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    ESC Heart Failure: Volume 5, Issue 1

    1-207
    February 2018
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Issue Information

  • Pages: 1-2
  • First Published: 31 January 2018

Guest Editorial

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Magnetic resonance imaging in heart failure, including coronary imaging: numbers, facts, and challenges

Lisa Adams,  Michel Noutsias,  Boris Bigalke,  Marcus R. Makowski, 
  • Pages: 3-8
  • First Published: 21 November 2017

Review

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In-hospital worsening heart failure: a clinically relevant endpoint?

Andrew L. Clark,  Myriam Cherif,  Theresa A. McDonagh,  Iain B. Squire, 
  • Pages: 9-18
  • First Published: 18 July 2017

Original Research Articles

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A prospective evaluation of the established criteria for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction using the Alberta HEART cohort

Justin A. Ezekowitz,  Finlay A. McAlister,  Jonathan Howlett,  Wendimagegn Alemayehu,  Ian Paterson,  Israel Belenkie,  Gavin Y. Oudit,  Padma Kaul,  Jason R. Dyck,  Todd Anderson,  on behalf of the Alberta HEART Investigators , 
  • Pages: 19-26
  • First Published: 25 July 2017
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Diagnostic utility of cardiac troponin T level in patients with cardiac amyloidosis

Seiji Takashio,  Megumi Yamamuro,  Yasuhiro Izumiya,  Kyoko Hirakawa,  Kyohei Marume,  Masahiro Yamamoto,  Mitsuharu Ueda,  Taro Yamashita,  Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda,  Satoshi Yasuda,  Hisao Ogawa,  Yukio Ando,  Toshihisa Anzai,  Kenichi Tsujita, 
  • Pages: 27-35
  • First Published: 04 September 2017
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The prognostic value of brain natriuretic peptide in patients with heart failure and left ventricular ejection fraction higher than 60%: a sub-analysis of the J-MELODIC study

Shuichi Kitada,  Shohei Kikuchi,  Takeshi Tsujino,  Tohru Masuyama,  Nobuyuki Ohte,  J-MELODIC study investigators , 
  • Pages: 36-45
  • First Published: 21 September 2017
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Autonomic dysfunction is associated with cardiac remodelling in heart failure patients

Amna Ali,  Hannes Holm,  John Molvin,  Erasmus Bachus,  Gordana Tasevska-Dinevska,  Artur Fedorowski,  Amra Jujic,  Martin Magnusson, 
  • Pages: 46-52
  • First Published: 28 September 2017
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Amount or intensity? Potential targets of exercise interventions in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Anna Bobenko,  Inke Bartels,  Marlene Münch,  Tobias Trippel,  Ruhdja Lindhorst,  Kathleen Nolte,  Christoph Herrmann-Lingen,  Martin Halle,  André Duvinage,  Hans-Dirk Düngen,  Götz Gelbrich,  Carsten Tschöpe,  Gerd Hasenfuss,  Rolf Wachter,  Burkert Pieske,  Frank Edelmann, 
  • Pages: 53-62
  • First Published: 06 December 2017
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Association between vitamin D deficiency and heart failure risk in the elderly

Catarina Magalhães Porto,  Vanessa De Lima Silva,  João Soares Brito da Luz,  Brivaldo Markman Filho,  Vera Magalhães da Silveira, 
  • Pages: 63-74
  • First Published: 17 August 2017
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Cost-effectiveness of left ventricular assist devices for patients with end-stage heart failure: analysis of the French hospital discharge database

Abir Tadmouri,  Josefin Blomkvist,  Cécile Landais,  Jerome Seymour,  Alexandre Azmoun, 
  • Pages: 75-86
  • First Published: 25 July 2017
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The association between high-dose loop diuretic use at discharge and cardiovascular mortality in patients with heart failure

Toshitaka Okabe,  Tadayuki Yakushiji,  Takehiko Kido,  Yuji Oyama,  Wataru Igawa,  Morio Ono,  Seitaro Ebara,  Kennosuke Yamashita,  Myong Hwa Yamamoto,  Shigeo Saito,  Kisaki Amemiya,  Naoei Isomura,  Masahiko Ochiai, 
  • Pages: 87-94
  • First Published: 02 October 2017

Study Design

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Autonomic regulation therapy to enhance myocardial function in heart failure patients: the ANTHEM-HFpEF study

Lorenzo A. DiCarlo,  Imad Libbus,  H. Uday Kumar,  Sanjay Mittal,  Rajendra K. Premchand,  Badri Amurthur,  Bruce H. KenKnight,  Jeffrey L. Ardell,  Inder S. Anand, 
  • Pages: 95-100
  • First Published: 28 December 2017

Short Communication

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Impact of a ‘stent for life’ initiative on post-ST elevation myocardial infarction heart failure: a 15 year heart failure clinic experience

Antoni Bayes-Genis,  Cosme García,  Marta de Antonio,  Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerías,  Mar Domingo,  Elisabet Zamora,  Pedro Moliner,  Josep Lupón, 
  • Pages: 101-105
  • First Published: 29 December 2017

Original Research Articles

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Recovery free of heart failure after acute coronary syndrome and coronary revascularization

Alec Falkenham,  Manoj K. Saraswat,  Chloe Wong,  Kareem Gawdat,  Tanya Myers,  Jahanara Begum,  Karen J. Buth,  Ian Haidl,  Jean Marshall,  Jean-Francois Légaré,  for the REACH Investigators , 
  • Pages: 107-114
  • First Published: 24 July 2017
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Exercise performance, haemodynamics, and respiratory pattern do not identify heart failure patients who end exercise with dyspnoea from those with fatigue

Marco Morosin,  Stefania Farina,  Carlo Vignati,  Emanuele Spadafora,  Susanna Sciomer,  Elisabetta Salvioni,  Gianfranco Sinagra,  Piergiuseppe Agostoni, 
  • Pages: 115-119
  • First Published: 24 November 2017
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Focused echocardiography and lung ultrasound protocol for guiding treatment in acute heart failure

Jonas Öhman,  Veli-Pekka Harjola,  Pasi Karjalainen,  Johan Lassus, 
  • Pages: 120-128
  • First Published: 28 September 2017
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Does cardiac resynchronization therapy restore peripheral circulatory homeostasis?

Chukwudiebube N. Ajaero,  Cher-Rin Chong,  Nathan E.K. Procter,  Saifei Liu,  Yuliy Y. Chirkov,  Tamila Heresztyn,  Wai Ping Alicia Chan,  Margaret A. Arstall,  Andrew D. McGavigan,  Michael P. Frenneaux,  John D. Horowitz, 
  • Pages: 129-138
  • First Published: 13 October 2017
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Rationale of the FIBROTARGETS study designed to identify novel biomarkers of myocardial fibrosis

João Pedro Ferreira,  Jean-Loup Machu,  Nicolas Girerd,  Frederic Jaisser,  Thomas Thum,  Javed Butler,  Arantxa González,  Javier Diez,  Stephane Heymans,  Kenneth McDonald,  Mariann Gyöngyösi,  Hueseyin Firat,  Patrick Rossignol,  Anne Pizard,  Faiez Zannad, 
  • Pages: 139-148
  • First Published: 07 October 2017
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Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio and platelet-to-lymphocyte ratio as predictors of survival after heart transplantation

Ignacio M. Seropian,  Francisco J. Romeo,  Rodolfo Pizarro,  Norberto O. Vulcano,  Ricardo A. Posatini,  Ricardo G. Marenchino,  Daniel H. Berrocal,  Cesar A. Belziti, 
  • Pages: 149-156
  • First Published: 31 July 2017
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Right ventricular involvement and the extent of left ventricular enhancement with magnetic resonance predict adverse outcome in pulmonary sarcoidosis

Jan-Peter Smedema,  Robert-Jan van Geuns,  Joris Ector,  Hein Heidbuchel,  Gillian Ainslie,  Harry J.G.M. Crijns, 
  • Pages: 157-171
  • First Published: 02 October 2017

Study Design

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Clinical practices and attitudes regarding the diagnosis and management of heart failure: findings from the CORE Needs Assessment Survey

Jonathan Howlett,  Josep Comin-Colet,  Kenneth Dickstein,  Ahmet Fuat,  Gerhard Pölzl,  Sean Delaney, 
  • Pages: 172-183
  • First Published: 18 September 2017

Case Reports

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Use of sacubitril/valsartan in acute decompensated heart failure: a case report

Taison D. Bell,  Adrien J. Mazer,  P. Elliott Miller,  Jeffrey R. Strich,  Vandana Sachdev,  Mary E. Wright,  Michael A. Solomon, 
  • Pages: 184-188
  • First Published: 16 October 2017
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Pulmonary hypertension in stiff left atrial syndrome: pathogenesis and treatment in one

Micha T. Maeder,  Reto Nägele,  Philipp Rohner,  Daniel Weilenmann, 
  • Pages: 189-192
  • First Published: 08 November 2017
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Mitral valve pressure gradient after percutaneous mitral valve repair: every beat counts

Daniel Lavall,  Bruno Scheller,  Christian Werner,  Axel Buob,  Felix Mahfoud, 
  • Pages: 193-196
  • First Published: 23 November 2017
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Takotsubo cardiomyopathy in a young adult with transplanted heart: what happened to denervation?

Marcello Chinali,  Roberto Formigari,  Giorgia Grutter, 
  • Pages: 197-200
  • First Published: 13 January 2018
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Catheter-based edge-to-edge mitral valve repair for pulmonary pressure reduction and to postpone heart transplantation in a teenaged patient

Moritz Messner,  Florian Hintringer,  Silvana Müller,  Marc Michael Zaruba,  Nikolaos Bonaros,  Herwig Antretter,  Daniel Basic,  Gerhard Pölzl, 
  • Pages: 201-203
  • First Published: 18 January 2018
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Transvenous dual-chamber pacemaker after paediatric heart transplantation using left ventricle pacing through the coronary sinus

José Mario Baggio Jr,  Cristina Machado Camargo Afiune,  Jorge Y. Afiune,  Alvaro V. Sarabanda,  Fernando A. Atik, 
  • Pages: 204-207
  • First Published: 22 January 2018