European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Hallvard Holdaas

Statin therapy for prevention of coronary artery disease. The earlier the better or the longer the better?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 425-426; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm628 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Davy Vanhoutte and Stephane Heymans

Factor XIII: the cement of the heart after myocardial infarction?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 427-428; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm610 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marco Roffi and Debabrata Mukherjee

Platelet glycoprotein IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors—end of an era?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 429-431; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm624 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul W. M. Fedak

Bicuspid aortic valve syndrome: heterogeneous but predictable?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 3, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 432-433; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm609 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Bernhard L. Gerber

MR perfusion imaging. What will be its impact for detection of coronary disease in the future?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 434-435; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn030 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CURRENT OPINION

Get checked abstract Yvo M. Smulders, Abel Thijs, and Jos W. Twisk

New cardiovascular risk determinants do exist and are clinically useful
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 436-440; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm566 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Thomas J. Wang

New cardiovascular risk factors exist, but are they clinically useful?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 441-444; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm644 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Matthias Nahrendorf, Elena Aikawa, Jose-Luiz Figueiredo, Lars Stangenberg, Susanne W. van den Borne, W. Matthijs Blankesteijn, David E. Sosnovik, Farouc A. Jaffer, Ching-Hsuan Tung, and Ralph Weissleder

Transglutaminase activity in acute infarcts predicts healing outcome and left ventricular remodelling: implications for FXIII therapy and antithrombin use in myocardial infarction
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 445-454; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm558 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gjin Ndrepepa, Adnan Kastrati, Julinda Mehilli, Franz-Josef Neumann, Jurriën ten Berg, Olga Bruskina, Franz Dotzer, Melchior Seyfarth, Jürgen Pache, Josef Dirschinger, Peter B. Berger, and Albert Schömig

One-year clinical outcomes with abciximab vs. placebo in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention after pre-treatment with clopidogrel: results of the ISAR-REACT 2 randomized trial
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 23, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 455-461; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm562 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology

Get checked abstract Gilles Montalescot, Marc Cohen, Genevieve Salette, Walter J. Desmet, Carlos Macaya, Philip E.G. Aylward, Ph. Gabriel Steg, Harvey D. White, Richard Gallo, and Steven R. Steinhubl for the STEEPLE Investigators

Impact of anticoagulation levels on outcomes in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the STEEPLE trial
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 462-471; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valvular heart disease

Get checked abstract Stefano Nistri, Jane Grande-Allen, Marianna Noale, Cristina Basso, Paola Siviero, Stefania Maggi, Gaetano Crepaldi, and Gaetano Thiene

Aortic elasticity and size in bicuspid aortic valve syndrome
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 20, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 472-479; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm528 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Imaging

Get checked abstract Akira Sato, Michiaki Hiroe, Toshihiro Nozato, Hiroyuki Hikita, Yusuke Ito, Hirokazu Ohigashi, Mieko Tamura, Atsushi Takahashi, Mitsuaki Isobe, and Kazutaka Aonuma

Early validation study of 64-slice multidetector computed tomography for the assessment of myocardial viability and the prediction of left ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 23, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 490-498; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm630 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology

Get checked abstract Gillian A. Whalley, Susan P. Wright, Ann Pearl, Greg D. Gamble, Helen J. Walsh, Mark Richards, and Robert N. Doughty

Prognostic role of echocardiography and brain natriuretic peptide in symptomatic breathless patients in the community
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 509-516; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm647 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vascular medicine

Get checked abstract Benny Drieghe, Juraj Madaric, Giovanna Sarno, Ganesh Manoharan, Jozef Bartunek, Guy R. Heyndrickx, Nico H.J. Pijls, and Bernard De Bruyne

Assessment of renal artery stenosis: side-by-side comparison of angiography and duplex ultrasound with pressure gradient measurements
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 517-524; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm631 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH

SPECIAL ARTICLES

Get checked abstract Stephen Schroeder, Stephan Achenbach, Frank Bengel, Christof Burgstahler, Filippo Cademartiri, Pim de Feyter, Richard George, Philipp Kaufmann, Andreas F. Kopp, Juhani Knuuti, Dieter Ropers, Joanne Schuijf, Laurens F. Tops, and Jeroen J. Bax

Cardiac computed tomography: indications, applications, limitations, and training requirements: Report of a Writing Group deployed by the Working Group Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT of the European Society of Cardiology and the European Council of Nuclear Cardiology
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 15, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 531-556; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm544 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Claudio Marcassa, Jeroen J. Bax, Frank Bengel, Birger Hesse, Claus L. Petersen, Eliana Reyes, and Richard Underwood on behalf of the European Council of Nuclear Cardiology (ECNC), the European Society of Cardiology Working Group 5 (Nuclear Cardiology and Cardiac CT), and the European Association of Nuclear Medicine Cardiovascular Committee

Clinical value, cost-effectiveness, and safety of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy: a position statement
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 557-563; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm607 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Theodoros D. Karamitsos, Apostolos Tsapas, and Jayanth R. Arnold

Diabetic cardiomyopathy: a controversial entity
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 4, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 564; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm590 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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

Diabetic cardiomyopathy: a controversial entity: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 4, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 565; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm591 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Przemyslaw Leszek and Marcin Kruszewski

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the effect of two dosing regimens of darbepoetin alfa in patients with heart failure and anaemia
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 565-566; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm598 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dirk J. van Veldhuisen, Scott M. Wasserman, and Nigel Baker

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to evaluate the effect of two dosing regiments of darbepoetin alfa in patients with heart failure and anaemia: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 566-567; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm600 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eftychios Siniorakis, George Kirvassilis, and Nikolaos Exadactylos

Intraoperative myocardial infarction in non-cardiac surgery: is a universal definition feasible?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 567; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm599 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kristian Thygesen, Joseph S. Alpert, Allan S. Jaffe, and Harvey D. White On behalf of the Joint ESC/ACCF/AHA/WHF Task Force for the Redefinition of Myocardial Infarction

Intraoperative myocardial infarction in non-cardiac surgery: is a universal definition feasible? reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 567-568; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm601 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Mattias Roser, Johannes Möller, Takeshi Komoda, Christoph Knosalla, and Philipp Stawowy

Alkaptonuric aortic stenosis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 27, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 444; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm406 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tania Elias, Ian Roberts, Nicola Jones, Nikant Sabharwal, and Paul Leeson

Suppurative bacterial myocarditis: echocardiographic and pathological findings
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 7, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 489; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm385 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jean-Francois Deux, Alain Rahmouni, and Jerome Garot

Cardiac magnetic resonance and 64-slice cardiac CT of lipomatous metaplasia of chronic myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 18, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 570; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm408 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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