The Heart Failure Journal Club: a review of publications on heart failure in the American Journal of Cardiology

The following review contains a bibliography of articles, relevant to heart failure, from the American Journal of Cardiology during 1999. Articles are grouped by topic, with a summary of each topic group. Articles of particul ar interest have been starred*, and seminal papers marked out with two star s**, each with individual summaries. From 928 original papers reviewed, 79 (8.51%) have heart failure as the main focus of the article and are present ed below. There are a further nine reviews mainly taken from the 'special s ymposia' sections. Forty original articles (50.6%) are from Europe, 28 (35. 4%) are from the US, with 8 (10.1%) from Japan and one each from Australia, South Africa and Hong-Kong. One quarter of all original papers study the a pplication of imaging modalities to left ventricular function or metabolism , with the remainder covering extremely diverse topics, reflecting the trul y multi-system pathology of heart failure. (C) 2000 European Society of Car diology. All rights reserved.