February 01, 2015

Non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants (NOACs) for stroke prevention in Asian patients with atrial fibrillation: Time for a reappraisal

• Gregory Y.H. Lip,
• Kang-Ling Wang,
• Chern-En Chiang

Digoxin treatment is associated with increased total and cardiovascular mortality in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation

• Daniele Pastori,
• Alessio Farcomeni,
• Tommaso Bucci,
• ...
• Tommasa Vicario,
• Francesco Violi,
• Pasquale Pignatelli

Automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation using a load-distributing band external cardiac support device for in-hospital cardiac arrest: A single centre experience of AutoPulse-CPR

• J.R. Spiro,
• S. White,
• N. Quinn,
• ...
• P.F. Ludman,
• J.N. Townend,
• S.N. Doshi

A retinal snap shot may indicate individual risk for cardiovascular disease — The MIPH Eye&Health Study

• Alexander Karl-Georg Schuster,
• Joachim Ernst Fischer,
• Urs Vossmerbaeumer

Determinants of the direct cost of heart failure hospitalization in a public tertiary hospital

• John Parissis,
• Kostas Athanasakis,
• Dimitrios Farmakis,
• ...
• John Kyriopoulos,
• Gerasimos Filippatos,
• John Lekakis

Long-term outcome of multiform premature ventricular complexes in structurally normal heart

• Chin-Yu Lin,
• Shih-Lin Chang,
• Yenn-Jiang Lin,
• ...
• Yaoting Chang,
• Chuen-Wang Chiou,
• Shih-Ann Chen

Resting heart rate and risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes in asymptomatic aortic stenosis: The SEAS study

• Anders M. Greve,
• Casper N. Bang,
• Ronan M.G. Berg,
• ...
• Richard B. Devereux,
• Lars Køber,
• Kristian Wachtell

Mid-regional proadrenomedullin levels predict recurrence of atrial fibrillation after catheter ablation

• Abdul S. Parwani,
• Stephan von Haehling,
• Ana I. Kolodziejski,
• ...
• Hubert Scharnagl,
• Wilhelm Haverkamp,
• Leif-Hendrik Boldt

Ellagic acid prevents monocrotaline-induced pulmonary artery hypertension via inhibiting NLRP3 inflammasome activation in rats

• Bing Tang,
• Guang-xian Chen,
• Meng-ya Liang,
• Jian-ping Yao,
• Zhong-kai Wu

Prognostic impact of global left ventricular hemodynamic afterload in severe aortic stenosis with preserved ejection fraction

• Julien Magne,
• Dania Mohty,
• Cyrille Boulogne,
• ...
• Philippe Lacroix,
• Patrice Virot,
• Victor Aboyans

Incidence of high blood pressure in children — Effects of physical activity and sedentary behaviors: The IDEFICS study

High blood pressure, lifestyle and children

• Augusto César Ferreira de Moraes,
• Heráclito Barbosa Carvalho,
• Alfonso Siani,
• ...
• Yannis Pitsiladis,
• Luis A. Moreno
• on behalf of the IDEFICS consortium

The impact of elevated blood pressure on exercise capacity in elite athletes

• Sanja Mazic,
• Jelena Suzic Lazic,
• Milica Dekleva,
• ...
• Milivoje Lazic,
• Biljana Lazovic,
• Slavica Suzic

The safety and efficacy of vitamin K antagonist in patients with atrial fibrillation and liver cirrhosis

• Seung-Jun Lee,
• Jae-Sun Uhm,
• Jong-Youn Kim,
• Hui-Nam Pak,
• Moon-Hyoung Lee,
• Boyoung Joung

Short-coupled polymorphic ventricular tachycardia at rest linked to a novel ryanodine receptor (RyR2) mutation: Leaky RyR2 channels under non-stress conditions

• Jim W. Cheung,
• Albano C. Meli,
• Wenjun Xie,
• ...
• Alain Lacampagne,
• Bruce B. Lerman,
• Andrew R. Marks

Impact of multi-electrode renal sympathetic denervation on short-term blood pressure variability in patients with drug-resistant hypertension. Insights from the EnligHTN I study

• Costas Tsioufis,
• Vasilios Papademetriou,
• Dimitris Tsiachris,
• ...
• Christodoulos Stefanadis,
• Gianfranco Parati,
• Stephen Worthley

Does comedy kill? A retrospective, longitudinal cohort, nested case–control study of humour and longevity in 53 British comedians

• Simon Stewart,
• David R. Thompson

Diabetes and poor glycaemic control in rural patients with coronary artery disease

• Catherine Ngan,
• Ya-Chu May Tsai,
• Dharshan Palasubramaniam,
• ...
• Jamie Layland,
• Robert Whitbourn,
• Andrew Wilson

Low basal expression of A_2A adenosine receptors and increase in adenosine plasma concentration are associated with positive exercise stress testing

• Régis Guieu,
• Nathalie Kipson,
• J. Ruf,
• ...
• Emmanuel Fenouillet,
• Laurent Bonello,
• Franck Paganelli

The Notch ligand Delta-like 1 is elevated and associated with mortality in patients with symptomatic aortic stenosis

• Aurelija Abraityte,
• Lars Gullestad,
• Erik Tandberg Askevold,
• ...
• Sven Aakhus,
• Pål Aukrust,
• Thor Ueland

Three-vessel coronary artery disease evaluation by multimodality imaging with near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) plus intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) and optical coherence tomography (OCT)

• Enrico Fabris,
• Ismail Dogu Kilic,
• Gianluca Caiazzo,
• Roberta Serdoz,
• Gianfranco Sinagra,
• Carlo Di Mario

Myocardial infarction associated with patent foramen ovale and paradoxical embolism: A case series

• Ulf Neisius,
• David B. Northridge,
• Nicholas L. Cruden,
• Martin A. Denvir

Myocardial infarction from isolated coronary artery vasculitis in a young patient: A rare case

• Ryan Markham,
• Atifur Rahman,
• Shayan Tai,
• Ian Hamilton-Craig,
• Christian Hamilton-Craig

Increased urine output by ipragliflozin in a non-diabetic patient with a diuretic-resistant heart failure

• Akinori Sairaku,
• Yukiko Nakano,
• Yasuki Kihara

Don't blindly trust in BNP concentration: A case of constrictive pericarditis

• Radosław Grabysa,
• Tomasz Widawski,
• Piotr Przelaskowski

Incomplete stent apposition and very late stent thrombosis after everolimus eluting stent implantation and dual antiplatelet therapy interruption. A case of OCT guided therapy

• Pamela Gatto,
• Nicolas Dumonteil,
• Nicolas Boudou,
• ...
• Thibault Lhermusier,
• Antonio Bartorelli,
• Didier Carrié

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction causing myocardial ischemia

• Julie He,
• Brian Malm

Red blood cell distribution width and left atrial thrombus or spontaneous echo contrast in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation

• Jianping Zhao,
• Tong Liu,
• Panagiotis Korantzopoulos,
• ...
• Yanmin Xu,
• Changyu Zhou,
• Guangping Li

A simple pre-procedural risk score for contrast-induced nephropathy among patients with chronic total occlusion undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

• Yong Liu,
• Yuan-hui Liu,
• Ji-yan Chen,
• ...
• Wei Guo,
• Chong-yang Duan,
• Ping-Yan Chen

Impassable brachiocephalic tortuosity in right transradial access: Overcoming the curves with the pigtail catheter

• Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias,
• Xavier Carrillo,
• Oriol Rodriguez-Leor,
• Josepa Mauri,
• Antoni Bayes-Genis

High-intensity statin monotherapy versus moderate-intensity statin plus ezetimibe therapy: Effects on vascular biomarkers

• C.E.S. Ferreira,
• C.N. França,
• M.C.O. Izar,
• L.M. Camargo,
• R.M. Roman,
• F.A.H. Fonseca

Resistant hypertension: Four years of follow-up of an unusual course after renal denervation in a patient with end stage renal disease

• Dirk Prochnau,
• Hans R. Figulla,
• Ralf Surber

Persistent peripheral arteritis long after Kawasaki disease — Another documentation of ongoing vascular inflammation

• Kenji Suda,
• Nobuhiro Tahara,
• Akihiro Honda,
• ...
• Hidetoshi Akashi,
• Hiroyuki Tanaka,
• Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Phrenic nerve lesion: A potential complication of the nMARQ ablation technique

• José David Arroja,
• Marc Zimmermann

A case of apical ballooning years before Takotsubo cardiomyopathy was first mentioned in 1991 in association with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

• Stefan Peters

Assessment of DNA damage associated with standard or contrast diagnostic echocardiography

• Nicola Gaibazzi,
• Nicola Marziliano,
• Thomas R. Porter,
• ...
• Maria Antonietta Demola,
• Claudio Reverberi,
• Diego Ardissino

Severe rhabdomyolysis after MIHA-bodytec® electrostimulation with previous mild hyper-CK-emia and noncompaction

• Josef Finsterer,
• Claudia Stöllberger

Impact of depression on incident stroke: A meta-analysis

• Min Li,
• Xiao-Wei Zhang,
• Wen-Shang Hou,
• Zhen-Yu Tang