Paper of the Month from the ESC Working Group on Myocardial & Pericardial Diseases

Date: 21/04/2025

Title: Unraveling Myocarditis Pathogenesis in the Wake of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Vaccination

Date: 01/04/2023

Title: Importance of genetic testing in unexplained cardiac arrest

Date: 08/12/2022

Title: Acute myocarditis associated with desmosomal gene variants

Date: 01/04/2022

Title: The genetic architecture of Late-Onset Dilated Cardiomyopathy: an emerging and distinct subtype

Date: 07/02/2022

Title: Arrhythmic risk stratification in nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy: moving beyond the ejection fraction criterion

Date: 02/12/2021

Title: What we all need to know about the change to come in the way we diagnose, treat and risk stratified patients with cardiomyopathies

Date: 02/08/2021

Title: CRISPR-Cas9 In vivo Gene Editing for Thransthyretin Amylodosis

Date: 03/06/2021

Title: Insights into regulatory mechanisms of dilated cardiomyopathy in children by single RNA nuclei sequencing

Date: 29/01/2021

Title: 2020 AHA/ACC Guidelines on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a paradigm shift

Date: 25/01/2021

Title: Genetics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: recent developments and clinical implications

Date: 10/12/2020

Title: New hopes in recurrent pericarditis

Date: 12/09/2020

Title: Mavacamten for treatment of symptomatic obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (EXPLORER-HCM): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial

Date: 13/04/2020

Title: Family screening for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Is it time to change practice guidelines?

Date: 03/02/2020

Title: Enterovirus Persistence in Cardiac Cells of Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Is Linked to 5’ Terminal Genomic RNA-Deleted Viral Populations With Viral-Encoded Proteinase Activities

Date: 01/10/2019

Title: Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy-Associated Desmosomal Variants Are Rarely De Novo: Segregation and Haplotype Analysis of a Multinational Cohort

Date: 22/07/2019

Title: Identification of myocardial disarray in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and ventricular arrhythmias

Date: 05/12/2018

Title: Prediction of Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmia in Patients With Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy. A Primary Prevention Cohort Study

Date: 02/04/2018

Title: Genetics, Clinical Features, and Long-Term Outcome of Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy

Date: 20/03/2018

Title: Genetics, Clinical Features, and Long-Term Outcome of Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy

Date: 21/02/2018

Title: A new staging system for cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis

Date: 20/11/2017

Title: Eosinophilic myocarditis. Characteristics, treatment and outcomes, J Am Coll Cardiol 70 (2017) 2363–75

Date: 20/09/2017

Title: Biventricular endomyocardial biopsy in patients with suspected myocarditis: Feasibility, complication rate and additional diagnostic value

Date: 17/07/2017

Title: Survival and Left Ventricular Function Changes in Fulminant Versus Nonfulminant Acute Myocarditis

Date: 31/03/2017

Title: Effect of Anakinra on Recurrent Pericarditis Among Patients With Colchicine Resistance and Corticosteroid Dependence: The AIRTRIP Randomized Clinical Trial

Date: 31/03/2017

Title: Toward evidence-based diagnosis of myocarditis in children and adolescents: Rationale, design, and first baseline data of MYKKE, a multicenter registry and study platform

Date: 31/01/2017

Title: Complicated Pericarditis: Understanding risk factors and pathophysiology to inform imaging and treatment

Date: 25/04/2016

Title: Long-term clinical outcome of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy in individuals with a p.s358l mutation in tmem43 following implantable cardioverter defibrillator therapy

Date: 29/03/2016

Title: Predictors of outcome after alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: an echocardiography and cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging study

Date: 26/02/2016

Title: The cardiomyopathy in Friedreich's ataxia

Date: 27/01/2016

Title: Peripartum cardiomyopathy and Dilated cardiomyopathy: les liaisons dangereuses

Date: 31/12/2015

Title: Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy and Hereditary Transthyretin Amyloid Etiology

Date: 30/11/2015

Title: 2015 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of pericardial diseases

Date: 20/10/2015

Title: Endomyocardial expression of SDF-1 predicts mortality in patients with suspected myocarditis

Date: 09/08/2015

Title: Etiology of Pericarditis in a Prospective Cohort of 1162 Cases

Date: 01/06/2015

Title: Cardiac Sarcoidosis

Date: 01/05/2015

Title: Long Term Risk of Recurrence, Morbidity and Mortality in Giant Cell Myocarditis

Date: 01/04/2015

Title: Myocardial Disease : mutations in filamin C cause a new form of familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Date: 02/03/2015

Title: Prevalence and prognostic significance of low QRS voltage among the three main types of cardiac amyloidosis

Date: 02/02/2015

Title: Chest pain, electrocardiographic changes and pericardial effusion. What is it ?

Date: 27/11/2014

Title: Differentiating Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Athletes from That in Patients With Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Date: 03/11/2014

Title: Diagnostic and prognostic validity of different biomarkers in patients with suspected myocarditis

Date: 31/07/2014

Title: Triage strategy for urgent management of cardiac tamponade

Date: 01/06/2014

Title: Echocardiography and etiology of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/05/2014

Title: Improved diagnosis of idiopathic giant cell myocarditis and cardiac sarcoidosis by myocardial gene expression profiling

Date: 25/03/2014

Title: Clinical Recommendations for Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging of Patients with Pericardial Disease

Date: 27/02/2014

Title: A novel clinical risk prediction model for sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM Risk-SCD)

Date: 01/01/2014

Title: Long-Term Evolution and Prognostic Stratification of Biopsy-Proven Active Myocarditis

Date: 01/12/2013

Title: The MOGE(S) Classification for a Phenotype–Genotype Nomenclature of Cardiomyopathy: Endorsed by the World Heart Federation

Date: 01/11/2013

Title: Compound and Digenic Heterozygosity Predicts Life-Time Arrhythmic Outcome and Sudden Cardiac Death in Desmosomal Gene-Related Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy.

Date: 28/10/2013

Title: A signature of circulating microRNAs differentiates takotsubo cardiomyopathy from acute myocardial infarction.

Date: 30/09/2013

Title: Current state of knowledge on aetiology, diagnosis, management, and therapy of myocarditis

Date: 31/07/2013

Title: Multiple Inflammatory Biomarkers in Relation to Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in the Community

Date: 28/06/2013

Title: Myocardial gene expression profiles and cardiodepressant autoantibodies predict response of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy to immunoadsorption therapy

Date: 31/05/2013

Title: Brugada ECG pattern :a physiopathological prospective study based on clinical, electrophysiological, angiographic, and genetic findings.

Date: 29/04/2013

Title: Double heterozygous LMNA and TTN mutations revealed by exome sequencing in a severe form of dilated cardiomyopathy

Date: 31/03/2013

Title: Relation between serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide and prognosis in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Date: 10/02/2013

Title: New population-based exome data are questioning the pathogenicity of previously cardiomyopathy-associated genetic variants

Date: 01/01/2013

Title: Diagnostic work-up in cardiomyopathies: bridging the gap between clinical phenotypes and final diagnosis.

Date: 19/12/2012

Title: A new gene responsible for arrhythmogenic right ventricular Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/11/2012

Title: Pericardiectomy vs. Medical Management in Patients with Relapsing Pericarditis

Date: 26/10/2012

Title: Efficacy and safety of colchicine for pericarditis prevention

Date: 01/09/2012

Title: Burden of Rare Sarcomere Gene Variants in the Fra-mingham and Jackson Heart Study Cohorts

Date: 01/06/2012

Title: Risk Factors for Malignant Ventricular Arrhythmias in Lamin A/C Mutation Carriers – a European Cohort Study

Date: 01/05/2012

Title: Variants in the 3’ untranslated region of the KCNQ1-encoded Kv7.1

Date: 01/04/2012

Title: Altered Desmosomal Proteins in Granulomatous Myocarditis and Potential Pathogenic Links to Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/03/2012

Title: Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography Guided Alcohol Septal Ablation (PTSMA)

Date: 01/02/2012

Title: Truncations of Titin Causing Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/01/2012

Title: Colchicine Reduces Postoperative Atrial Fibrillation

Date: 01/11/2011

Title: Percutaneous radiofrequency septal reduction for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy in children

Date: 01/10/2011

Title: Clinical and Demographic Predictors of Outcomes in Recent Onset Dilated Cardiomyopathy Results of the IMAC

Date: 01/09/2011

Title: Frequency of Recurrence of Pericardial Tamponade in Patients With Extended Versus Nonextended Pericardial Catheter Drainage

Date: 01/08/2011

Title: Systematic review of pregnancy in women with inherited cardiomyopathies

Date: 01/07/2011

Title: Genome-wide Significance and Replication of the Chromosome 12p11.22

Date: 01/06/2011

Title: Sarcomere Gene Mutations in Isolated Left Ventricular Noncompaction Cardiomyopathy Do Not Predict Clinical Phenotype

Date: 01/05/2011

Title: Endocardial radiofrequency ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/04/2011

Title: Use of CMR for risk stratification in chronic heart failure:

Date: 01/03/2011

Title: Desmosomal Mutations in Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

Date: 01/02/2011

Title: Impact of troponin I-autoantibodies in chronic dilated and ischemic cardiomyopathy.

Date: 01/01/2011

Title: Virus serology in patients with suspected myocarditis: utility or futility?

Date: 01/12/2010

Title: Identification of Novel Mutations in RBM20 in Patients with Dilated Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/11/2010

Title: COlchicine for the Prevention of the Post-pericardiotomy Syndrome (COPPS): a multicentre, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Date: 01/09/2010

Title: Rare variant mutations in pregnancy-associated or peripartum cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/08/2010

Title: Prognostic Significance of Myocardial Fibrosis in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/07/2010

Title: Multiple mutations in desmosomal proteins encoding genes in arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

Date: 01/06/2010

Title: DNA testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a cost-effectiveness model.

Date: 01/05/2010

Title: Clinical Features and Outcome of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Associated With Triple Sarcomere Protein Gene Mutations

Date: 01/04/2010

Title: Diagnosis of arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy/dysplasia

Date: 01/03/2010

Title: Disease penetrance and risk stratification for sudden cardiac death in asymptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutation carriers

Date: 01/02/2010

Title: Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug treatment for postoperative pericardial effusion: A multicenter randomized, double-blind trial

Date: 01/01/2010

Title: Implications of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Transmitted by Sperm Donation

Date: 01/12/2009

Title: Systemic Cardiac Amyloidoses. Disease Profiles and Clinical Courses of the 3 Main Types

Date: 01/11/2009

Title: Exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias and risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.

Date: 01/10/2009

Title: Diagnostic synergy of non-invasive cardiovascular magnetic resonance and invasive endomyocardial biopsy in troponin-positive patients without coronary artery disease.

Date: 01/09/2009

Title: Circulating transforming growth factor-β in Marfan syndrome

Date: 05/08/2009

Title: A new diagnostic test for arrrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

Date: 01/07/2009

Title: The TIMIC study

Date: 01/06/2009

Title: Genetic Evaluation of Cardiomyopathy

Date: 01/05/2009

Title: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials in pulmonary hypertension

Date: 01/04/2009

Title: Long-term outcome and risk stratification in dilated cardiolaminopathies

Date: 01/03/2009

Title: A randomised trial of intrapericardial bleomycin for malignant invasion of the heart and pericardium

Date: 01/02/2009

Title: Re-examination of the Electrocardiogram in Boys With Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and Correlation With Its Dilated Cardiomyopathy.

Date: 01/01/2009

Title: Quantitative assessment of endomyocardial biopsy in arrhythmogenic right ventricular: an in vitro validation of diagnostic criteria

Date: 01/12/2008

Title: Long term exercise capacity in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy treated with percutaneous transluminal septal myocardial ablation

Date: 30/11/2008

Title: Prolonged Caloric Restriction in Obese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Decreases Myocardial Triglyceride Content and Improves Myocardial Function

Date: 30/09/2008

Title: Mutations in Sarcomere Protein Genes in Left Ventricular Noncompaction

Date: 01/07/2008

Title: Current role of endomyocardial biopsy in the management of cardiomyopathies

Date: 01/06/2008

Title: Shared Genetic Causes of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Children and Adults

Date: 31/03/2008

Title: Is the Tako Tsubo syndrome a hyperadrenergic entity?

Date: 01/03/2008

Title: Classification Concept of the ESC Working Group of Myocardial and Pericardial Diseases

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