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Anetta Undas

Editorial

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Increased red blood cell distribution width and platelet‑to‑lymphocyte ratio for predicting all‑cause mortality in patients with type 2 diabetes and advanced heart failure: a causal association or epiphenomenon?

Giuseppe Lippi, Giovanni Targher

Editorial

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Devices for mechanical circulatory support and strategies for their management in cardiogenic shock

Federico Marin, Michele Pighi, Gabriele Pesarini, Anna Piccoli, Flavio Ribichini

Review paper

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Blood pressure at high altitude: physiology and clinical implications

Grzegorz Bilo, Sergio Caravita, Camilla Torlasco, Gianfranco Parati

Review paper

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Mortality risk factors in patients with advanced heart failure and diabetes mellitus

Łukasz Siedlecki, Bożena Szyguła-Jurkiewicz, Wioletta Szczurek, Łukasz Pyka, Jacek Niedziela, Mariusz Gąsior

Original article

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Adenosine intracoronary bolus dose escalation versus intravenous infusion to induce maximum coronary hyperemia for fractional flow reserve assessment

Jacek Legutko, Paweł Kleczyński, Artur Dziewierz, Łukasz Rzeszutko, Dariusz Dudek

Original article

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Prognostic importance of serum troponin concentration in patients with an implanted cardioverter‑defibrillator admitted to the emergency department due to electric shock

Dariusz Jagielski, Dorota Zyśko, Klaudiusz Nadolny, Joanna Wizowska, Bartosz Biel, Waldemar Banasiak, Piotr Ponikowski

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Predictive value of electrocardiographic ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction equivalents for detecting acute coronary artery occlusion in patients with non–ST‑segment elevation myocardial infarction

Paweł Wiśniewski, Paweł Rostoff, Grzegorz Gajos, Jadwiga Nessler, Olga Kruszelnicka

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Red blood cell distribution width as a prognostic factor of mortality in elderly patients firstly hospitalized due to heart failure

Marta Salvatori, Francesc Formiga, Rafael Moreno-Gónzalez, David Chivite, Margherita Migone De Amicis, Maria Domenica Cappellini, Xavier Corbella

Original article

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Is routine total arterial aorta no‑touch coronary artery bypass grafting possible in all elective patients?

Grzegorz Suwalski, Daria Kuchnowska, Jakub Mróz, Kamil Kaczejko, Leszek Gryszko

Short communication

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The use of modern monitoring techniques and methodologies in conducting extracorporeal circulation: a place for Quantum Heart Lung Machine

Marceli Łukaszewski, Kinga Kosiorowska, Katarzyna Kościelska-Kasprzak, Jacek Jakubaszko, Grzegorz Bielicki, Marek Jasiński

Short communication

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Acute myocardial infarction due to paradoxical embolism in a young man with ostium secundum atrial septal defect

Wojciech Skorupski, Olga Trojnarska, Agnieszka Bartczak-Rutkowska, Wiesław Sikora, Maciej Lesiak, Marek Grygier

Clinical vignette

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Left ventricular outflow tract pseudoaneurysm occlusion with fusion of live 3‑dimensional transesophageal echocardiography and fluoroscopy

Daniel McLennan, Sebastian Góreczny, Pei-Ni Jone, Alexander Haak, Gareth J. Morgan

Clinical vignette

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Successful percutaneous treatment of stenosis in 3 pulmonary veins

Juan J. Portero-Portaz, Jesús M. Jiménez-Mazuecos, Juan G. Córdoba-Soriano, Antonio Gutiérrez-Díez, Arsenio Gallardo-López, José Enero-Navajo

Clinical vignette

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Conduction from the arrhythmogenic right upper pulmonary vein to superior vena cava can induce atrial fibrillation

Radosław M. Kiedrowicz, Maciej Wielusiński, Małgorzata Peregud-Pogorzelska, Jarosław Kaźmierczak

Clinical vignette

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Bilateral cardiac sympathetic denervation in catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

Sebastian Stec, Piotr Zamorski, Wojciech Wołek, Piotr Suwalski, Agnieszka Zienciuk-Krajka

Clinical vignette

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Significant left ventricular outflow tract obstruction observed during postexercise verticalization in a symptomatic patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Krzysztof Smarż, Beata Zaborska, Ewa Pilichowska-Paszkiet, Małgorzata Sikora-Frąc, Andrzej Budaj

Clinical vignette

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