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       EDITORIALS
       REVIEW
       CLINICAL RESEARCH
Coronary heart disease
Interventional cardiology
Heart failure/cardiomyopathy
Arrhythmia/electrophysiology
Valvular heart disease
Prevention and epidemiology
Cardiovascular surgery
       LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
       CLINICAL VIGNETTES
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EDITORIALS:

David R. Holmes, Jr
Resistance to what, does it matter? How do we study it?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 16, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn091
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 957-958. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iain Squire
Assessing prognosis in heart failure: you can see a lot if you look, but more if you look again ... ... ...
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 17, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn088
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 959-960. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Claude Daubert
Modulation of cardiac contractility. A potential treatment of heart failure?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 26, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn127
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 961-963. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dipen Shah
Atrial fibrillation burden: a ‘hard’ indicator of therapeutic efficacy and a prognostic marker to boot?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 17, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn108
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 964-965. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank A. Flachskampf
Severe aortic stenosis with low gradient and apparently preserved left ventricular systolic function—under-recognized or overdiagnosed?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 13, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn080
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 966-968. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW:

D. John Betteridge, Ralph A. DeFronzo, and Robert J. Chilton
PROactive: time for a critical appraisal
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 28, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn114
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 969-983. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH:

Coronary heart disease:

Michelle O'Donoghue, David A. Morrow, Christopher P. Cannon, Wei Guo, Sabina A. Murphy, C. Michael Gibson, and Marc S. Sabatine
Association between baseline neutrophil count, clopidogrel therapy, and clinical and angiographic outcomes in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction receiving fibrinolytic therapy
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 16, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn112
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 984-991. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology:

Matthew J. Price, Sarah Endemann, Raghava R. Gollapudi, Rafael Valencia, Curtiss T. Stinis, Justin P. Levisay, Alissa Ernst, Neil S. Sawhney, Richard A. Schatz, and Paul S. Teirstein
Prognostic significance of post-clopidogrel platelet reactivity assessed by a point-of-care assay on thrombotic events after drug-eluting stent implantation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 10, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn046
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 992-1000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pasi P. Karjalainen, Saila Vikman, Matti Niemelä, Pekka Porela, Antti Ylitalo, Mari-Anne Vaittinen, Marja Puurunen, Tuukka J. Airaksinen, Kai Nyman, Tero Vahlberg, and K.E. Juhani Airaksinen
Safety of percutaneous coronary intervention during uninterrupted oral anticoagulant treatment
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 16, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn099
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1001-1010. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy:

Domingo A. Pascual-Figal, Maite Domingo, Teresa Casas, Ignasi Gich, Jordi Ordoñez-Llanos, Pedro Martínez, Juan Cinca, Mariano Valdés, James L. Januzzi, and Antoni Bayes-Genis
Usefulness of clinical and NT-proBNP monitoring for prognostic guidance in destabilized heart failure outpatients
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn023
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1011-1018. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin M. Borggrefe, Thomas Lawo, Christian Butter, Herwig Schmidinger, Maurizio Lunati, Burkert Pieske, Anand Ramdat Misier, Antonio Curnis, Dirk Böcker, Andrew Remppis, Joseph Kautzner, Markus Stühlinger, Christophe Leclerq, Milos Táborsky, Maria Frigerio, Michael Parides, Daniel Burkhoff, and Gerhard Hindricks
Randomized, double blind study of non-excitatory, cardiac contractility modulation electrical impulses for symptomatic heart failure
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 12, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn020
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1019-1028. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Yoram Amsalem, Moshe Garty, Roseline Schwartz, Amir Sandach, Solomon Behar, Abraham Caspi, Shmuel Gottlieb, David Ezra, Basil S. Lewis, and Jonathan Leor
Prevalence and significance of unrecognized renal insufficiency in patients with heart failure
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 12, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn102
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1029-1036. [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF]   OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology:

Daniel Steven, Thomas Rostock, Boris Lutomsky, Hanno Klemm, Helge Servatius, Imke Drewitz, Kai Friedrichs, Rodolfo Ventura, Thomas Meinertz, and Stephan Willems
What is the real atrial fibrillation burden after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation? A prospective rhythm analysis in pacemaker patients with continuous atrial monitoring
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 9, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn024
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1037-1042. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valvular heart disease:

Jan Minners, Martin Allgeier, Christa Gohlke-Baerwolf, Rolf-Peter Kienzle, Franz-Josef Neumann, and Nikolaus Jander
Inconsistencies of echocardiographic criteria for the grading of aortic valve stenosis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 22, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm543
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1043-1048. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology:

Ioanna Tzoulaki, Marjo-Riitta Jarvelin, Anna-Liisa Hartikainen, Maija Leinonen, Anneli Pouta, Mika Paldanius, Aimo Ruokonen, Dexter Canoy, Ulla Sovio, Pekka Saikku, and Paul Elliott
Size at birth, weight gain over the life course, and low-grade inflammation in young adulthood: northern Finland 1966 birth cohort study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 9, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn105
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1049-1056. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery:

Jack C.J. Sun, Richard Whitlock, Ji Cheng, John W. Eikelboom, Lehana Thabane, Mark A. Crowther, and Kevin H.T. Teoh
The effect of pre-operative aspirin on bleeding, transfusion, myocardial infarction, and mortality in coronary artery bypass surgery: a systematic review of randomized and observational studies
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 16, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn104
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1057-1071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR:

Volkhard Kurowski, Heribert Schunkert, and Peter W. Radke
Pathophysiology of ‘Tako-Tsubo’ cardiomyopathy: collecting pieces of a puzzle
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 27, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn064
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1072. [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
Pathophysiology of ‘Tako-Tsubo’ cardiomyopathy: collecting pieces of a puzzle: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 27, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn065
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1072-1073. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pasquale Santangeli, Francesca Marzo, Antonia Camporeale, Fulvio Bellocci, Filippo Crea, and Maurizio Pieroni
What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 27, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn092
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1073-1074. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Perry Elliott, Bert Andersson, Eloisa Arbustini, Zofia Bilinska, Franco Cecchi, Philippe Charron, Olivier Dubourg, Uwe Kühl, Bernhard Maisch, William J. McKenna, Lorenzo Monserrat, Sabine Pankuweit, Claudio Rapezzi, Petar Seferovic, Luigi Tavazzi, and Andre Keren
What do tachycardiomyopathy belong to?: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 27, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn093
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1074. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ewa Jastrzebska-Maj, Katarzyna Mizia-Stec, and Daniel Jakubowski
Tilt testing potentiated with sublingual nitroglycerin in children with unexplained syncope
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 12, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn094
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1074-1075. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giovanni Foglia-Manzillo and Franco Giada
Tilt testing potentiated with sublingual nitroglycerin in children with unexplained syncope: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 12, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn095
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1075. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Undurti N. Das
Glucose, insulin, and coronary heart disease
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn116
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1075-1076. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Linda G. Mellbin, Klas Malmberg, Anna Norhammar, and Lars Rydén
Glucose, insulin, and coronary heart disease: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 18, 2008, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehn117
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1076-1077. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES:

Zhao-quan Huang, Shen-jie Chen, and Jie Chen
Dual right coronary artery associated coronary artery fistula
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 22, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm533
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 968. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Levent Saltik, Fatih Bayrak, Tahsin Guneysu, Deniz Sevinc, Funda Oztunc, and Muzaffer Degertekin
Right ventricle-dependent coronary circulation demonstrated with 64-slice computed tomography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 9, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm514
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1018. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. Castrillo, A. Ortiz Rivas, and José R. de Berrazueta
Giant left atrium mimicking right heart failure
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on November 22, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm515
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1056. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Gianluca Rigatelli, Paolo Cardaioli, Fabio Dell'Avvocata, Massimo Giordan, and Loris Roncon
Transcatheter-covered stent implantation in an unusual post-surgical right ventricle outflow tract stenosis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 8, 2007, 10.1093/eurheartj/ehm532
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1078. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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