EDITORIAL

1. Leads extraction – still an issue in Romania? From myth to reality
   Dragos Cozma, Emilia Goanta

REVIEW

1. Subcutaneous implantable defibrillator: system overview, evidence and future directions
   Emilia Goanta, Ermenegildo de Ruvo, Leonardo Calò
2. Data sharing: a new editorial initiative of the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors. Implications for the Editors´ Network
   Fernando Alfonso, Karlen Adamyan, Jean-Yves Artigou, Michael Aschermann,Michael Boehm, Alfonso Buendia, Pao-Hsien Chu, Ariel Cohen, Livio Dei Cas, Mirza Dilic, Anton Doubell, Dario Echeverri, Nuray Enç, Ignacio Ferreira-González,Krzysztof J. Filipiak, Andreas Flammer, Eckart Fleck, Plamen Gatzov,Carmen Ginghina, Lino Goncalves, Habib Haouala, Mahmoud Hassanein, Gerd Heusch, Kurt Huber, Ivan Hulín, Mario Ivanusa, Rungroj Krittayaphong, Chu-Pak Lau,Germanas Marinskis, François Mach, Luiz Felipe Moreira, Tuomo Nieminen,Latifa Oukerraj, Stefan Perings, Luc Pierard, Tatjana Potpara, Walter Reyes-Caorsi,Se-Joong Rim, Olaf Rødevand, Georges Saade, Mikael Sander, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Bilgin Timuralp, Dimitris Tousoulis, Dilek Ural, J. J. Piek, Albert Varga, Thomas F. Lüscher

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

1. The prognostic value of a new Tissue Doppler parameter in patients with heart failure with reduced ejection fraction
   Cristian Mornos, Simina Crisan, Lucian Petrescu, Adina Ionac, Dragos Cozma
2. Transvenous removal of pacing and implantable cardiac defibrillating leads – a single center experience
   Corneliu Iorgulescu, Dan-Andrei Radu, Alexandrina Nastasa, Georgiana Malaescu, Stefan Bogdan, Radu Vatasescu
3. Hyponatremia on admission and its impact on clinical outcomes in patients hospitalized for heart failure
   Naomi Niari Dalimunthe, Sari Harahap, Rahmad Isnanta, Zainal Safri, Refli Hasan

CASE PRESENTATIONS

1. Successful radiofrequency pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with left-sided pneumonectomy
   Zoltán Salló, Nándor Szegedi, István Osztheimer, Vivien Klaudia Nagy, Katalin Piros, Péter Perge, Tamás Tahin, Pál Ábrahám, Béla Merkely, László Gellér
2. Twenty years after
   Cristina Bulei, Aura Popa, Claudia Folescu, Marinela Serban, Anca Mateescu, Serban State, Carmen Ginghina

IMAGES IN CARDIOLOGY

1. A broken hip and a broken heart: the benefits of intravascular imaging in primary PCI
   Adrian Ionescu

UPDATES IN CARDIOLOGY

1. Cardiovascular prevention and rehabilitation – what is new?

GUIDELINES

1. 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the management of dyslipidaemias

AGENDA

1. NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL CARDIOLOGY AGENDA 2017