Isabelle C Van Gelder, Michiel Rienstra, Karina V Bunting, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Valeria Caso, Harry J G M Crijns, Tom J R De Potter, Jeremy Dwight, Luigina Guasti, Thorsten Hanke, Tiny Jaarsma, Maddalena Lettino, Maja-Lisa Løchen, R Thomas Lumbers, Bart Maesen, Inge Mølgaard, Giuseppe M C Rosano, Prashanthan Sanders, Renate B Schnabel, Piotr Suwalski, Emma Svennberg, Juan Tamargo, Otilia Tica, Vassil Traykov, Stylianos Tzeis, Dipak Kotecha
{"title":"2024 ESC Guidelines for the management of atrial fibrillation developed in collaboration with the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery (EACTS).","authors":"Isabelle C Van Gelder, Michiel Rienstra, Karina V Bunting, Ruben Casado-Arroyo, Valeria Caso, Harry J G M Crijns, Tom J R De Potter, Jeremy Dwight, Luigina Guasti, Thorsten Hanke, Tiny Jaarsma, Maddalena Lettino, Maja-Lisa Løchen, R Thomas Lumbers, Bart Maesen, Inge Mølgaard, Giuseppe M C Rosano, Prashanthan Sanders, Renate B Schnabel, Piotr Suwalski, Emma Svennberg, Juan Tamargo, Otilia Tica, Vassil Traykov, Stylianos Tzeis, Dipak Kotecha","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vulnerable plaque and major adverse cardiovascular events: anatomy of a failure.","authors":"C Noel Bairey Merz","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae553","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae553","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142125202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pietro Paolo Tamborrino, Sarah Ghonim, Sabine Ernst
{"title":"Intra-atrial re-entries in a 'doughnut' atrium.","authors":"Pietro Paolo Tamborrino, Sarah Ghonim, Sabine Ernst","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae514","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae514","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141992229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gregory Y H Lip, Konsta Teppo, Peter Brønnum Nielsen
{"title":"CHA2DS2-VASc or a non-sex score (CHA2DS2-VA) for stroke risk prediction in atrial fibrillation: contemporary insights and clinical implications.","authors":"Gregory Y H Lip, Konsta Teppo, Peter Brønnum Nielsen","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae540","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae540","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weekly Journal Scan: The prognostic value of coronary inflammation in patients with non-obstructive coronary artery disease.","authors":"Rocco Vergallo, Giovanna Liuzzo","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae430","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae430","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141619677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
William E Boden, Raffaele De Caterina, Juan Carlos Kaski, Noel Bairey Merz, Colin Berry, Mario Marzilli, Carl J Pepine, Emanuele Barbato, Giulio Stefanini, Eva Prescott, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Deepak L Bhatt, Joseph A Hill, Filippo Crea
{"title":"Myocardial ischaemic syndromes: a new nomenclature to harmonize evolving international clinical practice guidelines.","authors":"William E Boden, Raffaele De Caterina, Juan Carlos Kaski, Noel Bairey Merz, Colin Berry, Mario Marzilli, Carl J Pepine, Emanuele Barbato, Giulio Stefanini, Eva Prescott, Philippe Gabriel Steg, Deepak L Bhatt, Joseph A Hill, Filippo Crea","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae278","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae278","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Since the 1960s, cardiologists have adopted several binary classification systems for acute myocardial infarction (MI) that facilitated improved patient management. Conversely, for chronic stable manifestations of myocardial ischaemia, various classifications have emerged over time, often with conflicting terminology-e.g. 'stable coronary artery disease' (CAD), 'stable ischaemic heart disease', and 'chronic coronary syndromes' (CCS). While the 2019 European guidelines introduced CCS to impart symmetry with 'acute coronary syndromes' (ACS), the 2023 American guidelines endorsed the alternative term 'chronic coronary disease'. An unintended consequence of these competing classifications is perpetuation of the restrictive terms 'coronary' and 'disease', often connoting only a singular obstructive CAD mechanism. It is now important to advance a more broadly inclusive terminology for both obstructive and non-obstructive causes of angina and myocardial ischaemia that fosters conceptual clarity and unifies dyssynchronous nomenclatures across guidelines. We, therefore, propose a new binary classification of 'acute myocardial ischaemic syndromes' and 'non-acute myocardial ischaemic syndromes', which comprises both obstructive epicardial and non-obstructive pathogenetic mechanisms, including microvascular dysfunction, vasospastic disorders, and non-coronary causes. We herein retain accepted categories of ACS, ST-segment elevation MI, and non-ST-segment elevation MI, as important subsets for which revascularization is of proven clinical benefit, as well as new terms like ischaemia and MI with non-obstructive coronary arteries. Overall, such a more encompassing nomenclature better aligns, unifies, and harmonizes different pathophysiologic causes of myocardial ischaemia and should result in more refined diagnostic and therapeutic approaches targeted to the multiple pathobiological precipitants of angina pectoris, ischaemia and infarction.</p>","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142105695","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Filippo Crea, Lina Badimon, Colin Berry, Raffaele De Caterina, Perry M Elliott, Robert Hatala, Peter Libby, Cecilia Linde, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen
{"title":"European Heart Journal: a call to action.","authors":"Filippo Crea, Lina Badimon, Colin Berry, Raffaele De Caterina, Perry M Elliott, Robert Hatala, Peter Libby, Cecilia Linde, Anne Tybjærg-Hansen","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae588","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae588","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Heart and soul: Jean-François Riffaud on his first year at the helm of the European Society of Cardiology.","authors":"Judith Ozkan","doi":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae591","DOIUrl":"10.1093/eurheartj/ehae591","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":11976,"journal":{"name":"European Heart Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":37.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142282460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}