December 15, 2015

The diagnostic value of transthoracic echocardiography for eosinophilic myocarditis: A single center experience from China

• Mingxing Xie,
• Tsung O. Cheng,
• Hongwen Fei,
• ...
• Ling Li,
• Yali Yang,
• Oudi Chen

Impact Factor: Vagaries, inconsistencies and illogicalities; should it be abandoned?

• Andrew J. Stewart Coats,
• Louise G. Shewan

Acrimonious acronymania

• Tsung O. Cheng

Absorb bioresorbable vascular scaffold: What have we learned after 5 years of clinical experience?

• Gianluca Caiazzo,
• Ismail Dogu Kilic,
• Enrico Fabris,
• ...
• Salvatore De Rosa,
• Ciro Indolfi,
• Carlo Di Mario

Unresolved issues in the management of chronic stable angina

• A. John Camm,
• Athanasios Manolis,
• Giuseppe Ambrosio,
• ...
• Alessandro Mugelli,
• Franco Muggli,
• Juan Tamargo

In-hospital management of acute heart failure: Practical recommendations and future perspectives

• Dimitrios Farmakis,
• John Parissis,
• Apostolos Karavidas,
• ...
• Gerasimos Filippatos,
• John Lekakis
• Collaborators

Bicuspid aortic valve aortopathy in adults: Incidence, etiology, and clinical significance

• Hector I. Michelena,
• Alessandro Della Corte,
• Siddharth K. Prakash,
• Dianna M. Milewicz,
• Artur Evangelista,
• Maurice Enriquez-Sarano

Mechanistic link between nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and cardiometabolic disorders

• Soo Lim,
• Tae Jung Oh,
• Kwang Kon Koh

Impella ventricular support in clinical practice: Collaborative viewpoint from a European expert user group

• Francesco Burzotta,
• Carlo Trani,
• Sagar N. Doshi,
• ...
• Flavio L. Ribichini,
• Andreas Schäfer,
• José P.S. Henriques

Cardiac cachexia: hic et nunc

“hic et nunc” — here and now

• Goran Loncar,
• Jochen Springer,
• Markus Anker,
• Wolfram Doehner,
• Mitja Lainscak

Carbon monoxide and stroke: A time series study of ambient air pollution and emergency hospitalizations

• Linwei Tian,
• Hong Qiu,
• Vivian C. Pun,
• Kin-Fai Ho,
• Chi Sing Chan,
• Ignatius T.S. Yu

Cardiac atrial appendage stem cells engraft and differentiate into cardiomyocytes in vivo: A new tool for cardiac repair after MI

• Yanick Fanton,
• Boris Robic,
• Jean-Luc Rummens,
• ...
• Karen Hensen,
• Remco Koninckx,
• Marc Hendrikx

Circulating soluble low-density lipoprotein receptor-related protein 1 (sLRP1) concentration is associated with hypercholesterolemia: A new potential biomarker for atherosclerosis

• D. de Gonzalo-Calvo,
• A. Cenarro,
• M. Martínez-Bujidos,
• ...
• J. Ordonez-Llanos,
• F. Civeira,
• V. Llorente-Cortés

miRNA-204 drives cardiomyocyte proliferation via targeting Jarid2

• Dandan Liang,
• Jun Li,
• Yahan Wu,
• ...
• Zuoren Yu,
• Yuzhen Zhang,
• Yi-Han Chen

Hemoglobin induces monocyte recruitment and CD163-macrophage polarization in abdominal aortic aneurysm

• Alfonso Rubio-Navarro,
• Juan Manuel Amaro Villalobos,
• Jes S. Lindholt,
• ...
• Jean Baptiste Michel,
• José Luis Martín-Ventura,
• Juan Antonio Moreno

Statins do not increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in familial hypercholesterolemia: The SAFEHEART study

• Francisco Fuentes,
• Juan F. Alcala-Diaz,
• Gerald F. Watts,
• ...
• Jose López-Miranda,
• Pedro Mata
• for the SAFEHEART Investigators

Validity of in-hospital mortality data among patients with acute myocardial infarction or stroke in National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan

• Ching-Lan Cheng,
• Hsu-Chih Chien,
• Cheng-Han Lee,
• Swu-Jane Lin,
• Yea-Huei Kao Yang

Plasma pro-brain natriuretic peptide and electrocardiographic changes in combination improve risk prediction in persons without known heart disease

• Peter G. Jørgensen,
• Jan S. Jensen,
• Merete Appleyard,
• Gorm B. Jensen,
• Rasmus Mogelvang

Fatal intracerebral bleeding under rivaroxaban

• Claudia Stöllberger,
• Adam Bastovansky,
• Josef Finsterer

Which biomarkers are predictive specifically for cardiovascular or for non-cardiovascular mortality in men? Evidence from the Caerphilly Prospective Study (CaPS)

• Christopher C. Patterson,
• Stefan Blankenberg,
• Yoav Ben-Shlomo,
• ...
• John Gallacher,
• Ian Young,
• John Yarnell

Sex differences in clinical characteristics and inpatient outcomes among 2442 hospitalized Chinese patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: The Nanchang Atrial Fibrillation Project

• Qinmei Xiong,
• Alena Shantsila,
• Deirdre A. Lane,
• ...
• Xiaoshu Cheng,
• Kui Hong,
• Gregory Y.H. Lip

Comparison of combination therapy of high-dose oral N-acetylcysteine and intravenous sodium bicarbonate hydration with individual therapies in the reduction of Contrast-induced Nephropathy during Cardiac Catheterisation and Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (CONTRAST): A multi-centre, randomised, controlled trial

• Eric Chong,
• Kian-Keong Poh,
• Qingshu Lu,
• ...
• Wei-Yi Fang,
• Titus Wai Leong Lau,
• Huay-Cheem Tan

Safety and efficacy of ezetimibe: A meta-analysis

• Gianluigi Savarese,
• Gaetano M. De Ferrari,
• Giuseppe M.C. Rosano,
• Pasquale Perrone-Filardi

In-hospital outcomes and long-term mortality according to sex and management strategy in acute myocardial infarction. Insights from the French ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (FAST-MI) 2005 Registry

• Maria Pia Donataccio,
• Etienne Puymirat,
• Biljana Parapid,
• ...
• Jean Ferrières,
• Nicolas Danchin,
• Tabassome Simon

Lifestyle behaviour and lifetime incidence of heart diseases

• Alessandro Menotti,
• Paolo Emilio Puddu,
• Giuseppe Maiani,
• Giovina Catasta

Catheter-based renal denervation for resistant hypertension: Twenty-four month results of the EnligHTN™ I first-in-human study using a multi-electrode ablation system

• Costas P. Tsioufis,
• Vasilios Papademetriou,
• Kyriakos S. Dimitriadis,
• ...
• Ioannis Kallikazaros,
• Dimitrios Tousoulis,
• Stephen G. Worthley

Experimental determination of diagnostic window of cardiac troponins in the development of chronic anthracycline cardiotoxicity and estimation of its predictive value

• Michaela Adamcova,
• Olga Lencova-Popelova,
• Eduard Jirkovsky,
• ...
• Fedor Simko,
• Vladimir Gersl,
• Martin Sterba

Cost-effectiveness of home versus clinic-based management of chronic heart failure: Extended follow-up of a pragmatic, multicentre randomized trial cohort — The WHICH? study (Which Heart Failure Intervention Is Most Cost-Effective & Consumer Friendly in Reducing Hospital Care)

• Shoko Maru,
• Joshua Byrnes,
• Melinda J. Carrington,
• ...
• Simon Stewart,
• Paul A. Scuffham
• on behalf of the WHICH? Trial Investigators

Intrathecal fentanyl blockade of afferent neural feedback from skeletal muscle during exercise in heart failure patients: Influence on circulatory power and pulmonary vascular capacitance

• Erik H. Van Iterson,
• Eric M. Snyder,
• Michael J. Joyner,
• Bruce D. Johnson,
• Thomas P. Olson

Plasma immature form of surfactant protein type B correlates with prognosis in patients with chronic heart failure. A pilot single-center prospective study

• Damiano Magrì,
• Cristina Banfi,
• Antonello Maruotti,
• ...
• Stefania Ghilardi,
• Elena Tremoli,
• Piergiuseppe Agostoni

Galectin-3 is a marker of myocardial and vascular fibrosis in Kawasaki disease patients with giant aneurysms

• Fujito Numano,
• Chisato Shimizu,
• Susan Jimenez-Fernandez,
• ...
• John B. Gordon,
• Jane C. Burns,
• Lori B. Daniels

Rho-associated kinase inhibitors promote the cardiac differentiation of embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells

• Ya-Ting Cheng,
• Dong-Feng Yeih,
• Shu-Man Liang,
• ...
• Shaw-Fang Yet,
• Kenneth K. Wu,
• Jun-Yang Liou

Treatment and outcome of coronary artery perforations using a dual guiding catheter technique

• J. Röther,
• M. Tröbs,
• J. Ludwig,
• S. Achenbach,
• C. Schlundt

Biomarkers in stable coronary heart disease, their modulation and cardiovascular risk: The LIPID biomarker study

• Andrew M. Tonkin,
• Stefan Blankenberg,
• Adrienne Kirby,
• ...
• Harvey D. White,
• John Simes
• for the LIPID study investigators

Inadequate anticoagulation by Vitamin K Antagonists is associated with Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events in patients with atrial fibrillation

• Daniele Pastori,
• Pasquale Pignatelli,
• Mirella Saliola,
• ...
• Francesco Barillà,
• Gregory Y.H. Lip,
• Francesco Violi

Thioredoxin-1 (Trx1) engineered mesenchymal stem cell therapy increased pro-angiogenic factors, reduced fibrosis and improved heart function in the infarcted rat myocardium

• Sumanth C. Suresh,
• Vaithinathan Selvaraju,
• Mahesh Thirunavukkarasu,
• ...
• Juan A. Sanchez,
• David W. McFadden,
• Nilanjana Maulik

Statin therapy lowers the risk of new-onset atrial fibrillation in patients with end-stage renal disease

• Li-Ting Ho,
• Lian-Yu Lin,
• Yao-Hsu Yang,
• ...
• Fu-Tien Chiang,
• Jiunn-Lee Lin,
• Pau-Chung Chen

Safety and efficacy of everolimus-eluting stent versus zotarolimus-eluting stent: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials and observational studies

• Hongqiu Gu,
• Kun Hua,
• Wei Li,
• Yang Wang,
• Jingan Yang

Prognostic impact of high residual platelet reactivity after chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with diabetes mellitus

• Renato Valenti,
• Giulia Cantini,
• Rossella Marcucci,
• ...
• Anna Maria Gori,
• Gian Franco Gensini,
• David Antoniucci

Incremental diagnostic accuracy of computed tomography myocardial perfusion imaging over coronary angiography stratified by pre-test probability of coronary artery disease and severity of coronary artery calcification: The CORE320 study

• Ravi K. Sharma,
• Armin Arbab-Zadeh,
• Satoru Kishi,
• ...
• Marcelo F. Di Carli,
• Carlos E. Rochitte,
• Joao A.C. Lima

Sex specific impact of prodromal chest pain on pre-hospital delay time during an acute myocardial infarction

Findings from the multicenter MEDEA Study with 619 STEMI patients

• A.F. von Eisenhart Rothe,
• L. Albarqouni,
• C. Gärtner,
• L. Walz,
• K. Smenes,
• K.-H. Ladwig

The Thebesian valve height/coronary sinus ostium diameter ratio (H/D-Ratio) as a new indicator for specifying the morphological shape of the valve itself in multisliced computed tomography

• Wiesława Klimek-Piotrowska,
• Mateusz Koziej,
• Mateusz K. Hołda,
• Kinga Sałapa,
• Marcin Kuniewicz,
• Jacek Lelakowski

Antecedents of self-care in adults with congenital heart defects

• Nancy McCabe,
• Sandra B. Dunbar,
• Javed Butler,
• Melinda Higgins,
• Wendy Book,
• Carolyn Reilly