Open Heart: 5 (1)

Editorial

Is interleukin-6 the link between low LDL cholesterol and increased non-cardiovascular mortality in the elderly? (13 April, 2018) Free
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark F McCarty

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original research article: Efficacy and safety of dabigatran versus warfarin from the RE-LY trial (27 June, 2018)
Alvaro Avezum, Gustavo Bernardes de Figueiredo Oliveira, Rafael Diaz, Jesus Antonio Gonzalez Hermosillo, Jonas Oldgren, Ernesto Ferreiros Ripoll, Herbert Noack, Leopoldo Soares Piegas, Stuart J Connolly
Original research article: Obesity is associated with impaired long-term success of pulmonary vein isolation: a plea for risk factor management before ablation (16 May, 2018)
Gijs E De Maat, Bart Mulder, Wouter L Berretty, Meelad I H Al-Jazairi, Yong E S Tan, Ans C P Wiesfeld, Massimo A Mariani, Isabelle C Van Gelder, Michiel Rienstra, Yuri Blaauw
Original research article: Impact of periodontitis as representative of chronic inflammation on long-term clinical outcomes in patients with atrial fibrillation (25 April, 2018)
Sung Il Im, Jinho Heo, Bong Joon Kim, Kyoung-Im Cho, Hyun Su Kim, Jung Ho Heo, Jin Yong Hwang
Review: Strengths and weaknesses of ‘real-world’ studies involving non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (21 April, 2018)
A John Camm, Keith A A Fox
Original research article: Clinical presentation of CIED infection following initial implant versus reoperation for generator change or lead addition (30 March, 2018)
Mariko W Harper, Daniel Z Uslan, Arnold J Greenspon, Larry M Baddour, Roger G Carrillo, Stephan B Danik, Jose M Tolosana, Katherine Le, Jose M Miro, Christoph K Naber, James Peacock, Muhammad Rizwan Sohail, Holenarasipur R Vikram, Jordan M Prutkin

Aortic and vascular disease

Original research article: Bedside risk score for prediction of acute kidney injury after transcatheter aortic valve replacement (30 May, 2018)
Nevena Zivkovic, Gabby Elbaz-Greener, Feng Qiu, Yaron Arbel, Asim N Cheema, Danny Dvir, Paul Fefer, Ariel Finkelstein, Stephen E Fremes, Sam Radhakrishnan, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Mony Shuvy, Harindra C Wijeysundera
Original research article: Impact of transcatheter aortic valve implantation on the risk of mortality in patients with severe aortic valve diseases: a health insurance-based analysis (21 April, 2018)
Alexander Barth, Seyrani Yücel, Hüseyin Ince, Gabriele Doblhammer
Original research article: Optimal antiplatelet strategy after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: a meta-analysis (26 January, 2018)
Yousif Ahmad, Ozan Demir, Christopher Rajkumar, James P Howard, Matthew Shun-Shin, Christopher Cook, Ricardo Petraco, Richard Jabbour, Ahran Arnold, Angela Frame, Nilesh Sutaria, Ben Ariff, Gajen Kanaganayagam, Darrel Francis, Jamil Mayet, Ghada Mikhail, Iqbal Malik, Sayan Sen
Original research article: ‘Porcelain aorta’: a proposed definition and classification of ascending aortic calcification (26 January, 2018)
Thomas Snow, Thomas Semple, Alison Duncan, Sarah Barker, Michael Rubens, Carlo DiMario, Simon Davies, Neil Moat, Edward David Nicol
Original research article: Early versus newer generation devices for transcatheter aortic valve implantation in routine clinical practice: a propensity score matched analysis (20 January, 2018)
Thomas Pilgrim, Joe K T Lee, Crochan J O’Sullivan, Stefan Stortecky, Sara Ariotti, Anna Franzone, Jonas Lanz, Dik Heg, Masahiko Asami, Fabien Praz, George C M Siontis, René Vollenbroich, Lorenz Räber, Marco Valgimigli, Eva Roost, Stephan Windecker

Cardiac surgery

Original research article: Rise and fall of NT-proBNP in aortic valve intervention (1 April, 2018)
Henrik Hultkvist, Jonas Holm, Rolf Svedjeholm, Farkas Vánky
Original research article: Coronary artery bypass grafting in patients treated with thoracic radiation: a case–control study (14 February, 2018)
Erin Amanda Fender, Pranav Chandrashekar, Jackson J Liang, Priyank R Dhar, Terence T Sio, John M Stulak, Ryan J Lennon, Joshua P Slusser, Jonathan B Ashman, Robert C Miller, Joerg Herrmann, Abhiram Prasad, Gurpreet S Sandhu
Original research article: Beating heart minimally invasive mitral valve surgery in patients with previous sternotomy: the operative technique and early outcomes (20 January, 2018)
Robert B Xu, Mohammad Rahnavardi, Mart Nadal, Fabiano Viana, Robert G Stuklis, Michael Worthington, James Edwards
Original research article: Major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular event and patients’ quality of life after endoscopic vein harvesting as compared with open vein harvest (MAQEH): a pilot study (9 January, 2018)
Heyman Luckraz, Carly Cartwright, Kumaresan Nagarajan, Prabhjeet Kaur, Alan Nevill

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research article: Plasma cytokines and risk of coronary heart disease in the PROCARDIS study (25 April, 2018)
Robert Clarke, Elsa Valdes-Marquez, Michael Hill, Joanne Gordon, Martin Farrall, Anders Hamsten, Hugh Watkins, Jemma C Hopewell
Original research article: Variability of cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) T1 mapping parameters in healthy volunteers during long-term follow-up (24 February, 2018)
Fabian aus dem Siepen, Christian Baumgärtner, Matthias Müller-Henessen, Florian André, Daniel Messroghli, Marco Ochs, Johannes Riffel, Evangelos Giannitsis, Hugo A Katus, Matthias G Friedrich, Sebastian J Buss
Original research article: Residual cardiovascular risk in individuals on lipid-lowering treatment: quantifying absolute and relative risk in the community (26 January, 2018)
Wolfgang Lieb, Danielle M Enserro, Martin G Larson, Ramachandran S Vasan
Original research article: Body mass index as a risk factor for coronary events and mortality in patients with type 1 diabetes (20 January, 2018)
Daniel Vestberg, Annika Rosengren, Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Mervete Miftaraj, Stefan Franzen, Ann-Marie Svensson, Marcus Lind
Original research article: Blood pressure target achievement and antihypertensive medication use in women and men after first-ever myocardial infarction: the Tromsø Study 1994–2016 (3 January, 2018)
Laila A Hopstock, Anne Elise Eggen, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Ellisiv B Mathiesen, Amalie Nilsen, Inger Njølstad, Tom Wilsgaard

Coronary artery disease

Original research article: Risk prediction in stable cardiovascular disease using a high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T single biomarker strategy compared to the ESC-SCORE (25 April, 2018)
Moritz Biener, Evangelos Giannitsis, Manuel Kuhner, Thomas Zelniker, Matthias Mueller-Hennessen, Mehrshad Vafaie, Kiril M Stoyanov, Franz-Josef Neumann, Hugo A Katus, Willibald Hochholzer, Christian Marc Valina
Protocol: DuraGraft vascular conduit preservation solution in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: rationale and design of a within-patient randomised multicentre trial (13 April, 2018)
Walid Ben Ali, Pierre Voisine, Peter Skov Olsen, Hugues Jeanmart, Nicolas Noiseux, Tracy Goeken, Vilas Satishchandran, Filippo Cademartiri, Garry Cutter, Dave Veerasingam, Craig Brown, Maximilian Y Emmert, Louis P Perrault
Review: CT coronary angiography: a paradigm shift for functional imaging tests (27 March, 2018)
Khaled Alfakih, Jonathan Byrne, Mark Monaghan
Original research article: Early metabolic response to acute myocardial ischaemia in patients undergoing elective coronary angioplasty (10 March, 2018)
Sara Di Marino, Nicola Viceconte, Angelo Lembo, Vincenzo Summa, Gaetano Tanzilli, Valeria Raparelli, Giovanni Truscelli, Enrico Mangieri, Carlo Gaudio, Daniel Oscar Cicero
Review: Role of ivabradine in management of stable angina in patients with different clinical profiles (9 March, 2018)
Juan Carlos Kaski, Steffen Gloekler, Roberto Ferrari, Kim Fox, Bernard I Lévy, Michel Komajda, Panos Vardas, Paolo G Camici
Original research article: Six-minute walk distance after coronary artery bypass grafting compared with medical therapy in ischaemic cardiomyopathy (20 February, 2018)
Ralph A H Stewart, Dominika Szalewska, Amanda Stebbins, Hussein R Al-Khalidi, John G H Cleland, Andrzej Rynkiewicz, Mark H Drazner, Harvey D White, Daniel B Mark, Ambuj Roy, Dragana Kosevic, Miroslaw Rajda, Marek Jasinski, Chua Yeow Leng, Wiwun Tungsubutra, Patrice Desvigne-Nickens, Eric J Velazquez, Mark C Petrie
Original research article: MicroRNA 8059 as a marker for the presence and extent of coronary artery calcification (31 January, 2018)
Philippa Howlett, Jane K Cleal, Huihai Wu, Nikunj Shah, Alex Horton, Nick Curzen, Michael Mahmoudi
Original research article: Associations between cardiac troponin, mortality and subsequent use of cardiovascular services: differences in sex and ethnicity (30 January, 2018)
David E Winchester, Kristopher Kline, Christopher Estel, Dhruv Mahtta, Sean Taasan, Franck W Peacock
Review: Subclinical magnesium deficiency: a principal driver of cardiovascular disease and a public health crisis (13 January, 2018)
James J DiNicolantonio, James H O’Keefe, William Wilson

Congenital heart disease

Review: Prognostic power of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in Fontan patients: a systematic review (3 July, 2018)
Sebastian Udholm, Nael Aldweib, Vibeke Elisabeth Hjortdal, Gruschen R Veldtman
Original research article: Psychosocial and clinical outcomes of percutaneous versus surgical pulmonary valve implantation (27 June, 2018)
Brith Andresen, Gaute Døhlen, Lien My Diep, Harald Lindberg, Erik Fosse, Marit Helen Andersen

Interventional cardiology

Original research article: Bivalirudin versus heparin in primary PCI: clinical outcomes and cost analysis (10 May, 2018)
Pierre Deharo, Thomas W Johnson, Hazim Rahbi, Raveen Kandan, Ruth Bowles, Abdul Mozid, Stephen Dorman, Julian W Strange, Andreas Baumbach
Original research article: Randomised trial of the comparison of drug-eluting stents in patients with diabetes: OCT DES trial (5 April, 2018)
Stephen Hamshere, Alex Byrne, Tawfiq Choudhury, Sean M Gallagher, Krishnaraj S Rathod, Julia Lungley, Charles J Knight, Akhil Kapur, Daniel A Jones, Anthony Mathur
Original research article: Multianalysis with optical coherence tomography and vasomotion in everolimus-eluting stents and everolimus-eluting biovascular scaffolds: the MOVES trial (3 January, 2018)
Diego A Arroyo, Sara Schukraft, Zacharenia Kallinikou, Jean-Christophe Stauffer, Gérard Baeriswyl, Jean-Jacques Goy, Mario Togni, Stéphane Cook, Serban Puricel
Original research article: Clinical outcomes and costs of cardiac revascularisation in England and New York state (3 January, 2018)
Francisco Leyva, Tian Qiu, Felicity Evison, Christopher Christoforou, David McNulty, Peter Ludman, Daniel Ray

Basic and translational research

Original research article: Clinically feasible stratification of 1-year to 3-year post-myocardial infarction risk (20 February, 2018)
Benjamin D Horne, Joseph B Muhlestein, Durgesh Bhandary, Greta L Hoetzer, Naeem D Khan, Tami L Bair, Donald L Lappé
Original research article: Effects of disease severity distribution on the performance of quantitative diagnostic methods and proposal of a novel ‘V-plot’ methodology to display accuracy values (20 January, 2018)
Ricardo Petraco, Hakim-Moulay Dehbi, James P Howard, Matthew J Shun-Shin, Sayan Sen, Sukhjinder S Nijjer, Jamil Mayet, Justin E Davies, Darrel P Francis
Original research article: Cardioprotection by an anti-MASP-2 antibody in a murine model of myocardial infarction (9 January, 2018)
James, E Clark, Thomas Dudler, Michael, S Marber, Wilhelm Schwaeble
Original research article: Elevated serum levels of cardiovascular biomarkers are associated with progression of renal cancer (3 January, 2018)
Takao Kamai, Yuumi Tokura, Toshitaka Uematsu, Kazumasa Sakamoto, Issei Suzuki, Kohei Takei, Takahiro Narimatsu, Tsunehito Kambara, Hideo Yuki, Hironori Betsunoh, Hideyuki Abe, Yoshitatsu Fukabori, Masahiro Yashi, Ken-Ichiro Yoshida
Original research article: Changes in contractile protein expression are linked to ventricular stiffness in infants with pulmonary hypertension or right ventricular hypertrophy due to congenital heart disease (3 January, 2018)
Andrew R Bond, Dominga Iacobazzi, Safa Abdul-Ghani, Mohammed Ghorbel, Kate Heesom, Mariangela Wilson, Christopher Gillett, Sarah J George, Massimo Caputo, Saadeh Suleiman, Robert M R Tulloh

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research article: Prognostic significance of repeated brain natriuretic peptide measurements after percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation in patients with drug-refractory hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (10 May, 2018)
Keitaro Akita, Hikaru Tsuruta, Shinsuke Yuasa, Mitsushige Murata, Keiichi Fukuda, Yuichiro Maekawa
Original research article: GP perceptions of the adequacy of community-based care for patients with advanced heart failure in a UK region (NI): a qualitative study (5 April, 2018)
Jingwen Jessica Chen, Kathryn Gamble, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Kieran McGlade, Jennifer Doherty, Patrick Donnelly, Carol A Stone
Original research article: Progressive left ventricular dysfunction and long-term outcomes in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy receiving cardiopulmonary therapies (3 March, 2018)
Mary Wang, David J Birnkrant, Dennis M Super, Irwin B Jacobs, Robert C Bahler
Original research article: The prognostic value of sST2 and galectin-3 considering different aetiologies in non-ischaemic heart failure (26 February, 2018)
David Binas, Hanna Daniel, Anette Richter, Volker Ruppert, Klaus-Dieter Schlüter, Bernhard Schieffer, Sabine Pankuweit
Original research article: Troponin and BNP are markers for subsequent non-ischaemic congestive heart failure: the Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS) (23 February, 2018)
Christopher C Patterson, Stefan Blankenberg, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Luke Heslop, Anthony Bayer, Gordon Lowe, Tanja Zeller, John Gallacher, Ian Young, John W G Yarnell
Original research article: Repetitive squatting exercise as a diagnostic predictor in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (17 February, 2018)
Krunoslav Michael Sveric, Stefan Ulbrich, Mohamed Rady, Christian Pflücke, Silvio Quick, Stefanie Katzke, Karim Ibrahim, Ruth H Strasser, Stefanie Jellinghaus
Original research article: Impact of nutritional indices on mortality in patients with heart failure (9 January, 2018)
Akiomi Yoshihisa, Yuki Kanno, Shunsuke Watanabe, Tetsuro Yokokawa, Satoshi Abe, Makiko Miyata, Takamasa Sato, Satoshi Suzuki, Masayoshi Oikawa, Atsushi Kobayashi, Takayoshi Yamaki, Hiroyuki Kunii, Kazuhiko Nakazato, Hitoshi Suzuki, Takafumi Ishida, Yasuchika Takeishi

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research article: Gender differences in the factors predicting initial engagement at cardiac rehabilitation (27 March, 2018)
Paul Michael Galdas, Alexander Stephen Harrison, Patrick Doherty
Original research article: Mild cognitive impairment impacts health outcomes of patients with atrial fibrillation undergoing a disease management intervention (7 February, 2018)
Jocasta Ball, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Melinda J Carrington, Joshua F Wiley, Simon Stewart
Review: Direct oral anticoagulants versus warfarin: is new always better than the old? (7 February, 2018)
John Burn, Munir Pirmohamed
Original research article: Shared care versus hospital-based cardiac rehabilitation: a cost-utility analysis based on a randomised controlled trial (7 February, 2018)
Jannik B Bertelsen, Nasrin Tayyari Dehbarez, Jens Refsgaard, Helle Kanstrup, Søren P Johnsen, Ina Qvist, Bo Christensen, Rikke Søgaard, Kent L Christensen
Review: Effectiveness of pharmacist’s intervention in the management of cardiovascular diseases (3 January, 2018)
Stefano Omboni, Marina Caserini

Pulmonary vascular disease

Review: Understanding haemorrhagic risk following thrombolytic therapy in patients with intermediate-risk and high-risk pulmonary embolism: a hypothesis paper (26 February, 2018)
Paul Abraham, Diego A Arroyo, Raphael Giraud, Henri Bounameaux, Karim Bendjelid
Protocol: Rationale and design of the ranolazine PH–RV study: a multicentred randomised and placebo-controlled study of ranolazine to improve RV function in patients with non-group 2 pulmonary hypertension (23 February, 2018)
Yuchi Han, Paul R Forfia, Anjali Vaidya, Jeremy A Mazurek, Myung H Park, Gautam Ramani, Stephen Y Chan, Aaron B Waxman

Valvular heart disease

Original research article: Conduction disorders using the Evolut R prosthesis compared with the CoreValve: has anything changed? (25 March, 2018)
Nils Perrin, Tilman Perrin, Anne-Lise Hachulla, Angela Frei, Hajo Müller, Marco Roffi, Mustafa Cikirikcioglu, Christoph Ellenberger, Marc-Joseph Licker, Haran Burri, Stephane Noble
Original research article: How much does a heart valve implantation cost and what are the health care costs afterwards? (14 February, 2018)
Simone A Huygens, Lucas M A Goossens, Judith A van Erkelens, Johanna J M Takkenberg, Maureen P M H Rutten-van Mölken
Original research article: SuPAR predicts postoperative complications and mortality in patients with asymptomatic aortic stenosis (13 January, 2018)
Gethin W Hodges, Casper N Bang, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, Michael H Olsen, Kurt Boman, Simon Ray, Antero Y Kesäniemi, Jørgen L Jeppesen, Kristian Wachtell
Original research article: Prognosis of patients with secondary mitral regurgitation and reduced ejection fraction (9 January, 2018)
Samer Mowakeaa, Aeshita Dwivedi, Jason R Grossman, Gaurav Parikh, Zelmira Curillova, Krishna G Aragam, Sammy Elmariah, Scott Kinlay, Jayashri Aragam
Original research article: Sex-stratified analysis of national trends and outcomes in isolated tricuspid valve surgery (9 January, 2018)
Pranav Chandrashekar, Erin Amanda Fender, Chad J Zack, Yogesh N V Reddy, Courtney E Bennett, Megha Prasad, Mohammed A Al-Hijji, John M Stulak, Virginia M Miller
Review: Advanced therapies for the management of adults with pulmonary arterial hypertension due to congenital heart disease: a systematic review (9 January, 2018)
Daniel L Varela, Mohamed Teleb, Wael El-Mallah

Reviewers

2017 Thank you to our reviewers (26 February, 2018) Free

Review

Critical appraisal of cardiology guidelines on revascularisation: clinical practice (24 February, 2018)
David R Dobies, Kimberly R Barber
Comprehensive update on the new indications for transcatheter aortic valve replacement in the latest 2017 European guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease (23 February, 2018)
Tasalak Thonghong, Ole De Backer, Lars Søndergaard
Transcatheter and Doppler waveform correlation in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (11 January, 2018)
Ankur Kalra, Raj R Makkar, Deepak L Bhatt, Sahil Khera, Neal S Kleiman, Michael J Reardon, Morton J Kern

Meta-analysis

Original research article: Comparison of tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion with fractional area change for the evaluation of right ventricular systolic function: a meta-analysis (20 January, 2018)
Justin Z Lee, See-Wei Low, Ahmed K Pasha, Carol L Howe, Kwan S Lee, Prakash G Suryanarayana

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January 2018 - Volume 5 - 1

Editorial

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Aortic and vascular disease

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Interventional cardiology

Basic and translational research

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Pulmonary vascular disease

Valvular heart disease

Reviewers

Review

Meta-analysis

Miscellaneous

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Table of contents

January 2018 - Volume 5 - 1

Editorial

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Aortic and vascular disease

Cardiac surgery

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Interventional cardiology

Basic and translational research

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Pulmonary vascular disease

Valvular heart disease

Reviewers

Review

Meta-analysis

Miscellaneous