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    European Journal of Heart Failure: Volume 16, Issue 6

    595-708
    June 2014
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EDITORIALS

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Convergence in findings from randomized trials and elaborately analysed observational data on mortality reduction with carvedilol in heart failure in comparison with metoprolol

Anasua Chakraborty,  Saurav Chatterjee, 
  • Pages: 595-597
  • First Published: 23 May 2014
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What is the best therapeutic strategy in patients with low flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis, and wide QRS?

Mario Sénéchal, 
  • Pages: 598-600
  • First Published: 29 April 2014
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Geographic variation in heart failure trials: time for scepticism?

Bertram Pitt,  Mihai Gheorghiade, 
  • Pages: 601-602
  • First Published: 27 May 2014
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Heart failure and dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors

Henry Krum,  Marina Skiba,  Shiying Wu,  Ingrid Hopper, 
  • Pages: 603-607
  • First Published: 29 March 2014

REVIEW

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Renal denervation and heart failure

Michael Böhm,  Sebastian Ewen,  Ingrid Kindermann,  Dominik Linz,  Christian Ukena,  Felix Mahfoud, 
  • Pages: 608-613
  • First Published: 18 March 2014

EPIDEMIOLOGY

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International differences in clinical characteristics, management, and outcomes in acute heart failure patients: better short-term outcomes in patients enrolled in Eastern Europe and Russia in the PROTECT trial

Robert J. Mentz,  Gad Cotter,  John G.F. Cleland,  Susanna R. Stevens,  Karen Chiswell,  Beth A. Davison,  John R. Teerlink,  Marco Metra,  Adriaan A. Voors,  Liliana Grinfeld,  Mikhail Ruda,  Viacheslav Mareev,  Chaim Lotan,  Daniel M. Bloomfield,  Mona Fiuzat,  Michael M. Givertz,  Piotr Ponikowski,  Barry M. Massie,  Christopher M. O'Connor, 
  • Pages: 614-624
  • First Published: 25 April 2014
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Left ventricular systolic dysfunction in outpatients with peripheral atherosclerotic vascular disease: prevalence and association with location of arterial disease

Pär Hedberg,  Charlotta Hammar,  Jonas Selmeryd,  Josefin Viklund,  Jerzy Leppert,  Anders Hellberg,  Egil Henriksen, 
  • Pages: 625-632
  • First Published: 26 April 2014

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY

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Cardio-adipose tissue cross-talk: relationship between adiponectin, plasma pro brain natriuretic peptide and incident heart failure

Søren Lindberg,  Jan Skov Jensen,  Mette Bjerre,  Sune H. Pedersen,  Jan Frystyk,  Allan Flyvbjerg,  Rasmus Mogelvang, 
  • Pages: 633-638
  • First Published: 10 April 2014

PROGNOSIS

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Prevalence and clinical impact of QRS duration in patients with low-flow/low-gradient aortic stenosis due to left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Frédéric A. Sebag,  Nicolas Lellouche,  Najia Chaachoui,  Jean-Luc Dubois-Rande,  Pascal Gueret,  Jean-Luc Monin, 
  • Pages: 639-647
  • First Published: 18 February 2014
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Usefulness and limitations of contractile reserve evaluation in patients with low-flow, low-gradient aortic stenosis eligible for cardiac resynchronization therapy

Fabien Garnier,  Jean-Christophe Eicher,  Saed Jazayeri,  Géraldine Bertaux,  Olivier Bouchot,  Ludwig-Serge Aho,  Jean-Eric Wolf,  Gabriel Laurent, 
  • Pages: 648-654
  • First Published: 17 March 2014

COMORBIDITIES

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The additive burden of iron deficiency in the cardiorenal–anaemia axis: scope of a problem and its consequences

IJsbrand T. Klip,  Ewa A. Jankowska,  Cristina Enjuanes,  Adriaan A. Voors,  Waldemar Banasiak,  Jordi Bruguera,  Piotr Rozentryt,  Lech Polonski,  Dirk J. van Veldhuisen,  Piotr Ponikowski,  Josep Comin-Colet,  Peter van der Meer, 
  • Pages: 655-662
  • First Published: 18 March 2014

CRT

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Long-term effectiveness of the combined minute ventilation and patient activity sensors as predictor of heart failure events in patients treated with cardiac resynchronization therapy: Results of the Clinical Evaluation of the Physiological Diagnosis Function in the PARADYM CRT device Trial (CLEPSYDRA) study

Angelo Auricchio,  Michael R. Gold,  Josep Brugada,  G. Nölker,  Siva Arunasalam,  Christophe Leclercq,  Pascal Defaye,  Leonardo Calò,  Oliver Baumann,  Francisco Leyva, 
  • Pages: 663-670
  • First Published: 17 March 2014

TREATMENTS

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Independence of the blood pressure lowering effect and efficacy of the angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibitor, LCZ696, in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: an analysis of the PARAMOUNT trial

Pardeep S. Jhund,  Brian Claggett,  Milton Packer,  Michael R Zile MD,  Adriaan A. Voors,  Burkert Pieske,  Martin Lefkowitz,  Victor Shi,  Toni Bransford,  John J. V. McMurray,  Scott D Solomon, 
  • Pages: 671-677
  • First Published: 01 April 2014
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Comparison of the clinical outcome of different beta-blockers in heart failure patients: a retrospective nationwide cohort study

Rasmus Bølling,  Nikolai Madrid Scheller,  Lars Køber,  Henrik Enghusen Poulsen,  Gunnar H. Gislason,  Christian Torp-Pedersen, 
  • Pages: 678-684
  • First Published: 04 April 2014
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Effect of eplerenone in percutaneous coronary intervention-treated post-myocardial infarction patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a subanalysis of the EPHESUS trial

Javaid Iqbal,  Renaud Fay,  David Adlam,  Iain Squire,  Yasir Parviz,  Julian Gunn,  Bertram Pitt,  Faiez Zannad, 
  • Pages: 685-691
  • First Published: 04 April 2014

STUDY DESIGN PAPERS

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Rationale and study design of the NEuroCardiac TherApy foR Heart Failure Study: NECTAR-HF

Gaetano M. De Ferrari,  Anton E. Tuinenburg,  Stephen Ruble,  Josep Brugada,  Helmut Klein,  Christian Butter,  David J. Wright,  Bernd Schubert,  Scott Solomon,  Scott Meyer,  Kenneth Stein,  Agnes Ramuzat,  Faiez Zannad, 
  • Pages: 692-699
  • First Published: 20 May 2014
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A multicentre cohort study of acute heart failure syndromes in Korea: rationale, design, and interim observations of the Korean Acute Heart Failure (KorAHF) registry

Sang Eun Lee,  Hyun-Jai Cho,  Hae-Young Lee,  Han-Mo Yang,  Jin-Oh Choi,  Eun-Seok Jeon,  Min-Seok Kim,  Jae-Joong Kim,  Kyung-Kuk Hwang,  Shung Chull Chae,  Suk Min Seo,  Sang Hong Baek,  Seok-Min Kang,  Il-Young Oh,  Dong-Ju Choi,  Byung-Su Yoo,  Youngkeun Ahn,  Hyun-Young Park,  Myeong-Chan Cho,  Byung-Hee Oh, 
  • Pages: 700-708
  • First Published: 02 May 2014