Open Heart: 11 (2)

Editorial

Celebrating motherhood after Fontan operation: a difficult and distant dream? (9 October, 2024)
Justin Paul Gnanaraj, Steaphen Anne Princy
Gold standard for diagnosing and treating chronic ischaemic coronary artery disease and the associated complications (8 October, 2024)
Miodrag Ostojic, Bojan Stanetic
Obstructive sleep apnoea and atrial fibrillation: are we on time?! (1 October, 2024)
Francesco Maria Angelo Brasca, Elisa Perger

Aortic and vascular disease

Original research: Clinical relevance of aortic conduit and reservoir function (19 August, 2024)
Hosamadin Assadi, Chris Sawh, Hilmar Spohr, Faye Nelthorpe, Sunil Nair, Marina Hughes, David Ashman, Alisdair Ryding, Gareth Matthews, Rui Li, Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, Zia Mehmood, Abdallah Al-Mohammad, Bahman Kasmai, Vassilios S Vassiliou, Pankaj Garg

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original research: Predictors of death without prior appropriate therapy in ICD recipients: the comorbidities, frailty and functional status (COMFFORT study) (14 October, 2024)
David G Wilson, Archana Sharma-Oates, James Sheldon, Daniel F Power, Janet M Lord, Paul R Roberts, John M Morgan
Original research: Long-term effects of left atrial appendage isolation in surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation based on lesion set: a multi-centre propensity-score weighted study (1 October, 2024)
Won Kyung Pyo, Joon Bum Kim, Yang Hyun Cho, Hyoung-Gon Je, Hee Jung Kim, Seung Hyun Lee
Original research: Empirical superior vena cava electrical isolation guided by quantitative ablation index improves outcomes of radiofrequency catheter ablation for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (19 September, 2024)
Wenchi Guan, Jun Liu, Keping Chen, Yan Yao
Original research: Appropriate use of wearable defibrillators with multiparametric evaluation to avoid unnecessary defibrillator implantation (18 September, 2024)
Andrea Matteucci, Carlo Pignalberi, Stefania Di Fusco, Alessandro Aiello, Stefano Aquilani, Federico Nardi, Furio Colivicchi
Original research: Timing of oral anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation patients after acute ischaemic stroke and outcome after 3 months: results of the multicentre Berlin Atrial Fibrillation Registry (18 September, 2024)
Manuel C Olma, Serdar Tütüncü, Katrin Hansen, Ulrike Grittner, Claudia Kunze, Joanna Dietzel, Johannes Schurig, Boris Dimitrijeski, Georg Hagemann, Frank Hamilton, Martin Honermann, Gerhard Jan Jungehuelsing, Andreas Kauert, Hans-Christian Koennecke, Bruno-Marcel Mackert, Darius G Nabavi, Ingo Schmehl, Paul Sparenberg, Robert Stingele, Enrico Voelzke, Carolin Waldschmidt, Daniel Zeise-Wehry, Peter U Heuschmann, Matthias Endres, Karl Georg Haeusler
Original research: Sex-specific association of cardiovascular drug doses with adverse outcomes in atrial fibrillation (12 August, 2024)
Jeanne Moor, Michael Kuhne, Giorgio Moschovitis, Richard Kobza, Seraina Netzer, Angelo Auricchio, Juerg H Beer, Leo Bonati, Tobias Reichlin, David Conen, Stefan Osswald, Nicolas Rodondi, Carole Clair, Christine Baumgartner, Carole Elodie Aubert
Original research: Sex-specific comparative outcomes between oral anticoagulants in patients with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis (16 July, 2024)
Jan D Chobanov, Zixuan Wang, Kenneth K C Man, Edil Dayib, Gregory Y H Lip, Aroon D Hingorani, Wai K Leung, Ian C K Wong, Pajaree Mongkhon, Wallis C Y Lau
Original research: Impact of patient selection in clinical trials: application of ROCKET AF and ARISTOTLE criteria in GARFIELD-AF (1 July, 2024)
Jelle C L Himmelreich, Saverio Virdone, John Camm, Karen Pieper, Ralf E Harskamp, Ali Oto, Barry F Jacobson, J P S Sawhney, Toon Wei Lim, Harry Gibbs, Shinya Goto, Sylvia Haas, Keith A A Fox, Petr Jansky, Freek Verheugt, Ajay K Kakkar

Cardiac surgery

Original research: Effect of mannitol on postoperative delirium in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft: a randomised controlled trial (22 August, 2024)
Masumeh Hemmati Maslakpak, Sohrab Negargar, Ali Farbod, Ahmadali Khalili, Eisa Bilehjani, Vahid Alinejad, Amir Faravan

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research: Rehospitalisation risk by hypnotics class in older patients with heart failure: a cohort study utilizing administrative claims data in Japan (30 August, 2024)
Tomoyuki Saito, Shuko Nojiri, Ryo Naito, Takatoshi Kasai
Original research: Heart failure and major haemorrhage in people with atrial fibrillation (14 October, 2024)
Nicholas R Jones, Margaret Smith, Sarah Lay-Flurrie, Yaling Yang, FD Richard Hobbs, Clare J Taylor
Original research: Pregnancy complications and long-term risk of cardiovascular events in women with structural heart disease (13 September, 2024)
Elin Täufer Cederlöf, Lars Lindhagen, Maria Lundgren, Bertil Lindahl, Christina Christersson
Original research: Rehospitalisation risk by hypnotics class in older patients with heart failure: a cohort study utilizing administrative claims data in Japan (30 August, 2024)
Tomoyuki Saito, Shuko Nojiri, Ryo Naito, Takatoshi Kasai
Original research: Systolic blood pressure at age 40 and 30-year stroke risk in men and women (22 August, 2024)
Marte Meyer Walle-Hansen, Guri Hagberg, Marius Myrstad, Trygve Berge, Thea Vigen, Hege Ihle-Hansen, Bente Thommessen, Inger Ariansen, Magnus Nakrem Lyngbakken, Helge Røsjø, Ole Morten Rønning, Arnljot Tveit, Håkon Ihle-Hansen

Coronary artery disease

Original research: Dobutamine stress echocardiography after positive CCTA: diagnostic performance using fractional flow reserve and instantaneous wave-free ratio as reference standards (30 September, 2024)
Anders Tjellaug Bråten, Espen Holte, Rune Wiseth, Svend Aakhus
Original research: Interleukin 6 plasma levels are associated with progression of coronary plaques (19 September, 2024)
Jordan M Kraaijenhof, Nick S Nurmohamed, Evangelos Tzolos, Mo Meah, Jolien Geers, Yannick Kaiser, Jeffrey Kroon, G Kees Hovingh, Erik S G Stroes, Marc R Dweck
Original research: Use of downstream stress imaging tests for risk stratification of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain and low HEART score (25 August, 2024)
Rami M Abazid, Nilkanth Patil, Maged Elrayes, Sameh Awadallah, Mohamed M Ibrahim, Amer Alaref, Yves Bureau, Cigdem Akincioglu, Rodrigo Bagur, Nikolaos Tzemos
Original research: Use of downstream stress imaging tests for risk stratification of patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain and low HEART score (25 August, 2024)
Rami M Abazid, Nilkanth Patil, Maged Elrayes, Sameh Awadallah, Mohamed M Ibrahim, Amer Alaref, Yves Bureau, Cigdem Akincioglu, Rodrigo Bagur, Nikolaos Tzemos
Original research: Sildenafil’s effectiveness in the primary coronary slow flow phenomenon: a pilot randomised controlled clinical trial (25 August, 2024)
Abbas Andishmand, Seyedmostafa Seyedhosseini, Seyedeh Mahdieh Namayandeh, Elnaz Adelzadeh, Amin Entezari, Seyed Reza Mirjalili
Original research: Risk scores and coronary artery disease in patients with suspected acute coronary syndrome and intermediate cardiac troponin concentrations (3 August, 2024)
Daniel Perez-Vicencio, Alexander J F Thurston, Dimitrios Doudesis, Rachel O'Brien, Amy Ferry, Takeshi Fujisawa, Michelle Claire Williams, Alasdair J Gray, Nicholas L Mills, Kuan Ken Lee

Congenital heart disease

Original research: Predictors of spontaneous pregnancy loss in single ventricle physiology (13 September, 2024)
Yasmine Wazni, Christopher Sefton, Betemariam Sharew, Elizabeth Ghandakly, Patricia Blazevic, Nandini Mehra, Justin R Lappen, Cara D Dolin, Adina Kern-Goldberger, Stephen Bacak, Margaret Fuchs, Kenneth Zahka, Amy McKenney, Larisa G Tereshchenko, Katherine Singh, Peter F Aziz, Joanna Ghobrial
Original research: Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise test in children with congenital heart defects (19 August, 2024)
Covadonga Terol, Juliette Hagen, Lukas Rammeloo, Irene M Kuipers, Nicolaas A Blom, Arend DJ ten Harkel

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research: Prehospital factors predicting mortality in patients with shock: state-wide linkage study (30 September, 2024)
Amminadab L Eliakundu, Jason E Bloom, Jocasta Ball, Emily Nehme, Daniel Okyere, Stephane Heritier, Aleksandr Voskoboinik, Luke Dawson, Shelley Cox, David Anderson, Aidan Burrell, David Pilcher, Derek P Chew, David Kaye, Ziad Nehme, Dion Stub
Original research: Impact of COVID-19 on recorded blood pressure screening and hypertension management in England: an analysis of monthly changes in the quality and outcomes framework indicators in OpenSAFELY (30 August, 2024)
Milan Wiedemann, Victoria Speed, Christine Cunningham, Rose Higgins, Helen J Curtis, Colm Andrews, Louis Fisher, Lisa Hopcroft, Christopher T Rentsch, Viyaasan Mahalingasivam, Laurie Tomlinson, Caroline Morton, Miriam Samuel, Amelia Green, Christopher Wood, Andrew D Brown, Jon Massey, Caroline Walters, Rebecca M Smith, Peter Inglesby, David Evans, Steven Maude, Iain Dillingham, Alex J Walker, Jessica Morley, Amir Mehrkar, Seb Bacon, Chris Bates, Jonathan Cockburn, John Parry, Frank Hester, Richard J McManus, Ben Goldacre, Brian MacKenna
Original research: Sex differences in early-onset atrial fibrillation in Norwegian primary care: a retrospective national database analysis (20 August, 2024)
Silje Madeleine Kalstø, Ståle Nygård, Inger Ariansen, Arnljot Tveit, Ingrid Elisabeth Christophersen

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research: Contemporary characteristics, outcomes and novel risk score for Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: a national inpatient sample analysis (7 October, 2024)
Ankit Agrawal, Umesh Bhagat, Abdullah Yesilyaprak, Aqieda Bayat, Aanchal Sawhney, Aro Daniela Arockiam, Elio Haroun, Michael Faulx, Milind Y Desai, Wael Jaber, Venu Menon, Brian Griffin, Tom Kai Ming Wang
Original research: Use of artificial intelligence-powered ECG to differentiate between cardiac and pulmonary pathologies in patients with acute dyspnoea in the emergency department (1 October, 2024)
Ji-Hun Jang, Sang-Won Lee, Dae-Young Kim, Sung-Hee Shin, Sang-Chul Lee, Dae-Hyeok Kim, Wonik Choi, Yong-Soo Baek
Original research: Tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase (TIMP)-1 predicts failure of recovery of ejection fraction in acute heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (25 September, 2024)
Chih-Hsueh Tseng, Wei-Ming Huang, Hao-Chih Chang, Wen-Chung Yu, Hao-Min Cheng, Chern-En Chiang, Chen-Huan Chen, Shih-Hsien Sung
Original research: Intestinal fatty acid binding protein is associated with infarct size and cardiac function in acute heart failure following myocardial infarction (13 September, 2024)
Andraž Nendl, Geir Øystein Andersen, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Marius Trøseid, Ayodeji Awoyemi
Original research: Adiposity, fat-free mass and incident heart failure in 500 000 individuals (4 July, 2024)
Ayodipupo S Oguntade, Hannah Taylor, Ben Lacey, Sarah Lewington

Special populations

Original research: Association between kidney function, frailty and receipt of invasive management after acute coronary syndrome (9 October, 2024)
Jemima Kate Scott, Thomas Johnson, Fergus John Caskey, Pippa Bailey, Lucy Ellen Selman, Abdulrahim Mulla, Ben Glampson, Jim Davies, Dimitri Papdimitriou, Kerrie Woods, Kevin O'Gallagher, Bryan Williams, Folkert W Asselbergs, Erik K Mayer, Richard Lee, Christopher Herbert, Stuart W Grant, Nick Curzen, Iain Squire, Rajesh Kharbanda, Ajay Shah, Divaka Perera, Riyaz S Patel, Keith Channon, Jamil Mayet, Amit Kaura, Yoav Ben-Shlomo
Original research: Pretransplant cardiac stress testing and transplant wait time in kidney transplantation candidates (13 September, 2024)
Ming-Sum Lee, Columbus Batiste, James Onwuzurike, Rachid Elkoustaf, Yi-Lin Wu, Wansu Chen, Joseph Kahwaji, Amandeep Sahota, Roland L Lee

Systematic review

Systematic review: Long-term outcomes of ischaemia with no obstructive coronary artery disease (INOCA): a systematic review and meta-analysis (1 October, 2024)
Natalija Odanović, Alexandra N Schwann, Zhiyuan Zhang, Sohum S Kapadia, Steffne J Kunnirickal, Helen Parise, Daniela Tirziu, Ivan Ilic, Alexandra J Lansky, Cody G Pietras, Samit M Shah

Valvular heart disease

Original research: Recovery rate from conduction disorders in patients with permanent pacemaker implantation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (18 September, 2024)
Maria Yamamoto, Arudo Hiraoka, Toshinobu Yoshida, Satoru Kishimoto, Genta Chikazawa, Hidenori Yoshitaka
Original research: Hypercapnia during transcatheter aortic valve replacement under monitored anaesthesia care: a retrospective cohort study (30 August, 2024)
Tzonghuei Chen, Shyamal Asher, Patricia Apruzzese, Harry Owusu-Dapaah, Gustavo Gonzalez, Andrew Maslow
Original research: Sex-specific aspects on prognosis after aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis: a SWEDEHEART registry study (23 July, 2024)
Nina Johnston, Stefan K James, Lars Lindhagen, Elisabeth Ståhle, Christina Christersson

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Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Special populations

Systematic review

Valvular heart disease

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Current Issue

July 2024 - Volume 11 - 2

Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Special populations

Systematic review

Valvular heart disease