European Heart Journal

EDITORIALS

Arnoud W.J. van 't Hof

The challenge of reducing time to reperfusion in patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1793-1794; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn225 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antonio Abbate, Michael C. Kontos, and Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai

No-reflow: the next challenge in treatment of ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1795-1797; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn281 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carsten W. Israel

Effect of statins in ‘upstream therapy’ of atrial fibrillation: better reliability with implantable cardiac monitors
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 20, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1798-1799; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn274 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Axel Schmermund, Thomas Voigtländer, and Bernd Nowak

The risk of marathon runners–live it up, run fast, die young?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 13, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1800-1802; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn273 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CURRENT OPINION

Paolo Palatini

Exercise testing in asymptomatic subjects: from diagnostic test to prognostic tool?
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 15, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1803-1806; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn165 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL RESEARCH

Coronary heart disease

Get checked abstract Enca Martin-Rendon, Susan J. Brunskill, Chris J. Hyde, Simon J. Stanworth, Anthony Mathur, and Suzanne M. Watt

Autologous bone marrow stem cells to treat acute myocardial infarction: a systematic review
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1807-1818; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn220 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Federica Baldazzi, Erik Jørgensen, Rasmus S. Ripa, and Jens Kastrup

Release of biomarkers of myocardial damage after direct intramyocardial injection of genes and stem cells via the percutaneous transluminal route
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 4, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1819-1826; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn233 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Renato D. Lopes, Karen P. Alexander, Gretchen Marcucci, Harvey D. White, Sarah Spinler, Jacques Col, Philip E. Aylward, Robert M. Califf, and Kenneth W. Mahaffey

Outcomes in elderly patients with acute coronary syndromes randomized to enoxaparin vs. unfractionated heparin: results from the SYNERGY trial
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 2, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1827-1833; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn236 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonio Manari, Paolo Ortolani, Paolo Guastaroba, Gianni Casella, Luigi Vignali, Elisabetta Varani, Giancarlo Piovaccari, Vincenzo Guiducci, Gianfranco Percoco, Stefano Tondi, Francesco Passerini, Andrea Santarelli, and Antonio Marzocchi

Clinical impact of an inter-hospital transfer strategy in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction undergoing primary angioplasty: the Emilia-Romagna ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction network
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1834-1842; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn323 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Giampaolo Niccoli, Simona Giubilato, Eleonora Russo, Cristina Spaziani, Andrea Leo, Italo Porto, Antonio M. Leone, Francesco Burzotta, Silvia Riondino, Fabio Pulcinelli, Luigi M. Biasucci, and Filippo Crea

Plasma levels of thromboxane A2 on admission are associated with no-reflow after primary percutaneous coronary intervention
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on July 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1843-1850; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn325 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology

Get checked abstract Probal Roy, Daniel H. Steinberg, Steven J. Sushinsky, Teruo Okabe, Tina L. Pinto Slottow, Kimberly Kaneshige, Zhenyi Xue, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, William O. Suddath, Augusto D. Pichard, Neil J. Weissman, Joseph Lindsay, and Ron Waksman

The potential clinical utility of intravascular ultrasound guidance in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 11, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1851-1857; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn249 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Heart failure/cardiomyopathy

Get checked abstract Paul J. Beckers, Johan Denollet, Nadine M. Possemiers, Floris L. Wuyts, Christiaan J. Vrints, and Viviane M. Conraads

Combined endurance-resistance training vs. endurance training in patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective randomized study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1858-1866; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn222 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stefan Rupp, Masamichi Koyanagi, Masayoshi Iwasaki, Jürgen Bauer, Susanne von Gerlach, Dietmar Schranz, Andreas M. Zeiher, and Stefanie Dimmeler

Characterization of long-term endogenous cardiac repair in children after heart transplantation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 28, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1867-1872; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn223 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Arrhythmia/electrophysiology

Get checked abstract Anne M. Gillis, Margaret Morck, Derek V. Exner, Andrea Soo, M. Sarah Rose, Robert S. Sheldon, Henry J. Duff, Katherine M. Kavanagh, L. Brent Mitchell, and D. George Wyse

Beneficial effects of statin therapy for prevention of atrial fibrillation following DDDR pacemaker implantation
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on May 13, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1873-1880; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn192 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Prevention and epidemiology

Get checked abstract Stephanie von Klot, Murray A. Mittleman, Douglas W. Dockery, Margit Heier, Christa Meisinger, Allmut Hörmann, H.-Erich Wichmann, and Annette Peters

Intensity of physical exertion and triggering of myocardial infarction: a case-crossover study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 5, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1881-1888; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn235 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Noël C. Barengo, Shuichi Katoh, Vladislav Moltchanov, Naoko Tajima, and Jaakko Tuomilehto

The diabetes-cardiovascular risk paradox: results from a Finnish population-based prospective study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 16, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1889-1895; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn250 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kai P. Savonen, Vesa Kiviniemi, Jari A. Laukkanen, Timo A. Lakka, Tuomas H. Rauramaa, Jukka T. Salonen, and Rainer Rauramaa

Chronotropic incompetence and mortality in middle-aged men with known or suspected coronary heart disease
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 13, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1896-1902; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn269 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sports cardiology

Get checked abstract Stefan Möhlenkamp, Nils Lehmann, Frank Breuckmann, Martina Bröcker-Preuss, Kai Nassenstein, Martin Halle, Thomas Budde, Klaus Mann, Jörg Barkhausen, Gerd Heusch, Karl-Heinz Jöckel, and Raimund Erbel on behalf of the Marathon Study Investigators and the Heinz Nixdorf Recall Study Investigators

Running: the risk of coronary events : Prevalence and prognostic relevance of coronary atherosclerosis in marathon runners
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 21, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1903-1910; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn163 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

PRECLINICAL RESEARCH

Get checked abstract Paschalis Tossios, Benjamin Krausgrill, Matthias Schmidt, Thomas Fischer, Marcel Halbach, Jochen W.U. Fries, Silke Fahnenstich, Peter Frommolt, Ivonne Heppelmann, Annette Schmidt, Klaus Schomäcker, Jürgen H. Fischer, Wilhelm Bloch, Uwe Mehlhorn, Robert H.G. Schwinger, and Jochen Müller-Ehmsen

Role of balloon occlusion for mononuclear bone marrow cell deposition after intracoronary injection in pigs with reperfused myocardial infarction
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1911-1921; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn218 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Sho-ichi Yamagishi

Possible involvement of advanced glycation end products in carry-over benefits of atorvastatin in ASCOT-BPLA
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 3, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1922; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn244 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giuseppe Ferrante, Nicola Cosentino, Peter Barlis, and Giampaolo Niccoli

Association of adiponectin with adverse outcome in coronary artery disease patients: results from the AtheroGene study
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1922-1923; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn245 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renate Schnabel

Association of adiponectin with adverse outcome in coronary artery disease patients: results from the AtheroGene study: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 9, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1923-1924; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn246 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frauke S. Czepluch and Johannes Waltenberger

Vascular endothelial growth factor protein levels and gene expression in peripheral monocytes after stenting: a randomized comparative study of sirolimus-eluting and bare-metal stents
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1924-1925; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn258 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

George E. Kochiadakis, Maria E. Marketou, and Panos E. Vardas

Vascular endothelial growth factor protein levels and gene expression in peripheral monocytes after stenting: a randomized comparative study of sirolimus-eluting and bare-metal stents: reply
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on June 17, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1925; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn259 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CORRIGENDA

J.J.J. van Giezen

Optimizing platelet inhibition
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1925; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn316 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ross T. Murphy, Rajesh Thaman, Juan Gimeno Blanes, Deirdre Ward, Elias Sevdalis, Efi Papra, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, Maria T. Tome, Denis Pellerin, William J. McKenna, and Perry M. Elliott

Natural history and familial characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compaction
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1925; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn317 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

CLINICAL VIGNETTES

Roberto Martín-Reyes, Miguel Angel Navas Lobato, Rafael Peinado, Angel Sánchez-Recalde, Raúl Moreno, Mar Moreno Yangüela, Jose Luis López Sendón, and Ivan Gómez Blázquez

Acute myocardial infarction and mechanical complications due to a penetrating knife injury of the heart
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 20, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1806; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn040 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Hutyra, Tomás Skála, Marián Bencat, Vladimír Lonsky, Jan Václavík, Josef Novotny, and Jan Lukl

Acute proximal aortic dissection penetrating into left atrium with a hypermobile thrombus
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on March 1, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1818; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn041 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Qing Li, Lei Kou, and Zhong Chen

Transcatheter closure of a large abdominal aortic pseudoaneurysm with a septal occluder device
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on April 2, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1880; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn050 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luc Christiaens, Jean Mergy, Sébastien Franco, Laura Serrano, and Paul Ardilouze

Aortic valvular endocarditis with mobile vegetations and intracoronary embolism: demonstration by cardiac multislice computed tomography
European Heart Journal Advance Access published on February 10, 2008
Eur Heart J 2008 29: 1888; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn042 [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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