Adult congenital heart disease and the Coronavirus Disease 2019: how to deal with uncertainty

Markus Schwerzmann, Francisco Javier Ruperti-Repilado

Editorial

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The right ventricle after cardiac surgery, hypotheses and evidences, and the role of advanced echocardiography modalities

Antoine Kossaify, Mikhael Kossaify, Massimo Massetti

Editorial

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Optimal anticoagulation in elderly patients with atrial fibrillation: Which drug at which dose?

Jo-Nan Liao, Yi-Hsin Chan, Ling Kuo, Chuan-Tsai Tsai, Su-Shen Lim, Tze-Fan Chao

Review paper

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Optimal anticoagulation in patients with atrial fibrillation and bioprosthetic heart valves

Roberta Bottino, Andreina Carbone, Biagio Liccardo, Egidio Imbalzano, Antonello D’Andrea, Vincenzo Russo

Review paper

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Predictors of COVID-19 outcomes in adult congenital heart disease patients — anatomy versus function

Magdalena Lipczyńska, Ewa Kowalik, Magdalena Kumor, Beata Kuśmierczyk-Droszcz, Anna W Wójcik, Elżbieta K Biernacka, Piotr Hoffman

Original article

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Complexity of changes in right ventricular morphology and function in patients undergoing cardiac surgery — 3D echocardiographic study

Paulina Wejner-Mik, Jarosław D Kasprzak, Ewa Szymczyk, Katarzyna Wdowiak-Okrojek, Arkadiusz Ammer, Grzegorz Religa, Piotr Lipiec

Original article

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Incremental value of volumetric quantification for myocardial perfusion imaging by computed tomography

Anna Oleksiak, Cezary Kępka, Koen Nieman, Mariusz Dębski, Marcin Demkow, Mariusz Kruk

Original article

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Impact of diabetes mellitus on outcomes in patients with myocardial infarction according to varying degrees of left ventricular systolic dysfunction

Anna A Fojt, Robert R Kowalik, Marek M Gierlotka, Mariusz M Gąsior, Cynthia C Smeding, Grzegorz G Opolski

Original article

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Non-invasive right ventriculo-arterial coupling as a rehospitalization predictor in dilated cardiomyopathy: A comparison of five different methods

Aura Vîjîiac, Vlad Bătăilă, Sebastian Onciul, Violeta Verinceanu, Claudia Guzu, Silvia Deaconu, Ioana Petre, Alina Scărlătescu, Diana Zamfir, Maria Dorobanţu

Original article

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Sleep-disordered breathing as a risk factor for unnecessary pacemaker implantation

Anna Szajerska-Kurasiewicz, Danuta Loboda, Tomasz Roleder, Michalina Stepanik, Jacek Durmala, Krzysztof S Golba

Original article

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SGLT2 inhibitors and the risk of urinary tract infections in patients with heart failure: A pooled analysis examining safety endpoints

Josip A Borovac, Tina Kurir, Ivona Mustapic, Marko Kumric, Josko Bozic, Duska Glavas, Domenico D’Amario

Short communication

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Outcomes of cardiac surgical treatment for carcinoid heart disease

Sonia J Konsek-Komorowska, Agnieszka D Kolasińska-Ćwikła, Jacek Różański, Krzysztof Bartuś, Jarosław Kuriata, Marek Konka, Ewa Sitkowska-Rysiak, Ilona Michałowska, Elżbieta Florczak, Maria Jaworska-Wilczyńska, Andrzej Januszewicz, Tomasz Hryniewiecki, Jarosław B Ćwikła, Mariola Pęczkowska

Short communication

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Right ventricular wall thickness indexed to body surface area as an echocardiographic predictor of acute pulmonary embolism in high-risk patients

Jerzy Wiliński, Anna Skwarek, Radosław Borek, Ositadima Chukwu, Katarzyna Ciuk, Katarzyna Stolarz-Skrzypek, Marek Rajzer

Short communication

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HIV-infected patients on combined antiretroviral treatment had a similar level of arterial stiffness to the patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

Tomasz Mikuła, Magdalena M Suchacz, Michał Peller, Paweł Balsam, Łukasz Kołtowski, Renata Główczyńska, Krzysztof J Filipiak, Grzegorz Opolski, Alicja Wiercińska-Drapało

Short communication

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Treatment outcomes of COVID-19 patients in bi-disciplinary cardiology and cardiac surgery ward

Mariusz Wójcik, Adam Gąsior, Jakub Karpiak, Marcin Chlebuś, Janusz Romanek, Marcin Rak, Maciej Kolowca, Kazimierz Widenka, Andrzej Przybylski

Short communication

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COVID-19 mortality in patients after orthotopic heart transplantation: A single-center one-year observational study

Agnieszka Kuczaj, Michał Zakliczyński, Piotr Przybyłowski, Michał Zembala, Tomasz Hrapkowicz

Short communication

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Lumbar spinal canal stenosis: An early sign of amyloid transthyretin related amyloidosis

Alessandro Graziani, Patrizia Cenni, Matteo Lisi, Marco Domenicali, Ludovico Graziani

Clinical vignette

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A unique case of unicuspid aortic valve with severe regurgitation combined with coronary-pulmonary fistula

Matej Novak, Vladimir Cerny, Zuzana Hlubocka, Jaroslav Hlubocky, Petr Kuchynka, Lukas Lambert

Clinical vignette

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Diagnostic challenges to determine the cause of pulmonary hypertension in a patient with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction and borderline pulmonary artery wedge pressure

Katarzyna Pieniak, Aleksandra Gąsecka, Arkadiusz Pietrasik, Piotr Scisło, Szymon Darocha, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Marcin Kurzyna, Agnieszka Kapłon-Cieślicka

Clinical vignette

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Patent ductus arteriosus obscured by a giant aortic aneurysm in a young man with acute heart failure

Krzysztof Jaworski, Ilona Michałowska, Miłosz Marona, Radosław Pracoń, Eugeniusz Szpakowski, Rafał Dąbrowski

Clinical vignette

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Primary neuroendocrine tumor of the heart. Successful management of an extremely rare disease

Aleksandar Redzek, Andrej Preveden, Mirko Todic, Nikola Komazec, Milena Spirovski, Golub Samardzija, Mihaela Preveden, Ranko Zdravkovic, Vanja Drljevic Todic, Anastazija Stojsic Milosavljevic

Clinical vignette

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Infective endocarditis in a 52-year-old male patient with vegetations of all four heart valves and extremely high cardiac operative risk

Paweł Maeser, Robert Morawiec, Jarosław Drożdż

Clinical vignette

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Large mobile aortic thrombus (MAT) and the role of imaging in urgent selection for invasive treatment

Wioletta Sacharczuk, Rafał Dankowski, Aleksander Drogowski, Michał Monkiewicz, Andrzej Szyszka

Clinical vignette

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The next step in transcatheter aortic valve implantation: Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) with BASILICA in a patient with a degenerated self-expanding transcatheter heart valve

Krzysztof Ściborski, Artur Telichowski, Marek Mak, Agnieszka Wysokińska-Kordybach, Filip Klausa, Grzegorz Cieliński, Dorota Kustrzycka-Kratochwil, Waldemar Banasiak

Clinical vignette

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Staged and primary Yasui repair in infants with interrupted aortic arch

Jacek Pająk, Maciej A Karolczak, Wojciech Mądry, Izabela Pągowska-Klimek, Jacek Kuźma

Clinical vignette

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The surprising course of multiple sclerosis relapse in a patient after SARS-CoV-2 vaccination

Piotr Łagosz, Jan Biegus, Ewa Gruszka, Robert Zymliński

Clinical vignette

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An expert opinion of the Heart Failure Association of the Polish Cardiac Society on the 2021 European Society of Cardiology guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure: Heart failure guidelines from a national perspective

Małgorzata Lelonek, Marcin Grabowski, Jarosław D Kasprzak, Przemysław Leszek, Jadwiga Nessler, Agnieszka Pawlak, Piotr Rozentryt, Ewa Straburzynska-Migaj, Paweł Rubiś

Expert opinion

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Professor Robert H Jones (1940–2022)

Hanna Szwed

Letter to the Editor

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