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Elevated plasma tyrosine kinases VEGF-D and HER4 in heart failure patients decrease after heart transplantation in association with improved haemodynamics Salaheldin AhmedAbdulla AhmedGöran Rådegran Original Article Open access 20 January 2020 Pages: 786 - 799
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Transfemoral extraction of pacemaker and implantable cardioverter defibrillator leads using Needle’s Eye Snare: a single-center experience of more than 900 leads Xu ZhouFeng ZeXuebin Li Original Article 30 November 2019 Pages: 825 - 834
Narrower QRS may be enough to respond to cardiac resynchronization therapy in lightweight patients Toshiko NakaiHiroaki ManoYasuo Okumura Original Article Open access 27 November 2019 Pages: 835 - 841
Successful catheter ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation is associated with improvement in functional tricuspid regurgitation and right heart reverse remodeling Kiho ItakuraTakayuki HidakaYasuki Kihara Original Article 02 January 2020 Pages: 842 - 851
First in human: the effects of biventricular pacing on cardiac output in severe pulmonary arterial hypertension Ahmet Afşin OktayStacy A. MandrasDaniel P. Morin Original Article 02 December 2019 Pages: 852 - 858
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Cardiac troponin I is associated with non-sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy Yue ZhouMiao YuShubin Qiao Original Article 06 January 2020 Pages: 876 - 885