Submissions from 2016
Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement in Native Mitral Valve Disease With Severe Mitral Annular Calcification: Results From the First Multicenter Global Registry, Mayra Guerrero, Danny Dvir, Dominique Himbert, Marina Urena, Mackram Eleid, Dee Dee Wang, Adam Greenbaum, Vaikom S. Mahadevan, David Holzhey, Daniel O'Hair, Nicolas Dumonteil, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Nicolo Piazza, Jose H. Palma, Augustin DeLago, Enrico Ferrari, Adam Witkowski, Olaf Wendler, Ran Kornowski, Pedro Martinez-Clark, Daniel Ciaburri, Richard Shemin, Sami Alnasser, David McAllister, Martin Bena, Faraz Kerendi, Gregory Pavlides, Jose J. Sobrinho, Guilherme F. Attizzani, Isaac George, George Nickenig, Amir-Ali Fassa, Alain Cribier, Vinnie Bapat, Ted Feldman, Charanjit Rihal, Alec Vahanian, John Webb, and William O'Neill
Response to Exercise Training and Outcomes in Patients With Heart Failure and Diabetes Mellitus: Insights From the HF-ACTION Trial, Adam Z. Banks, Robert J. Mentz, Amanda Stebbins, Catherine R. Mikus, Phillip J. Schulte, Jerome L. Fleg, Lawton S. Cooper, Eric Leifer, Dalynn T. Badenhop, Steven J. Keteyian, Ileana L. Piña, Dalane W. Kitzman, Mona Fiuzat, David J. Whellan, William E. Kraus, and Christopher M. O'Connor
Contrast Utilization During Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From a Contemporary Multicenter Registry, Georgios E. Christakopoulos, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, R M. Wyman, William Lombardi, J A. Grantham, David A. Kandzari, Nicholas Lembo, Jeffrey W. Moses, Ajay Kirtane, Manish Parikh, Philip Green, Matthew Finn, Santiago Garcia, Anthony Doing, Mitul Patel, John Bahadorani, Georgios Christopoulos, Aris Karatasakis, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Use of antegrade dissection re-entry in coronary chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention in a contemporary multicenter registry, Barbara A. Danek, Aris Karatasakis, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, Mitul Patel, John Bahadorani, William L. Lombardi, Michael R. Wyman, J A. Grantham, Anthony Doing, Jeffrey W. Moses, Ajay Kirtane, Manish Parikh, Ziad A. Ali, Sanjog Kalra, David E. Kandzari, Nicholas Lembo, Santiago Garcia, Bavana V. Rangan, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Mechanical circulatory support with impella to facilitate percutaneous coronary intervention for post-TAVI bilateral coronary obstruction, Tiberio M. Frisoli, Mayra Guerrero, and William O'Neill
A Rare Case of Aspergillus Pericarditis with Associated Myocardial Abscess and Echocardiographic Response to Therapy, Daniel F. Kupsky, Khaldoon Alaswad, and Bobak T. Rabbani
Percutaneous Right Ventricular Assist Device Support in a Patient Supported by an LVAD, Jeffrey A. Morgan and William O'Neill
Multicenter Evaluation of a 0-Hour/1-Hour Algorithm in the Diagnosis of Myocardial Infarction With High-Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin T, Christian Mueller, Evangelos Giannitsis, Michael Christ, Jorge Ordóñez-Llanos, Christopher deFilippi, James McCord, Richard Body, Mauro Panteghini, Tomas Jernberg, Mario Plebani, Franck Verschuren, John French, Robert Christenson, Silvia Weiser, Garnet Bendig, Peter Dilba, and Bertil Lindahl
Size does matter but is there an obesity paradox in TAVR?, Pradeep K. Yadav and Marvin H. Eng
The comparative efficacy of bivalirudin is markedly attenuated by use of radial access: insights from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium, Emily Perdoncin, Milan Seth, Simon Dixon, Louis Cannon, Akshay Khandelwal, Arthur Riba, Shukri David, David Wohns, and Hitinder Gurm
Sex Differences in Cardiorespiratory Fitness and All-Cause Mortality: The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing (FIT) Project, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Stephen P. Juraschek, Seamus Whelton, Zeina A. Dardari, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Erin D. Michos, Roger S. Blumenthal, Khurram Nasir, Waqas T. Qureshi, Clinton Brawner, Steven J. Keteyian, and Michael J. Blaha
Prevalence of Physical Activity Is Lower among Individuals with Chronic Disease, Clinton Brawner, James R. Churilla, and Steven J. Keteyian
Balloon expandable transcatheter heart valves for native mitral valve disease with severe mitral annular calcification, Mayra Guerrero, Marina Urena, Amit Pursnani, Dee Dee Wang, Alec Vahanian, William O'Neill, Ted Feldman, and Dominique Himbert
Short- and Long-Term Prognostic Utility of the HEART Score in Patients Evaluated in the Emergency Department for Possible Acute Coronary Syndrome, Tarun Jain, Richard M. Nowak, Michael Hudson, Tiberio M. Frisoli, Gordon Jacobsen, and James McCord
Outcomes With the Use of the Retrograde Approach for Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions in a Contemporary Multicenter US Registry, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Aris Karatasakis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Farouc A. Jaffer, Robert W. Yeh, R. M. Wyman, William L. Lombardi, J. A. Grantham, David E. Kandzari, Nicholas J. Lembo, Anthony Doing, Mitul Patel, John N. Bahadorani, Jeffrey W. Moses, Ajay J. Kirtane, Manish Parikh, Ziad A. Ali, Sanjog Kalra, Phuong-Khanh J. Nguyen-Trong, Barbara A. Danek, Judit Karacsonyi, Bavana V. Rangan, Michele K. Roesle, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Use of Saphenous Vein Bypass Grafts for Retrograde Recanalization of Coronary Chronic Total Occlusions: Insights From a Multicenter Registry, Phuong-Khanh J. Nguyen-Trong, Khaldoon Alaswad, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, William Lombardi, J A. Grantham, Nicholas Lembo, David Kandzari, Aris Karatasakis, Judit Karacsonyi, Barbara A. Danek, Bavana V. Rangan, Michele Roesle, Colby R. Ayers, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Rare Case of Unileaflet Mitral Valve, Jainil Shah, Tarun Jain, Sunay Shah, Sagger Mawri, and Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam
Restoration of Mitochondrial Cardiolipin Attenuates Cardiac Damage in Swine Renovascular Hypertension, Alfonso Eirin, Behzad Ebrahimi, Soon Hyo Kwon, Justin A. Fiala, Barbara J. Williams, John R. Woollard, Quan He, Ramesh C. Gupta, Hani N. Sabbah, Y S. Prakash, Stephen C. Textor, Amir Lerman, and Lilach O. Lerman
A Practical Approach to Mechanical Circulatory Support in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: An Interventional Perspective, Tamara M. Atkinson, Erik M. Ohman, William O'Neill, Tanveer Rab, and Joaquin E. Cigarroa
Diabetes Mellitus and Prevention of Late Myocardial Infarction After Coronary Stenting in the Randomized Dual Antiplatelet Therapy Study, Ian T. Meredith, Jean-François Tanguay, Dean J. Kereiakes, Donald E. Cutlip, Robert W. Yeh, Kirk N. Garratt, David P. Lee, P G. Steg, W D. Weaver, David R. Holmes, Ralph G. Brindis, Jaroslaw Trebacz, Joseph M. Massaro, Wen-Hua Hsieh, and Laura Mauri
Racial Differences in the Prognostic Value of Cardiorespiratory Fitness (Results from the Henry Ford Exercise Testing Project), Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Waqas T. Qureshi, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, Mohsin Alam, Zeina Dardari, Khurram Nasir, and Michael J. Blaha
Developing New Treatments for Heart Failure: Focus on the Heart, Mihai Gheorghiade, Christopher J. Larson, Sanjiv J. Shah, Stephen J. Greene, John GF Cleland, Wilson S. Colucci, Preston Dunnmon, Stephen E. Epstein, Raymond J. Kim, Ramin V. Parsey, Norman Stockbridge, James Carr, Wilfried Dinh, Thomas Krahn, Frank Kramer, Karin Wahlander, Lawrence I. Deckelbaum, David Crandall, Shunichiro Okada, Michele Senni, Sergey Sikora, Hani N. Sabbah, and Javed Butler
The Association of Coronary Artery Calcium With Noncardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis, Catherine E. Handy, Chintan S. Desai, Zeina A. Dardari, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Michael D. Miedema, Pamela Ouyang, Matthew J. Budoff, Roger S. Blumenthal, Khurram Nasir, and Michael J. Blaha
Impact of Surgical Consultation on Outcomes in Hemodynamically Supported High-Risk Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: Insights From PROTECT II Randomized Study, David M. Shavelle, Ajay J. Kirtane, Theodore L. Schreiber, Neel K. Kapasi, William O'Neill, Jeffrey W. Moses, Jeffrey Popma, and Ray V. Matthews
EMBRACE STEMI study: a Phase 2a trial to evaluate the safety, tolerability, and efficacy of intravenous MTP-131 on reperfusion injury in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention, C M. Gibson, Robert P. Giugliano, Robert A. Kloner, Christoph Bode, Michal Tendera, András Jánosi, Bela Merkely, Jacek Godlewski, Rim Halaby, Serge Korjian, Yazan Daaboul, Anjan K. Chakrabarti, Kathryn Spielman, Brandon J. Neal, and W D. Weaver
Relationship Between Exercise Workload During Cardiac Rehabilitation and Outcomes in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease, Clinton Brawner, Khaled Abdul-Nour, Barry Lewis, John R. Schairer, Shalini S. Modi, Dennis Kerrigan, Jonathan K. Ehrman, and Steven J. Keteyian
Effect of Previous Failure on Subsequent Procedural Outcomes of Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from a Contemporary Multicenter Registry), Judit Karacsonyi, Aris Karatasakis, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, Michael R. Wyman, William L. Lombardi, J A. Grantham, David E. Kandzari, Nicholas Lembo, Jeffrey W. Moses, Ajay J. Kirtane, Manish A. Parikh, Philip Green, Matthew Finn, Santiago Garcia, Anthony Doing, Mitul Patel, John Bahadorani, Jose R. Martinez Parachini, Erica Resendes, Bavana V. Rangan, Imre Ungi, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Diagnostic and prognostic implications using age- and gender-specific cut-offs for high-sensitivity cardiac troponin T - Sub-analysis from the TRAPID-AMI study, Matthias Mueller-Hennessen, Bertil Lindahl, Evangelos Giannitsis, Moritz Biener, Mehrshad Vafaie, Christopher R. deFilippi, Michael Christ, Miguel Santalo-Bel, Mauro Panteghini, Mario Plebani, Franck Verschuren, Tomas Jernberg, John K. French, Robert H. Christenson, Richard Body, James McCord, Peter Dilba, Hugo A. Katus, and Christian Mueller
Exercise Parameters and Risk of Coronary Artery Disease and Mortality Among Patients Who Use Pulmonary Medications: The FIT Project, Tolulope Adesiyun, Di Zhao, Michael J. Blaha, Clinton Brawner, Steven J. Keteyian, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, and Erin Michos
Update on Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Emmanouil S. Brilakis, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Minh N. Vo, Mauro Carlino, Alfredo R. Galassi, Marouane Boukhris, Khaldoon Alaswad, Leszek Bryniarski, William L. Lombardi, and Subhash Banerjee
Merging Electronic Health Record Data and Genomics for Cardiovascular Research: A Science Advisory From the American Heart Association, Jennifer L. Hall, John J. Ryan, Bruce E. Bray, Candice Brown, David E. Lanfear, L K. Newby, Mary V. Relling, Neil J. Risch, Dan M. Roden, Stanley Y. Shaw, James E. Tcheng, Jessica Tenenbaum, Thomas N. Wang, and William S. Weintraub
Serotonin Syndrome Following Methylene Blue Administration for Vasoplegic Syndrome, Laura Hencken, Long To, Nancy Ly, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
The association of clinical indication for exercise stress testing with all-cause mortality: the FIT Project, Joonseok Kim, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Stephen P. Juraschek, Clinton Brawner, Steven J. Keteyian, Khurram Nasir, Zeina A. Dardari, Roger S. Blumenthal, and Michael J. Blaha
Prognostic value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction The Henry Ford HospITal CardioPulmonary EXercise Testing (FIT-CPX) project, Ali Shafiq, Clinton Brawner, Heather A. Aldred, Barry Lewis, Celeste Williams, Cristina Tita, John R. Schairer, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Mauricio Velez, Yelena Selektor, David Lanfear, and Steven J. Keteyian
Pharmacogenetic Risk Scores for Perindopril Clinical and Cost Effectiveness in Stable Coronary Artery Disease: When Are We Ready to Implement?, Jasmine A. Luzum and David Lanfear
Age-dependent prognostic value of exercise capacity and derivation of fitness-associated biologic age, Michael J. Blaha, Rupert K. Hung, Zeina Dardari, David I. Feldman, Seamus P. Whelton, Khurram Nasir, Roger S. Blumenthal, Clinton Brawner, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Steven J. Keteyian, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Heart within a Heart, Tarun Jain, Jainil Shah, S Shah, and Shalini S. Modi
Heart Rate and V˙O2 Concordance in Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices, Dennis Kerrigan, Celeste Williams, Clinton A. Brawner, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Matthew Saval, Edward L. Peterson, David E. Lanfear, Cristina Tita, Mauricio Velez, Yelena Selektor, and Steven J. Keteyian
One-year follow-up results from AUGMENT-HF: a multicentre randomized controlled clinical trial of the efficacy of left ventricular augmentation with Algisyl in the treatment of heart failure, Douglas L. Mann, Randall J. Lee, Andrew JS Coats, Gheorghe Neagoe, Dinu Dragomir, Enrico Pusineri, Massimo Piredda, Luca Bettari, Bridget-Anne Kirwan, Robert Dowling, Maurizio Volterrani, Scott D. Solomon, Hani N. Sabbah, Andy Hinson, and Stefan D. Anker
The Comparison of Physician to Computer Interpreted Electrocardiograms on ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction Door-to-balloon Times, Sagger Mawri, Alexander T. Michaels, Joseph J. Gibbs, Sunay Shah, Sunil Rao, Aaron Kugelmass, Natesh Lingam, Muhammad Arida, Gordon Jacobsen, Ian Rowlandson, Karthik Iyer, Akshay Khandelwal, and James McCord
Strain Imaging: From Physiology to Practical Applications in Daily Practice, Nishtha Sareen and Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam
Renal failure in patients with ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention: Predictors, clinical and angiographic features, and outcomes, John P. Vavalle, Sean van Diepen, Robert M. Clare, Judith S. Hochman, W D. Weaver, Rajendra H. Mehta, Karen S. Pieper, Manesh R. Patel, Uptal D. Patel, Paul W. Armstrong, Christopher B. Granger, and Renato D. Lopes
Variables Measured During Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing as Predictors of Mortality in Chronic Systolic Heart Failure, Steven J. Keteyian, Mahesh Patel, William E. Kraus, Clinton Brawner, Timothy R. McConnell, Ileana L. Piña, Eric S. Leifer, Jerome L. Fleg, Gordon Blackburn, Gregg C. Fonarow, Paul J. Chase, Lucy Piner, Marianne Vest, Christopher M. O'Connor, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Mary N. Walsh, Gregory Ewald, Dan Bensimhon, and Stuart D. Russell
The Association of Resting Heart Rate and Incident Hypertension: The Henry Ford Hospital Exercise Testing (FIT) Project, Amer I. Aladin, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Shereen H. Rasool, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, Erin D. Michos, Michael J. Blaha, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, and John W. McEvoy
Progressive Left Ventricular Hypertrophy after Heart Transplantation: Insights and Mechanisms Suggested by Multimodal Images, Karthik Ananthasubramaniam, Kiran Garikapati, and Celeste T. Williams
Simplified risk stratification criteria for identification of patients with MRSA bacteremia at low risk of infective endocarditis: implications for avoiding routine transesophageal echocardiography in MRSA bacteremia, P Buitron de la Vega, P Tandon, W Qureshi, Youssef Nasr, R Jayaprakash, Samia Arshad, D Moreno, Gordon Jacobsen, Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, Mayur Ramesh, and Marcus J. Zervos
Radial PCI and the obesity paradox: Insights from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Cardiovascular Consortium (BMC2), Jonathan R. McDonagh, Milan Seth, Thomas A. LaLonde, Akshay Khandelwal, David H. Wohns, Simon R. Dixon, and Hitinder S. Gurm
Chronic Therapy With Elamipretide (MTP-131), a Novel Mitochondria-Targeting Peptide, Improves Left Ventricular and Mitochondrial Function in Dogs With Advanced Heart Failure, Hani N. Sabbah, Ramesh C. Gupta, Smita Kohli, Mengjun Wang, Souheila N. Hachem, and Kefei Zhang
High Exercise Capacity Attenuates the Risk of Early Mortality After a First Myocardial Infarction: The Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project, Gabriel E. Shaya, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Rupert K. Hung, Khurram Nasir, Roger S. Blumenthal, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, Waqas T. Qureshi, and Michael J. Blaha
Long term prognostic utility of coronary CT angiography in patients with no modifiable coronary artery disease risk factors: Results from the 5 year follow-up of the CONFIRM International Multicenter Registry, Chaitu Cheruvu, Bruce Precious, Christopher Naoum, Philipp Blanke, Amir Ahmadi, Jeanette Soon, Chesnaldey Arepalli, Heidi Gransar, Stephan Achenbach, Daniel S. Berman, Matthew J. Budoff, Tracy Q. Callister, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Filippo Cademartiri, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Ronen Rubinshtein, Hugo Marquez, Augustin DeLago, Todd C. Villines, Martin Hadamitzky, Joerg Hausleiter, Leslee J. Shaw, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ricardo C. Cury, Gudrun Feuchtner, Yong-Jin Kim, Erica Maffei, Gilbert Raff, Gianluca Pontone, Daniele Andreini, Hyuk-Jae Chang, James K. Min, and Jonathon Leipsic
Partial adenosine A1 receptor agonism: a potential new therapeutic strategy for heart failure, Stephen J. Greene, Hani N. Sabbah, Javed Butler, Adriaan A. Voors, Barbara E. Albrecht-Küpper, Hans-Dirk Düngen, Wilfried Dinh, and Mihai Gheorghiade
Novel ICD Programming and Inappropriate ICD Therapy in CRT-D Versus ICD Patients: A MADIT-RIT Sub-Study, Valentina Kutyifa, James P. Daubert, Claudio Schuger, Ilan Goldenberg, Helmut Klein, Mehmet K. Aktas, Scott McNitt, Martin Stockburger, Bela Merkely, Wojciech Zareba, and Arthur J. Moss
Serial sampling of copeptin levels improves diagnosis and risk stratification in patients presenting with chest pain: results from the CHOPIN trial, Nicholas A. Marston, Kevin S. Shah, Christian Mueller, Sean-Xavier Neath, Robert H. Christenson, James McCord, Richard M. Nowak, Lori B. Daniels, Judd E. Hollander, Fred Apple, John Nagurney, Donald Schreiber, Christopher deFilippi, Deborah Diercks, Alexander Limkakeng, Inder S. Anand, Alan HB Wu, Allan S. Jaffe, W F. Peacock, and Alan S. Maisel
Midventricular Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Apical Aneurysm: Potential for Underdiagnosis and Value of Multimodality Imaging, Archana Sivanandam and Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam
Cardiovascular Pharmacokinetics, Pharmacodynamics, and Pharmacogenomics for the Clinical Practitioner, Anna T. Sleder, James Kalus, and David Lanfear
Submissions from 2015
Response to Letter Regarding Article, "Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation: Results From the Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project", Waqas T. Qureshi, Zaid Alirhayim, Michael J. Blaha, Stephen P. Juraschek, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Relation of Risk of Atrial Fibrillation With Systolic Blood Pressure Response During Exercise Stress Testing (from the Henry Ford ExercIse Testing Project), Wesley T. O'Neal, Waqas T. Qureshi, Michael J. Blaha, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Clinton Brawner, Khurram Nasir, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Benefits of a novel percutaneous ventricular assist device for right heart failure: The prospective RECOVER RIGHT study of the Impella RP device, Mark B. Anderson, James Goldstein, Carmelo Milano, Lynn D. Morris, Robert L. Kormos, Jay Bhama, Navin K. Kapur, Aditya Bansal, Jose Garcia, Joshua N. Baker, Scott Silvestry, William L. Holman, Pamela S. Douglas, and William O'Neill
Aspiration Thrombectomy in Patients Undergoing Primary Angioplasty for ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: An Updated Meta-Analysis, Abhijit Ghatak, Vikas Singh, Ghanshyam PS Shantha, Apurva Badheka, Nilesh Patel, Carlos E. Alfonso, Monodeep Biswas, Samir B. Pancholy, Cindy Grines, William O'Neill, Eduardo de Marchena, and Mauricio G. Cohen
Genetic Factors Influencing B-type Natriuretic Peptide-Mediated Production of Cyclic Guanosine Monophosphate and Blood Pressure Effects in Heart Failure Patients, David E. Lanfear, Jia Li, Raza Abbas, Ruicong She, Badri Padhukasahasram, Ramesh C. Gupta, David Langholz, W HW Tang, Keoki L. Williams, Hani N. Sabbah, and Sheryl L. Chow
Race, Calcineurin Inhibitor Exposure, and Renal Function After Solid Organ Transplantation, Lenar Yessayan, A Shafiq, Edward L. Peterson, K Wells, Yong Hu, Keoki L. Williams, and David E. Lanfear
Short and long term outcomes of 200 patients supported by continuous-flow left ventricular assist devices, Athanasios Tsiouris, Gaetano Paone, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, Celeste Williams, David Lanfear, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
The feasibility and safety of Algisyl-LVR™ as a method of left ventricular augmentation in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: initial first in man clinical results, Randall J. Lee, Andy Hinson, Robert Bauernschmitt, Klaus Matschke, Qi Fang, Douglas L. Mann, Robert Dowling, Nelson Schiller, and Hani N. Sabbah
Application and outcomes of a hybrid approach to chronic total occlusion percutaneous coronary intervention in a contemporary multicenter US registry, Georgios Christopoulos, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Khaldoon Alaswad, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, R M. Wyman, William L. Lombardi, Rohan V. Menon, J A. Grantham, David E. Kandzari, Nicholas Lembo, Jeffrey W. Moses, Ajay J. Kirtane, Manish Parikh, Philip Green, Matthew Finn, Santiago Garcia, Anthony Doing, Mitul Patel, John Bahadorani, Muhammad NJ Tarar, Georgios E. Christakopoulos, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Percutaneous left ventricular assist device for high-risk percutaneous coronary interventions: Real-world versus clinical trial experience, Mauricio G. Cohen, Ray Matthews, Brij Maini, Simon Dixon, George Vetrovec, David Wohns, Igor Palacios, Jeffrey Popma, Erik M. Ohman, Theodore Schreiber, and William O'Neill
Psychosocial Factors, Exercise Adherence, and Outcomes in Heart Failure Patients: Insights From Heart Failure: A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise Training (HF-ACTION), Lauren B. Cooper, Robert J. Mentz, Jie-Lena Sun, Phillip J. Schulte, Jerome L. Fleg, Lawton S. Cooper, Ileana L. Piña, Eric S. Leifer, William E. Kraus, David J. Whellan, Steven J. Keteyian, and Christopher M. O'Connor
Effect of Preoperative Albumin Levels on Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Device Implantation, Pauline H. Go, Arielle Hodari, Hassan Nemeh, Jamil Borgi, David E. Lanfear, Celeste Williams, Gaetano Paone, and Jeffrey A. Morgan
Response to Comment on Juraschek et al Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Incident Diabetes: The FIT (Henry Ford ExercIse Testing) Project Diabetes Care 2015;38:1075-1081, Stephen P. Juraschek, Michael J. Blaha, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Employment Status and Participation in Cardiac Rehabilitation: DOES ENCOURAGING EARLIER ENROLLMENT IMPROVE ATTENDANCE?, Quinn R. Pack, Ray W. Squires, Claudia Valdez-Lowe, Mouhamad Mansour, Randal J. Thomas, and Steven J. Keteyian
Impact of statin use on cardiorespiratory fitness in multi-racial men and women: The Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project, Waqas T. Qureshi, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton A. Brawner, Zeina Dardari, Michael J. Blaha, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
An analysis of the blood pressure and safety outcomes to renal denervation in African Americans and Non-African Americans in the SYMPLICITY HTN-3 trial, John M. Flack, Deepak L. Bhatt, David E. Kandzari, David Brown, Sandeep Brar, James W. Choi, Ralph D'Agostino, Cara East, Barry T. Katzen, Lilian Lee, Martin B. Leon, Laura Mauri, William O'Neill, Suzanne Oparil, Krishna Rocha-Singh, Raymond R. Townsend, and George Bakris
Intentional Right Atrial Exit and Carbon Dioxide Insufflation to Facilitate Subxiphoid Needle Entry Into the Empty Pericardial Space: First Human Experience, Adam B. Greenbaum, Toby Rogers, Gaetano Paone, Shawn E. Flynn, Mayra E. Guerrero, William O'Neill, and Robert J. Lederman
Waiting to Inhale … Milrinone, David Lanfear
Response to letters regarding article, "prasugrel plus aspirin beyond 12 months is associated with improved outcomes after TAXUS Liberté paclitaxel-eluting coronary stent placement", Kirk N. Garratt, W D. Weaver, Ronald G. Jenkins, Thomas K. Pow, Laura Mauri, Dean J. Kereiakes, Kenneth J. Winters, Thomas Christen, Dominic J. Allocco, and David P. Lee
A prospective comparison of alginate-hydrogel with standard medical therapy to determine impact on functional capacity and clinical outcomes in patients with advanced heart failure (AUGMENT-HF trial), Stefan D. Anker, Andrew JS Coats, Gabriel Cristian, Dinu Dragomir, Enrico Pusineri, Massimo Piredda, Luca Bettari, Robert Dowling, Maurizio Volterrani, Bridget-Anne Kirwan, Gerasimos Filippatos, Jean-Louis Mas, Nicolas Danchin, Scott D. Solomon, Randall J. Lee, Frank Ahmann, Andy Hinson, Hani N. Sabbah, and Douglas L. Mann
Comprehensive analysis of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and mortality in patients with systolic heart failure: the Henry Ford Hospital cardiopulmonary exercise testing (FIT-CPX) project, Clinton Brawner, Ali Shafiq, Heather A. Aldred, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Eric S. Leifer, Yelena Selektor, Cristina Tita, Mauricio Velez, Celeste Williams, John R. Schairer, David Lanfear, and Steven J. Keteyian
High-risk percutaneous coronary intervention is associated with reverse left ventricular remodeling and improved outcomes in patients with coronary artery disease and reduced ejection fraction, Melissa A. Daubert, Joseph Massaro, Lawrence Liao, Ashish Pershad, Suresh Mulukutla, Erik M. Ohman, Jeffrey Popma, William O'Neill, and Pamela S. Douglas
Race and association of angiotensin converting enzyme/angiotensin receptor blocker exposure with outcome in heart failure, Mostafa El-Refai, Tara Hrobowski, Edward L. Peterson, Karen Wells, John A. Spertus, Keoki L. Williams, and David Lanfear
The evolution of heart failure therapy in the past sixty years: one man's journey, Sidney Goldstein
Impact of pre-implant amiodarone exposure on outcomes in cardiac transplant recipients, Douglas L. Jennings, Brandon Martinez, Sheila Montalvo, and David Lanfear
Green Means Go … Physical Activity and the Prevention of Heart Failure, Steven J. Keteyian and Clinton Brawner
Red Blood Cell Transfusions Impact Pneumonia Rates After Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, Donald S. Likosky, Gaetano Paone, Min Zhang, Mary A. M. Rogers, Steven D. Harrington, Patricia F. Theurer, Alphonse DeLucia, Astrid Fishstrom, Anton Camaj, and Richard L. Prager
Profibrotic Role for Interleukin-4 in Cardiac Remodeling and Dysfunction, Hongmei Peng, Zeyd Sarwar, Xiao-Ping Yang, Edward L. Peterson, Jiang Xu, Brana Janic, Nadia Rhaleb, Oscar A. Carretero, and Nour-Eddine Rhaleb
"Targeting the Heart" in Heart Failure: Myocardial Recovery in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction, Jane E. Wilcox, Gregg C. Fonarow, Hossein Ardehali, Robert O. Bonow, Javed Butler, Andrew J. Sauer, Stephen E. Epstein, Sadiya S. Khan, Raymond J. Kim, Hani N. Sabbah, Javier Díez, and Mihai Gheorghiade
Incidence and prognosis of vascular complications after percutaneous placement of left ventricular assist device, Miriam Abaunza, Loay S. Kabbani, Timothy Nypaver, Adam Greenbaum, Praveen Balraj, Sherazuddin Qureshi, Mohammad Alqarqaz, and Alexander D. Shepard
Predicting cardiovascular events … How FIT is our crystal ball?, Clinton Brawner and Haitham M. Ahmed
Coronary dominance and prognosis in patients undergoing coronary computed tomographic angiography: results from the CONFIRM (COronary CT Angiography EvaluatioN For Clinical Outcomes: An InteRnational Multicenter) registry, Catherine Gebhard, Tobias A. Fuchs, Julia Stehli, Heidi Gransar, Daniel S. Berman, Matthew J. Budoff, Stephan Achenbach, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Daniele Andreini, Filippo Cademartiri, Tracy Q. Callister, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan, Benjamin JW Chow, Ricardo C. Cury, Augustin Delago, Millie J. Gomez, Martin Hadamitzky, Joerg Hausleiter, Niree Hindoyan, Gudrun Feuchtner, Yong-Jin Kim, Jonathon Leipsic, Fay Y. Lin, Erica Maffei, Gianluca Pontone, Gilbert Raff, Leslee J. Shaw, Todd C. Villines, Allison M. Dunning, James K. Min, and Philipp A. Kaufmann
Cardiorespiratory fitness attenuates risk for major adverse cardiac events in hyperlipidemic men and women independent of statin therapy: The Henry Ford ExercIse Testing Project, Rupert K. Hung, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Mohamud A. Qadi, Gabriel E. Shaya, Roger S. Blumenthal, Khurram Nasir, Clinton Brawner, Steven J. Keteyian, and Michael J. Blaha
Reduction in Inappropriate ICD Therapy in MADIT-RIT Patients Without History of Atrial Tachyarrhythmia, Valentina Kutyifa, Arthur J. Moss, Claudio Schuger, Scott McNitt, Bronislava Polonsky, Anne-Christine H. Ruwald, Martin H. Ruwald, James P. Daubert, and Wojciech Zareba
Medical history for prognostic risk assessment and diagnosis of stable patients with suspected coronary artery disease, James K. Min, Allison Dunning, Heidi Gransar, Stephan Achenbach, Fay Y. Lin, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Matthew J. Budoff, Tracy Q. Callister, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Filippo Cademartiri, Erica Maffei, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Benjamin JW Chow, Ralph D'Agostino, Augustin DeLago, John Friedman, Martin Hadamitzky, Joerg Hausleiter, Sean W. Hayes, Philipp Kaufmann, Gilbert L. Raff, Leslee J. Shaw, Louise Thomson, Todd Villines, Ricardo C. Cury, Gudrun Feuchtner, Yong-Jin Kim, Jonathon Leipsic, Hugo Marques, Daniel S. Berman, and Michael Pencina
Current trends in patients with chronic total occlusions undergoing coronary CT angiography, Maksymilian P. Opolski, Bríain Ó Hartaigh, Daniel S. Berman, Matthew J. Budoff, Stephan Achenbach, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Daniele Andreini, Filippo Cademartiri, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Kavitha Chinnaiyan, Benjamin JW Chow, Martin Hadamitzky, Joerg Hausleiter, Gudrun Feuchtner, Yong-Jin Kim, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Jonathon Leipsic, Erica Maffei, Gianluca Pontone, Gilbert Raff, Leslee J. Shaw, Todd C. Villines, and James K. Min
Intentional right atrial exit for microcatheter infusion of pericardial carbon dioxide or iodinated contrast to facilitate sub-xiphoid access, Toby Rogers, Kanishka Ratnayaka, William H. Schenke, Anthony Z. Faranesh, Jonathan R. Mazal, William O'Neill, Adam B. Greenbaum, and Robert J. Lederman
Clinical Utility of the Japan-Chronic Total Occlusion Score in Coronary Chronic Total Occlusion Interventions: Results from a Multicenter Registry, Georgios Christopoulos, R M. Wyman, Khaldoon Alaswad, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, William Lombardi, J A. Grantham, Robert W. Yeh, Farouc A. Jaffer, Daisha J. Cipher, Bavana V. Rangan, Georgios E. Christakopoulos, Megan A. Kypreos, Nicholas Lembo, David Kandzari, Santiago Garcia, Craig A. Thompson, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Emergent use of Impella CP™ during transcatheter aortic valve replacement: Transaortic access, Vikas Singh, Alon Yarkoni, and William O'Neill
Time-dependent risk reduction of ventricular tachyarrhythmias in cardiac resynchronization therapy patients: a MADIT-RIT sub-study, Martin Stockburger, Arthur J. Moss, Brian Olshansky, Helmut Klein, Scott McNitt, Claudio Schuger, James P. Daubert, Ilan Goldenberg, Anne-Christine H. Ruwald, Bela Merkely, Wojciech Zareba, and Valentina Kutyifa
Venous congestion, endothelial and neurohormonal activation in acute decompensated heart failure: cause or effect?, Paolo C. Colombo, Amanda C. Doran, Duygu Onat, Ka Y. Wong, Myra Ahmad, Hani N. Sabbah, and Ryan T. Demmer
Cardiorespiratory fitness and incident diabetes: the FIT (Henry Ford ExercIse Testing) project, Stephen P. Juraschek, Michael J. Blaha, Roger S. Blumenthal, Clinton Brawner, Waqas Qureshi, SteveN J. Keteyian, John Schairer, Jonathan K. Ehrman, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Risk of Incident Atrial Fibrillation: Results From the Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project, Waqas T. Qureshi, Zaid Alirhayim, Michael J. Blaha, Stephen P. Juraschek, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton Brawner, and Mouaz H. Al-Mallah
Meta-analysis of clinical outcomes of patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventions for chronic total occlusions, Georgios E. Christakopoulos, Georgios Christopoulos, Mauro Carlino, Omar M. Jeroudi, Michele Roesle, Bavana V. Rangan, Shuaib Abdullah, Jerrold Grodin, Dharam J. Kumbhani, Minh Vo, Michael Luna, Khaldoon Alaswad, Dimitri Karmpaliotis, Stephane Rinfret, Santiago Garcia, Subhash Banerjee, and Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Future translational applications from the contemporary genomics era: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, Caroline S. Fox, Jennifer L. Hall, Donna K. Arnett, Euan A. Ashley, Christian Delles, Mary B. Engler, Mason W. Freeman, Julie A. Johnson, David E. Lanfear, Stephen B. Liggett, Aldons J. Lusis, Joseph Loscalzo, Calum A. MacRae, Kiran Musunuru, L K. Newby, Christopher J. O'Donnell, Stephen S. Rich, and Andre Terzic