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Prognostic value of the MELD‐XI score in patients undergoing cardiac resynchronization therapy
Abstract Aims Multi-organ dysfunction was recently reported to be a common condition in patients with heart failure (HF). ...
Six‐months immunogenicity of BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine in heart transplanted and ventricle assist device‐supported patients
Abstract Aims To assess the 6 months immunogenicity to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) m...
Feasibility of the contraction–relaxation coupling index in outcome prediction for patients with acute heart failure
Abstract Aims Contemporary heart failure (HF) classification based on left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction is limited f...
First experience of magnetically levitated extracorporeal left ventricular assist device for cardiogenic shock in China
Abstract We report the first case of an investigational maglev extracorporeal ventricular assist device (extra-VAD) use in...
Baseline characteristics, management, and predictors of early mortality in cardiogenic shock: insights from the FRENSHOCK registry
Abstract Aims Published data on cardiogenic shock (CS) are scarce and are mostly focused on small registries of selected p...
Knockdown of XIST up‐regulates 263294miR‐340‐5p to relieve myocardial ischaemia–reperfusion injury via inhibiting cyclin D1
Abstract Aim Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are known to participate in various human diseases, while the role of X inacti...
Catecholamine‐induced cardiomyopathy improvement after para‐aortic paraganglioma resection: a case report
Abstract Phaeochromocytomas/paragangliomas (PPGL) are rare tumours that can cause cardiovascular complications following t...
Impact of intravenous ferric carboxymaltose on heart failure with preserved and reduced ejection fraction
Abstract Aims Heart failure (HF) is a proinflammatory disease often associated with the onset of iron deficiency (ID). ID ...
Determinants of left ventricular function improvement for cardiac resynchronization therapy candidates
Abstract Aims A waiting period of more than 3 months is recommended for patients before undergoing cardiac resynchron...
Inflammatory cardiomyopathy of possibly overlapping aetiology: a case posing treatment dilemma and potential association
Abstract We report on a 52-year-old Brazilian immigrant woman with past histories of chronic kidney disease and uveitis, p...
Association of iron deficiency with incident cardiovascular diseases and mortality in the general population
Abstract Aims Although absolute (AID) and functional iron deficiency (FID) are known risk factors for patients with cardio...
Effect of landiolol in patients with tachyarrhythmias and acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF): a case series
Abstract Tachycardia and rapid tachyarrhythmias are common in acute clinical settings and may hasten the deterioration of ...
Prognostic value of cartilage intermediate layer protein 1 in chronic heart failure
Abstract Aims Emerging evidence suggests that cartilage intermediate layer protein 1 (CILP-1) is associated with myocardia...
Impact of intraventricular haemodynamic forces misalignment on left ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction
Abstract Aims Altered left ventricular (LV) haemodynamic forces (HDFs) have been associated with positive and negative rem...
Transcriptional co‐activators YAP1–TAZ of Hippo signalling in doxorubicin‐induced cardiomyopathy
Abstract Aims Hippo signalling is an evolutionarily conserved pathway that controls organ size by regulating apoptosis, ce...
Degenerative changes of the aortic valve during left ventricular assist device support
Abstract Aims Donor heart shortage leads to increasing use of left ventricular assist device (LVAD) as bridge-to-transplan...
Models of cardiovascular surgery biobanking to facilitate translational research and precision medicine
Abstract Biobanking in health care has evolved over the last few decades from simple biological sample repositories to com...
Usefulness of ventilatory inefficiency in predicting prognosis across the heart failure spectrum
Abstract Aims The minute ventilation–carbon dioxide production relationship (VE/VCO2 slope) is widely used for prog...
Sex‐specific bimodal clustering of left ventricular ejection fraction in patients with acute heart failure
Abstract Aims There is an ongoing discussion whether the categorization of patients with heart failure according to left v...
Effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on heart failure hospitalizations in Japan: interrupted time series analysis
Abstract Aims The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had unprecedented effects on health care utilization fo...
N‐terminal pro‐B‐type natriuretic peptide testing patterns in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
Abstract Aims The N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a commonly used biomarker in heart failure for ...
A year in heart failure: an update of recent findings
Abstract Major changes have occurred in these last years in heart failure (HF) management. Landmark trials and the 2021 Eu...
A proposed strategy for anticoagulation therapy in noncompaction cardiomyopathy
Abstract Noncompaction cardiomyopathy (NCCM) is a rare condition characterized by prominent trabeculae, deep intertrabecul...
Urinary liver‐type fatty acid‐binding protein as a prognostic marker in patients with acute heart failure
Abstract Aims Urinary liver-type fatty acid-binding protein (L-FABP) is expressed in proximal tubular epithelial cells and...
Prognostic significance of insulin resistance in pulmonary hypertension
Abstract Aims The relationship between insulin resistance (IR) and glucose intolerance with pulmonary hypertension (PH) ha...
Age‐related survival after alcohol septal ablation in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy
Abstract Aims Since its introduction, alcohol septal ablation (PTSMA) was discussed as treatment option only in elderly sy...
Heart failure with preserved, mid‐range, and reduced ejection fraction across health care settings: an observational study
Abstract Aims This study aimed to assess the sex-specific distribution of heart failure (HF) with preserved, mid-range, an...
Exercise capacity after total cavopulmonary anastomosis: a longitudinal paediatric and adult study
Abstract Aims Fontan palliation is a surgical strategy for patients with complex congenital heart disease, in whom biventr...