European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS:

Liv Hatle

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure—a consensus statement
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 21, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm412
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2421-2423. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Herijgers and Peter Verhamme

Improving the quality of anticoagulant therapy in patients with mechanical heart valves: what are we waiting for?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 22, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm405
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2424-2426. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christina Christoffersen, Ingrid Hunter, Asger Lundorff Jensen, and Jens Peter Goetze

Diabetes and the endocrine heart
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 14, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm367
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2427-2429. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vittorio Palmieri, Emiliano Antonio Palmieri, and Aldo Celentano

Functional limitation and right ventricular dysfunction at 6-month follow-up in patients with non-massive pulmonary embolism: useful outcomes for testing therapy of acute submassive pulmonary embolism?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 7, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm366
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2430-2431. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH:

Coronary heart disease:

Marcus Fischer, Bjoern Mayer, Andrea Baessler, Guenter Riegger, Jeanette Erdmann, Christian Hengstenberg, and Heribert Schunkert

Familial aggregation of left main coronary artery disease and future risk of coronary events in asymptomatic siblings of affected patients
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 3, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm377
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2432-2437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology:

Slawomir Dobrzycki, Pawel Kralisz, Konrad Nowak, Przemyslaw Prokopczuk, Waclaw Kochman, Janusz Korecki, Boguslaw Poniatowski, Jerzy Zuk, Ewa Sitniewska, Hanna Bachorzewska-Gajewska, Jerzy Sienkiewicz, and Wlodzimierz J Musial

Transfer with GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor tirofiban for primary percutaneous coronary intervention vs. on-site thrombolysis in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI): a randomized open-label study for patients admitted to community hospitals
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 20, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm369
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2438-2448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy:

Fariborz Tabrizi, Anders Englund, Mårten Rosenqvist, Lars Wallentin, and Ulf Stenestrand

Influence of left bundle branch block on long-term mortality in a population with heart failure
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 31, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm262
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2449-2455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Holger M. Nef, Helge Möllmann, Sawa Kostin, Christian Troidl, Sandra Voss, Michael Weber, Thorsten Dill, Andreas Rolf, Roland Brandt, Christian W. Hamm, and Albrecht Elsässer

Tako-Tsubo cardiomyopathy: intraindividual structural analysis in the acute phase and after functional recovery
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 29, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl570
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2456-2464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ewa Konduracka, Andrzej Gackowski, Pawel Rostoff, Danuta Galicka-Latala, Wieslaw Frasik, and Wieslawa Piwowarska

Diabetes-specific cardiomyopathy in type 1 diabetes mellitus: no evidence for its occurrence in the era of intensive insulin therapy
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 31, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm361
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2465-2471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology:

Arie O. Verkerk, Ronald Wilders, Marcel M.G.J. van Borren, Ron J.G. Peters, Eli Broekhuis, Kayan Lam, Ruben Coronel, Jacques M.T. de Bakker, and Hanno L. Tan

Pacemaker current (I_f) in the human sinoatrial node
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 6, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm339
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2472-2478. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valvular heart disease:

Imaging:

Marc Dewey, Hans-Peter Dübel, Tania Schink, Gert Baumann, and Bernd Hamm

Head-to-head comparison of multislice computed tomography and exercise electrocardiography for diagnosis of coronary artery disease
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 31, 2006, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl148
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2485-2490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology:

Nadeem Sarwar, Naveed Sattar, Vilmundur Gudnason, and John Danesh

Circulating concentrations of insulin markers and coronary heart disease: a quantitative review of 19 Western prospective studies
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 17, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm115
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2491-2497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Heidrich, Jürgen Wellmann, Peter U. Heuschmann, Klaus Kraywinkel, and Ulrich Keil

Mortality and morbidity from coronary heart disease attributable to passive smoking
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 15, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm151
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2498-2502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congenital heart disease:

Els Troost, Bart Meyns, Willem Daenen, Frans Van de Werf, Marc Gewillig, Kristien Van Deyk, Philip Moons, and Werner Budts

Homograft survival after tetralogy of Fallot repair: determinants of accelerated homograft degeneration
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 19, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm376
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2503-2509. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery:

Michele Di Mauro, Antonio Maria Calafiore, Maria Penco, Silvio Romano, Gabriele Di Giammarco, and Sabina Gallina

Mitral valve repair for dilated cardiomyopathy: predictive role of right ventricular dysfunction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 21, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm375
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2510-2516. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pulmonary embolism and cor pulmonale:

Brad G. Stevinson, Jackeline Hernandez-Nino, Geoffrey Rose, and Jeffrey A. Kline

Echocardiographic and functional cardiopulmonary problems 6 months after first-time pulmonary embolism in previously healthy patients
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 1, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm295
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2517-2524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

EXPERT CONSENSUS DOCUMENT:

Task Force Members, Kristian Thygesen, Joseph S. Alpert, Harvey D. White, Biomarker Group, Allan S. Jaffe, Fred S. Apple, Marcello Galvani, Hugo A. Katus, L. Kristin Newby, Jan Ravkilde, ECG Group, Bernard Chaitman, Peter M. Clemmensen, Mikael Dellborg, Hanoch Hod, Pekka Porela, Imaging Group, Richard Underwood, Jeroen J. Bax, George A. Beller, Robert Bonow, Ernst E. Van Der Wall, Intervention Group, Jean-Pierre Bassand, William Wijns, T. Bruce Ferguson, Philippe G. Steg, Barry F. Uretsky, David O. Williams, Clinical Investigation Group, Paul W. Armstrong, Elliott M. Antman, Keith A. Fox, Christian W. Hamm, E. Magnus Ohman, Maarten L. Simoons, Global Perspective Group, Philip A. Poole-Wilson, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, José-Luis Lopez-Sendon, Prem Pais, Shanti Mendis, Jun-Ren Zhu, Implementation Group, Lars C. Wallentin, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Kim M. Fox, Alexander N. Parkhomenko, Silvia G. Priori, Michal Tendera, Liisa-Maria Voipio-Pulkki, ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines, Alec Vahanian, A. John Camm, Raffaele De Caterina, Veronica Dean, Kenneth Dickstein, Gerasimos Filippatos, Christian Funck-Brentano, Irene Hellemans, Steen Dalby Kristensen, Keith McGregor, Udo Sechtem, Sigmund Silber, Michal Tendera, Petr Widimsky, José Luis Zamorano, Document Reviewers, Joao Morais, Sorin Brener, Robert Harrington, David Morrow, Udo Sechtem, Michael Lim, Marco A. Martinez-Rios, Steve Steinhubl, Glen N. Levine, W. Brian Gibler, David Goff, Marco Tubaro, Darek Dudek, and Nawwar Al-Attar

Universal definition of myocardial infarction: Kristian Thygesen, Joseph S. Alpert and Harvey D. White on behalf of the Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2525-2538. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME/CE] [Request Permissions]  

SPECIAL ARTICLE:

Walter J. Paulus, Carsten Tschöpe, John E. Sanderson, Cesare Rusconi, Frank A. Flachskampf, Frank E. Rademakers, Paolo Marino, Otto A. Smiseth, Gilles De Keulenaer, Adelino F. Leite-Moreira, Attila Borbély, István Édes, Martin Louis Handoko, Stephane Heymans, Natalia Pezzali, Burkert Pieske, Kenneth Dickstein, Alan G. Fraser, and Dirk L. Brutsaert

How to diagnose diastolic heart failure: a consensus statement on the diagnosis of heart failure with normal left ventricular ejection fraction by the Heart Failure and Echocardiography Associations of the European Society of Cardiology
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 11, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm037
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2539-2550. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Meir Liron

Nosocomial anaemia
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 17, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm336
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2551. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Doron Aronson, Walther Markiewicz, and Haim Hammerman

Nosocomial anaemia: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 17, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm337
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2551-2552. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jacques D. Barth and Christian K. Roberts

Carotid intima-media thickness and coronary atherosclerosis: weak or strong relations?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 7, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm352
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2552. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alexandros Stefanidis, Dimitrios Skafidas, and Evaggelos Papasteriadis

Discrepancy in guidelines for the prevention of thrombo-embolism in patients with prosthetic heart valves
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 6, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm353
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2552-2553. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alec Vahanian

Discrepancy in guidelines for the prevention of thrombo-embolism in patients with prosthetic heart valves: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 6, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm354
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2553-2554. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ze-Zhou Song

Effect of dynamic myocardial dyssynchrony on mitral regurgitation during supine bicycle exercise stress echocardiography in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and 'narrow' QRS.
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 13, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm359
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2554. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonello D'Andrea and Raffaele Calabrò

Effect of dynamic myocardial dyssynchrony on mitral regurgitation during supine bicycle exercise stress echocardiography in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and ‘narrow ’QRS: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 13, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm373
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2554-2555. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES:

Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera, Eduardo Barge-Caballero, Ramón Calviño-Santos, and Alfonso Castro-Beiras

Biventricular rupture with extracardiac left-to-right shunt in the setting of an acute myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 3, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm183
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2426. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Saeko Takahashi, Hideaki Kaneda, and Shigeru Saito

Winslow's pathway in 64-slice multi-detector computed tomography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 4, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm138
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2437. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kyung Woo Park, Yong-Jin Kim, and Hyo-Soo Kim

A prominent coronary Thebesian system
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 3, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm190
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2448. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jan Dominik, Karel Medilek, Pavel Zacek, and Josef Stasek

Late pulmonary artery aneurysm combined with subpulmonary left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in corrected transposition of the great arteries
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 26, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm178
Eur Heart J 2007 28: 2455. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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