European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Hein J. Wellens

The QRS configuration during bundle branch block. What has rate got to do with it?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 30, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2319-2320; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn391 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Rostock and Stephan Willems

Rhythm-‘a-line-ment’ during catheter ablation of chronic atrial fibrillation: the role of left atrial linear lesions
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2321-2322; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn390 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Schoenhagen and E. Murat Tuzcu

Identifying patterns of atherosclerotic disease manifestation with coronary computed tomography. Impact on clinical management and outcome?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 27, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2323-2324; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn392 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CURRENT OPINION

Get checked abstract David Pereg and Michael Lishner

Bevacizumab treatment for cancer patients with cardiovascular disease: a double edged sword?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2325-2326; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn384 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Interventional cardiology

Get checked abstract Renato Valenti, Angela Migliorini, Umberto Signorini, Ruben Vergara, Guido Parodi, Nazario Carrabba, Giampaolo Cerisano, and David Antoniucci

Impact of complete revascularization with percutaneous coronary intervention on survival in patients with at least one chronic total occlusion
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2336-2342; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn357 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy

Get checked abstract Christopher Adlbrecht, Spyridoula Kommata, Martin Hülsmann, Thomas Szekeres, Christian Bieglmayer, Guido Strunk, Georgios Karanikas, Rudolf Berger, Deddo Mörtl, Kurt Kletter, Gerald Maurer, Irene M. Lang, and Richard Pacher

Chronic heart failure leads to an expanded plasma volume and pseudoanaemia, but does not lead to a reduction in the body's red cell volume
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2343-2350; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn359 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology

Get checked abstract Tomás Datino, Jesús Almendral, Esteban González-Torrecilla, Felipe Atienza, Francisco J. García-Fernández, Ángel Arenal, Leonardo Atea, and Francisco Fernández-Avilés

Rate-related changes in QRS morphology in patients with fixed bundle branch block: implications for differential diagnosis of wide QRS complex tachycardia
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 29, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2351-2358; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn340 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sébastien Knecht, Mélèze Hocini, Matthew Wright, Nicolas Lellouche, Mark D. O'Neill, Seiichiro Matsuo, Isabelle Nault, Vijay S. Chauhan, Kevin J. Makati, Michela Bevilacqua, Kang-Teng Lim, Frederic Sacher, Antoine Deplagne, Nicolas Derval, Pierre Bordachar, Pierre Jaïs, Jacques Clémenty, and Michel Haïssaguerre

Left atrial linear lesions are required for successful treatment of persistent atrial fibrillation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2359-2366; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn302 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Michele Emdin, Ugo Corrà, Fabrizio Veglia, Damiano Magrì, Calogero C. Tedesco, Emanuela Berton, Claudio Passino, Erika Bertella, Federica Re, Alessandro Mezzani, Romualdo Belardinelli, Chiara Colombo, Rocco La Gioia, Marco Vicenzi, Alberto Giannoni, Domenico Scrutinio, Pantaleo Giannuzzi, Claudio Tondo, Andrea Di Lenarda, Gianfranco Sinagra, Massimo F. Piepoli, and Marco Guazzi

Permanent atrial fibrillation affects exercise capacity in chronic heart failure patients
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2367-2372; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn361 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Imaging

Get checked abstract Gabija Pundziute, Joanne D. Schuijf, J. Wouter Jukema, Isabel Decramer, Giovanna Sarno, Piet K. Vanhoenacker, Eric Boersma, Johan H.C. Reiber, Martin J. Schalij, William Wijns, and Jeroen J. Bax

Evaluation of plaque characteristics in acute coronary syndromes: non-invasive assessment with multi-slice computed tomography and invasive evaluation with intravascular ultrasound radiofrequency data analysis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2373-2381; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn356 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH

Get checked abstract Jörg Kempfert, Johannes M. Blumenstein, Michael A. Borger, Axel Linke, Sven Lehmann, Patrick Pritzwald-Stegmann, Michael W.A. Chu, Gerhard Schuler, Volkmar Falk, Friedrich Wilhelm Mohr, and Thomas Walther

Minimally invasive off-pump valve-in-a-valve implantation: the atrial transcatheter approach for re-operative mitral valve replacement
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2382-2387; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn285 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

ESC GUIDELINES

Authors/Task Force Members, Kenneth Dickstein, Alain Cohen-Solal, Gerasimos Filippatos, John J.V. McMurray, Piotr Ponikowski, Philip Alexander Poole-Wilson, Anna Strömberg, Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Dan Atar, Arno W. Hoes, Andre Keren, Alexandre Mebazaa, Markku Nieminen, Silvia Giuliana Priori, Karl Swedberg, ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG), Alec Vahanian, 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, Jose Luis Zamorano, Document Reviewers, Michal Tendera, Angelo Auricchio, Jeroen Bax, Michael Böhm, Ugo Corrà, Paolo della Bella, Perry M. Elliott, Ferenc Follath, Mihai Gheorghiade, Yonathan Hasin, Anders Hernborg, Tiny Jaarsma, Michel Komajda, Ran Kornowski, Massimo Piepoli, Bernard Prendergast, Luigi Tavazzi, Jean-Luc Vachiery, Freek W. A. Verheugt, Jose Luis Zamorano, and Faiez Zannad

ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008: The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2008 of the European Society of Cardiology. Developed in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (HFA) and endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2388-2442; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn309 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [CME/CE] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Hisato Takagi, Hideaki Manabe, Norikazu Kawai, Shin-nosuke Goto, and Takuya Umemoto

Impact of preoperative statin therapy on adverse postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of over 30 000 patients
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2443; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn351 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver J. Liakopoulos, Gernot Wassmer, and Thorsten Wahlers

Impact of preoperative statin therapy on adverse postoperative outcomes in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis of over 30 000 patients: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2443-2444; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn352 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jochen Hansel and Perikles Simon

Still without impact on adverse post-operative outcomes: pre-operative statin therapy in patients undergoing cardiac surgery
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2444; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn353 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Oliver J. Liakopoulos, Gernot Wassmer, and Thorsten Wahlers

Still without impact on adverse post-operative outcomes: pre-operative statin therapy in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on August 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2444-2445; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn354 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDUM

Karl Winkler, Christoph Wanner, Christiane Drechsler, Jürgen Lilienthal, Winfried März, and Vera Krane for the German Diabetes and Dialysis Study Investigators

Change in N-terminal-pro-B-type-natriuretic-peptide and the risk of sudden death, stroke, myocardial infarction, and all-cause mortality in diabetic dialysis patients
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2445; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn405 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Elisabet Zamora, Xavier Ruyra, and Vicente Valle

Osteosarcoma in left atrium treated with autotransplant
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 4, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2446; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn145 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wen-Jeng Lee, Shyh-Jye Chen, and Tzung-Dau Wang

Multiple accessory left atrial appendages along a semi-circular path
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 27, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2447; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn144 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alfonso Ielasi, Azeem Latib, Andrzej Okreglicki, and Antonio Colombo

Malignant ST segment elevation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 31, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2448; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn146 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrick Sparrow and Naeem Merchant

Sub-aortic mitral impact lesion depicted by delayed enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2449; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn157 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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