Heart: 103 (8)

Heartbeat

Heartbeat: afterload is high (not low) in chronic mitral regurgitation! (28 March, 2017) Free
Catherine M Otto

Editorials

How heavy is the load? The ventricular mechanics of mitral regurgitation revisited in the era of percutaneous therapies (4 November, 2016)
Pablo Martinez-Legazpi, Raquel Yotti, Javier Bermejo
A tragedy of modern cardiology: using ejection fraction to gauge left ventricular function in mitral regurgitation (28 December, 2016)
Blase A Carabello
When will we learn that smoking is bad? (29 November, 2016)
Yaron Arbel

Review

Duration of dual antiplatelet therapy in acute coronary syndrome (1 March, 2017)
Simon John Wilson, David E Newby, Dana Dawson, John Irving, Colin Berry

Valvular heart disease

Original article: Impedance to retrograde and forward flow in chronic mitral regurgitation and the physiology of a double outlet ventricle (28 September, 2016) Free
William H Gaasch, Sachin P Shah, Sherif B Labib, Theo E Meyer

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Original article: Pronounced increase in risk of acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in younger smokers (29 November, 2016)
Amelia Lloyd, Lloyd Steele, James Fotheringham, Javaid Iqbal, Ayyaz Sultan, M Dawn Teare, Ever D Grech

Pulmonary vascular disease

Original article: Oscillatory whole-body vibration improves exercise capacity and physical performance in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a randomised clinical study (18 January, 2017)
Felix Gerhardt, Daniel Dumitrescu, Carina Gärtner, Ralf Beccard, Thomas Viethen, Tilmann Kramer, Stephan Baldus, Martin Hellmich, Eckhard Schönau, Stephan Rosenkranz
Original article: Haemodynamic effects of riociguat in inoperable/recurrent chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (23 December, 2016)
Nick H Kim, Andrea M D'Armini, Friedrich Grimminger, Ekkehard Grünig, Marius M Hoeper, Pavel Jansa, Eckhard Mayer, Claus Neurohr, Gérald Simonneau, Adam Torbicki, Chen Wang, Arno Fritsch, Neil Davie, Hossein-Ardeschir Ghofrani

Coronary artery disease

Original article:
Cardiac α_Vβ₃ integrin expression following acute myocardial infarction in humans
(7 December, 2016)
William S A Jenkins, Alex T Vesey, Colin Stirrat, Martin Connell, Christophe Lucatelli, Anoushka Neale, Catriona Moles, Anna Vickers, Alison Fletcher, Tania Pawade, Ian Wilson, James H F Rudd, Edwin J R van Beek, Saeed Mirsadraee, Marc R Dweck, David E Newby
Original article: Outcomes with type 2 myocardial infarction compared with non-ischaemic myocardial injury (14 October, 2016)
German Cediel, Maribel Gonzalez-del-Hoyo, Anna Carrasquer, Rafael Sanchez, Carme Boqué, Alfredo Bardají

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Original article: Non-major bleeding with apixaban versus warfarin in patients with atrial fibrillation (24 October, 2016)
M Cecilia Bahit, Renato D Lopes, Daniel M Wojdyla, Claes Held, Michael Hanna, Dragos Vinereanu, Elaine M Hylek, Freek Verheugt, Shinya Goto, John H Alexander, Lars Wallentin, Christopher B Granger

Education in Heart

Non-invasive imaging: Transoesophageal echocardiography: what the general cardiologist needs to know (19 December, 2016)
Malgorzata Wamil, James D Newton, Bushra S Rana, Sacha Bull

Correspondence

Cautious anticoagulation strategy in patients with dialysis-requiring end-stage kidney disease (28 March, 2017)
Jonathan M Behar, Suzanne H Forbes, Andrew Wragg, Simon Sporton

Image challenge

Exercise-induced syncope in a 22-year-old man (25 October, 2016)
Colin Yeo, Vern Hsen Tan, Kelvin CK Wong

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April 2017 - Volume 103 - 8

Heartbeat

Editorials

Review

Valvular heart disease

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Pulmonary vascular disease

Coronary artery disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Education in Heart

Correspondence

Image challenge

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Table of contents

April 2017 - Volume 103 - 8

Heartbeat

Editorials

Review

Valvular heart disease

Cardiac risk factors and prevention

Pulmonary vascular disease

Coronary artery disease

Arrhythmias and sudden death

Education in Heart

Correspondence

Image challenge

Issue Information