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    European Journal of Heart Failure: Volume 16, Issue 9

    927-1046
    September 2014
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INVITED EDITORIAL

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The global relevance of disease management programmes for heart failure

Martin R. Cowie, 
  • Pages: 927-928
  • First Published: 26 July 2014

REVIEW

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Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in systolic heart failure in 2014: the evolving prognostic role: A Position Paper from the Committee on Exercise Physiology and Training of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC

Ugo Corrà,  Massimo F. Piepoli,  Stamatis Adamopoulos,  Piergiuseppe Agostoni,  Andrew J.S. Coats,  Viviane Conraads,  Ekaterini Lambrinou,  Burkert Pieske,  Ewa Piotrowicz,  Jean-Paul Schmid,  Petar M. Seferović,  Stefan D. Anker,  Gerasimos Filippatos,  Piotr P. Ponikowski, 
  • Pages: 929-941
  • First Published: 01 September 2014

GENETICS

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Characterizing genetic variation of adrenergic signalling pathways in Takotsubo (stress) cardiomyopathy exomes

Adele H. Goodloe,  Jared M. Evans,  Sumit Middha,  Abhiram Prasad,  Timothy M. Olson, 
  • Pages: 942-949
  • First Published: 08 August 2014
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Malignant effects of multiple rare variants in sarcomere genes on the prognosis of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Jizheng Wang,  Yilu Wang,  Yubao Zou,  Kai Sun,  Zhimin Wang,  Hu Ding,  Jinqing Yuan,  Wei Wei,  Qing Hou,  Hu Wang,  Xuan Liu,  Hongju Zhang,  Yun Ji,  Xianliang Zhou,  Ravi K. Sharma,  Daowen Wang,  Ferhaan Ahmad,  Rutai Hui,  Lei Song, 
  • Pages: 950-957
  • First Published: 31 July 2014

BIOMARKERS

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Prognostic value of N-terminal pro C-type natriuretic peptide in heart failure patients with preserved and reduced ejection fraction

Dirk J. Lok,  IJsbrand T. Klip,  Adriaan A. Voors,  Sjoukje I. Lok,  Pieta W. Bruggink-André de la Porte,  Hans L. Hillege,  Tiny Jaarsma,  Dirk J. van Veldhuisen,  Peter van der Meer, 
  • Pages: 958-966
  • First Published: 31 July 2014

PROGNOSIS

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Coronary artery disease and 10-year outcome after hospital admission for heart failure with preserved and with reduced ejection fraction

Dan Rusinaru,  David Houpe,  Catherine Szymanski,  Franck Lévy,  Sylvestre Maréchaux,  Christophe Tribouilloy, 
  • Pages: 967-976
  • First Published: 11 August 2014

DEVICE THERAPY

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Chronic baroreflex activation effects on sympathetic nerve traffic, baroreflex function, and cardiac haemodynamics in heart failure: a proof-of-concept study

Edoardo Gronda,  Gino Seravalle,  Gianmaria Brambilla,  Giuseppe Costantino,  Andrea Casini,  Ali Alsheraei,  Eric G. Lovett,  Giuseppe Mancia,  Guido Grassi, 
  • Pages: 977-983
  • First Published: 28 July 2014

COMORBIDITIES

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High prevalence of iron deficiency in patients with acute decompensated heart failure

Alain Cohen-Solal,  Thibaud Damy,  Mohamed Terbah,  Sébastien Kerebel,  Jean-Philippe Baguet,  Olivier Hanon,  Faiez Zannad,  Thierry Laperche,  Christophe Leclercq,  Victor Concas,  Ladan Duvillié,  Bernadette Darné,  Stefan Anker,  Alexandre Mebazaa, 
  • Pages: 984-991
  • First Published: 28 July 2014
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Association between cardiovascular vs. non-cardiovascular co-morbidities and outcomes in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Lars H. Lund,  Erwan Donal,  Emmanuel Oger,  Camilla Hage,  Hans Persson,  Ida Haugen-Löfman,  Pierre-Vladimir Ennezat,  Catherine Sportouch-Dukhan,  Elodie Drouet,  Jean-Claude Daubert,  Cecilia Linde,  on behalf of the KaRen Investigators , 
  • Pages: 992-1001
  • First Published: 21 July 2014

MANAGEMENT

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A nurse-based strategy reduces heart failure morbidity in patients admitted for acute decompensated heart failure in Brazil: the HELEN-II clinical trial

Emiliane Nogueira de Souza,  Luis Eduardo Rohde,  Karen Brasil Ruschel,  Cláudia Mota Mussi,  Luis Beck-da-Silva,  Andréia Biolo,  Nadine Clausell,  Eneida Rejane Rabelo-Silva, 
  • Pages: 1002-1008
  • First Published: 17 July 2014

CLINICAL TRIALS

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Influence of systolic blood pressure on clinical outcomes in elderly heart failure patients treated with nebivolol: data from the SENIORS trial

Manuel Montero-Perez-Barquero,  Marcus Flather,  Michael Roughton,  Andrew Coats,  Michael Böhm,  Dirk J. Van Veldhuisen,  Daphne Babalis,  Alain Cohen Solal,  Luis Manzano, 
  • Pages: 1009-1015
  • First Published: 17 July 2014
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Long-term follow-up results of the Pacing to Avoid Cardiac Enlargement (PACE) trial

Cheuk-Man Yu,  Fang Fang,  Xiu-Xia Luo,  Qing Zhang,  Hussin Azlan,  Omar Razali, 
  • Pages: 1016-1025
  • First Published: 01 September 2014

STUDY DESIGN

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Rationale and design of the SOluble guanylate Cyclase stimulatoR in heArT failurE Studies (SOCRATES)

Burkert Pieske,  Javed Butler,  Gerasimos Filippatos,  Carolyn Lam,  Aldo Pietro Maggioni,  Piotr Ponikowski,  Sanjiv Shah,  Scott Solomon,  Elisabeth Kraigher-Krainer,  Eliana Tibana Samano,  Andrea Viviana Scalise,  Katharina Müller,  Lothar Roessig,  Mihai Gheorghiade,  on behalf of the SOCRATES Investigators and Coordinators , 
  • Pages: 1026-1038
  • First Published: 24 July 2014
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Rationale and study design of the REM-HF study: remote management of heart failure using implanted devices and formalized follow-up procedures

John M. Morgan,  Borislav D. Dimitrov,  Jas Gill,  Sue Kitt,  G. Andre Ng,  Janet M. McComb,  James Raftery,  Paul Roderick,  Alison Seed,  Simon G. Williams,  Klaus K. Witte,  D. Jay Wright,  Guiqing Lily Yao,  Martin R. Cowie, 
  • Pages: 1039-1045
  • First Published: 18 August 2014

CORRIGENDUM

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Corrigendum to ‘Reply to letter from I. Ekman, K. Swedberg, and M. Böhm’ [Eur J Heart Fail 2014; 16:924]

Mirjam H. Mastenbroek,  Henneke Versteeg,  Susanne S. Pedersen, 
  • Page: 1046
  • First Published: 04 September 2014