European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Manuel J. Antunes

Percutaneous aortic valve implantation. The demise of classical aortic valve replacement?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1339-1341; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn180 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Kindermann and Michael Böhm

Sweet hearts die earlier—lessons from CHARM
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 7, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1342-1343; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn203 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natasja M.S. de Groot and Martin J. Schalij

Foetal echocardiography: tool to predict the future of patients with congenital heart defects?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1344-1345; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn200 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

REVIEW

Get checked abstract Norman Briffa

Off pump coronary artery bypass: a passing fad or ready for prime time?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 16, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1346-1349; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Andrzej Ciszewski, Zofia T. Bilinska, Lidia B. Brydak, Cezary Kepka, Mariusz Kruk, Magdalena Romanowska, Ewa Ksiezycka, Jakub Przyluski, Walerian Piotrowski, Renata Maczynska, and Witold Ruzyllo

Influenza vaccination in secondary prevention from coronary ischaemic events in coronary artery disease: FLUCAD study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1350-1358; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm581 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Seung Hwan Han, Jang Ho Bae, David R. Holmes, Jr, Ryan J. Lennon, Eric Eeckhout, Gregory W. Barsness, Charanjit S. Rihal, and Amir Lerman

Sex differences in atheroma burden and endothelial function in patients with early coronary atherosclerosis
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 18, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1359-1369; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn142 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jeroen B. van der Net, Jeroen van Etten, Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Geesje M. Dallinga-Thie, John J.P. Kastelein, Joep C. Defesche, Richard P. Koopmans, Ewout W. Steyerberg, and Eric J.G. Sijbrands

Gene-load score of the renin–angiotensin–aldosterone system is associated with coronary heart disease in familial hypercholesterolaemia
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1370-1376; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn154 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy

Get checked abstract Michael R. MacDonald, Mark C. Petrie, Fumi Varyani, Jan Östergren, Eric L. Michelson, James B. Young, Scott D. Solomon, Christopher B. Granger, Karl Swedberg, Salim Yusuf, Marc A. Pfeffer, and John J.V. McMurray and for the CHARM Investigators

Impact of diabetes on outcomes in patients with low and preserved ejection fraction heart failure: An analysis of the Candesartan in Heart failure: Assessment of Reduction in Mortality and morbidity (CHARM) programme
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1377-1385; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn153 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Caroline E. Veltman, Osama I.I. Soliman, Marcel L. Geleijnse, Wim B. Vletter, Pieter C. Smits, Folkert J. ten Cate, Luc J. Jordaens, Aggie H.H.M. Balk, Patrick W. Serruys, Eric Boersma, Ron T. van Domburg, and Wim J. van der Giessen

Four-year follow-up of treatment with intramyocardial skeletal myoblasts injection in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1386-1396; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn171 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology

Get checked abstract Carsten Schneider, Rainer Malisius, Korff Krause, Friedrun Lampe, Edda Bahlmann, Sigrid Boczor, Matthias Antz, Sabine Ernst, and Karl-Heinz Kuck

Strain rate imaging for functional quantification of the left atrium: atrial deformation predicts the maintenance of sinus rhythm after catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1397-1409; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn168 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valvular heart disease

Get checked abstract Fleur Descoutures, Dominique Himbert, Laurent Lepage, Bernard Iung, Delphine Détaint, Didier Tchetche, Eric Brochet, Yves Castier, Jean-Pol Depoix, Patrick Nataf, and Alec Vahanian

Contemporary surgical or percutaneous management of severe aortic stenosis in the elderly
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 6, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1410-1417; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn081 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology

Get checked abstract Robert Byrne, Orla Constant, Yvonne Smyth, Grace Callagy, Patrick Nash, Kieran Daly, and James Crowley

Multiple source surveillance incidence and aetiology of out-of-hospital sudden cardiac death in a rural population in the West of Ireland
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1418-1423; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn155 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Congenital heart disease

Get checked abstract Lydi M.J.W. van Driel, Huberdina P.M. Smedts, Willem A. Helbing, Aaron Isaacs, Jan Lindemans, André G. Uitterlinden, Cornelia M. van Duijn, Jeanne H.M. de Vries, Eric A.P. Steegers, and Regine P.M. Steegers-Theunissen

Eight-fold increased risk for congenital heart defects in children carrying the nicotinamide N-methyltransferase polymorphism and exposed to medicines and low nicotinamide
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 25, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1424-1431; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn170 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Florentia Kaguelidou, Laurent Fermont, Younes Boudjemline, Jérôme Le Bidois, Alain Batisse, and Damien Bonnet

Foetal echocardiographic assessment of tetralogy of Fallot and post-natal outcome
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 8, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1432-1438; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn194 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vascular medicine

Get checked abstract Toru Suzuki, Alessandro Distante, Antonella Zizza, Santi Trimarchi, Massimo Villani, Jorge Antonio Salerno Uriarte, Luigi de Luca Tupputi Schinosa, Attilio Renzulli, Federico Sabino, Richard Nowak, Robert Birkhahn, Judd E. Hollander, Francis Counselman, Eduardo Bossone, and Kim Eagle on behalf of the International Registry of Acute Aortic Dissection Substudy on Biomarkers (IRAD-Bio) Investigators

Preliminary experience with the smooth muscle troponin-like protein, calponin, as a novel biomarker for diagnosing acute aortic dissection
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 24, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1439-1445; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular surgery

Get checked abstract Loes M.A. Klieverik, Jos A. Bekkers, Jolien W. Roos, M.J.C. Eijkemans, Goris Bol Raap, Ad. J.J.C. Bogers, and Johanna J.M. Takkenberg

Autograft or allograft aortic valve replacement in young adult patients with congenital aortic valve disease
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on January 18, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1446-1453; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm589 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ayyaz Ali, Yasir Abu-Omar, Amit Patel, Ziad Ali, Ahmad Y. Sheikh, Asim Akhtar, Aleksandra Pavlovic, Panagiotis Theodorou, Thanos Athanasiou, and John Pepper

Valve failure following homograft aortic valve replacement: does implantation technique have an effect?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 2, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1454-1462; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

SPECIAL ARTICLE

Get checked abstract Alec Vahanian, Ottavio Alfieri, Nawwar Al-Attar, Manuel Antunes, Jeroen Bax, Bertrand Cormier, Alain Cribier, Peter De Jaegere, Gerard Fournial, Arie Pieter Kappetein, Jan Kovac, Susanne Ludgate, Francesco Maisano, Neil Moat, Friedrich Mohr, Patrick Nataf, Luc Piérard, José Luis Pomar, Joachim Schofer, Pilar Tornos, Murat Tuzcu, Ben van Hout, Ludwig K. Von Segesser, and Thomas Walther

Transcatheter valve implantation for patients with aortic stenosis: a position statement from the European Association of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), in collaboration with the European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 12, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1463-1470; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn183 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Nick Clappers, Marc A. Brouwer, and Freek W.A. Verheugt

How to react to high platelet reactivity?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1471; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn158 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Matthew J. Price

How to react to high platelet reactivity?: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1471-1472; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn159 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ismail Biyik

Mild renal dysfunction associated with incident coronary artery disease in young males (from MELANY Study Investigators)
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1472; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn160 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Pereg

Mild renal dysfunction associated with incident coronary artery disease in young males (from MELANY Study Investigators): reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 14, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1472-1473; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn161 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hans Van Brabandt

Recommendations or mere prose?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1473; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn176 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen Schroeder, Stephan Achenbach, Frank Bengel, Christof Burgstahler, Filippo Cademartiri, Pim J. de Feyter, Richard George, Philipp Kaufmann, Andreas F. Kopp, Juhani Knuuti, Dieter Ropers, Joanne Schuijf, Laurens F. Tops, and Jeroen J. Bax

Recommendations or mere prose?: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1473-1474; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn177 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Nina Ghosh, Gillian Nesbitt, Anthony Rocca, Jagdish Butany, Yves Provost, and Heather Ross

An unappetizing dog bone: cardiac sarcoidosis presenting with heart block and unusual left ventricular bulging
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 7, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1358; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm572 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenichi Fujii, Motomaru Masutani, and Mitsumasa Ohyanagi

Contribution of organized thrombus to in-stent restenosis after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation: optical coherence tomography findings
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 12, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1385; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm570 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Patrizio Pascale, John O. Prior, Pierre-Nicolas Carron, Etienne Pruvot, and Olivier Muller

Haemoptysis and complete atrioventricular block
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 22, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1396; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm579 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rafael Romaguera, Rafael Paya, Francisco Ridocci, and Jordi Estornell

Ventricular septal defect as casual finding in non-invasive CT-angiography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on December 15, 2007
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1438; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm580 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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