Open Heart: 7 (2)

Editorial

Atrial fibrillation and dementia: an unresolved ‘Folie à Deux’ (24 December, 2020)
Valentina A Rossi, Boldizsar Kovacs, Ardan M Saguner
Ivermectin may be a clinically useful anti-inflammatory agent for late-stage COVID-19 (6 September, 2020)
James J DiNicolantonio, Jorge Barroso-Arranda, Mark McCarty

Aortic and vascular disease

Original research: Health-related quality of life and lived experiences in males and females with thoracic aortic disease and their partners (8 October, 2020)
Carlijn G E Thijssen, Silvy Dekker, Lidia Rianne Bons, Arjen L Gökalp, Robert M Kauling, Annemien E van den Bosch, Judith Anne Adriane Ellen Cuypers, Elisabeth M W J Utens, Roland R L van Kimmenade, Johanna J M Takkenberg, Leontien M H Roos, Eva Goossens, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink
Original research: Presence of mitral stenosis is a risk factor of new development of acute decompensated heart failure early after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (5 October, 2020)
Tsukasa Okai, Kazuki Mizutani, Masahiko Hara, Tomohiro Yamaguchi, Mana Ogawa, Asahiro Ito, Shinichi Iwata, Yasuhiro Izumiya, Yosuke Takahashi, Toshihiko Shibata, Minoru Yoshiyama
Original research: Cholesterol induced heart valve inflammation and injury: efficacy of cholesterol lowering treatment (3 August, 2020)
Layan A El-Khatib, Heather De Feijter-Rupp, Abed Janoudi, Levi Fry, Michael Kehdi, George S Abela

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Review: Impact of a single non-sex-related stroke risk factor on atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulant outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis (23 December, 2020)
Maxim Grymonprez, Stephane Steurbaut, An De Sutter, Lies Lahousse
Original research:
Impact of timing of atrial fibrillation, CHA₂DS₂-VASc score and cancer therapeutics on mortality in oncology patients
(26 November, 2020)
Muzna Hussain, Rabel Misbah, Eoin Donnellan, Saqer Alkharabsheh, Yuan Hou, Feixiong Cheng, Michael Crookshanks, Chris J Watson, Andrew J Toth, Penny Houghtaling, Rohit Moudgil, G Thomas Budd, W H Wilson Tang, Deborah H Kwon, Wael Jaber, Brian Griffin, Mohamad Kanj, Patrick Collier
Original research: Real-world evaluation of perception, convenience and anticoagulant treatment satisfaction of patients with atrial fibrillation switched from long-term vitamin K antagonist treatment to dabigatran (12 November, 2020)
Eue-Keun Choi, Young-Soo Lee, Alan Koay Choon Chern, Panyapat Jiampo, Aurauma Chutinet, Dicky Armein Hanafy, Prabhav Trivedi, Dongmei Zhai, Yong Seog Oh
Original research: Real-world characteristics and readmissions among patients undergoing ablation for ventricular tachycardia: a retrospective database analysis of commercially insured patients in the USA (30 September, 2020)
Vinay Mehta, Lee Ming Boo, Nader Ghaly, Iftekhar Kalsekar, Shumin Zhang, Sashi Yadalam, Rahul Khanna, Motiur Rahman
Original research: Needs analysis of parents following sudden cardiac death in the young (23 July, 2020)
Kristie McDonald, Louise Sharpe, Laura Yeates, Christopher Semsarian, Jodie Ingles

Basic and translational research

Review: Manipulation of ACE2 expression in COVID-19 (22 December, 2020)
Farhan Chaudhry, Sergio Lavandero, Xiang Xie, Basera Sabharwal, Ying-Ying Zheng, Ashish Correa, Jagat Narula, Phillip Levy
Original research: Research priorities in cardiovascular imaging (12 October, 2020)
Guo Liang Yong, Jonathan Weir-McCall, Michael Wilson, Giles H Roditi, Russell Bull, Michelle Claire Williams, Matthias Schmitt
Protocol: Worksite intervention study to prevent diabetes in Nepal: a randomised trial protocol (26 August, 2020)
Prajjwal Pyakurel, Archana Shrestha, Biraj M Karmacharya, Shyam S Budhathoki, Rajendra Kumar Chaudhari, Dipesh Tamrakar, Abha Shrestha, Robin M Karmacharya, Anmol Shrestha, Sumitra Sharma, Sanjib Kumar Sharma, Donna Spiegelman

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research: Systematic review of clinical guidelines for lipid lowering in the secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease events (18 December, 2020)
Rosemary Elisabeth Brown, Paul Welsh, Jennifer Logue
Original research: Left ventricular longitudinal shortening: relation to stroke volume and ejection fraction in ageing, blood pressure, body size and gender in the HUNT3 study (25 September, 2020)
Asbjørn Støylen, Håvard Dalen, Harald Edvard Molmen
Original research: Is improvement in depression in patients attending cardiac rehabilitation with new-onset depressive symptoms determined by patient characteristics? (26 August, 2020)
Serdar Sever, Patrick Doherty, Su Golder, Alexander Stephen Harrison
Protocol: Vitamin K for kidney transplant organ recipients: investigating vessel stiffness (ViKTORIES): study rationale and protocol of a randomised controlled trial (15 July, 2020)
Jennifer Susan Lees, Kenneth Mangion, Elaine Rutherford, Miles D Witham, Rosemary Woodward, Giles Roditi, Tracey Hopkins, Katriona Brooksbank, Alan G Jardine, Patrick B Mark

Cardiac surgery

Original research: Long-term survival in patients who had CABG with or without prior coronary artery stenting (9 November, 2020)
Pratik Rai, Rebecca Taylor, Mohamad Nidal Bittar
Original research: Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery: a systematic safety analysis (12 October, 2020)
Kinsing Ko, Thom L de Kroon, Marco C Post, Johannes C Kelder, Karen F Schut, Nabil Saouti, Bart P van Putte
Original research: Coronary risk of patients with valvular heart disease: prospective validation of CT-Valve Score (5 October, 2020)
Rasmus Bo Hasselbalch, Mia Marie Pries-Heje, Sarah Louise Kjølhede Holle, Thomas Engstrøm, Merete Heitmann, Frants Pedersen, Morten Schou, Hans Mickley, Hanne Elming, Rolf Steffensen, Lars Koeber, Kasper Iversen
Review: BISMICS consensus statement: implementing a safe minimally invasive mitral programme in the UK healthcare setting (5 October, 2020)
Hunaid A Vohra, M Yousuf Salmasi, Lueh Chien, Massimo Caputo, Max Baghai, Ranjit Deshpande, Enoch Akowuah, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Michael Tolan, Toufan Bahrami, Steven Hunter, Joseph Zacharias
Original research: Operative survival in patients with acute aortic disease in the era of newer oral anticoagulants (15 July, 2020)
Johannes Lagethon Bjørnstad, Adil Mahboob Khan, Henriette Røed-Undlien, Bjørn Bendz, Ståle Nygård, Tom Nilsen Hoel, Per Snorre Lingaas

Congenital heart disease

Original research: Pacing-associated cardiomyopathy in adult congenital heart disease (24 December, 2020)
Benjamin M Moore, Caroline Medi, Mark A McGuire, David S Celermajer, Rachael L Cordina
Original research: Myocardial fibrosis, diastolic dysfunction and elevated liver stiffness in the Fontan circulation (27 October, 2020)
Tarek Alsaied, Ryan A Moore, Sean M Lang, Vien Truong, Adam M Lubert, Gruschen R Veldtman, Konstantin Averin, Jonathan R Dillman, Andrew T Trout, Wojciech Mazur, Michael D Taylor, Quan He, David LS Morales, Andrew N Redington, Bryan H Goldstein
Original research: Atrial arrhythmias and thromboembolic complications in adults post Fontan surgery (15 October, 2020)
Darryl Wan, Jasmine Grewal, Amanda Barlow, Marla Kiess, Derek Human, Andrew D Krahn, Mounir Riahi, Santabhanu Chakrabarti
Original research: Bicuspid aortic valve: different clinical profiles for subjects with versus without repaired aortic coarctation (13 October, 2020)
Michelle S Lim, Paul G Bannon, David S Celermajer
Original research: Non-invasive dye dilution method for measuring an atrial septal defect shunt size (5 October, 2020)
Valtteri Muroke, Mikko Jalanko, Piia Simonen, Miia Holmström, Markku Ventilä, Juha Sinisalo
Original research: Atrial fibrillation in patients with an atrial septal defect in a single centre cohort during a long clinical follow-up: its association with closure and outcome of therapy (17 August, 2020)
Reinder Evertz, Manon Reinders, Charlotte Houck, Tim ten Cate, Anthonie L. Duijnhouwer, Rypko Beukema, Sjoerd Westra, Kevin Vernooy, Natasja M S de Groot
Original research: Echocardiographic diagnosis of right-to-left shunt using transoesophageal and transthoracic echocardiography (6 August, 2020)
Mirae Lee, Ju Hyeon Oh

Coronary artery disease

Protocol: Clinical governance programme in patients with acute coronary syndrome: design and methodology of a quality improvement initiative (28 December, 2020)
Sergio Leonardi, Claudio Montalto, Gianni Casella, Daniele Grosseto, Alessandra Repetto, Monica Portolan, Federico Fortuni, Filippo Ottani, Marcello Galvani, Laura Sofia Cardelli, Stefano De Servi, Andrea Rubboli, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Luigi Oltrona Visconti, Gianluca Campo
Original research: Beta-blocker effect on ST-segment: a prespecified analysis of the EARLY-BAMI randomised trial (14 December, 2020)
Enrico Fabris, Renicus Hermanides, Vincent Roolvink, Borja Ibanez, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Gonzalo Pizarro, Niels van Royen, Alonso Mateos-Rodriguez, Jan Henk Dambrink, Agustin Albarran, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Javier Botas, Wouter Remkes, Victoria Hernandez-Jaras, Elvin Kedhi, Jose Zamorano, Fernando Alfonso, Alberto García-Lledó, Maarten van Leeuwen, Robin Nijveldt, Sonja Postma, Evelien Kolkman, Marcel Gosselink, Bart de Smet, Saman Rasoul, Erik Lipsic, Jan J Piek, Valentin Fuster, Arnoud WJ van 't Hof
Original research: Coronary artery disease in patients hospitalised with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection (23 November, 2020)
Marco Loffi, Raffaele Piccolo, Valentina Regazzoni, Giuseppe Di Tano, Luigi Moschini, Debora Robba, Filippo Quinzani, Giovanni Esposito, Anna Franzone, Gian Battista Danzi
Original research: Do EXCEL and NOBLE translate into real world? A 5-year observational study of left main stem outcomes (29 October, 2020)
George Joy, Hany Eissa
Protocol: Angiographic control versus ischaemia-driven management of patients undergoing percutaneous revascularisation of the unprotected left main coronary artery with second-generation drug-eluting stents: rationale and design of the PULSE trial (29 October, 2020)
Ovidio De Filippo, Matteo Bianco, Matteo Tebaldi, Mario Iannaccone, Luca Gaido, Vincenzo Guiducci, Andrea Santarelli, Lorenzo Zaccaro, Alessandro Depaoli, Paolo Vaudano, Giorgio Quadri, Andrea Gagnor, Giacomo Boccuzzi, Federica Solitro, Giancarlo Cortese, Carla Guarnaccia, Davide Tore, Andrea Veltri, Luca Franchin, Filippo Angelini, Roberto Garbo, Massimo Giammaria, Ferdinando Varbella, Filippo Marchisio, Paolo Fonio, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Enrico Cerrato, Gianluca Campo, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo
Original research: Beta blockers versus calcium channel blockers for provocation of vasospastic angina after drug-eluting stent implantation: a multicentre prospective randomised trial (21 October, 2020)
Mitsuaki Sawano, Toshiomi Katsuki, Takeshi Kitai, Koichi Tamita, Kotaro Obunai, Yukinori Ikegami, Takafumi Yamane, Ikuko Ueda, Ayaka Endo, Yuichiro Maekawa, Akio Kawamura, Keiichi Fukuda, Shun Kohsaka
Original research: Patient perspectives of nuisance bleeding and adherence to dual antiplatelet therapy: a qualitative study (15 October, 2020)
Christalla Pithara, Maria Pufulete, Thomas W. Johnson, Sabi Redwood
Original research: Long-term impact of baseline anaemia on clinical outcomes following percutaneous coronary intervention in stable angina (1 October, 2020)
Line Davidsen, Kristian Hay Kragholm, Mette Aldahl, Christoffer Polcwiartek, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Peter Soegaard, Phillip Freeman
Original research: Higher risk of major adverse cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction in patients with schizophrenia (29 September, 2020)
Rubina Attar, Axel Wester, Sasha Koul, Svend Eggert, Christoffer Polcwiartek, Tomas Jernberg, David Erlinge, Pontus Andell
Original research: Prospective cohort study of elderly patients with coronary artery disease: impact of frailty on quality of life and outcome (28 September, 2020)
Shouaib Qayyum, Jennifer Ann Rossington, Raj Chelliah, Joseph John, Benjamin J Davidson, Richard M Oliver, Dumbor Ngaage, Mahmoud Loubani, Miriam J Johnson, Angela Hoye
Original research: Accuracy of telephone triage in primary care patients with chest discomfort: a cross-sectional study (21 September, 2020)
Loes TCM Wouters, Frans H Rutten, Daphne CA Erkelens, Esther De Groot, Roger AMJ Damoiseaux, Dorien LM Zwart
Original research: Left ventricular mass and myocardial scarring in women with hypertensive disorders of pregnancy (6 August, 2020)
Odayme Quesada, Ki Park, Janet Wei, Eileen Handberg, Chrisandra Shufelt, Margo Minissian, Galen Cook-Wiens, Parham Zarrini, Christine Pacheco, Balaji Tamarappoo, Louise E J Thomson, Daniel S Berman, Carl J Pepine, Noel Bairey Merz
Original research: Benefit of primary percutaneous coronary interventions in the elderly with ST segment elevation myocardial infarction (3 August, 2020)
Daniel Fernández-Bergés, Irene R Degano, Reyes Gonzalez Fernandez, Isaac Subirana, Joan Vila, Manuel Jiménez-Navarro, Silvia Perez-Fernandez, Mercé Roqué, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Francisco Fernandez-Aviles, Antonio Mayorga, Vicente Bertomeu-Gonzalez, Juan Sanchis, Marcos Rodríguez Esteban, Antonio Sanchez-Hidalgo, Esther Sanchez-Insa, Ane Elorriaga, Emad Abu Assi, Alberto Nuñez, Jose Manuel Garcia Ruiz, Pedro Morrondo Valdeolmillos, Daniel Bosch-Portell, Iñaki Lekuona, Andres Carrillo-Lopez, Alberto Zamora, Berta Vega-Hernandez, Javier Alameda Serrano, Catalina Rubert, Luis Ruiz-Valdepeñas, Laura Quintas, Luis Rodríguez-Padial, Jessica Vaquero, Luis Martinez Dolz, Jose A Barrabes, Pedro L Sanchez, Alessandro Sionis, Julio Martí-Almor, Roberto Elosua, Rosa-María Lidon, David Garcia-Dorado, Jaume Marrugat
Original research: Association of protein-energy wasting and inflammation status with mortality after coronary revascularisation in patients on haemodialysis (23 July, 2020)
Yoshitaka Kumada, Hideki Ishii, Satoru Oshima, Ryuta Ito, Norio Umemoto, Hiroshi Takahashi, Toyoaki Murohara
Original research: Pre-hospital One-Hour Troponin in a Low-Prevalence Population of Acute Coronary Syndrome: OUT-ACS study (22 July, 2020)
Tonje R Johannessen, Odd Martin Vallersnes, Sigrun Halvorsen, Anne Cecilie K. Larstorp, Ibrahimu Mdala, Dan Atar
Original research: Patients aged 80 years or older with non-ST-elevation myocardial infarction or unstable angina pectoris randomised to an invasive versus conservative strategy: angiographic and procedural results from the After Eighty study (22 July, 2020)
Nicolai Tegn, Christian Eek, Michael Abdelnoor, Lars Aaberge, Knut Endresen, Rita Skårdal, Erlend Sturle Berg, Lars Gullestad, Bjørn Bendz
Original research: No-reflow phenomenon and comparison to the normal-flow population postprimary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST elevation myocardial infarction: case–control study (NORM PPCI) (22 July, 2020)
Jennifer Ann Rossington, Eirini Sol, Konstantina Masoura, Konstantinos Aznaouridis, Raj Chelliah, Michael Cunnington, Benjamin Davison, Joseph John, Richard Oliver, Angela Hoye
Original research: Creatine kinase is associated with bleeding after myocardial infarction (16 July, 2020)
Lizzy Maritza Brewster, Jim Fernand

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research: Distractions in the cardiac catheterisation laboratory: impact for cardiologists and patient safety (2 December, 2020)
Kalaivani Mahadevan, Elena Cowan, Navneet Kalsi, Helena Bolam, Richard Arnett, Alex Hobson, Kaushik Guha, Geraint Morton, Peter A Brennan, Paul R Kalra
Review: Management principles in patients with COVID-19: perspectives from a growing global experience with emphasis on cardiovascular surveillance (9 November, 2020)
Gruschen R Veldtman, Mario Pirisi, Enrico Storti, Asad Roomi, Fadl Elmula M Fadl-Elmula, Olga Vriz, Sabahat Bokhari, Naser Ammash, Yezan Salam, Guang Zong Liu, Stefano Spinelli, Greta Barbieri, Shahrukh Hashmi
Review: Relationships between hyperinsulinaemia, magnesium, vitamin D, thrombosis and COVID-19: rationale for clinical management (16 September, 2020)
Isabella D Cooper, Catherine A P Crofts, James J DiNicolantonio, Aseem Malhotra, Bradley Elliott, Yvoni Kyriakidou, Kenneth H Brookler
Original research: Public knowledge of cardiovascular disease and response to acute cardiac events in three municipalities in Brazil (26 August, 2020)
Emily S Bartlett, Luisa S Flor, Danielle Souto Medeiros, Danny V Colombara, Casey K Johanns, Fernando Antonio Camargo Vaz, Shelley Wilson, Herbert C Duber
Original research: The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiology services (27 August, 2020)
Omar Fersia, Sue Bryant, Rachael Nicholson, Karen McMeeken, Carolyn Brown, Brenda Donaldson, Aaron Jardine, Valerie Grierson, Vanessa Whalen, Alistair Mackay
Original research: Economic evaluation of a dedicated cardiac resynchronisation therapy preassessment clinic (20 July, 2020)
Baldeep Singh Sidhu, Tiago Rua, Justin Gould, Bradley Porter, Benjamin Sieniewicz, Steven Niederer, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, Gerald Carr-White

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research: Diastolic index as a short-term prognostic factor in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (17 December, 2020)
Shiro Hoshida, Shungo Hikoso, Yukinori Shinoda, Koichi Tachibana, Tomoko Minamisaka, Shunsuke Tamaki, Masamichi Yano, Takaharu Hayashi, Akito Nakagawa, Yusuke Nakagawa, Takahisa Yamada, Yoshio Yasumura, Daisaku Nakatani, Yasushi Sakata
Review: Beneficial and harmful effects of sacubitril/valsartan in patients with heart failure: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials with meta-analysis and trial sequential analysis (30 November, 2020)
Emil Eik Nielsen, Joshua Buron Feinberg, Fan-Long Bu, Michael Hecht Olsen, Ilan Raymond, Frank Steensgaard-Hansen, Janus Christian Jakobsen
Original research: Clinical profile and prognostic factors of alcoholic cardiomyopathy in tribal and non-tribal population (24 November, 2020)
Ajit Dungdung, Abhinav Kumar, Rishi Tuhin Guria, Mukul Preetam, Ruth K Tara, Bindey Kumar, Mohammad Kamal Saba
Original research: Catheter ablation and mortality, stroke and heart failure readmission with atrial fibrillation (9 November, 2020)
Jannik Langtved Pallisgaard, Morten Lock Hansen, Anne-Marie Schjerning, Arne Johannessen, Thomas Alexander Gerds, Finn Gustafsson, Gunnar Hilmar Gislason, Chriatian Torp-Pedersen, Peter Karl Jacobsen, Søren Lund Kristensen, Lars Koeber, Anders Munch, Morten Schou
Original research: Percutaneous left ventricular assist support is associated with less pulmonary congestion and lower rate of pneumonia in patients with cardiogenic shock (1 November, 2020)
Sandra Haberkorn, Angelika Uwarow, Jean Haurand, Christian Jung, Malte Kelm, Ralf Westenfeld, Patrick Horn
Original research: Systematic review and meta-analysis of prolactin and iron deficiency in peripartum cardiomyopathy (15 October, 2020)
Sinaida Cherubin, Taylar Peoples, Jessica Gillard, Samira Lakhal-Littleton, Jennifer J Kurinczuk, Manisha Nair
Original research: Can myocardial work indices contribute to the exploration of patients with cardiac amyloidosis? (13 October, 2020)
Aénora Roger-Rollé, Eve Cariou, Khailène Rguez, Pauline Fournier, Yoan Lavie-Badie, Virginie Blanchard, Jérôme Roncalli, Michel Galinier, Didier Carrié, Olivier Lairez
Original research: Characteristics and outcome of patients with COVID-19 complicated by Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: case series with literature review (5 October, 2020)
Shruti Hegde, Rizwan Khan, Magdi Zordok, Michael Maysky
Original research: Real-world treatment switching to sacubitril/valsartan in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction: A cohort study (5 October, 2020)
Sashiananthan Ganesananthan, Nisar Shah, Parin Shah, Hossam Elsayed, Julie Phillips, Ann Parkes, Angharad Morgan, Zaheer Yousef

Interventional cardiology

Original research: Creatine kinase during non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes is associated with major bleeding (1 December, 2020)
Lizzy Maritza Brewster, Jim Fernand
Original research: COVID-19 pandemic and STEMI: pathway activation and outcomes from the pan-London heart attack group (26 October, 2020)
Callum D Little, Tushar Kotecha, Luciano Candilio, Richard J Jabbour, George B Collins, Asrar Ahmed, Michelle Connolly, Ritesh Kanyal, Ozan M Demir, Lucy O Lawson, Brian Wang, Sam Firoozi, James C Spratt, Divaka Perera, Philip MacCarthy, Miles Dalby, Ajay Jain, Simon J Wilson, Iqbal Malik, Roby Rakhit
Original research: Ultrathin-strut biodegradable polymer versus durable polymer drug-eluting stents: a meta-analysis (12 October, 2020)
Mohammad Riashad Monjur, Christian F Said, Paul Bamford, Michael Parkinson, Richard Szirt, Thomas Ford
Review: Non-hyperaemic pressure ratios to guide percutaneous coronary intervention (1 October, 2020)
Michael Michail, Udit Thakur, Ojas Mehta, John M Ramzy, Andrea Comella, Abdul Rahman Ihdayhid, James D Cameron, Stephen J Nicholls, Stephen P Hoole, Adam J Brown
Protocol: Value of FEops HEARTguide patient-specific computational simulations in the planning of left atrial appendage closure with the Amplatzer Amulet closure device: rationale and design of the PREDICT-LAA study (6 August, 2020)
Philippe Garot, Xavier Iriart, Adel Aminian, Joelle Kefer, Xavier Freixa, Ignacio Cruz-Gonzalez, Sergio Berti, Liesbeth Rosseel, Reda Ibrahim, Kasper Korsholm, Jacob Odenstedt, Jens-Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, Jaqueline Saw, Lars Sondergaard, Ole De Backer
Original research: Prehospital opioid dose and myocardial injury in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (22 July, 2020)
Himawan Fernando, Ziad Nehme, Karlheinz Peter, Stephen Bernard, Michael Stephenson, Janet Bray, Peter Cameron, Andris Ellims, Andrew Taylor, David M Kaye, Karen Smith, Dion Stub

Meta-analysis

Original research: Renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system inhibitors and the risk of mortality in patients with hypertension hospitalised for COVID-19: systematic review and meta-analysis (5 November, 2020)
Anna E Ssentongo, Paddy Ssentongo, Emily S Heilbrunn, Alain Lekoubou, Ping Du, Duanping Liao, John S Oh, Vernon M Chinchilli
Original research: Effects of adding ivabradine to usual care in patients with angina pectoris: a systematic review of randomised clinical trials with meta-analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis (12 October, 2020)
Mathias Maagaard, Emil Eik Nielsen, Naqash Javaid Sethi, Liang Ning, Si-hong Yang, Christian Gluud, Janus Christian Jakobsen
Original research: High-dose versus low-dose angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors in heart failure: systematic review and meta-analysis (20 August, 2020)
Celina Borges Migliavaca, Cinara Stein, Verônica Colpani, Bruna Eibel, Roberta Bgeginski, Marcus Vinicius Simões, Luiz Eduardo Rohde, Maicon Falavigna

Special populations

Original research: Pregnancy in a healthy population: dynamics of NTproBNP and hs-cTroponin T (19 October, 2020)
Eva Furenäs, Peter Eriksson, Ulla-Britt Wennerholm, Mikael Dellborg
Review: Hydroxychloroquine use in COVID-19: is the risk of cardiovascular toxicity justified? (19 August, 2020)
Alex Stevenson, Ali Kirresh, Samuel Conway, Laura White, Mahmood Ahmad, Callum Little
Original research: Role of the central autonomic nervous system intrinsic functional organisation and psychosocial factors in primary microvascular angina and Takotsubo syndrome (29 July, 2020)
Magdalena Maria Cattaneo, Emanuele Pravatà, Micol Provenzi, Marco Moccetti, Alain Kaelin, Isabella Sudano, Luigi Biasucci, Camilla Gallino, Costanzo Limoni, Carlo Calanchini, Augusto Gallino, Filippo Crea, Mattia Cattaneo

Valvular heart disease

Original research: Calculated plasma volume status predicts outcomes after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (23 December, 2020)
Annette Marie Maznyczka, Mohamad Barakat, Omar Aldalati, Mehdi Eskandari, Ann Wollaston, Vasileios Tzalamouras, Rafal Dworakowski, Ranjit Deshpande, Mark Monaghan, Jonathan Byrne, Olaf Wendler, Philip MacCarthy, Darlington Okonko
Original research: Patients’ characteristics and mortality in urgent/emergent/salvage transcatheter aortic valve replacement: insight from the OCEAN-TAVI registry (14 December, 2020)
Yusuke Enta, Masaki Miyasaka, Masataka Taguri, Norio Tada, Masaki Hata, Yusuke Watanabe, Toru Naganuma, Masahiro Yamawaki, Futoshi Yamanaka, Shinichi Shirai, Hiroshi Ueno, Kazuki Mizutani, Minoru Tabata, Kensuke Takagi, Masanori Yamamoto, Kentaro Hayashida
Original research: Predictors of paravalvular leak following implantation of the ACURATE neo transcatheter heart valve: the PREDICT PVL study (26 November, 2020)
Miriam Brinkert, Bart De Boeck, Simon F Stämpfli, Mathias Wolfrum, Federico Moccetti, Adrian Attinger-Toller, Matthias Bossard, Florim Cuculi, Richard Kobza, Stefan Toggweiler
Original research: Interscallop separations of the posterior mitral valve leaflet: a solution to the ‘borderline RHD’ conundrum? (5 November, 2020)
Luke David Hunter, Mark Monaghan, Guy Lloyd, Carl Lombard, Alfonso Jan Kemp Pecoraro, Anton Frans Doubell, Philipus George Herbst
Original research: Troponin T but not C reactive protein is associated with future surgery for aortic stenosis: a population-based nested case-referent study (13 October, 2020)
Anders Holmgren, Johan Ljungberg, Johan Hultdin, Bengt Johansson, Ingvar A Bergdahl, Ulf Näslund, Stefan Söderberg
Original research: Visualisation of the tricuspid valve using a new 3D echocardiographic scoring system (29 September, 2020)
Tanja Kücken, Sarah Tamm, Anja Haase-Fielitz, Christoph Roland Edlinger, Michael Neuss, Marwin Bannehr, Christian Butter
Original research: Differences in the presentation and management of patients with severe aortic stenosis in different European centres (15 September, 2020)
Matthias Lutz, David Messika-Zeitoun, Tanja K Rudolph, Eberhard Schulz, Jeetendra Thambyrajah, Guy Lloyd, Alexander Lauten, Norbert Frey, Jana Kurucova, Martin Thoenes, Cornelia Deutsch, Peter Bramlage, Richard Paul Steeds
Original research: Clinical outcomes following balloon aortic valvuloplasty (8 September, 2020)
Anda Bularga, Rong Bing, Anoop SV Shah, Philip D Adamson, Miles Behan, David E Newby, Andrew Flapan, Neal Uren, Nick Cruden
Original research: Characterisation of aortic stenosis severity: a retrospective analysis of echocardiography reports in a clinical laboratory (18 August, 2020)
Michael A Raddatz, Holly M Gonzales, Eric Farber-Eger, Quinn S Wells, Brian R Lindman, W David Merryman
Original research: Presentation and outcomes of mitral valve surgery in France in the recent era: a nationwide perspective (11 August, 2020)
David Messika-Zeitoun, Pascal Candolfi, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Ian G Burwash, Vincent Chan, Jean-Francois Philippon, Jean-Manuel Toussaint, Partrick Verta, Ted E Feldman, Bernard Iung, David Glineur, Jean-Francois Obadia, Alec Vahanian, Thierry Mesana
Original research: Impact of selected comorbidities on the presentation and management of aortic stenosis (23 July, 2020)
Tanja K. Rudolph, David Messika-Zeitoun, Norbert Frey, Jeetendra Thambyrajah, Antonio Serra, Eberhard Schulz, Jiri Maly, Marco Aiello, Guy Lloyd, Alessandro Santo Bortone, Alberto Clerici, Georg Delle-Karth, Johannes Rieber, Ciro Indolfi, Massimo Mancone, Loic Belle, Alexander Lauten, Martin Arnold, Berto J Bouma, Matthias Lutz, Cornelia Deutsch, Jana Kurucova, Martin Thoenes, Peter Bramlage, Richard P. Steeds
Original research: Heart team approach in treatment of mitral regurgitation: patient selection and outcome (19 July, 2020)
Mischa Külling, Roberto Corti, Georg Noll, Silke Küest, David Hürlimann, Christophe Wyss, Ivano Reho, Felix C Tanner, Jeremy Külling, Nicolai Meinshausen, Oliver Gaemperli, Peter Wenaweser, Sacha P Salzberg, Thierry Aymard, Jürg Grünenfelder, Patric Biaggi
Original research: Cardiac magnetic resonance systematically overestimates mitral regurgitations by the indirect method (15 July, 2020)
Litten Bertelsen, Niels Vejlstrup, Laura Andreasen, Morten Salling Olesen, Jesper Hastrup Svendsen
Original research: Impact of beta blockers on patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: the OCEAN-TAVI registry (7 July, 2020)
Tetsuya Saito, Nobuhiro Yoshijima, Hiromu Hase, Fumiaki Yashima, Hikaru Tsuruta, Hideyuki Shimizu, Keiichi Fukuda, Toru Naganuma, Kazuki Mizutani, Motoharu Araki, Norio Tada, Futoshi Yamanaka, Shinichi Shirai, Minoru Tabata, Hiroshi Ueno, Kensuke Takagi, Akihiro Higashimori, Yusuke Watanabe, Masanori Yamamoto, Kentaro Hayashida

Viewpoint

Social media in the era of COVID-19 (29 September, 2020)
Niti R Aggarwal, Mirvat Alasnag, Mamas A Mamas
Severe aortic stenosis patient risk during the COVID-19 pandemic (14 September, 2020)
Jasimuddin Ahamed
A patient-centred, comprehensive model for the care for heart failure: the 360° heart failure centre (5 July, 2020)
Ilia G Halatchev, Jay R McDonald, Wen-Chin Wu

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Table of contents

December 2020 - Volume 7 - 2

Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Cardiac surgery

Congenital heart disease

Coronary artery disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Meta-analysis

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Viewpoint

Correction

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Table of contents

December 2020 - Volume 7 - 2

Editorial

Aortic and vascular disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Cardiac surgery

Congenital heart disease

Coronary artery disease

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Interventional cardiology

Meta-analysis

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Viewpoint

Correction