Impact Factor: 1.669 November 2020, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 661–908 www.cardiologyjournal.org Cardiology Journal 2020, Vol. 27, No. 6, pp. 661–908 Editors-in-Chief: Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico Miłosz J. Jaguszewski Section Editors: Krzysztof J. Filipiak José Luis Zamorano Carlo Di Mario Paweł Buszman Heleen van Beusekom Philipp Sommer International Honorary Editor: Thomas F. Lüscher Chan Joon Kim et al., see figure legend on page 767 EXPERTS’ VIEWPOINT 749 Predictors of syncope in patients with severe aortic 661 Prolonged antithrombotic therapy in patients after acute stenosis: The role of orthostatic unload test coronary syndrome: A critical appraisal of current European — P. Kleczyński et al. Society of Cardiology guidelines — J. Kubica et al. 756 The atherogenic index of plasma and its impact on recanalization of chronic total occlusion — J.-E. Guelker et al. ORIGINAL ARTICLES 762 Effect of moderate-intensity statin therapy on plaque 677 ABSORB BVS™ using the PSP-technique in patients with inflammation in patients with acute coronary syndrome: acute coronary syndrome — J. Hiczkiewicz et al. A prospective interventional study evaluated by 18F-FDG 685 Quantitative flow ratio-guided surgical intervention in PET/CT of the carotid artery — C.J. Kim et al. symptomatic myocardial bridging — Q. Qi et al. 772 Slow breathing improves cardiovascular reactivity 693 Heart failure in Poland: Left ventricular assist device to mental stress and health-related quality of life in destination therapy and other challenges of interventional heart failure patients with reduced ejection fraction cardiology and cardiac surgery — M. Kuśmierczyk et al. — K. Lachowska et al. 705 Elective lung resection increases spatial QRS-T angle 780 Impact of mild therapeutic hypothermia on bioavailability and QTc interval — S. Bialka et al. of ticagrelor in patients with acute myocardial infarction 715 Risk factor paradox: No prognostic impact of arterial after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest — J.M. Umińska et al. hypertension and smoking in patients with ventricular tachyarrhythmias — K. Weidner et al. 789 Valve hemodynamic performance and myocardial strain after implantation of a third-generation, balloon-expandable, 726 Kinetics of selected serum markers of fibrosis in patients transcatheter aortic valve — S. Fernandez-Santos et al. with dilated cardiomyopathy and different grades of ISSN 1897–5593 diastolic dysfunction of the left ventricle 797 Echocardiographic assessment of tricuspid regurgitation — S. Wiśniowska-Śmiałek et al. and pericardial effusion after cardiac device implantation 735 Comparison of temperature measurements in esophagus — K. Wiechecka et al. and urinary bladder in comatose patients after cardiac 807 Identification of biomarkers and mechanisms of diabetic arrest undergoing mild therapeutic hypothermia cardiomyopathy using microarray data — H. Li et al. — J.M. Umińska et al. 817 Infiltration of CD68+ cells correlates positively with matrix 742 Increased systemic arterial stiffness in patients with metalloproteinase 2 expression in the arteries used as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension aortocoronary bypass grafts. Possible clinical implications — M. Sznajder et al. — B. Perek et al. www.cardiologyjournal.org EDITORS-IN-CHIEF PAST EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Juan Luis Gutiérrez-Chico (Spain) Sergio Dubner (Argentina) Miłosz Jaguszewski (Poland) Wojciech Zaręba (United States) INTERNATIONAL HONORARY EDITOR NATIONAL HONORARY EDITOR Thomas F. Lüscher (United Kingdom) Grażyna Świątecka (Poland) SECTION EDITORS CLINICAL CARDIOLOGY/EXECUTIVE EDITOR QUALITY AND HEALTH CARE Krzysztof J. Filipiak (Poland) Paweł Buszman (Poland) NON-INVASIVE CARDIAC IMAGING BASIC SCIENCE AND EXPERIMENTAL CARDIOLOGY José Luis Zamorano (Spain) Heleen van Beusekom (Netherlands) CARDIOVASCULAR INTERVENTIONS ARRHYTHMOLOGY Carlo Di Mario (United Kingdom) Philipp Sommer (Germany) EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jesus Almendral (Spain) Jeffrey Goldberger (United States) Antonios P. Antoniadis (United Kingdom) Marcin Gruchała (Poland) Serge S. Barold (United States) Claudio Hadid (Argentina) Antoni Bayes de Luna (Spain) Mark Haigney (United States) Andrzej Beręsewicz (Poland) Michał Harciarek (Poland) Jacek Białkowski (Poland) Marcin Hellmann (Poland) Katarzyna Bieganowska (Poland) Dagmara Hering (Australia) Maria Bilińska (Poland) Ziyad Hijazi (United States) Yochai Birnbaum (United States) Piotr Hoffman (Poland) John Bisognano (United States) Zbigniew Kalarus (Poland) Paweł Burchardt (Poland) Juan Carlos Kaski (United Kingdom) (Italy) Francesco Burzotta Jarosław D. 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