EDITORIAL

1. Editor–in–chief – at the beginning of her mandate
   Carmen Ginghina

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

1. Effect of weight-loss on the reduction of blood pressure in overweight and obese hypertensive patients
   Abbes Mohamed Abdelhaq, Bereksi-Reguig Karima, Elaoudi Lala Fatma, Kourd Meriem, Aissani Mira

REVIEWS

1. The advantages of a pharmaco-invasive strategy
   Frans Van de Werf
2. The principles of analysing the archived electrograms recorded from implanted cardiac defibrillators
   Mona Musteata, Radu Ciudin, Gabriela Silvia Gheorghe, Carmen Ginghina, Tiberiu Nanea

CASE PRESENTATION

1. Trans-apical implantation of a transcatheter aortic balloon-expandable valve for calcified aortic stenosis. First Romanian case
   Serban Balanescu, Andrada Bogdan, Theodor Cebotaru, Cristina Caldararu, Adrian Linte, Maria Alexandrescu, Cosmin Olariu, Carmen Steiu
2. Particular case of Takayasu disease
   Madalina-Loredana Urluescu, Delia Lazar, Liana Chicea, Mariana Sandu, Ayman Elkahlout, Ioan Manitiu
3. Severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at high surgical risk: the new „classic” treatment
   Marian Simion , Bogdan A. Popescu, Anca D. Mateescu, Dan Deleanu , Ovidiu Chioncel, Serban Bubenek, Carmen Ginghina, Vlad Iliescu
4. Type I Brugada syndrome with spontaneous intermittent normal electrocardiographic pattern
   Mona Musteata, Radu Ciudin, Oana Andrei, Carmen Ginghina, Tiberiu Nanea

IMAGES IN CARDIOLOGY

1. Systolic anterior motion and crossover of both mitral leaflets in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
   Ioan Tiberiu Nanea, Camelia Nicolae, Andreea Simona Hodorogea, Milovan Slovenski, Gabriela Silvia Gheorghe
2. Angiographically detected apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
   Iulian Calin, Lucian Zarma, Marin Postu

GUIDELINES

1. 2015 ESC/ERS Ghidul pentru diagnosticul şi tratamentul hipertensiunii pulmonare

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

1. Instructions for authors