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Journal Editorial

Daily recordings from ESC Congress 2019

ESC Cardio Talk podcasts will be recorded from the ESC Professional Members' Lounge during the congress.

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

With Thomas F. Luscher, University 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, University of Erlangen - Germany and Victoria Delgado, Leiden University 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 F. Luscher, University Zurich - Switzerland and Filippo Crea and Luigi Biasucci, Catholic University 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 - USA

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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 - USA, Jan Steffel, University Hospital Zurich - Switzerland and Diana Gorog, University 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, University College, London - UK and Benjamin Meder, University 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

Recordings from institutions

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

With Thomas Lüscher, University Zurich – Switzerland and Alexander Lyon, Imperial College and Royal Brompton Hospital - England

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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

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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

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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 University Hospitals

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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, University of Zurich

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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

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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 University Medical Center

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Published on 22 July 2019

Cardiac arrest in takotsubo syndrome: results from the InterTAK Registry

With Thomas F. Luscher, 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Published on 10 June 2019

Targeting RNA to lower triglycerides: long strides from short molecules

With Deepak L. Bhatt and Peter Libby, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Published on 3 June 2019

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

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

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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

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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, Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research and Pasquale Maffia, Univ. of Glasgow, Deputy Editor of Cardiovascular Research

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Published on 15 April 2019