Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 5 - Number: 39 - February 15, 2007

Outstanding

Statin therapy is associated with improved survival in ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure

The Economic Effect of a Tertiary Hospital-Based Heart Failure Program

Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Normalizes Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression and Reduces Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis in the Failing Human Heart

Severe disease expression of cardiac troponin C and T mutations in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Cardiac Failure

Severe frequent ventricular ectopy after exercise as a predictor of death in patients with heart failure

Statin therapy is associated with improved survival in ischemic and non-ischemic heart failure

The Economic Effect of a Tertiary Hospital-Based Heart Failure Program

Cardiac resynchronization therapy

Ventricular asynchrony predicts a better outcome in patients with chronic heart failure receiving cardiac resynchronization therapy

Cardiac transplantation

Reduced incidence of hypertension after heterotopic cardiac transplantation compared with orthotopic cardiac transplantation: Evidence that excision of the native heart contributes to post-transplant hypertension

Selection of patients for heart transplantationin the current era of heart failure therapy

The impact of mode of donor brain death on cardiac allograft vasculopathy: An intravascular ultrasound study

Dilated cardiomyopathy

Severe disease expression of cardiac troponin C and T mutations in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

Heart regeneration

Regeneration of Human Infarcted Heart Muscle by Intracoronary Autologous Bone Marrow Cell Transplantation in Chronic Coronary Artery Disease: The IACT Study

MRN y CT: imaging

The histologic basis of late gadolinium enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Preclinical research

Transplantation of cardiotrophin-1–expressing myoblasts to the left ventricular wall alleviates the transition from compensatory hypertrophy to congestive heart failure in Dahl salt-sensitive hypertensive rats

Ventricular assist devices

Ventricular Assist Device Therapy Normalizes Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase Expression and Reduces Cardiomyocyte Apoptosis in the Failing Human Heart

Viewpoints

The Dying Stem Cell Hypothesis: Immune Modulation as a Novel Mechanism for Progenitor Cell Therapy in Cardiac Muscle