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  • 2025
    Update on Preclinical Models of Cancer Therapy-Related Cardiac Dysfunction: Challenges and Perspectives. A scientific statement of the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC, the ESC Council of Cardio-oncology and the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart
     
     
  • 2022
    Animal models and animal-free innovations for cardiovascular research: current status and routes to be explored. Consensus document of the ESC Working Group on Myocardial Function and the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart
     
     
  • 2021
    COVID-19 related cardiac complications – from clinical evidences to basic mechanisms. Opinion paper of the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart
     
     
  • 2021
    Prognostically relevant periprocedural myocardial injury and infarction associated with percutaneous coronary interventions: a Consensus Document of the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart and European Association of Percutaneous Cardiovascular Interventions (EAPCI)
     
     
  • 2020
    Cardiac dysfunction in cancer patients: beyond direct cardiomyocyte damage of anticancer drugs: novel cardio-oncology insights from the joint 2019 meeting of the ESC Working Groups of Myocardial Function and Cellular Biology of the Heart
     
     
  • 2020
    Stimulating pro-reparative immune responses to prevent adverse cardiac remodelling: consensus document from the joint 2019 meeting of the ESC Working Groups of cellular biology of the heart and myocardial function
     
     
  • 2020
    Cardiomyocyte ageing and cardioprotection: consensus document from the ESC working groups cell biology of the heart and myocardial function
     
     
  • 2020
    Improving Translational Research in Sex-specific Effects of Comorbidities and Risk Factors in Ischemic Heart Disease and Cardioprotection: Position Paper and Recommendations of the ESC Working Group on Cellular Biology of the Heart.
     
     
  • 2019
    Tissue Engineering and Cell-Based Therapies for Cardiac Repair in Ischemic Heart Disease and Heart Failure
     
     
  • 2017
    Extracellular vesicles in diagnostics and therapy of the ischaemic heart
     
     
  • 2017
    Peri-operative myocardial injury and infarction in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery
     
     
  • 2017
    Epigenomic and transcriptomic approaches in the post-genomic era: path to novel targets for diagnosis and therapy of the ischaemic heart?
     
     
  • 2016
    Cell-based therapies for myocardial repair and regeneration in ischemic heart disease and heart failure
     
     
  • 2014
    Improving the pre-clinical assessment of novel cardioprotective therapies
     
     
  • 2013
    Translating cardioprotection for patient benefit
     
     
  • 2010
    Postconditioning and protection from reperfusion injury: where do we stand?
     
     
  • 2010
    Stimulating Pro-Reparative Immune Responses to Prevent Adverse Cardiac Remodelling: Consensus Document From the Joint 2019 Meeting of the ESC Working Groups of Cellular Biology of the Heart and Myocardial Function
     
     
  • 2010
    Cardiomyocyte Ageing and Cardioprotection: Consensus Document From the ESC Working Groups Cellular Biology of the Heart and Myocardial Function
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