European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Frans Van de Werf

The European Heart Journal: parting thoughts after 6 years of editorship
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2951-2952; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn526 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

P. Gabriel Steg and Gregory Ducrocq

Devices to protect against embolization during primary angioplasty for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: the good, the bad and the ugly
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2953-2954; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn488 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Axel Schmermund, Bernd Nowak, and Thomas Voigtländer

Non-invasive CT coronary angiography: can high diagnostic image quality be achieved with less radiation exposure?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 11, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2955-2956; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn518 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fred H.M. Wittkampf

Image integration in 3D catheter mapping systems: proof of the pudding
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2957-2958; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn495 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW

Get checked abstract Gideon R. Hajer, Timon W. van Haeften, and Frank L.J. Visseren

Adipose tissue dysfunction in obesity, diabetes, and vascular diseases
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2959-2971; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn387 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Antonio Marzocchi, Antonio Manari, Giancarlo Piovaccari, Cinzia Marrozzini, Sebastiano Marra, Paolo Magnavacchi, Pietro Sangiorgio, Lucia Marinucci, Nevio Taglieri, Giovanni Gordini, Nicola Binetti, Vincenzo Guiducci, Nicoletta Franco, Maria Letizia-Bacchi Reggiani, and Francesco Saia on behalf of the FATA Investigators

Randomized comparison between tirofiban and abciximab to promote complete ST-resolution in primary angioplasty: results of the facilitated angioplasty with tirofiban or abciximab (FATA) in ST-elevation myocardial infarction trial
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 21, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2972-2980; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn467 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kate Walters, Greta Rait, Irene Petersen, Rachael Williams, and Irwin Nazareth

Panic disorder and risk of new onset coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, and cardiac mortality: cohort study using the general practice research database
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 23, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2981-2988; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn477 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology

Get checked abstract Anthony A. Bavry, Dharam J. Kumbhani, and Deepak L. Bhatt

Role of adjunctive thrombectomy and embolic protection devices in acute myocardial infarction: a comprehensive meta-analysis of randomized trials
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 23, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2989-3001; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn421 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Giuseppe De Luca, Dariusz Dudek, Gennaro Sardella, Paolo Marino, Bernard Chevalier, and Felix Zijlstra

Adjunctive manual thrombectomy improves myocardial perfusion and mortality in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a meta-analysis of randomized trials
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3002-3010; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn389 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Francesco Burzotta, Antonio Parma, Christian Pristipino, Alessandro Manzoli, Flavia Belloni, Gennaro Sardella, Stefano Rigattieri, Alessandro Danesi, Pietro Mazzarotto, Francesco Summaria, Enrico Romagnoli, Francesco Prati, Carlo Trani, and Filippo Crea

Angiographic and clinical outcome of invasively managed patients with thrombosed coronary bare metal or drug-eluting stents: the OPTIMIST study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3011-3021; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn479 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy

Get checked abstract Alain Cohen-Solal, John J.V. McMurray, Karl Swedberg, Marc A. Pfeffer, Margareta Puu, Scott D. Solomon, Eric L. Michelson, Salim Yusuf, and Christopher B. Granger for the CHARM Investigators

Benefits and safety of candesartan treatment in heart failure are independent of age: insights from the Candesartan in Heart failure—Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity programme
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3022-3028; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn476 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Imaging

Get checked abstract Peter M. Kistler, Kim Rajappan, Stuart Harris, Mark J. Earley, Laura Richmond, Simon C. Sporton, and Richard J. Schilling

The impact of image integration on catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation using electroanatomic mapping: a prospective randomized study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3029-3036; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn453 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Bernhard A. Herzog, Lars Husmann, Nina Burkhard, Oliver Gaemperli, Ines Valenta, Fuminari Tatsugami, Christophe A. Wyss, Ulf Landmesser, and Philipp A. Kaufmann

Accuracy of low-dose computed tomography coronary angiography using prospective electrocardiogram-triggering: first clinical experience
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 7, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3037-3042; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn485 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology

Get checked abstract Andrew J. Lucking, Magnus Lundback, Nicholas L. Mills, Dana Faratian, Stefan L. Barath, Jamshid Pourazar, Flemming R. Cassee, Kenneth Donaldson, Nicholas A. Boon, Juan J. Badimon, Thomas Sandstrom, Anders Blomberg, and David E. Newby

Diesel exhaust inhalation increases thrombus formation in man
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3043-3051; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn464 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery

ESC REPORT

Heidi Bergman, Annemieke M. Rolink, and Freek W.A. Verheugt

Hotline sessions of the 30th European Congress of Cardiology
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3061-3064; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn522 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Francisco J. Pastor-Pérez, Francisco Marín, Sergio Manzano-Fernández, and Gregory Y.H. Lip

Is thrombogenesis related to residual platelet function in ischaemic heart disease?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3065; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn472 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tsukasa Ohmori, Yuichiro Yano, Kazuyuki Shimada, Kazuomi Kario, and Yoichi Sakata

Is thrombogenesis related to residual platelet function in ischaemic heart disease?: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3065-3066; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn473 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Koracevic Pante Goran

Thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be addressed in guidelines for pulmonary embolism
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3066-3067; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn474 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adam Torbicki, Arnaud Perrier, and Stavros Konstantinides

Thrombolysis during cardiopulmonary resuscitation should be addressed in guidelines for pulmonary embolism: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3067-3068; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn475 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDA

Barry R. Palmer, Anna P. Pilbrow, Christopher M. Frampton, Tim G. Yandle, Lorraine Skelton, M. Gary Nicholls, and A. Mark Richards

Corrigendum to: ‘Plasma aldosterone levels during hospitalization are predictive of survival post-myocardial infarction’
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3068; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn535 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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, and Karl Swedberg

Corrigendum to ‘ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure 2008’ • [Eur Heart J 2008;29:2388–2442 and Eur J Heart Fail 2008;10:933–989]: 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 November 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3069; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn528 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Jérôme Caudron, Fabrice Bauer, and Jean-Nicolas Dacher

Cardiac magnetic resonance demonstrates the three-layer involvement in Churg–Strauss syndrome
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 27, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 2952; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn308 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yeong Shyan Lee, Christopher D. Nielsen, and U. Joseph Schoepf

Giant Kawasaki coronary artery aneurysm: cardiac imaging evolution
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3042; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn319 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Orhan Ozer, Vedat Davutoglu, and Ibrahim Sari

A left atrial mobile cystic thrombus
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 7, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3051; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn305 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ryan Ko, Carmen Chan, and Katherine Fan

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy misinterpreted
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 3070; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn318 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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