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Journal Editorials

• Non-vitamin K oral anticoagulants in adults with congenital heart disease: quod non?

With Werner Budts and Alexander Van De Bruaene, Univ. Hopistal Leuven - Belgium

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Published on 30 November 2020

• Personalised medicine for dilated cardiomyopathy

With Perry Elliott and Mohammed Majid Akhtar, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science - London - UK

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Published on 23 November 2020

• Sex differences among young individuals with myocardial infarction

With Marysia Tweet and Sharonne Hayes, Mayo Clinic Rochester - U.S.

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Published on 16 November 2020

• Evaluating risk of dementia in older people: a pathway to personalised prevention?

With Andrew Sommerlad and Naaheed Mukadam, Univ. College London - UK

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Published on 9 November 2020

• Global longitudinal strain in severe aortic stenosis

With Bernard Cosyns, Univ. Hospital Brussels - Belgium

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Published on 2 November 2020

• Transcatheter valve-in-valve implantation in failed aortic bioprosthetic valves: a word of caution in times of euphoria

With Helmut Baumgartner and Gerhard-Paul Diller, Univ. Hospital Muenster - Germany

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Published on 26 October 2020

• Defining circulating mononuclear cells in heart failure through single-cell RNA sequencing: new insights for an old disease

With Gianluigi Condorelli and Marinos Kallikourdis, Humanitas Univ., Milan - Italy

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Published on 19 October 2020

• Sex differences and the left ventricle: morphology matters

With C. Noel Bairey Merz and Janet Wei, Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, Los Angeles - U.S.

Link to EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging paper

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Published on 12 October 2020

• Electro-mechanics or mechano-electrics, an intricate interplay - STANISLAS cohort insights

With Kristina Haugaa, Oslo Univ. Hospital - Norway and Ida Leren, Diakonhjemmet Hospital Oslo - Norway

Link to EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging paper

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Published on 5 October 2020

• A highly specific biomarker for Brugada syndrome. Too good to be true?

With Arthur Wilde and Ahmad Amin, Amsterdam Medical Center, NL

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Published on 28 September 2020

• Insights from physiology applied to interpretation of supranormal ejection fraction in women

With Peter Kerkhof, Univ. Medical Center Amsterdam - Netherlands and Neal Handly, Univ. College of Medicine Philadelphia - U.S.

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Published on 21 September 2020

• Does atrial fibrillation affect the tricuspid annulus 3D geometry in patients without severe valve regurgitation?

With Luigi Badano, Milano Bicocca Univ. - Italy and Denisa Muraru, Milano Bicocca Univ. - Italy

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Published on 14 September 2020

• Air pollution health impacts: the knowns and unknowns

With Tomasz Guzik, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research - Thomas Muenzel, Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg Univ., Mainz - Germany and Jos Lelieveld, Atmospheric Chemistry Department, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz - Germany

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Published on 7 September 2020

• Catheter ablation versus thoracoscopic surgical ablation in long standing persistent atrial fibrillation (CASA-AF) - A randomised control trial

With Lucas Boersma and Vincent van Dijk, St. Antonius Hospital Nieuwegein - Netherlands

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Published on 31 August 2020

• Edoxaban in atrial fibrillation patients with percutaneous coronary intervention by acute or chronic coronary syndrome presentation: a pre-specified analysis of the ENTRUST-AF PCI trial

With Renato Lopes, Duke Univ. Medical Center - U.S. and Alexander Fanaroff, Univ. of Pennsylvania - U.S.

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Published on 31 August 2020

• The effect of intracoronary infusion of bone marrow-derived mononuclear cells on all-cause mortality in acute myocardial infarction: The BAMI Trial

With Roberto Bolli and Christopher Fine, Univ. of Louisville - U.S.

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Published on 31 August 2020

• Regression of left ventricular hypertrophy with SGLT2 inhibitors

With Francesco Paneni, Univ. of Zürich – Switzerland and Nazha Hamdani, Ruhr-Univ. Bochum – Germany

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Published on 16 August 2020

• It’s time to personalise and optimise lipid-lowering therapy

With Oliver Weingärtner, Univ. Hospital of Jena - Germany, Shailesh Patel, Univ. of Cincinnati - US and Dieter Lütjohann, Univ. of Bonn - Germany

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Published on 4 August 2020

• Sex differences in aortic dissection

With Kim Eagle and Nicole Bhave, Univ. of Michigan Medical School - US

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Published on 20 July 2020

• How COVID-19 lockdown impacts outcomes of patients with new onset AFib

With Carina Blomström-Lundqvist and Elena Sciaraffia, Uppsala Univ. - Sweden

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Published on 6 July 2020

• Comparing the 2019 and 2016 ESC/EAS dyslipidaemia guidelines

With Allan Sniderman, McGill Univ. - Canada

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Published on 22 June 2020

• Revascularisation of ischaemic myocardium: still valuable in patients with stable CAD?

With Danilo Neglia and Riccardo Liga, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 8 June 2020

• The Metabolic Signature: An Emerging Paradigm in Cardiovascular Nutritional Research?

With Sanjay Sharma and Gemma Parry-Williams, St George's, Univ. of London - UK

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Published on 25 May 2020

• Simple electrocardiographic measures improve sudden arrhythmic death prediction in coronary disease

With Brian Olshansky and Alexander Mazur, Univ. of Iowa - US

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Pubilshed on 11 May 2020

• Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Outcome: Aetiology Matters

With Marco Guazzi and Alessia Spina, Univ. of Milano - Italy

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Published on 28 April 2020

• Cell type-specific expression of the putative SARS-CoV-2 receptor ACE2 in human hearts

With Stefanie Dimmeler and Andreas Zeiher, Goethe-Univ. - Germany

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Published on 15 April 2020

• SARS-CoV2: Use of inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin system in patients with COVID-19

With Gabriela Kuster and Qian Zhou, Univ. of Basel - Switzerland

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Published on 6 April 2020

• Non-obstructive coronary artery disease can no longer be ignored

With Marc Dweck and David Newby, Univ. of Edinburgh - UK

Link to EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging paper

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Published on 30 March 2020

• Sex differences and higher upper normal limits for left atrial end-systolic volume in individuals in their mid-60s: data from the ACE 1950 Study

With Camilla Torlasco and Luigi Badano, Univ. of Milano-Bicocca - Italy

Link to EHJ - Cardiovascular Imaging paper

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Published on 16 March 2020

• Vitamin K antagonists and osteoporotic fractures: insights from comparisons with the NOACs

With Doralisa Morrone and Raffaele De Caterina, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 2 March 2020

• Secondary prevention medications after coronary artery bypass grafting and long-term survival: A population-based longitudinal study from the SWEDEHEART registry

With Bernard Gersh and Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Mayo Clinic - US

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Published on 17 February 2020

• Does type 2 diabetes confer higher relative rates of cardiovascular events in women compared with men?

With Naveed Sattar and Lyn Ferguson, Univ. of Glasgow, Scotland - UK

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Published on 3 February 2020

• Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in previously undiagnosed patients with catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia resuscitated from sudden cardiac arrest

With Pier Lambiase and Sherry Honarbakhsh, Barts Health NHS Trust, London - UK

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Published on 20 January 2020

• A population-based study of cardiovascular disease mortality risk in US cancer patients

With Joerg Herrmann and Kathryn Ruddy, Mayo Clinic, Rochester - US

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Published on 6 January 2020

• Short-term e-cigarette vapour exposure causes vascular oxidative stress and dysfunction

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow - UK and David Harrison, Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville - US

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Published on 16 December 2019

• Cardiovascular effect of discontinuing statins for primary prevention at the age of 75 years: a nationwide population-based cohort study in France

With Chris Cannon, Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston - US and Ulrich Laufs, Leipzig Univ. - Germany

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Published on 2 December 2019

• The association between the public reporting of individual operator outcomes with patient profiles, procedural management, and mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: an observational study from the Pan-London PCI (BCIS) Registry using an interrupted time series analysis

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California, Irvine - US

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Published on 18 November 2019

• Sudden death in cardiac sarcoidosis: an analysis of nationwide clinical and cause-of-death registries

With Perry Elliott and Douglas Cannie, UCL Institute of Cardiovascular Science, London - UK

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Published on 4 November 2019

• A new opening on aortic stenosis: predicting prognosis with clonal hematopoiesis

With Peter Libby, Amy Lin, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School - US and Benjamin Levine, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - US

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Published on 22 October 2019

• Periodontitis and hypertension: causally linked by immune mechanisms

With Ernesto Schiffrin McGill, Univ. of Montreal - Canada and Stefano Taddei, Univ. of Pisa - Italy

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Published on 14 October 2019

• Promoting physical activity in primary and secondary prevention

With Carl Chip Lavie, John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans, Louisiana - US and Sergey Kachur, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago - US

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Published on 30 September 2019

• Development and validation of a multivariable prediction model for major adverse cardiovascular events after early stage breast cancer

With Thomas Lüscher, Univ. of Zurich – Switzerland and Alexander Lyon, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital - UK

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Published on 16 September 2019

• Thromboembolic events around the time of cardioversion for atrial fibrillation

With Freek Verheugt, Heartcenter, Onze Lieve Vrouwe Gasthuis (OLVG) - Netherlands 

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Published on 9 September 2019

• Defining high bleeding risk in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California, Irvine - US

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Published on 26 August 2019

• Transcatheter heart valve migration and embolization: rare and preventable?

Wtih Ronald Binder and Michael Porodko, Univ. Teaching Hospital Klinikum Wels - Austria

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Published on 19 August 2019

• Measuring coronary microvascular function: is it finally ready for prime time?

With Adrian Banning and Giovanni Luigi De Maria, Oxford Univ. Hospitals - UK

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Published on 12 August 2019

• Longevity-associated variant BPIFB4 gene transfer to recapitulate healthy ageing in patients at risk: is the future around the corner?

With Giovanni Camici and Luca Liberale, Center for Molecular Cardiology, Univ. of Zurich - Switzerland

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Published on 5 August 2019

• PCSK9 inhibitors: what we know, what we should have understood, and what is to come

With Marc Sabatine and Robert Giugliano, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston - US

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Published on 31 July 2019

• Continuous anticoagulation with catheter ablation: answers and questions

With Christopher B. Granger and Sean D. Pokorney, Duke Univ. Medical Center - US

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Published on 22 July 2019

• Cardiac arrest in takotsubo syndrome: results from the InterTAK Registry

With Thomas Lüscher, Editor in Chief - European Heart Journal and Allan Davies, International Associate Editor - European Heart Journal

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Published on 16 July 2019

• Transcatheter pulmonary valve implantation: a melody to follow

With Lars Søndergaard and Michael Rahbek Schmidt, Rigshospitalet Copenhagen - Denmark

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Published on 8 July 2019

• Frequency, predictors, and prognosis of ejection fraction improvement in heart failure: an echocardiogram-based registry study

With Sanjay Prasad and Daniel J. Hammersley, Royal Brompton Hospital - UK

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Published on 1 July 2019

• The future of functional mitral regurgitation treatment

With Patrick Myers and Piergiorgio Tozzi, Lausanne Univ. Hospital - Switzerland

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Published on 24 June 2019

• Left ventricular non-compaction: have we reached the limits of conventional imaging?

With Perry Elliott and Alexandros Protonotarios, Univ. College London - UK

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Published on 17 June 2019

• Impact of Preoperative FFR on Arterial Bypass Graft Anastomotic Function: the IMPAG trial
  

With Morton Kern and Arnold Seto, Univ. of California, Irvine - US

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Published on 10 June 2019

• Targeting RNA to lower triglycerides: long strides from short molecules

With Deepak Bhatt and Peter Libby, Brigham and Women's Hospital - US and Harvard Medical School - US

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Published on 3 June 2019

• Blood pressure target in diabetics: how low is too low?

With Jay Mehta and Marwan Saad, Univ. Arkansas for Medical Sciences - US

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Published on 29 April 2019

• Cardiovascular Disease and Uric Acid?

With Franz Messerli, Univ. of Bern and Michel Burnier, Univ. Hospital of Lausanne - Switzerland

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Published on 23 April 2019

• How to target vascular inflammation in the post-CANTOS era?

With Tomasz Guzik, Univ. of Glasgow - UK, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research and Pasquale Maffia, Univ. of Glasgow - UK, Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research

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Published on 15 April 2019

• Atrial fibrillation, with ACS and PCI: walking a tightrope

With Roxana Mehran, Icahn School of Medicine - Mount Sinai and Dominick Angiolillo, Univ. of Florida College of Medicine - US

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Published on 9 April 2019

 Congress highlights

From ESC Congress

• Results of the European Infective Endocarditis registry (ESC-EORP EURO-ENDO)

With Thomas Lüscher, Univ. Zurich - Switzerland and Stephan Windecker, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern – Switzerland

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Published on 4 September 2019

• Is perivascular fat a new cardiovascular risk factor? Results of SCOT-HEART

With Stephan Achenbach, Univ. of Erlangen - Germany and Victoria Delgado, Leiden Univ. Medical Center - Netherlands

Published on 4 September 2019

• DANAMI-2 - 16-year follow-up of the Danish Acute Myocardial Infarction 2 trial - Primary percutaneous coronary intervention versus fibrinolysis in ST-elevation myocardial infarction

With Borja Ibanez, Spanish National Centre for Cardiovascular Research - Spain and Allan Davies, Hunter New England Health - Australia

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Published on 3 September 2019

• Residual inflammatory risk associated with interleukin-18 and interleukin-6 

With Thomas Lüscher, Univ. Zurich - Switzerland, Filippo Crea and Luigi Biasucci, Catholic Univ. of the Sacred Heart - Italy

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Published on 3 September 2019

• The relation between systemic inflammation and incident cancer in patients with stable cardiovascular disease, a cohort study

With Peter Libby and Paul Ridker, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School - US

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Published on 2 September 2019

•  Estimating individual lifetime benefit and bleeding risk of adding rivaroxaban to aspirin for patients with stable cardiovascular disease: results from the COMPASS trial

With Roxana Mehran, The Mount Sinai Hospital - US, Jan Steffel, Univ. Hospital Zurich - Switzerland and Diana Gorog, Univ. of Hertfordshire – UK

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Published on 1 September 2019

• High penetrance and similar disease progression in probands and in family members with arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy

With Perry Elliott, Univ. College, London - UK and Benjamin Meder, Univ. of Heidelberg - Germany

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 Published on 1 September 2019

• Relationship between hypoglycaemia, outcomes and empagliflozin treatment effect in EMPA-REG OUTCOME

With Eberhard Standl, Helmholtz Centre - Germany and Anna Norhammar, Karolinska Institutet - Sweden

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 Published on 31 August 2019

From subspecialty congresses

• ESC Digital Summit 2019 - Risk prediction & communication

Presented by Laura Corr, The Harley Street Clinic, London - UK

Link to the original presentation and slides on ESC 365

Published on 7 October 2019

• Heart Failure 2019 - My Take Home Messages on novel treatments in heart failure on ESC-HF

Presented by Rudolf De Boer - Netherlands and Carolyn Lam - Singapore

 Link to the original ESC TV at Heart Failure 2019 interview on ESC 365

Published on 27 May 2019

• EuroPrevent 2019 - Exercise and atrial fibrillation what to consider?

Presented by Marius Myrstad - Norway

Link to the original presentation and slides on ESC 365

Published on 13 May 2019

• EuroPrevent 2019 - Sugar tax – The right answer on a complex metabolism

Presented by Pedro Marques Vidal - Switzerland

Link to the original presentation and slides on ESC 365

Published on 7 May 2019 

ESC Lectures

• Digital Health Revolution: The Rewards

With Martin Landray, Oxford Univ., Research Director - Health Data Research - UK

Published on 13 March 2019