Heart Failure

“Heart Failure” is an annual special issue published in “Cardiology Research and Practice.” The forthcoming issue is the 2013 issue, which is now open for submissions.

Heart Failure 2013

• Submit a Manuscript (Submission Deadline: July 26, 2013)

Heart Failure 2012

• Heart Failure 2012, Gregory Giamouzis, George Giannakoulas, Javed Butler, John A. Elefteriades, Carsten Tschöpe, and Filippos Triposkiadis
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 126324, 3 pages
• Current Status of Mechanical Circulatory Support: A Systematic Review, Kyriakos Spiliopoulos, Gregory Giamouzis, George Karayannis, Dimos Karangelis, Stelios Koutsias, Andreas Kalogeropoulos, Vasiliki Georgiopoulou, John Skoularigis, Javed Butler, and Filippos Triposkiadis
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 574198, 12 pages
• Gender Differences in the Influence of Social Support on One-Year Changes in Functional Status in Older Patients with Heart Failure, Danielle M. Berard, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof, Margaret Harrison, and Joan E. Tranmer
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 616372, 10 pages
• Does Depression Impact Cognitive Impairment in Patients with Heart Failure?, Z. N. Sohani and Z. Samaan
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 524325, 9 pages
• CRT-D Therapy in Patients with Decompensated NYHA Class-Four CHF, Faisal Zaeem, Dalia Giedriemiene, Craig Coleman, Eric Crespo, Joseph Radojevic, Steven Zweibel, Jeffrey Kluger, and Christopher A. Clyne
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 319205, 4 pages
• Depression in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease, Dimos Mastrogiannis, Gregory Giamouzis, Efthimios Dardiotis, George Karayannis, Artemis Chroub-Papavaiou, Dimitra Kremeti, Kyriakos Spiliopoulos, Panagiotis Georgoulias, Stelios Koutsias, Konstantinos Bonotis, Marianna Mantzorou, John Skoularigis, Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou, Javed Butler, and Filippos Triposkiadis
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 794762, 10 pages
• Telemonitoring in Chronic Heart Failure: A Systematic Review, Gregory Giamouzis, Dimos Mastrogiannis, Konstantinos Koutrakis, George Karayannis, Charalambos Parisis, Chris Rountas, Elias Adreanides, George E. Dafoulas, Panagiotis C. Stafylas, John Skoularigis, Sara Giacomelli, Zoran Olivari, and Filippos Triposkiadis
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 410820, 7 pages
• Cognitive Impairment in Heart Failure, Efthimios Dardiotis, Gregory Giamouzis, Dimos Mastrogiannis, Christina Vogiatzi, John Skoularigis, Filippos Triposkiadis, and Georgios M. Hadjigeorgiou
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 595821, 9 pages
• Protective Function of STAT3 in CVB3-Induced Myocarditis, Diana Lindner, Moritz Hilbrandt, Katharina Marggraf, P. Moritz Becher, Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner, Karin Klingel, Matthias Pauschinger, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe, and Dirk Westermann
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 437623, 11 pages
• Targeting the ACE2 and Apelin Pathways Are Novel Therapies for Heart Failure: Opportunities and Challenges, Seyyed M. R. Kazemi-Bajestani, Vaibhav B. Patel, Wang Wang, and Gavin Y. Oudit
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 823193, 11 pages
• Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization for Coronary Artery Disease, Hidekatsu Fukuta, Nobuyuki Ohte, Kazuaki Wakami, Toshihiko Goto, Tomomitsu Tani, and Genjiro Kimura
  Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 243735, 8 pages

Heart Failure 2011

• Heart Failure, Gregory Giamouzis, Filippos Triposkiadis, Javed Butler, Dirk Westermann, and George Giannakoulas
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 159608, 2 pages
• Women with Heart Failure Are at High Psychosocial Risk: A Systematic Review of How Sex and Gender Influence Heart Failure Self-Care, Jody R. Thomas and Alexander M. Clark
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 918973, 6 pages
• Cardiac Function in Long-Term Survivors of Childhood Lymphoma, Mark K. Friedberg, Ido Solt, Myriam Weyl-Ben-Arush, Yulia Braver, and Avraham Lorber
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 316927, 8 pages
• Acute Experimental Hyperthyroidism Does Not Affect Basal and Volume-Induced Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Secretion in Healthy Subjects, Gregory Giamouzis, Dimitrios Pappas, Nikolaos Simeonidis, Evangelos Stathogiannis, Filippos Triposkiadis, and George N. Koukoulis
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 381865, 6 pages
• Right Ventricular Dysfunction and Failure in Chronic Pressure Overload, Marc A. Simon and Michael R. Pinsky
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 568095, 7 pages
• Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy: Cardiac Homing and Beyond, S. Van Linthout, Ch. Stamm, H.-P. Schultheiss, and C. Tschöpe
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 757154, 8 pages
• Multimodality Imaging of Chronic Ischemia, Kiyotake Ishikawa, Dennis Ladage, Kleopatra Rapti, Leticia Fernandez-Friera, Ana Maria Garcia-Lopez, Javier Sanz, Roger J. Hajjar, Yoshiaki Kawase, and Mario J. Garcia
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 739702, 4 pages
• Noninvasive Detection of Left-Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction by Acoustic Cardiography in Atrial Fibrillation, Roger Dillier, Richard Kobza, Susanne Erne, Michel Zuber, Patricia Arand, and Paul Erne
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 173102, 7 pages
• A Case of Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction with Basal ECG-Tracing Strongly Suggestive for Type-2 Brugada Syndrome, Maria Banci, Roberta Martinoli, Alessandro Dofcaci, Stefano Piccirilli, Federica Papetti, Ilaria Sansoni, and Patrizia Saccucci
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 201962, 4 pages
• Efficiency and Safety of Prolonged Levosimendan Infusion in Patients with Acute Heart Failure, Georgios Aidonidis, Ioannis Kanonidis, Vasileios Koutsimanis, Till Neumann, Raimund Erbel, and Georgios Sakadamis
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 342302, 6 pages
• Exercise Training for Heart Failure Patients with and without Systolic Dysfunction: An Evidence-Based Analysis of How Patients Benefit, Neil Smart
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 837238, 7 pages
• Effect of Exercise Training on Interleukin-6, Tumour Necrosis Factor Alpha and Functional Capacity in Heart Failure, Neil A. Smart, Alf I. Larsen, John P. Le Maitre, and Almir S. Ferraz
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 532620, 6 pages
• Progression of Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Remodelling under Optimal Medical Therapy in CHF Patients: Role of Individual Genetic Background, Marzia Rigolli, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Corinna Bergamini, Andrea Chiampan, Andrea Rossi, and Corrado Vassanelli
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 798658, 6 pages
• Development of Bioartificial Myocardium Using Stem Cells and Nanobiotechnology Templates, Juan Carlos Chachques
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 806795, 7 pages
• Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy: The Muscular Metabolic Pathway, Jérémie Jaussaud, Pierre Blanc, Pierre Bordachar, Raymond Roudaut, and Hervé Douard
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 830279, 5 pages
• Dyssynchrony Assessment with Tissue Doppler Imaging and Regional Volumetric Analysis by 3D Echocardiography Do Not Predict Long-Term Response to Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Suman S. Kuppahally, Michael B. Fowler, Randall Vagelos, Paul Wang, Amin Al-Ahmad, Henry Hsia, and David Liang
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 568918, 7 pages
• The Use of Epicardial Electrogram as a Simple Guide to Select the Optimal Site of Left Ventricular Pacing in Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy, Marjaneh Fatemi, Grégoire Le Gal, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Jacques Mansourati, and Yves Etienne
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 956062, 8 pages
• Focused Review on Transthoracic Echocardiographic Assessment of Patients with Continuous Axial Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Yan Topilsky, Simon Maltais, Jae K. Oh, Fawn W. Atchison, Louis P. Perrault, Michel Carrier, and Soon J. Park
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 187434, 11 pages
• The Role of Device Diagnostic Algorithms in the Assessment and Management of Patients with Systolic Heart Failure: A Review, Andrew C. T. Ha, Richard A. Leather, Paul G. Novak, Laurence D. Sterns, and Anthony S. L. Tang
  Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 908921, 7 pages