute coronary syndromes: the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE)
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1815-1823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ping-Yen Liu, Yi-Heng Li, Wei-Chuan Tsai, Ting-Hsing Chao, Liang-Miin Tsai, Hua-Lin Wu, and Jyh-Hong Chen

Prognostic value and the changes of plasma levels of secretory type II phospholipase A2 in patients with coronary artery disease undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1824-1832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dilys J Freeman, Nilesh J Samani, Valerie Wilson, Alex D McMahon, Peter S Braund, Suzanne Cheng, Muriel J Caslake, Chris J Packard, and Dairena Gaffney on behalf of the West of Scotland Study Group

A polymorphism of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein gene predicts cardiovascular events in non-smokers in the West of Scotland Coronary Prevention Study
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1833-1842. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gavin J Blake, Michelle A Albert, Nader Rifai, and Paul M Ridker

Effect of pravastatin on LDL particle concentration as determined by NMR spectroscopy: a substudy of a randomized placebo controlled trial
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1843-1847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marielle Alders, Roselie Jongbloed, Wout Deelen, Arthur van den Wijngaard, Pieter Doevendans, Folkert Ten Cate, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Hans-Peter Vosberg, Irene van Langen, Arthur Wilde, Dennis Dooijes, and Marcel Mannens

The 2373insG mutation in the MYBPC3 gene is a founder mutation, which accounts for nearly one-fourth of the HCM cases in the Netherlands
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1848-1853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Current opinion:

Lionel H. Opie

Preconditioning and metabolic anti-ischaemic agents
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1854-1856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Regular articles:

Committee Members, Carina Blomström-Lundqvist, Melvin M Scheinman, Etienne M Aliot, Joseph S Alpert, Hugh Calkins, A.John Camm, W.Barton Campbell, David E Haines, Karl H Kuck, Bruce B Lerman, D.Douglas Miller, Charlie Willard Shaeffer, Jr, William G Stevenson, Gordon F Tomaselli Task Force Members, Elliott M Antman, Sidney C Smith, Jr, Joseph S Alpert, David P Faxon, Valentin Fuster, Raymond J Gibbons, Gabriel Gregoratos, Loren F Hiratzka, Sharon Ann Hunt, Alice K Jacobs, Richard O Russell, Jr ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines Members, Silvia G Priori, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Andzrej Budaj, Enrique Fernandez Burgos, Martin Cowie, Jaap Willem Deckers, Maria Angeles Alonso Garcia, Werner W Klein, John Lekakis, Bertil Lindahl, Gianfranco Mazzotta, João Carlos Araujo Morais, Ali Oto, Otto Smiseth, and Hans-Joachim Trappe

ACC/AHA/ESC guidelines for the management of patients with supraventricular arrhythmias—executive summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American HeartAssociation Task Force on Practice Guidelines and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice Guidelines(Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Supraventricular Arrhythmias)Developed in collaboration with NASPE–Heart Rhythm Society
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1857-1897. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Michael Thimme

A critical amendment to the Meta-analysis of clinical trials comparing Thrombolysis with Primary Angioplasty
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1898. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A reply:

F Zijlstra

Reply to letter to the editor
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 1898. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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