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Recommended Reading on Myocardial Function

ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function

Spatial transcriptional landscape of human heart failure

European Heart Journal
8 May 2025

The role of epicardial adipose tissue remodelling in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Cardiovascular Research
16 Apr 2025

Metabolic flexibility and reverse remodelling of the failing human heart

European Heart Journal
25 Feb 2025

Autophagy is required for the therapeutic effects of the NAD<sup>+</sup> precursor nicotinamide in obesity-related heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

European Heart Journal
25 Feb 2025

Cardiac dysfunction related to cardiac mRNA and protein traffic impairment due to reduced unconventional motor protein myosin-5b expression

European Heart Journal
19 Feb 2025

Cardiomyocyte SORBS2 expression increases in heart failure and regulates integrin interactions and extracellular matrix composition

Cardiovascular Research
17 Feb 2025

The year in cardiovascular medicine 2024: the top 10 papers in heart failure

European Heart Journal
23 Jan 2025

Advances in myocardial energy metabolism: metabolic remodelling in heart failure and beyond

Cardiovascular Research
25 Oct 2024

Fibroblast-specific TGF-β signaling mediates cardiac dysfunction, fibrosis, and hypertrophy in obese diabetic mice

Cardiovascular Research
7 Oct 2024

Clinical trials in-a-dish for cardiovascular medicine

European Heart Journal
13 Sep 2024

Trajectories of cardiovascular ageing—from molecular mechanisms to clinical implementation

Cardiovascular Research
23 Aug 2024

Genetics of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: established and emerging implications for clinical practice

European Heart Journal
10 Jul 2024

The ketogenic diet does not improve cardiac function and blunts glucose oxidation in ischaemic heart failure

Cardiovascular Research
1 May 2024

Acute mental stress drives vascular inflammation and promotes plaque destabilization in mouse atherosclerosis

European Heart Journal
19 Jul 2021

PCSK9 deficiency rewires heart metabolism and drives heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

European Heart Journal
12 Jul 2021

Leveraging clinical epigenetics in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a call for individualized therapies

European Heart Journal
5 May 2021

Reciprocal organ interactions during heart failure: a position paper from the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function

Cardiovascular Research
23 Jan 2021

Living myocardial slices: a novel multicellular model for cardiac translational research

European Heart Journal
11 Nov 2019

The continuous heart failure spectrum: moving beyond an ejection fraction classification

European Heart Journal
8 Apr 2019

Titin cardiomyopathy leads to altered mitochondrial energetics, increased fibrosis and long-term life-threatening arrhythmias

European Heart Journal
25 Jan 2018