Open Heart: 9 (1)

Editorial

Myo-inositol for insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, polycystic ovary syndrome and gestational diabetes (2 March, 2022)
James J DiNicolantonio, James H O'Keefe
Protecting against sedentary lifestyle, left atrial enlargement and atrial fibrillation (14 February, 2022)
Fabian Sanchis-Gomar, Carl J Lavie
Artificial intelligence and machine learning: the resurgence of the industrial revolution by robots (19 January, 2022)
Manal Alasnag, Yasmin Hanfi, Mirvat Alasnag
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: when should we say no? (5 January, 2022)
Mattia Lunardi, Ciara Kennedy, Akul Prabhakar, Darren Mylotte

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original research: Arrhythmia prevalence and sudden death risk in adults with the m.3243A>G mitochondrial disorder (7 April, 2022)
John P Bourke, Yi Shiau Ng, Margaret Tynan, Matthew G D Bates, Saidi Mohiddin, Doug Turnbull, Grainne S Gorman
Original research: Prospective arrhythmia surveillance after a COVID-19 diagnosis (20 January, 2022)
Thomas A Dewland, Isaac R Whitman, Sithu Win, Jose M Sanchez, Jeffrey E Olgin, Mark J Pletcher, Lekshmi Santhosh, Uday Kumar, Sean Joyce, Vivian Yang, Janet Hwang, Kelsey Ogomori, Noah Peyser, Cathy Horner, David Wen, Xochitl Butcher, Gregory M Marcus
Original research: Characteristics of anatomical difficulty for cryoballoon ablation: insights from CT (6 January, 2022)
Takahiro Hayashi, Masato Murakami, Shigeru Saito, Kiyotaka Iwasaki

Basic and translational research

Original research: Genome-wide association study-based prediction of atrial fibrillation using artificial intelligence (27 January, 2022)
Oh-Seok Kwon, Myunghee Hong, Tae-Hoon Kim, Inseok Hwang, Jaemin Shim, Eue-Keun Choi, Hong Euy Lim, Hee Tae Yu, Jae-Sun Uhm, Boyoung Joung, Seil Oh, Moon-Hyoung Lee, Young-Hoon Kim, Hui-Nam Pak

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original research: Use of lipid-lowering therapy after ischaemic stroke and expected benefit from intensification of treatment (22 April, 2022)
Mari Nordbø Gynnild, Steven H J Hageman, Olav Spigset, Stian Lydersen, Ingvild Saltvedt, Jannick A N Dorresteijn, Frank L J Visseren, Hanne Ellekjær
Original research: Association between espresso coffee and serum total cholesterol: the Tromsø Study 2015–2016 (10 May, 2022)
Åsne Lirhus Svatun, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Dag Steinar Thelle, Tom Wilsgaard
Original research: Innovative, centralised, multidisciplinary medicines optimisation clinic for PCSK9 inhibitors (7 April, 2022)
Rani Khatib, Mutiba Khan, Abigail Barrowcliff, Eunice Ikongo, Claire Burton, Michael Mansfield, Alistair Hall
Review: Acute myocarditis caused by COVID-19 disease and following COVID-19 vaccination (9 March, 2022)
Ran Kornowski, Guy Witberg
Original research: Young endurance training starting age in non-elite athletes is associated with higher proximal aortic distensibility (9 March, 2022)
Christoph P Ryffel, Prisca Eser, Thimo Marcin, Dario Herrsche, Nicolas Brugger, Lukas D Trachsel, Matthias Wilhelm
Original research: Associations between physical activity, left atrial size and incident atrial fibrillation: the Tromsø Study 1994–2016 (24 January, 2022)
Kim Arne Heitmann, Maja-Lisa Løchen, Michael Stylidis, Laila A Hopstock, Henrik Schirmer, Bente Morseth
Review: Environmental tobacco smoke and carotid intima–media thickness in healthy children and adolescents: a systematic review (6 January, 2022)
Dingbo Shu, Feng Chen, Chuan Zhang, Wentong Guo, Siyu Dai

Coronary artery disease

Original research: Peak troponin T in STEMI: a predictor of all-cause mortality and left ventricular function (23 May, 2022)
Natasha Khullar, Anthony James Buckley, Cormac O’Connor, Abdalla Ibrahim, Alsamawal Ibrahim, Catriona Ahern, Ciara Cahill, Samer Arnous, Thomas John Kiernan
Original research: Mindfulness-based intervention in patients with persistent pain in chest (MIPIC) of non-cardiac cause: a feasibility randomised control study (11 May, 2022)
Tarun Kumar Mittal, Emma Evans, Alison Pottle, Costas Lambropoulos, Charlotte Morris, Christina Surawy, Antony Chuter, Felicia Cox, Ranil de Silva, Mark Mason, Winston Banya, Diviash Thakrar, Peter Tyrer
Original research: Body iron stores had no impact on coronary heart disease outcomes: a middle-aged male cohort from the general population with 21-year follow-up (11 April, 2022)
Salim Bary Barywani, Erik Östgärd Thunström, Zacharias Mandalenakis, Per-Olof Hansson
Original research: Time trends in adherence to guideline recommendations for anticoagulation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation and myocardial infarction (6 April, 2022)
Jarle Jortveit, Edvard L Sandberg, Are Hugo Pripp, Sigrun Halvorsen
Original research: External validation of the GRACE risk score and the risk–treatment paradox in patients with acute coronary syndrome (30 March, 2022)
Niels M R van der Sangen, Jaouad Azzahhafi, Dean R P P Chan Pin Yin, Joyce Peper, Senna Rayhi, Ronald J Walhout, Melvyn Tjon Joe Gin, Deborah M Nicastia, Jorina Langerveld, Georgios J Vlachojannis, Rutger J van Bommel, Yolande Appelman, José P S Henriques, Jurriën M ten Berg, Wouter J Kikkert
Original research: Interoperator reliability of an on-site machine learning-based prototype to estimate CT angiography-derived fractional flow reserve (21 March, 2022)
Yushui Han, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Chris Schwemmer, Myra Cocker, Talal S Alnabelsi, Jean Michel Saad, Juan C Ramirez Giraldo, Mouaz H Al-Mallah
Review: Coenzyme Q10 deficiency can be expected to compromise Sirt1 activity (16 March, 2022)
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark F McCarty, James H O'Keefe
Original research: Impact of prior oral anticoagulant use and outcomes on patients from secondary analysis in the AUGUSTUS trial (16 February, 2022)
Robert C. Welsh, Payam Dehghani, Renato Lopes, Daniel M Wojdyla, Ronald Aronson, Christopher B Granger, Stephan Windecker, Amit N Vora, Dragos Vinereanu, Sigrun Halvorsen, Alexander Parkhomenko, Roxana Mehran, John H Alexander, Shaun Goodman
Original research: Impact of invasive aortic pulse pressure on coronary microvascular endothelial-independent dysfunction and on mortality in non-obstructive coronary artery disease (1 February, 2022)
Hyun Woong Park, Michel Corban, Takumi Toya, Ali Ahmad, Ilke Ozcan, Lilach Lerman, Amir Lerman
Original research: Association of coronary angiographic lesions and mortality in patients over 80 years with NSTEMI (31 January, 2022)
Anwar J Siddiqui, Elmir Omerovic, Martin J Holzmann, Felix Böhm
Original research: Prehospital identification of ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction and mortality (ANZACS-QI 61) (27 January, 2022)
Becky Yi-Wen Liao, Mildred Ai Wei Lee, Bridget Dicker, Verity F Todd, Ralph Stewart, Katrina Poppe, Andrew Kerr
Review: Health literacy interventions for secondary prevention of coronary artery disease: a scoping review (21 January, 2022)
Alison Beauchamp, Jason Talevski, Josef Niebauer, Johanna Gutenberg, Emmanuel Kefalianos, Barbara Mayr, Mahdi Sareban, Stefan Tino Kulnik
Original research: Trade-off of major bleeding versus myocardial infarction on mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (11 January, 2022)
Andrew Kei-Yan Ng, Pauline Yeung Ng, April Ip, Lap Tin Lam, Chung-Wah Siu

Interventional cardiology

Original research: Changing trends in the incidence, management and outcomes of coronary artery perforation over an 11-year period: single-centre experience (28 April, 2022)
Hamza Umar, Harish Sharma, Mohammed Osheiba, Ashwin Roy, Peter F Ludman, Jonathan N Townend, M Adnan Nadir, Sagar N Doshi, Sudhakar George, Alex Zaphiriou, Sohail Q Khan
Protocol: Tissue characterisation and primary percutaneous coronary intervention guidance using intravascular ultrasound: rationale and design of the SPECTRUM study (18 April, 2022)
Frederik T W Groenland, Karim D Mahmoud, Tara Neleman, Annemieke C Ziedses des Plantes, Alessandra Scoccia, Jurgen Ligthart, Karen T Witberg, Rutger-Jan Nuis, Wijnand K den Dekker, Jeroen M Wilschut, Roberto Diletti, Felix Zijlstra, Isabella Kardys, Paul Cummins, Nicolas M Van Mieghem, Joost Daemen
Original research: Prognostic value of microvascular resistance and its association to fractional flow reserve: a DEFINE-FLOW substudy (11 April, 2022)
Ashkan Eftekhari, Jelmer Westra, Valérie Stegehuis, Niels Ramsing Holm, Tim P van de Hoef, Richard L Kirkeeide, Jan J Piek, K Lance Gould, Nils P Johnson, Evald Høj Christiansen
Original research: Colchicine for symptomatic coronary artery disease after percutaneous coronary intervention (6 January, 2022)
Kah Long Aw, Amanda Koh, Han Lin Lee, Aurimas Kudzinskas, Rodney De Palma

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Original research: Parametric mapping CMR for the measurement of inflammatory reactions of the pericardium (26 May, 2022)
Mareike Gastl, Justyna M Sokolska, Malgorzata Polacin, Alexander Gotschy, Jochen von Spiczak Brzezinski, Hatem Alkadhi, Sebastian Kozerke, Robert Manka
Original research: Impact of dapagliflozin treatment on renal function and diuretics use in acute heart failure: a pilot study (24 May, 2022)
Kristina Charaya, Dmitry Shchekochikhin, Denis Andreev, Irina Dyachuk, Svetlana Tarasenko, Maria Poltavskaya, Dinara Mesitskaya, Alexandra Bogdanova, Natalia Ananicheva, Alina Kuzub
Original research: Early-onset cardiac dysfunction following allogeneic haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (20 May, 2022)
Shohei Moriyama, Mitsuhiro Fukata, Michinari Hieda, Taku Yokoyama, Goichi Yoshimoto, Hitoshi Kusaba, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Toshihiro Miyamoto, Toru Maruyama, Koichi Akashi
Original research: Clinical presentations leading to arrhythmogenic left ventricular cardiomyopathy (20 April, 2022)
Maddalena Graziosi, Raffaello Ditaranto, Claudio Rapezzi, Ferdinando Pasquale, Luigi Lovato, Ornella Leone, Vanda Parisi, Luciano Potena, Valentina Ferrara, Matteo Minnucci, Angelo Giuseppe Caponetti, Chiara Chiti, Alessandra Ferlini, Francesca Gualandi, Cesare Rossi, Alessandra Berardini, Giacomo Tini, Matteo Bertini, Matteo Ziacchi, Mauro Biffi, Nazzareno Galie, Iacopo Olivotto, Elena Biagini
Original research: Prognostic value of cardiac biomarkers and National Early Warning Score 2 in acute dyspnoea (6 April, 2022)
Kristian Berge, Jon Brynildsen, Ragnhild Røysland, Heidi Strand, Geir Christensen, Arne Didrik Høiseth, Torbjorn Omland, Helge Røsjø, Magnus Nakrem Lyngbakken
Original research: Changes in heart failure management and long-term mortality over 10 years: observational study (30 March, 2022)
Alex Bottle, Roger Newson, Puji Faitna, Benedict Hayhoe, Martin R Cowie
Original research: Novel tech throws knock-out punch to ECG improving GP referral decisions to cardiology (21 February, 2022)
Simone Calcagno, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Tatjana Stankovic, Erzsebet Szabo, Aniko Berta Szabo, Istvan Kecskes
Original research: Copper chelation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (15 February, 2022)
Anna Reid, Christopher Miller, John Peter Farrant, Rahul Polturi, David Clark, Simon Ray, Garth Cooper, Matthias Schmitt
Original research: Direct and indirect effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on patients with cardiomyopathy (27 January, 2022)
Daniel J Hammersley, Rachel J Buchan, Amrit S Lota, Lukas Mach, Richard E Jones, Brian P Halliday, Upasana Tayal, Devendra Meena, Abbas Dehghan, Ioanna Tzoulaki, A John Baksi, Antonis Pantazis, Angharad M Roberts, Sanjay K Prasad, James S Ware
Original research: Diastolic dysfunction in people with HIV without known cardiovascular risk factors in Western Kenya (21 January, 2022)
Bethel Woldu, Tecla M Temu, Nicholas Kirui, Bridgette Christopher, Samson Ndege, Wendy S Post, Jemima Kamano, Gerald S Bloomfield
Original research: Prevalence of cardiotropic viruses in adults with clinically suspected myocarditis in South Africa (19 January, 2022)
Karim Hassan, Charles Kyriakakis, Anton Doubell, Gert Van Zyl, Mathilda Claassen, Dan Zaharie, Philip Herbst
Original research: Characteristics of circulatory failure after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: a prospective cohort study (19 January, 2022)
Halvor Langeland, Daniel Bergum, Magnus Løberg, Knut Bjørnstad, Thomas R Skaug, Trond Nordseth, Pål Klepstad, Nils Kristian Skjærvold

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Original research: Genesis of improved quality in imaging through a national Australian echocardiography registry (9 May, 2022)
David Eccleston, Gregory Scalia, Leighton Kearney, David Cross, Daniel Cehic, Patrick Disney, Xiao-Fang Xu, Peter Cain, Piyush M Srivastava
Original research: Feasibility, efficacy and safety of exercise stress echocardiography during the COVID-19 pandemic (20 April, 2022)
Reinette Hampson, Christina Botrous, Navtej Chahal, Roxy Senior
Original research: Cost-effectiveness in diagnosis of stable angina patients: a decision-analytical modelling approach (4 April, 2022)
Muhummad Sohaib Nazir, Yael Rodriguez-Guadarrama, Tiago Rua, Khan Ha Bui, Anna Buylova Gola, Amedeo Chiribiri, Paul McCrone, Sven Plein, Mark Pennington
Original research: Drivers and outcomes of variation in surgical versus transcatheter aortic valve replacement in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study (31 January, 2022)
Rafael N Miranda, Feng Qiu, Ragavie Manoragavan, Stephen Fremes, Sandra Lauck, Louise Sun, Christopher Tarola, Derrick Y Tam, Mamas Mamas, Harindra C Wijeysundera

Meta-analysis

Original research: Thromboembolic events in left ventricular non-compaction: comparison between children and adults – a systematic review and meta-analysis (25 May, 2022)
Keiichi Hirono, Shinya Takarada, Nariaki Miyao, Hideyuki Nakaoka, Keijiro Ibuki, Sayaka Ozawa, Hideki Origasa, Fukiko Ichida
Original research:
Comparative efficacy and safety of oral P2Y₁₂ inhibitors after non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: a network meta-analysis
(15 April, 2022)
Ioannis T Farmakis, Stefanos Zafeiropoulos, Ioannis Doundoulakis, Areti Pagiantza, Efstratios Karagiannidis, Dimitrios V Moysidis, Nikolaos Stalikas, George Kassimis, Lampros K Michalis, Haralambos Karvounis, George Giannakoulas
Original research: Diagnostic validity and clinical utility of genetic testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (6 April, 2022)
Susan Christian, Allison Cirino, Brittany Hansen, Stephanie Harris, Andrea M Murad, Jaime L Natoli, Jennifer Malinowski, Melissa A Kelly
Original research: Medication-taking for secondary prevention of acute myocardial infarction: a thematic meta-synthesis of patient experiences (4 March, 2022)
Hannah Piekarz, Catherine Langran, Amna Raza, Parastou Donyai

Pulmonary vascular disease

Original research: Predicting Group II pulmonary hypertension: diagnostic accuracy of the H2FPEF and OPTICS scores in Scotland (27 April, 2022)
Harrison Stubbs, Alexander MacLellan, Michael McGettrick, Bhautesh Jani, Melanie Brewis, Colin Church, Martin Johnson
Original research: Prevalence and haemodynamic profiles of pulmonary hypertension in cardiac amyloidosis (4 March, 2022)
Jeremy Slivnick, Karolina M Zareba, Juliet Varghese, Vien Truong, Alexander L Wallner, Matthew S Tong, Christopher Hummel, Wojciech Mazur, Saurabh Rajpal

Special populations

Original research: Modified Duke/European Society of Cardiology 2015 clinical criteria for infective endocarditis: time for an update? (9 May, 2022)
Alfonso Jan Kemp Pecoraro, Philipus George Herbst, Colette Pienaar, Jantjie Taljaard, Hans Prozesky, Jacques Janson, Anton Frans Doubell
Original research: Evaluating the role of transthoracic echocardiography in hospitalised patients with COVID-19 infection (9 May, 2022)
Aswin Babu, Zhaoyi Meng, Nadia Eden, Daniel Lamb, Jan Nouza, Raghav Bhatia, Irina Chis Ster, Jonathan Bennett, Victor Voon
Original research: Statins are associated with a large reduction in all-cause mortality in women from a cardiac outpatient population (20 April, 2022)
Sophie H Bots, N Charlotte Onland-Moret, Milena Jancev, Monika Hollander, Igor I Tulevski, Leonard Hofstra, G Aernoud Somsen, Hester M den Ruijter
Original research: Comparison of cardiac CT angiography coronary artery dimensions and ethnicity in Trinidad: the CADET pilot study (30 March, 2022)
Tonya Welch, Fidel Rampersad, Shastri Motilal, Naveen Anand Seecheran
Original research: Cardiac and obstetric outcomes in pregnant women with heart disease: appraisal of the 2018 mWHO classification (24 March, 2022)
Sara Ornaghi, Nicolo' Bellante, Alessandra Abbamondi, Marzia Maini, Francesca Cesana, Margherita Trabucchi, Davide Corsi, Viola Arosio, Silvana Mariani, Antonietta Scian, Elisabetta Colciago, Maddalena Lettino, Patrizia Vergani
Original research: Reliability and agreement of point-of-care carotid artery examinations by experts using hand-held ultrasound devices in patients with ischaemic stroke or transitory ischaemic attack (1 February, 2022)
Lars Mølgaard Saxhaug, Torbjorn Graven, Øystein Olsen, Jens Olaf Kleinau, Kyrre Skjetne, Hanne Ellekjær, Havard Dalen

Valvular heart disease

Original research: Management of asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis (17 May, 2022)
Vasiliki Tsampasian, Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, Abraham Edgar Gracia Ramos, George Asimakopoulos, Pankaj Garg, Sanjay Prasad, Liam Ring, Gerry P McCann, James Rudd, Marc R Dweck, Vassilios S Vassiliou
Original research: Clinical, functional and prognostic implications of severe atrial dilation in secondary mitral regurgitation (5 April, 2022)
Habib Layoun, Amgad Mentias, Emmanuel Akintoye, Milad Matta, Chris Kanaan, Remy Daou, Jay Ramchand, Daniel Burns, A Marc Gillinov, Sanjeeb Bhattacharya, Rishi Puri, Patrick Collier, Brian Griffin, Samir Kapadia, Serge C Harb
Review: Ferulic acid and berberine, via Sirt1 and AMPK, may act as cell cleansing promoters of healthy longevity (17 March, 2022)
James J DiNicolantonio, Mark F McCarty, Simon Iloki Assanga, Lidianys Lewis Lujan, James H O'Keefe
Review: Moderate aortic stenosis: culprit or bystander? (24 January, 2022)
Varayini Pankayatselvan, Inbar Raber, David Playford, Simon Stewart, Geoff Strange, Jordan B Strom
Original research: Occurrence and predictors of pericardial effusion requiring invasive treatment following heart valve surgery (21 January, 2022)
Britt Borregaard, Kirstine Lærum Sibilitz, Marc Gjern Weiss, Ola Ekholm, Emilie Karense Lykking, Stine Nørris Nielsen, Lars Peter Riber, Jordi Sanchez Dahl, Jacob Eifer Moller
Original research: Uncovering the treatable burden of severe aortic stenosis in the UK (26 January, 2022)
Geoffrey A Strange, Simon Stewart, Nick Curzen, Simon Ray, Simon Kendall, Peter Braidley, Keith Pearce, Renzo Pessotto, David Playford, Huon H Gray
Original research: Risk prediction in patients with low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis and reduced ejection fraction undergoing TAVI (5 January, 2022)
Sebastian Ludwig, Alina Goßling, Moritz Seiffert, Dirk Westermann, Jan-Malte Sinning, Atsushi Sugiura, Matti Adam, Victor Mauri, Derk Frank, Hatim Seoudy, Tanja Rudolph, Max Potratz, Lenard Conradi, Niklas Schofer

Viewpoint

Early invasive strategy (< 24 hours) in patients with acute coronary syndromes: weighing the evidence (16 March, 2022)
Samuele Nanni, Tullio Palmerini, Anna Corsini, Franco Semprini, Nazzareno Galiè
Women leaders: transforming the culture in cardiology (28 February, 2022)
Parham Eshtehardi, Renee P Bullock-Palmer, Katia Bravo-Jaimes, Biykem Bozkurt, Sharmila Dorbala, Linda D Gillam, Cindy L Grines, Roxana Mehran, Jennifer H Mieres, Toniya Singh, Nanette K Wenger

Correction

Correction: Novel tech throws knock-out punch to ECG improving GP referral decisions to cardiology
(24 March, 2022)
Correction: Analysis of weekend effect on 30-day mortality among patients with acute myocardial infarction
(27 January, 2022) Free
Correction: Higher chances of survival to hospital admission after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in patients with previously diagnosed heart disease
(25 January, 2022)

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February 2022 - Volume 9 - 1

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Arrhythmias and sudden death

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Interventional cardiology

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Meta-analysis

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February 2022 - Volume 9 - 1

Editorial

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Basic and translational research

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Coronary artery disease

Interventional cardiology

Heart failure and cardiomyopathies

Health care delivery, economics and global health care

Meta-analysis

Pulmonary vascular disease

Special populations

Valvular heart disease

Viewpoint

Correction