Open Heart: 6 (1)

Aortic and vascular disease

Original research article: Performance of a clinical/proteomic panel to predict obstructive peripheral artery disease in patients with and without diabetes mellitus (13 May, 2019)
Cian P McCarthy, Shreya Shrestha, Nasrien Ibrahim, Roland R J van Kimmenade, Hanna K Gaggin, Renata Mukai, Craig Magaret, Grady Barnes, Rhonda Rhyne, Joseph M Garasic, James L Januzzi
Original research article: Biological variation of cardiac markers in patients with aortic valve stenosis (8 May, 2019)
Frederique E C M Peeters, Bas L J H Kietselaer, Judith Hilderink, Noreen van der Linden, Marijke Niens, Harry J G M Crijns, Steven J R Meex
Original research article: Simple renal cysts and bovine aortic arch: markers for aortic disease (28 January, 2019)
Adam J Brownstein, Syed Usman Bin Mahmood, Ayman Saeyeldin, Camilo Velasquez Mejia, Mohammad A Zafar, Yupeng Li, John A Rizzo, Neera K Dahl, Young Erben, Bulat A Ziganshin, John A Elefteriades

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original research article: Hidden burden of arrhythmias in patients with small atrial septal defects: a nationwide study (29 June, 2019)
Sebastian Udholm, Camilla Nyboe, Andrew Redington, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Vibeke Elisabeth Hjortdal
Original research article: Increased baseline ECG R-R dispersion predicts improvement in systolic function after atrial fibrillation ablation (25 June, 2019)
Ryan J Koene, Eric Buch, Young-Ji Seo, Jian-Ming Li, Mackenzi Mbai, Y Chandrashekhar, Kalyanam Shivkumar, Venkatakrishna N Tholakanahalli
Original research article: Reducing radiation exposure during atrial fibrillation ablation using lectures to promote awareness (24 June, 2019)
Yosuke Miwa, Akiko Ueda, Michitsugu Komeda, Shinsuke Takeuchi, Mika Nagaoka, Yuichi Momose, Noriko Nonoguchi, Kyoko Hoshida, Mutsumi Enomoto, Ikuko Togashi, Akiko Maeda, Yo Hagiwara, Toshiaki Sato, Kyoko Soejima
Original research article: Cost-effectiveness of an insertable cardiac monitor in a high-risk population in the UK (20 June, 2019)
Claudia I Rinciog, Laura M Sawyer, Alexander Diamantopoulos, Mitchell S V Elkind, Matthew Reynolds, Stylianos I Tsintzos, Paul D Ziegler, Maria E Quiroz, Claudia Wolff, Klaus K Witte
Original research article: High incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients treated with ibrutinib (8 May, 2019)
Florian Baptiste, Jennifer Cautela, Yan Ancedy, Noémie Resseguier, Thérèse Aurran, Laure Farnault, Marion Escudier, Chloé Ammar, Mélanie Gaubert, Charles Dolladille, Jeremie Barraud, Michael Peyrol, Ariel Cohen, Franck Paganelli, Joachim Alexandre, Stephane Ederhy, Franck Thuny
Original research article: High-sensitive cardiac troponin T as a predictor of efficacy and safety after pulmonary vein isolation using focal radiofrequency, multielectrode radiofrequency and cryoballoon ablation catheter (20 April, 2019)
Ivan Zeljkovic, Sven Knecht, Nikola Pavlovic, Umut Celikyrut, Florian Spies, Sarah Burri, Dominik Mannhart, Loris Peterhans, Tobias Reichlin, Beat Schaer, Stefan Osswald, Christian Sticherling, Michael Kuhne
Original research article: Association of income and health-related quality of life in atrial fibrillation (11 April, 2019)
Emily Guhl, Andrew Althouse, Michael Sharbaugh, Alexandra M Pusateri, Michael Paasche-Orlow, Jared W Magnani
Original research article: Pacing therapy in the management of unexplained syncope: a tertiary care centre prospective study (25 March, 2019)
Ekrem Yasa, Fabrizio Ricci, Hannes Holm, Torbjörn Persson, Olle Melander, Richard Sutton, Viktor Hamrefors, Artur Fedorowski

Basic and translational research

Original research article: Heritability in genetic heart disease: the role of genetic background (28 May, 2019)
Joeri A Jansweijer, Karin Y van Spaendonck-Zwarts, Michael W T Tanck, J Peter van Tintelen, Imke Christiaans, Jasper J van der Smagt, Alexa M C Vermeer, J Martijn Bos, Arthur J Moss, Heikki Swan, Sylvia G Priori, Annika Rydberg, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen, Michael J Ackerman, Iacopo Olivotto, Philippe Charron, Juan R Gimeno, Maarten P van den Berg, Arthur AM Wilde, Yigal M Pinto
Review: The heart-gut axis: new target for atherosclerosis and congestive heart failure therapy (23 April, 2019)
Esther Forkosh, Yaron Ilan

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research article: Associations between common ECG abnormalities and out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (21 May, 2019)
Marc Meller Søndergaard, Jonas Bille Nielsen, Rikke Nørmark Mortensen, Gunnar Gislason, Lars Køber, Freddy Lippert, Claus Graff, Stig Haunsø, Jesper Hastrup Svendsen, Kristian Hay Kragholm, Adrian Holger Pietersen, Bent Struer Lind, Søren Pihlkjær Hjortshøj, Anders Gaarsdal Holst, Johannes Jan Struijk, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Steen Møller Hansen
Original research article: Comparative effectiveness of ACE inhibitors and angiotensin receptor blockers in patients with prior myocardial infarction (4 May, 2019)
Dennis Ko, Paymon Azizi, Maria Koh, Alice Chong, Peter Austin, Therese Stukel, Cynthia Jackevicius
Original research article: Determinants of depression in patients with comorbid depression following cardiac rehabilitation (9 April, 2019)
Serdar Sever, Alexander Stephen Harrison, Su Golder, Patrick Doherty
Original research article: Impact of changes in heart rate with age on all-cause death and cardiovascular events in 50-year-old men from the general population (15 April, 2019)
Xiao-jing Chen, Salim Bary Barywani, Per-Olof Hansson, Erik Östgärd Thunström, Annika Rosengren, Constantinos Ergatoudes, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Kenneth Caidahl, Michael Lx Fu
Original research article: Diagnostic accuracies of screening for atrial fibrillation by cardiac nurses versus radiographers (1 March, 2019)
Lærke Marius Kvist, Nicklas Vinter, Grazina Urbonaviciene, Jes Sanddal Lindholt, Axel Cosmus Pyndt Diederichsen, Lars Frost
Original research article: Reducing delay in patients with acute coronary syndrome and other time-critical conditions: a systematic review to identify the behaviour change techniques associated with effective interventions (27 February, 2019)
Barbara Farquharson, Purva Abhyankar, Karen Smith, Stephan U Dombrowski, Shaun Treweek, Nadine Dougall, Brian Williams, Marie Johnston
Original research article: Determinants of walking fitness in patients with heart failure attending cardiac rehabilitation (27 February, 2019)
Patrick Doherty, Alexander Stephen Harrison, Rashed Hossain
Original research article: Potential impact of a modest reduction in salt intake on blood pressure, cardiovascular disease burden and premature mortality: a modelling study (14 February, 2019)
Leopold Ndemnge Aminde, Linda J Cobiac, J Lennert Veerman
Original research article: Pregnancy complications and premature cardiovascular events among 1.6 million California pregnancies (27 February, 2019)
Rima Arnaout, Gregory Nah, Greg Marcus, Zian Tseng, Elyse Foster, Ian S Harris, Punag Divanji, Liviu Klein, Juan Gonzalez, Nisha Parikh

Cardiac surgery

Original research article: In vitro assessment of pacing as therapy for aortic regurgitation (24 May, 2019)
Paolo Peruzzo, Francesca Maria Susin, Andrea Colli, Gaetano Burriesci
Original research article: Clinical and cost-effectiveness of the Ross procedure versus conventional aortic valve replacement in young adults (22 May, 2019)
Howard Thom, Alexandru Ciprian Visan, Edna Keeney, Dan Mihai Dorobantu, Daniel Fudulu, Mansour T A Sharabiani, Jeff Round, Serban Constantin Stoica
Original research article: Falling hospital and postdischarge mortality following CABG in New South Wales from 2000 to 2013 (30 March, 2019)
David B Brieger, Austin C C Ng, Vincent Chow, Mario D'Souza, Karice Hyun, Paul G Bannon, Leonard Kritharides

Coronary artery disease

Original research article: Left ventricular ejection fraction adds value over the GRACE score in prediction of 6-month mortality after ACS: the MADDEC study (27 June, 2019)
Nina Syyli, Markus Hautamäki, Kari Antila, Shadi Mahdiani, Markku Eskola, Terho Lehtimäki, Kjell Nikus, Leo-Pekka Lyytikäinen, Niku Oksala, Jussi Hernesniemi
Original research article: Drug-eluting stents in large coronary vessels improve both safety and efficacy compared with bare-metal stents in women: a pooled analysis of the BASKET-PROVE I and II trials (14 May, 2019)
Louise Hougesen Bjerking, Kim Wadt Hansen, Rikke Sørensen, Eva Prescott, Tor Biering-Sørensen, Raban Jeger, Christoph Kaiser, Matthias Pfisterer, Søren Galatius
Original research article: Peripheral artery disease and outcomes in patients with acute myocardial infarction (12 May, 2019)
Rubina Attar, Axel Wester, Sasha Koul, Svend Eggert, Pontus Andell
Original research article: Management of perioperative myocardial ischaemia after isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery (8 May, 2019)
Davorin Sef, Janko Szavits-Nossan, Mladen Predrijevac, Rajna Golubic, Tomislav Sipic, Kresimir Stambuk, zvonimir korda, Pascal Meier, Marko Ivan turina
Original research article: Impact of aortic stiffness on myocardial ischaemia in non-obstructive coronary artery disease (4 May, 2019)
Mai Tone Lønnebakken, Ingeborg Eskerud, Terje Hjalmar Larsen, Helga Bergljot Midtbø, Marina Victorovna Kokorina, Eva Gerdts
Original research article: Sex-based associations with microvascular injury and outcomes after ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (29 April, 2019)
Annette Marie Maznyczka, David Carrick, Jaclyn Carberry, Kenneth Mangion, Margaret McEntegart, Mark C Petrie, Hany Eteiba, Mitchell Lindsay, Stuart Hood, Stuart Watkins, Andrew Davie, Ahmed Mahrous, Ian Ford, Paul Welsh, Naveed Sattar, Keith G Oldroyd, Colin Berry
Original research article: A zero coronary artery calcium score in patients with stable chest pain is associated with a good prognosis, despite risk of non-calcified plaques (11 April, 2019)
Xue Wang, Elizabeth Phuong Vi Le, Nikil K Rajani, NJ Hudson-Peacock, Holly Pavey, Jason M Tarkin, Judith Babar, Michelle Claire Williams, Deepa Gopalan, James H F Rudd
Original research article: Diastolic-systolic velocity ratio to detect coronary stenoses under physiological resting conditions: a mechanistic study (1 March, 2019)
Guus A de Waard, Christopher J Broyd, Christopher M Cook, Nina W van der Hoeven, Ricardo Petraco, Sukhjinder S Nijjer, Tim P van de Hoef, Mauro Echavarria-Pinto, Martijn Meuwissen, Sayan Sen, Paul Knaapen, Javier Escaned, Jan J Piek, Niels van Royen, Justin E Davies
Original research article: Using patient-reported outcome measures for primary percutaneous coronary intervention (16 February, 2019)
Esther Kwong, Jenny Neuburger, Steffen Erhard Petersen, Nick Black
Original research article: Coronary endothelial function testing may improve long-term quality of life in subjects with microvascular coronary endothelial dysfunction (2 February, 2019)
Martin Reriani, Andreas J Flammer, Jessica Duhé, Jing Li, Rajiv Gulati, Charanjit S Rihal, Ryan Lennon, Jonella M Tilford, Abhiram Prasad, Lilach O Lerman, Amir Lerman

Congenital heart disease

Original research article: Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants in adults with a Fontan circulation: are they safe (3 June, 2019)
Hayang Yang, Gruschen R Veldtman, Berto J Bouma, Werner Budts, Koichiro Niwa, Folkert Meijboom, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, Alexander Chima Egbe, Markus Schwerzmann, Craig Broberg, Marielle Morissens, Jonathan Buber, Shane Tsai, Ioannis Polyzois, Martijn C Post, Matthias Greutmann, Arie Van Dijk, Barbara JM Mulder, Jamil Aboulhosn
Original research article: Sex differences in publication volume and quality in congenital heart disease: are women disadvantaged? (3 April, 2019)
Sophie van Doren, Margarita Brida, Michael A Gatzoulis, Aleksander Kempny, Sonya V Babu-Narayan, Ulrike M M Bauer, Helmut Baumgartner, Gerhard Paul Diller
Original research article: Development of heart failure in young patients with congenital heart disease: a nation-wide cohort study (25 March, 2019)
Thomas Gilljam, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Mikael Dellborg, Georgios Lappas, Peter Eriksson, Kristofer Skoglund, Annika Rosengren
Original research article: Factors associated with health-related quality of life among adults with tetralogy of Fallot (27 February, 2019)
Anette Sandtröm, Camilla Sandberg, Daniel Rinnström, Gunnar Engström, Mikael Dellborg, Ulf Thilén, Peder Sörensson, Niels-Erik Nielsen, Christina Christersson, Bengt Johansson
Original research article: Surgical versus balloon valvotomy in neonates and infants: results from the UK National Audit (14 February, 2019)
Dan Mihai Dorobantu, Demetris Taliotis, Robert Michael Tulloh, Mansour Thagavi Azar Sharabiani, Eltayeb Mohamed Ahmed, Gianni Davide Angelini, Serban Constantin Stoica

Cardiology

Original research article: Improving risk stratification in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction by combining two validated risk scores (21 May, 2019)
Kalyani Anil Boralkar, Yukari Kobayashi, Kegan J Moneghetti, Vedant S Pargaonkar, Mirela Tuzovic, Gomathi Krishnan, Matthew T Wheeler, Dipanjan Banerjee, Tatiana Kuznetsova, Benjamin D Horne, Kirk U Knowlton, Paul A Heidenreich, Francois Haddad

Editorial

Dietary fats, blood pressure and artery health (25 June, 2019)
James J DiNicolantonio, James OKeefe
Performing diagnostic radial access coronary angiography on uninterrupted direct oral anticoagulant therapy: a prospective analysis (20 June, 2019)
Mirvat Alasnag
Autophagy-induced degradation of Notch1, achieved through intermittent fasting, may promote beta cell neogenesis: implications for reversal of type 2 diabetes (22 May, 2019)
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark McCarty
Importance of maintaining a low omega-6/omega-3 ratio for reducing platelet aggregation, coagulation and thrombosis (2 May, 2019)
James J DiNicolantonio, James OKeefe
Editorial: Need for expertise in mitral valve regurgitation (28 April, 2019)
Erwan Donal, Elena Galli, Thierry Letourneau
Association of moderately elevated trimethylamine N-oxide with cardiovascular risk: is TMAO serving as a marker for hepatic insulin resistance (27 February, 2019)
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark McCarty, James OKeefe
Does elevated bilirubin aid weight control by preventing development of hypothalamic leptin resistance? (22 March, 2019)
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark McCarty, James OKeefe

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research article: Day case complex devices: the state of the UK (25 April, 2019)
Michael Waight, Abdula Elawady, Heather Gage, Morro Touray, Shaumik Adhya
Original research article: Standardising practice in cardiology: reducing clinical variation and cost at Ochsner Health System (22 March, 2019)
Phil Oravetz, Christopher J White, David Carmouche, Nicole Swan, Josh Donaldson, Russel Ruhl, Czarlota Valdenor, David Paculdo, Mary Tran, John Peabody
Review: Cardiovascular health technology assessment: recommendations to improve the quality of evidence (27 February, 2019)
Colin Berry, David Corcoran, Kenneth Mangion
Original research article: Productivity costs of cardiovascular disease mortality across disease types and socioeconomic groups (16 February, 2019)
Hannah Elizabeth Carter, Deborah Schofield, Rupendra Shrestha
Original research article: Empowering podiatrists to perform pulse checks for opportunistic atrial fibrillation detection during annual diabetes foot checks (6 February, 2019)
Linda Hicks, Julia Newton, Rahul Nayar, Kate Mackay

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research article: Factors influencing long-term heart failure mortality in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Western Sweden: probable dose-related protection from beta-blocker therapy (27 June, 2019)
Davood Javidgonbadi, Bert Andersson, Nils-Johan Abdon, Maria Schaufelberger, Ingegerd Östman-Smith
Original research article: Dexrazoxane preferentially mitigates doxorubicin cardiotoxicity in female children with sarcoma (24 June, 2019)
Hari K Narayan, Mary E Putt, Nikitha Kosaraju, Alejandro Paz, Shivani Bhatt, Theodore Plappert, Laura Mercer-Rosa, Saro H Armenian, Ami V Desai, Richard B Womer, Bonnie Ky
Original research article: Echocardiographic subtypes of heart failure in consecutive hospitalised patients with dyspnoea (20 June, 2019)
Olav Wendelboe Nielsen, Nana Valeur, Ahmad Sajadieh, Andreas Fabricius-Bjerre, Christian Malchau Carlsen, Lars Kober
Original research article: From randomised controlled trial to real world implementation of a novel home-based heart failure tool: pooled and comparative analyses of two clinical controlled trials (28 May, 2019)
Ann Hovland-Tånneryd, Michael Melin, Ewa Hägglund, Inger Hagerman, Hans E Persson
Original research article: Value of natriuretic peptides and tissue Doppler imaging in the estimation of left ventricular filling pressure in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (15 May, 2019)
Stéphanie Brun, Eve Cariou, Pauline Fournier, David Ribes, Stanislas Faguer, Antoine Huart, Didier Carrié, Michel Galinier, Olivier Lairez
Original research article: Intraventricular flow patterns during right ventricular apical pacing (8 May, 2019)
Francesco Bianco, Vincenzo Cicchitti, Valentina Bucciarelli, Alvin Chandra, Enrico Di Girolamo, Gianni Pedrizzetti, Gianni Tonti, Silvio Romano, Raffaele De Caterina, Sabina Gallina
Review: Cardiogenic shock: evolving definitions and future directions in management (8 May, 2019)
Tara L Jones, Kenta Nakamura, James M McCabe
Original research article: Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug use in acute myopericarditis: 12-month clinical follow-up (23 April, 2019)
Jan Berg, Marina Lovrinovic, Nora Baltensperger, Christine K Kissel, Jan Kottwitz, Robert Manka, Dimitri Patriki, Frank Scherff, Christian Schmied, Ulf Landmesser, Thomas F Lüscher, Bettina Heidecker
Original research article: Iron deficiency in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a systematic review and meta-analysis (3 April, 2019)
Anna L Beale, Josephine Lillian Warren, Nia Roberts, Philippe Meyer, Nick P Townsend, David Kaye
Original research article: A hundred heart failure deaths: lessons learnt from the Dr Foster heart failure hospital mortality alert (30 March, 2019)
Patrick Tran, Michelle McDonald, Lleika Kunaselan, Fraz Umar, Prithwish Banerjee
Original research article: Outcomes of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with heart failure with atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies (19 March, 2019)
Usman Mustafa, Jessica Atkins, George Mina, Desiree Dawson, Catherine Vanchiere, Narendra Duddyala, Ryan Jones, Pratap Reddy, Paari Dominic
Original research article: Prevalence of early stages of heart failure in an elderly risk population: the Copenhagen Heart Failure Risk Study (27 February, 2019)
Freja Stoltze Gaborit, Caroline Kistorp, Thomas Kümler, Christian Hassager, Niels Tønder, Lars Køber, Pernille Mørk Hansen, Pia Rørbæk Kamstrup, Jens Faber, Kasper Karmark Iversen, Morten Schou
Original research article: Complications and prognosis of patients undergoing apical or septal right ventricular pacing (9 February, 2019)
Nick B Spath, Kelvin Wang, Sowmya Venkatasumbramanian, Omar Fersia, David E Newby, Chris CE Lang, Neil R Grubb, Marc R Dweck
Original research article: Statistical ranking of electromechanical dyssynchrony parameters for CRT (21 January, 2019)
Serge Cazeau, Matthieu Toulemont, Philippe Ritter, Julien Reygner

Interventional cardiology

Original research article: Real-world comparison of clopidogrel, prasugrel and ticagrelor in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (29 June, 2019)
Arvindra Krishnamurthy, Claire Keeble, Michelle Anderson, Kathryn Somers, Natalie Burton-Wood, Charlotte Harland, Paul Baxter, Jim McLenachan, Jonathan Blaxill, Daniel J Blackman, Christopher Malkin, Stephen Wheatcroft, John Greenwood
Original research article: Performing diagnostic radial access coronary angiography on uninterrupted direct oral anticoagulant therapy: a prospective analysis (22 May, 2019)
Napohn Chongprasertpon, Aiste Zebrauskaite, John Joseph Coughlan, Abdalla Ibrahim, Samer Arnous, Terence Hennessy, Thomas John Kiernan
Original research article: Impella versus IABP in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock (13 May, 2019)
Brunilda Alushi, Andel Douedari, Georg Froehlig, Wulf Knie, Thomas H Wurster, David M Leistner, Barbara-Elisabeth Staehli, Hans-Christian Mochmann, Burkert Pieske, Ulf Landmesser, Florian Krackhardt, Carsten Skurk
Original research article: Fractional flow reserve derived from microcatheters versus standard pressure wires: a stenosis-level meta-analysis (25 March, 2019)
Henry Seligman, Matthew J Shun-Shin, Anushkumar Vasireddy, Christopher Cook, Yousif Y Ahmad, James Howard, Sayan Sen, Rasha Al-Lamee, Sukhjinder Nijjer, Daniel Chamie, Justin Davies, Jamil Mayet, Darrel P Francis, Ricardo Petraco
Original research article: Mechanical performance and healing patterns of the novel sirolimus-eluting bioresorbable Fantom scaffold: 6-month and 9-month follow-up by optical coherence tomography in the FANTOM II study (28 February, 2019)
Jo Krogsgaard Simonsen, Emil Nielsen Holck, Didier Carrié, Norbert Frey, Matthias Lutz, Joachim Weber-Albers, Dariusz Dudek, Bernard Chevalier, Joost Daemen, Jouke Dijkstra, Camilla Fox Maule, Omeed Neghabat, Jens Flensted Lassen, Jeffrey Anderson, Evald Høj Christiansen, Alexandre Abizaid, Niels Ramsing Holm
Original research article: Intracoronary near-infrared spectroscopy and the risk of future cardiovascular events (9 February, 2019)
Sofia Karlsson, Erik Anesäter, Klara Fransson, Pontus Andell, Jonas Persson, David Erlinge

Meta-analysis

Original research article: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for stable angina: systematic review and meta-analysis (5 June, 2019)
Linda Long, Lindsey Anderson, jingzhou He, Manish Gandhi, Alice Dewhirst, Charlene Bridges, Rod Taylor
Original research article: Stroke-independent contribution of atrial fibrillation to dementia: a meta-analysis (2 May, 2019)
Andrea Saglietto, Mario Matta, Fiorenzo Gaita, Victoria Jacobs, Thomas Jared Bunch, Matteo Anselmino
Original research article: Pharmacological interventions for the prevention of contrast-induced acute kidney injury in high-risk adult patients undergoing coronary angiography: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (25 January, 2019)
Alexander J Sharp, Nishith Patel, Barney C Reeves, Gianni D Angelini, Francesca Fiorentino
Original research article: Fractional flow reserve in acute coronary syndrome: a meta-analysis and systematic review (13 January, 2019)
Kevin P Liou, Sze-Yuan M Ooi, Stephen P Hoole, Nick E J West

Protocol

Protocol: Rapid use of high-sensitive cardiac troponin I for ruling-in and ruling-out of acute myocardial infarction (RACING-MI): study protocol (3 April, 2019)
Camilla Bang, Camilla Hansen, Kasper Glerup Lauridsen, Christian Alcaraz Frederiksen, Morten Schmidt, Tage Jensen, Nete Hornung, Bo Løfgren

Special populations

Original research article: Coronary artery calcium, HIV and inflammation in Uganda compared with the USA (22 May, 2019)
Ben Alencherry, Geoffrey Erem, Grace Mirembe, Isaac Ssinabulya, Chun-Ho Yun, Chung-Lieh Hung, Mark J Siedner, Marcio Bittencourt, Cissy Kityo, Grace A McComsey, Chris T Longenecker
Original research article: Prevalence of clOpidogrel ‘resIstaNce’ in a selected population of patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention at a tertiary cardiovascular centre in Trinidad: the POINT pilot study (27 February, 2019)
Naveen Anand Seecheran, Aarti Maharaj, Brent Boodhai, Rajeev Seecheran, Valmiki Seecheran, Sangeeta Persad, Koomatie Ramsaroop, Sherry Sandy, Stanley Giddings, Sateesh Sakhamuri, Ronan Ali, Shastri Motilal, Surujpal Teelucksingh, Antonio Tello-Montoliu

Valvular heart disease

Review: Multimodality imaging in carcinoid heart disease (4 June, 2019)
Ali M Agha, Juan Lopez-Mattei, Teodora Donisan, Dinu Balanescu, Cezar A Iliescu, Jose Banchs, Peter Y Kim, Nicolas L Palaskas, Syed Yusuf, Greg Gladish, Saamir Hassan
Original research article: Prognostic impact of postprocedure stroke volume in patients with low-gradient aortic stenosis (24 May, 2019)
Yugo Nara, Akihisa Kataoka, Yusuke Watanabe, Nakashima Makoto, Hirofumi Hioki, Hideyuki Kawashima, Nagura Fukuko, Ken Kozuma, Shinichi Shirai, Norio Tada, Motoharu Araki, Toru Naganuma, Futoshi Yamanaka, Hiroshi Ueno, Minoru Tabata, Kazuki Mizutani, Akihiro Higashimori, Kensuke Takagi, Masanori Yamamoto, Kentaro Hayashida
Original research article: NT-proBNP and postoperative heart failure in surgery for aortic stenosis (22 May, 2019)
Huiqi Jiang, Farkas Vánky, Henrik Hultkvist, Jonas Holm, Yanqi Yang, Rolf Svedjeholm
Original research article: Propensity score-matched analysis of patients with severe aortic stenosis undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (21 May, 2019)
Shiro Miura, Takehiro Yamashita, Michiya Hanyu, Hiraku Kumamaru, Shinichi Shirai, Kenji Ando
Protocol:
Trial protocol for the validation of the ‘Toronto Aortic Stenosis Quality of Life (TASQ) Questionnaire’ in patients undergoing surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) or transfemoral (TF) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI): the TASQ registry
(21 May, 2019)
Derk Frank, Simon Kennon, Nikolaos Bonaros, Mauro Romano, Thierry Lefèvre, Carlo Di Mario, Pierluigi Stefàno, Flavio Luciano Ribichini, Dominique Himbert, Marina Urena-Alcazar, Jorge Salgado-Fernandez, Jose Joaquin Cuenca Castillo, Bruno Garcia, Jana Kurucova, Martin Thoenes, Claudia Lüske, Peter Bramlage, Rima Styra
Original research article: Increased levels of sST2 in patients with mitral annulus disjunction and ventricular arrhythmias (28 April, 2019)
Esther Scheirlynck, Lars A Dejgaard, Eystein Skjølsvik, Oyvind H Lie, Andreea Motoc, Einar Hopp, Kaoru Tanaka, T Ueland, Margareth Ribe, Carlos Collet, Thor Edvardsen, Steven Droogmans, Bernard Cosyns, Kristina H Haugaa
Original research article: Predictors of early mortality after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (23 April, 2019)
Didrik Kjønås, Gry Dahle, Henrik Schirmer, Siri Malm, Jo Eidet, Lars Aaberge, Terje Steigen, Svend Aakhus, Rolf Busund, Assami Rösner
Original research article: Exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation for patients following open surgical aortic valve replacement and transcatheter aortic valve implant: a systematic review and meta-analysis (9 April, 2019)
Lizette Anayo, Paula Rogers, Linda Long, Miles Dalby, Rod Taylor
Original research article: End-systolic wall stress in aortic stenosis: comparing symptomatic and asymptomatic patients (9 April, 2019)
Rasmus Carter-Storch, Jacob Eifer Moller, Nicolaj Lyhne Christensen, Lars Melholt Rasmussen, Redi Pecini, Eva Søndergård, Lars Melgaard Videbæk, Jordi Sanchez Dahl
Original research article: Anatomical predictors of conduction damage after transcatheter implantation of the aortic valve (9 April, 2019)
Justin T Tretter, Shumpei Mori, Robert H Anderson, Michael D Taylor, Nicholas Ollberding, Vien Truong, Joseph Choo, Dean Kereiakes, Wojciech Mazur
Original research article: Native aortic versus mitral valve infective endocarditis: a nationwide registry study (27 February, 2019)
Abel Van Vlasselaer, Magnus Rasmussen, Johan Nilsson, Lars Olaison, Sigurdur Ragnarsson
Original research article: Rapid early rise in heart rate on treadmill exercise in patients with asymptomatic moderate or severe aortic stenosis: a new prognostic marker? (31 January, 2019)
John B Chambers, Ronak Rajani, Denise Parkin, Sahrai Saeed

Viewpoint

View point on social media use in interventional cardiology (22 May, 2019)
Mirvat Alasnag, Mamas Mamas, David Fischman, Salvatore Brugaletta, Jordan Safirstein, Pascal Meier, Vijay Kunadian, Lukasz Koltowski, Sheila Sahni, Chadi AlRaies, Michael Gibson
Viewpoint: Another typical ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in the elderly? (8 May, 2019)
Julio Iván Farjat-Pasos, Sergio Alonso Villarreal-Umaña, Paolo Angelini

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Table of contents

May 2019 - Volume 6 - 1

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Cardiac surgery

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Cardiology

Editorial

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Meta-analysis

Protocol

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Viewpoint

Correction

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Table of contents

May 2019 - Volume 6 - 1

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Cardiac surgery

Coronary artery disease

Congenital heart disease

Cardiology

Editorial

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Meta-analysis

Protocol

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Viewpoint

Correction