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The Global Cardiology journal is an open access, peer-reviewed international journal that aims to publish original articles, reviews, mini reviews, case reports, guidelines, white papers, news, meeting reports, plain language summaries, editorials and letters to the editor related to the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiovascular diseases. The scope of the journal includes all aspects of basic, translational and clinical science in cardiology, including but not limited to coronary artery disease, heart failure, cardiomyopathies, arrhythmias, valvular heart disease, hypertension, congenital heart disease, cardiac imaging, interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery, co-morbidities leading to cardiovascular disease, as well as epidemiology, prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases.

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New articles

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• MASLD and cardiovascular disease: a state-of-the-art review

  Aimen Shafiq, Ahmed Mustafa Rashid, Syed Raza Shah, Nicholas W.S. Chew, Wilhelm Haverkamp

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2026.94

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• Draft Document for Public Consultation: iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines on Ischemic Heart Disease Management 2026 Public REVIEW PERIOD extended to Sunday, 8 March 2026

  Writing Task Force | iCARDIO-Alliance

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2026.95

  420

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  Self-administered intranasal etripamil: a breakthrough in PSVT first-line treatment

  Muddassir Khalid, Aqsa Asif, Sara Rasheed

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.79

  853

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  The effect of sauna on cardiac and skeletal muscle function in patients with HFpEF (SAUNA-HFpEF): rationale and design

  Tarek Bekfani, Kris G. Vargas, Flor Gomez, Alexander Schmeisser, Ruediger C. Braun-Dullaeus

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.67

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  Importance of patient-reported outcomes in cardiovascular illnesses

  Wardah Rasool, Ahmed Kamal Siddiqi, Laibah Arshad Khan

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.69

  2209

  PDF: 459

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• iCARDIO Alliance Global Implementation Guidelines on Heart Failure 2025

  Vijay Chopra, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Magdy Abdelhamid, William T. Abraham, Offer Amir, Stefan D. Anker, John J. Atherton, Fernando Bacal, Ralph Stephan von Bardeleben, Dulce Brito, Lucrecia Maria Burgos, Javed Butler, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Albertino Damasceno, Justin A. Ezekowitz, Ishaque Hameed, Sivadasanpillai Harikrishnan, Tiny Jaarsma, Anuradha Lala, Ileana L. Piña, Clara Saldarriaga, David Sim, John R. Teerlink, Nqoba Tsabedze, Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Jing Yu, Yuhui Zhang, Mohammad Zubaid, Nikhil Balankhe, Juan Esteban Gomez-Mesa, James L. Januzzi, Marvin Konstam, Rhonda Monroe, Elijah Ogola, Vinayagam Palaniappan, Mark C. Petrie, Fausto J. Pinto, Girish C. Rajadhyaksha, Amina Rakisheva, Carlos E. Ramos, Victor Rossel, Naoki Sato, P. Christian Schulze, Andrew Sindone, Hadi N. Skouri, Harriette G.C. Van Spall, Aistė Štaraitė, Lynne Warner Stevenson, Kadhim Sulaiman, Tzung-Dau Wang, Michael Böhm, Andrew J.S. Coats, Shelley Zieroth

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.70

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  Appendix: 1083

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• The Global Implementation Guidelines Initiative: how to optimize cardio-renal-metabolic care worldwide

  Fausto J. Pinto, Stefan D. Anker, William T. Abraham, John J. Atherton, Javed Butler, Vijay Chopra, Andrew J.S. Coats, Yann Colardelle, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Veronica Dean, Gerasimos Filippatos, Martha Gulati, Julio Rosenstock, John Teerlink, Subodh Verma, Jose Luis Zamorano, Yuhui Zhang, Shelley Zieroth

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.68

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• Bridging the gap between study outcomes and real-world results. Algorithm-driven management in a rural cardioMEMS population

  Marc Atzenhoefer, Elizabeth Dille, Rebecca Steinke, Nicole Weigert, Keri Sabel, Kirsten Rasmussen

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.63

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• Bridging the gap: integrating stress echocardiography, iFR, CFR, and FFR in the evaluation of coronary artery disease

  Konstantinos Stamos, Theodora Delaporta, Antonios Delaportas

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.66

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• Elevated endostatin is associated with hypertension treatment, elevated high sensitivity C-reactive protein, increased waist-hip ratio, and attenuated kidney function, but not with age, in a middle-aged population

  Anders Larsson, Bertil Wegmann, Toralph Ruge, Joakim Alfredsson, Carl Johan Östgren, Tomas Lindahl

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.64

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• Impella vs intra-aortic balloon pump in patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated with cardiogenic shock: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis

  Muhammad Ahmed, Serish Bano, Mutahira Asif, F.N.U. Sidra, Meva Ram, Shahida Bibi

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.61

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• How organ care system saved the day during a donation after circulatory death heart transplant: a case of complicated sternal re-entry

  Shiva Seyed Mokhtassi, Nika Majidi, Yousuf Salmasi, Akhil Sonecha, Sanjay Agrawal, Mubassher Husain, Diana Garcia, Jerry Mitchell, Espeed Khoshbin

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.60

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• Cardiac wasting in patients with advanced cancer: state of the art review

  Laibah Arshad Khan, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Rania Usman Latif, Markus S. Anker

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2025.65

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• Carvedilol versus metoprolol in preventing post-operative atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

  Amir Askarinejad, Erfan Kohansal, Soudabeh Shafiee Ardestani, Mohammadhossein Mozafarybazargany, Hamed Hesami, Amirreza Sabahizadeh, Seyed Abbas Pakmehr, Majid Haghjoo

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.51

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  Appendix A: 348

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• Prognostic factors and outcome in patients submitted into coronary artery bypass surgery with total arterial myocardial revascularization

  Elias Tassoulas, Dimitrios Tasoulas, Christos Papaconstantinou, Ioannis Chlorogiannis

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.46

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• The muscle hypothesis of shortness of breath in patients with cachexia

  Stefan D. Anker, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Laibah Arshad Khan, Giuseppe M.C. Rosano, Maurizio Volterrani, Mitja Lainscak, Piotr Ponikowski, Andrew J.S. Coats

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.57

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• Pulmonary artery pressure sensor device performance in patients with atrial fibrillation/flutter

  Muhammad Usman Almani, Jafar Alzubi, Muhammad Yousuf, Razan Alrawashdeh, Noor Fatima, Mohammad Al Madani, Raphael Bonita

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.55

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• Relaxin-2 for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a comment on the termination of a phase-II trial investigating the relaxin-2 analogue, LY3540378

  Thomas Bernd Dschietzig, Guy Salama

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.56

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• Unveiling the genetic aetiology of non-genetic dilated cardiomyopathy

  Emanuele Monda, Giuseppe Limongelli

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.54

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• Advanced cancer as a heart failure like syndrome due to cardiac wasting cardiomyopathy: facts and numbers

  Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, Javed Butler, Laibah Arshad Khan, Markus S. Anker

  https://doi.org/10.4081/cardio.2024.58

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