European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Benedict M. Glover and A.A. Jennifer Adgey

Acute reperfusion strategies for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 571-572; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm277 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David P. Taggart

Does prior PCI increase the risk of subsequent CABG?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 573-575; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm645 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Auer

Syncope and trauma. Are syncope-related traumatic injuries the key to find the specific cause of the symptom?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 576-578; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm637 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Yarnell

Stress at work—an independent risk factor for coronary heart disease?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 579-580; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm641 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. L. Rensing and Th. B. Twickler

Abdominal aorta aneurysm: an exceptional expression of atherosclerotic disease in type II diabetes
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 581-582; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm638 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW

Get checked abstract Brian K. Courtney, Nigel R. Munce, Kevan J. Anderson, Amandeep S. Thind, General Leung, Perry E. Radau, F. Stuart Foster, I. Alex Vitkin, Robert S. Schwartz, Alexander J. Dick, Graham A. Wright, and Bradley H. Strauss

Innovations in imaging for chronic total occlusions: a glimpse into the future of angiography’s blind-spot
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 583-593; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm634 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Jawdat Abdulla, Lars Køber, Steen Z. Abildstrøm, Erik Christensen, W. Philip T. James, and Christian Torp-Pedersen

Impact of obesity as a mortality predictor in high-risk patients with myocardial infarction or chronic heart failure: a pooled analysis of five registries
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 594-601; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn010 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shicheng Yu, Christopher C. Patterson, and John W.G. Yarnell

Is vigorous physical activity contraindicated in subjects with coronary heart disease? Evidence from the Caerphilly study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 602-608; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn012 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kim A. Eagle, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Rajendra H. Mehta, Christopher B. Granger, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Frans Van de Werf, Jose López-Sendón, Shaun G. Goodman, Ann Quill, and Keith A.A. Fox for the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) Investigators

Trends in acute reperfusion therapy for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction from 1999 to 2006: we are getting better but we have got a long way to go
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 609-617; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn069 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology

Get checked abstract Angelo Bartoletti, Plinio Fabiani, Luciano Bagnoli, Carlo Cappelletti, Marco Cappellini, Gino Nappini, Roberto Gianni, Alessandro Lavacchi, and Giovanni Maria Santoro

Physical injuries caused by a transient loss of consciousness: main clinical characteristics of patients and diagnostic contribution of carotid sinus massage
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 16, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 618-624; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm563 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Mehmet Ozaydin, Oktay Peker, Dogan Erdogan, Sahin Kapan, Yasin Turker, Ercan Varol, Fehmi Ozguner, Abdullah Dogan, and Erdogan Ibrisim

N-acetylcysteine for the prevention of postoperative atrial fibrillation: a prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled pilot study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 625-631; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn011 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Cees B. de Vos, Robby Nieuwlaat, Harry J.G.M. Crijns, A. John Camm, Jean-Yves LeHeuzey, Charles J. Kirchhof, Alessandro Capucci, Günter Breithardt, Panos E. Vardas, Ron Pisters, and Robert G. Tieleman

Autonomic trigger patterns and anti-arrhythmic treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation: data from the Euro Heart Survey
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 632-639; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology

Get checked abstract Tarani Chandola, Annie Britton, Eric Brunner, Harry Hemingway, Marek Malik, Meena Kumari, Ellena Badrick, Mika Kivimaki, and Michael Marmot

Work stress and coronary heart disease: what are the mechanisms?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 23, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 640-648; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm584 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Renate Schnabel, Claudia M. Messow, Edith Lubos, Christine Espinola-Klein, Hans J. Rupprecht, Christoph Bickel, Christoph Sinning, Stergios Tzikas, Till Keller, Sabine Genth-Zotz, Karl J. Lackner, Thomas F. Münzel, and Stefan Blankenberg

Association of adiponectin with adverse outcome in coronary artery disease patients: results from the AtheroGene study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 649-657; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hypertension

Vascular medicine

Get checked abstract Jonathan Golledge, Mirko Karan, Corey S. Moran, Juanita Muller, Paula Clancy, Anthony E. Dear, and Paul E. Norman

Reduced expansion rate of abdominal aortic aneurysms in patients with diabetes may be related to aberrant monocyte–matrix interactions
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 665-672; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm557 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery

Get checked abstract Sidney Chocron, Richard Baillot, Jean Lucien Rouleau, Wayne J. Warnica, Pierre Block, David Johnstone, Martin G. Myers, Cristina Dana Calciu, Anna Nozza, Pierre Martineau, and Wiek H. van Gilst for the IMAGINE Investigators

Impact of previous percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and/or stenting revascularization on outcomes after surgical revascularization: insights from the imagine study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 19, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 673-679; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Harald Klepzig

Diagnostic accuracy of dual-source multi-slice CT-coronary angiography in patients with an intermediate pretest likelihood for coronary artery disease
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 680; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm615 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

María Martín, José Julián Rodríguez Reguero, David Calvo, Ana de la Torre, Agapito Fernández, Monica García Castro, Cesar Morís de la Tassa, and Miguel del Valle

Prevalence of positive ECG criteria in young competitive athletes: a single region experience
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 680-681; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm629 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Radhakrishnan Ramaraj

A pathophysiological study of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 681; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm635 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tetsuro Yoshida, Takeshi Hibino, Nobuo Kako, Shunsuke Murai, Mitsutoshi Oguri, Kimihiko Kato, Kazuhiro Yajima, Nobuyuki Ohte, Kiyoshi Yokoi, and Genjiro Kimura

A pathophysiological study of tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 31, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 681-682; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn001 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Simon K.H. Lam and Andrew Owen

What is the level of evidence for combined cardiac resynchronization and defibrillation therapy in heart failure?
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 682-683; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm646 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Panos E. Vardas, Angelo Auricchio, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jean-Claude Daubert, Helmut Drexler, Hugo Ector, Maurizio Gasparini, Cecilia Linde, Francisco Bello Morgado, Ali Oto, Richard Sutton, and Maria Trusz-Gluza

What is the level of evidence for combined cardiac resynchronization and defibrillation therapy in heart failure? reply
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 683-684; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn002 [Extract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ze-Zhou Song

Impact of left ventricular lead position in cardiac resynchronization therapy on left ventricular remodelling: a circumferential strain analysis based on 2D echocardiography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 684; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn003 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Becker and Rainer Hoffmann

Impact of left ventricular lead position in cardiac resynchronization therapy on left ventricular remodelling: a circumferential strain analysis based on 2D echocardiography: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 684-685; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn005 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LIST OF REFEREES

LIST OF REFEREES, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 686-691; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn077 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Michal Smíd, Jirí Ferda, and Viktor Zlocha on behalf of Charles University Prague Research Project MSM nr. 0021620817 Investigators

Post-traumatic ventricular septal defect
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 27, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 575; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm423 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eduardo Barge-Caballero, Alberto Bouzas-Mosquera, Daniel Gulias-Soidan, and Alfonso Castro-Beiras

Hamman's syndrome: an atypical cause of chest pain
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 578; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm410 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rowland O. Okumu, David O'Donnell, Charles J. McCreery, David Luke, and Jonathan D. Dodd

Cabrol shunt for iatrogenic aortic dissection: evaluation with cardiac 64-slice CT
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 24, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 617; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm437 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Gianfranco Aprigliano, Maksim Llambro, and Angelo Anzuini

Pulmonary thromboembolism and ‘temporary’ patent foramen ovalis: ischaemic stroke due to paradox embolism
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on October 16, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 648; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm436 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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