Topic Cardiology
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Left atrial volume index predicts response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(4):930–938
RESEARCH PAPER
The effect of PCSK9 immunization on the hepatic level of microRNAs associated with PCSK9/LDLR pathway.
Arch Med Sci 2023;19(1)
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Cardiovascular risk and metabolic profile of Polish citizens from Lower Silesia. First signs of metabolic crisis?
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(3):617–623
BASIC RESEARCH
Twelve-month kinetics of circulating fibrosis-linked microRNAs (miR-21, miR-29, miR-30, and miR-133a) and the relationship with extracellular matrix fibrosis in dilated cardiomyopathy
Paweł Rubiś, Justyna Totoń-Żurańska, Maria Kołton-Wróż, Paweł Wołkow, Ewelina Pitera, Sylwia Wiśniowska-Śmiałek, Ewa Dziewięcka, Ann Garlitski, Piotr Podolec
Arch Med Sci 2022;18(2):480–488
PoLA/CFPiP/PCS/PSLD/PSD/PSH guidelines on diagnosis and therapy of lipid disorders in Poland 2021
Maciej Banach, Paweł Burchardt, Krzysztof Chlebus, Piotr Dobrowolski, Dariusz Dudek, Krzysztof Dyrbuś, Mariusz Gąsior, Piotr Jankowski, Jacek Jóźwiak, Longina Kłosiewicz-Latoszek, Irina Kowalska, Maciej Małecki, Aleksander Prejbisz, Michał Rakowski, Jacek Rysz, Bogdan Solnica, Dariusz Sitkiewicz, Grażyna Sygitowicz, Grażyna Sypniewska, Tomasz Tomasik, Adam Windak, Dorota Zozulińska-Ziółkiewicz, Barbara Cybulska
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1447–1547
Quality of life in heart failure patients undergoing hybrid comprehensive telerehabilitation versus usual care – results of the Telerehabilitation in Heart Failure Patients (TELEREH-HF) Randomized Clinical Trial
Ewa Piotrowicz, Anna Mierzyńska, Maciej Banach, Izabela Jaworska, Michał Pencina, Ilona Kowalik, Sławomir Pluta, Dominika Szalewska, Grzegorz Opolski, Wojciech Zaręba, Renata Glowczynska, Robert Irzmański, Piotr Orzechowski, Zbigniew Kalarus, Ryszard Piotrowicz
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1599–1612
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Cardiac parasympathetic modulation in the setting of radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1716–1721
RESEARCH LETTER
Stent-graft and double-guiding catheter technique to rescue iatrogenic coronary perforation
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(6):1800–1803
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Postmarketing nutrivigilance safety profile: a line of dietary food supplements containing red yeast rice for dyslipidemia
Maciej Banach, Niki Katsiki, Gustavs Latkovskis, Manfredi Rizzo, Daniel Pella, Peter Edward Penson, Željko Reiner, Arrigo FG Cicero
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(4):856–863
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Concomitant multi-vessel disease is associated with a lower procedural death rate in patients treated with percutaneous coronary interventions within the left main coronary artery (from the ORPKI registry)
Rafał Januszek, Artur Dziewierz, Zbigniew Siudak, Tomasz Rakowski, Tomasz Kameczura, Tomasz Tokarek, Dariusz Dudek, Stanisław Bartuś
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(4):881–890
RESEARCH LETTER
COVID-19 and cardiovascular complications – the preliminary results of the LATE-COVID study
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):818–822
RESEARCH PAPER
Improved COVID-19 ICU admission and mortality outcomes following treatment with statins: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Amir Vahedian-Azimi, Seyede Momeneh Mohammadi, Farshad Heidari Beni, Maciej Banach, Paul C Guest, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):579–595
BASIC RESEARCH
Serum anti-inflammatory and inflammatory markers have no causal impact on telomere length: a Mendelian randomization study
Mohsen Mazidi, Niloofar Shekoohi, Niki Katsiki, Michal Rakowski, Dimitri P. Mikhailidis, Maciej Banach
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):739–751
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Long-term outcomes of percutaneous coronary interventions within coronary artery bypass grafts
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(3):628–637
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Drucebo effect – the challenge we should all definitely face!
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):542–543
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Game of “crowning” season 8: RAS and reproductive hormones in COVID-19 – can we end this viral series?
Andrei Cosmin Cismaru, Laurentiu Gabriel Cismaru, Seyed Fazel Nabavi, Ioana Berindan-Neagoe, Emilio Clementi, Maciej Banach, Seyed Mohammad Nabavi
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):275–284
STATE OF THE ART PAPER
Levosimendan in the modern treatment of patients with acute heart failure of various aetiologies
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(2):296–303
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Plasma renin activity, serum aldosterone concentration and selected organ damage indices in essential arterial hypertension
Tomasz Pizoń, Marek Rajzer, Wiktoria Wojciechowska, Tomasz Drożdż, Dorota Drożdż, Marta Rojek, Krystian Gruszka, Danuta Czarnecka
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(1):9–18
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Acute pericarditis in a young patient with IgG immunodeficiency
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1461–1463
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Modern prevalence of the Fredrickson-Levy-Lees dyslipidemias: findings from the Very Large Database of Lipids and National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Vasanth Sathiyakumar, Vincent A. Pallazola, Jihwan Park, Rachit M. Vakil, Peter P. Toth, Mariana Lazo-Elizondo, Renato Quispe, Eliseo Guallar, Maciej Banach, Roger S. Blumenthal, Steven R. Jones, Seth S. Martin
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1279–1287
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Assessment of the relationship between endocan and obstructive sleep apnea severity
Hamdi Pusuroglu, Umut Somuncu, Ismail Bolat, Ozgur Akgul, Hayriye Ak Yıldırım, Sinem Ozbay Ozyilmaz, Vesile Ornek, Ozgur Surgit, Huseyin Karakurt, Ayfer Utkusavas, Nermina Alagic, Aydın Yıldırım
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1346–1352
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Cardiovascular risk factors among cancer patients qualified for systemic treatment. Analysis of a cardiovascular disease-free cohort from the Polish multicentre study ONCOECHO
Marta Nowakowska, Edyta Płońska-Gościniak, Andrzej Szyszka, Łukasz Chrzanowski, Magdalena Krakowska, Piotr Potemski, Katarzyna Mizia-Stec, Zbigniew Gąsior, Artur Bodys, Maciej Siński, Adrianna Gościńska-Szmagała, Piotr Gościniak, Monika Różewicz, Beata Zaborska, Wojciech Braksator, Dariusz Kosior, Jaroslaw D. Kasprzak
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(6):1295–1303
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Modern prevalence of dysbetalipoproteinemia (Fredrickson-Levy-Lees type III hyperlipoproteinemia)
Vincent A. Pallazola, Vasanth Sathiyakumar, Jihwan Park, Rachit M. Vakil, Peter P. Toth, Mariana Lazo-Elizondo, Emily Brown, Renato Quispe, Eliseo Guallar, Maciej Banach, Roger S. Blumenthal, Steven R. Jones, David Marais, Daniel Soffer, Allan D. Sniderman, Seth S. Martin
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):993–1003
BASIC RESEARCH
MicroRNA-214-5p protects against myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury through targeting the FAS ligand
Yuan Lu, Jue Xi, Yao Zhang, Chenzong Li, Wensu Chen, Xiaoqin Hu, Min Zhang, Fengyun Zhang, Hui Wei, Zhi Li, Zhirong Wang
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1119–1129
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Closure of patent foramen ovale for secondary prevention of cryptogenic stroke: current perspectives
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1243–1246
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Respiratory sinus arrhythmia is reduced after pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation
Christiane Jungen, Fares-Alexander Alken, Christian Eickholt, Katharina Scherschel, Pawel Kuklik, Niklas Klatt, Jana Schwarzl, Julia Moser, Mario Jularic, Ruken Oezge Akbulak, Benjamin Schaeffer, Stephan Willems, Christian Meyer
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1022–1030
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Predictors of long-term survival in patients treated with targeted temperature management after cardiac arrest
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1250–1253
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Percutaneous left ventricular pseudoaneurysm closure
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1247–1249
BASIC RESEARCH
MiR-330-3p functions as a tumor suppressor that regulates glioma cell proliferation and migration by targeting CELF1
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(5):1166–1175
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Multicentre early experience with totally subcutaneous cardioverter-defibrillators in Poland
Krzysztof Kaczmarek, Maciej Kempa, Marcin Grabowski, Mateusz Tajstra, Adam Sokal, Iwona Cygankiewicz, Radosław Zwoliński, Marcin Michalak, Michal Kowara, Szymon Budrejko, Anna Kurek, Jerzy K. Wranicz, Grzegorz Raczak, Grzegorz Opolski, Mariusz Gąsior, Oskar Kowalski, Paweł Ptaszyński
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(4):764–771
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Early and late outcomes after transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in obese patients
Giovanni Mariscalco, Paola D’Errigo, Fausto Biancari, Stefano Rosato, Francesco Musumeci, Marco Barbanti, Marco Ranucci, Gennaro Santoro, Gabriella Badoni, Danilo Fusco, Martina Ventura, Corrado Tamburino, Fulvia Seccareccia
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(4):796–801
Lipid-lowering therapy and renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(3):485–489
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Arguable ICD placement in a sarcoidosis patient with extensive cardiac involvement
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(3):707–708
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Potato consumption is associated with total and cause-specific mortality: a population-based cohort study and pooling of prospective studies with 98,569 participants
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(2):260–272
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Takotsubo syndrome – fatal prognosis of patients with low body mass index in 5-year follow-up
Małgorzata Zalewska-Adamiec, Jolanta Małyszko, Hanna Bachórzewska-Gajewska, Anna Tomaszuk-Kazberuk, Sławomir J. Dobrzycki
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(2):282–288
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Pregnancy-associated plasma protein A as a predictor of all-cause mortality and cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis of prospective studies
Arch Med Sci 2020;16(1):8–15
RESEARCH LETTER
Effect of atorvastatin on delirium status of patients in the intensive care unit: a randomized controlled trial
Seyed Mojtaba Sohrevardi, Fatemeh Shojaei Nasab, Mohammad Reza Mirjalili, Mohammad Bagherniya, Arefeh Dehghani Tafti, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahzadeh, Mahmoud Reza Azarpazhooh, Mohsen Saeidmanesh, Maciej Banach, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(5):1423–1428
GUIDELINES/RECOMMENDATIONS
Is type 2 diabetes mellitus a coronary heart disease equivalent or not? Do not just enjoy the debate and forget the patient!
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1357–1364
SYSTEMATIC REVIEW/META-ANALYSIS
Pulse wave velocity as a measure of arterial stiffness in patients with familial hypercholesterolemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Željko Reiner, Luis E. Simental-Mendía, Massimiliano Ruscica, Niki Katsiki, Maciej Banach, Khalid Al Rasadi, Tannaz Jamialahmadi, Amirhossein Sahebkar
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1365–1374
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Association of lipoprotein(a) and major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with percutaneous coronary intervention
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1375–1380
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Prognostic role of traditional cardiovascular risk factors in patients with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension
Kamil Jonas, Marcin Waligóra, Wojciech Magoń, Tomasz Zdrojewski, Jakub Stokwiszewski, Wojciech Płazak, Piotr Podolec, Grzegorz Kopeć
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(6):1397–1406
CLINICAL RESEARCH
E-selectin gene haplotypes are associated with the risk of myocardial infarction
Jarosław Gorący, Mariusz Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej Ciechanowicz, Krzysztof Safranow, Joanna Gorący, Katarzyna Jakubowska, Dariusz Chlubek, Iwona Gorący
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(5):1223–1231
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Associations between neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, platelet/lymphocyte ratio, albuminuria and uric acid and the estimated glomerular filtration rate in hypertensive patients with chronic kidney disease stages 1–3
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(5):1232–1239
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Association of systolic blood pressure and pulse pressure with microalbuminuria in treatment-naïve hypertensive patients
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(4):832–836
BASIC RESEARCH
Naringin attenuates high glucose-induced injuries and inflammation by modulating the leptin-JAK2/STAT3 pathway in H9c2 cardiac cells
Changjun Luo, Xiao Ke, Si Xiong, Yun Sun, Qing Xu, Wei Zhang, Yiyan Lei, Yiqian Ding, Yulan Zhen, Jianqiang Feng, Fei Cheng, Jingfu Chen
Arch Med Sci 2021;17(5):1145–1157
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Higher cardiorespiratory fitness predicts long-term survival in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: the Henry Ford Exercise Testing (FIT) Project
Olusola A. Orimoloye, Swetha Kambhampati, Albert J. Hicks III, Mahmoud Al Rifai, Michael G. Silverman, Seamus Whelton, Waqas Qureshi, Jonathan K. Ehrman, Steven J. Keteyian, Clinton A. Brawner, Zeina Dardari, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Michael J. Blaha
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(2):350–358
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Serum lipid metabolism in psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis – an update
Aldona Pietrzak, Paweł Chabros, Ewelina Grywalska, Paweł Kiciński, Kinga Franciszkiewicz-Pietrzak, Dorota Krasowska, Grzegorz Kandzierski
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(2):369–375
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Flow-mediated dilation can be used to predict incident hypertension in patients with hyperuricemia
Chunli Han, Zhanchao Xian, Yang Zou, Zhiyong Liao, Rongfeng Yang, Chunxia Zou, Xiaoqing Wang, Yan Sun
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(2):343–349
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Potential injurious effects of the fine particulate PM2.5 on the progression of atherosclerosis in apoE-deficient mice by activating platelets and leukocytes
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(1):250–261
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
BDNF contributes to the skeletal muscle anti-atrophic effect of exercise training through AMPK-PGC1α signaling in heart failure mice
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(1):214–222
COMMENTARY
Pulmonary hypertension in left heart disease
Pratishtha Mehra, Vimal Mehta, Rishi Sukhija, Anjan K. Sinha, Mohit Gupta, M.P. Girish, Wilbert S. Aronow
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(1):262–273
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor in one-year prediction of major adverse cardiac events in patients after first myocardial infarction treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention
Rafał N. Wlazeł, Marta Migała, Marzenna Zielińska, Lucjan Pawlicki, Kinga Rośniak-Bąk, Iwona Szadkowska
Arch Med Sci 2019;15(1):72–77
BASIC RESEARCH
Viral genome changes and the impact of viral genome persistence in myocardium of patients with inflammatory cardiomyopathy
Dalibor Mlejnek, Jan Krejci, Petr Hude, Eva Ozabalova, Vita Zampachova, Radka Stepanova, Iva Svobodová, Tomas Freiberger, Eva Nemcova, Lenka Spinarova
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(6):1245–1253
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Myocarditis presenting as variant angina: a rare presentation
Amole O. Ojo, Chhaya A. Gupta, Anthon Fuisz, Zeeshan Solangi, Prakash Harikrishnan, Howard A. Cooper, Julio A. Panza, Wilbert S. Aronow
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(5):1175–1179
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Practice setting and secondary prevention of coronary artery disease
Piotr Jankowski, Danuta Czarnecka, Leszek Badacz, Piotr Bogacki, Jacek S. Dubiel, Janusz Grodecki, Tomasz Grodzicki, Janusz Maciejewicz, Ewa Mirek-Bryniarska, Jadwiga Nessler, Wiesław Piotrowski, Piotr Podolec, Wanda Śmielak-Korombel, Wiesława Tracz, Kalina Kawecka-Jaszcz, Andrzej Pająk
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(5):979–987
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Non-invasive evaluation of cardiac index by impedance cardiography in patients undergoing percutaneous nephrolithotomy
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(4):801–806
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Fluoroscopy integrating technology in a 3D mapping system during ablation of atrial arrhythmias: first experiences
Christian Blockhaus, Jan Schmidt, Muhammed Kurt, Lukas Clasen, Patrick Müller, Christoph Brinkmeyer, Malte Kelm, Dong-In Shin, Hisaki Makimoto
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(4):794–800
BASIC RESEARCH
Lutein prevents osteoarthritis through Nrf2 activation and downregulation of inflammation
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(3):617–624
CLINICAL RESEARCH
Left ventricular structural and functional changes evaluated by echocardiography and two-dimensional strain in patients with sickle cell disease
Ricardo Bedirian, Andrea Ribeiro Soares, Maria Christina Maioli, Jussara Fonseca Fernandes de Medeiros, Agnaldo José Lopes, Marcia Bueno Castier
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(3):493–499
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Giant coronary sinus secondary to partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection with combined mitral valve disease
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(2):463–465
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Propafenone is not effective for severe ventricular arrhythmias in Andersen-Tawil syndrome
Arch Med Sci 2018;14(1):247–250
CLINICAL RESEARCH
C-reactive protein levels predict systolic heart failure and outcome in patients with first ST-elevation myocardial infarction treated with coronary angioplasty
Christian Stumpf, Ahmed Sheriff, Stefan Zimmermann, Liane Schaefauer, Christian Schlundt, Dorette Raaz, Christoph D. Garlichs, Stephan Achenbach
Arch Med Sci 2017;13(5):1086–1093
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The need to apply the best therapy in heart failure – the era after PARADIGM-HF
Arch Med Sci 2017;13(5):1244–1248
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Repeated positive acceleration exposure exacerbates endothelial dysfunction in high-fat-diet-induced hyperlipidemic rats
Arch Med Sci 2017;13(4):937–946
EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
Genetic disruption of multidrug resistance-associated protein 1 improves endothelial function and attenuates atherosclerosis in MRP1–/– LDLr–/–double knockout mice
Arch Med Sci 2017;13(4):930–936