JOURNAL OF

CARDIAC
FAILURE Official Journal of the Heart Failure Society of America
and the Japanese Heart Failure Society

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EDITOR'S PAGE: WE’VE BEEN THINKING. . .
923 Overcoming Inertia: Announcing Double Blinded Reviews at JCF
Anuradha Lala, and Robert J. Mentz

ORIGINAL RESEARCH PAPERS

925 Misdiagnosis of Heart Failure: A Systematic Review of the Literature
Chun Wai Wong, Jacopo Tafuro, Ziyad Azam, Duwarakan Satchithananda, Simon Duckett, Diane Barker,
Ashish Patwala, Fozia Z. Ahmed, Christian Mallen, and Chun Shing Kwok
934 Is There Any Interaction Between Sex and Renal Function Change During Hospital Stay in Patients
Hospitalized With Acute Heart Failure?
Florine E.C. Julius, Margje R. Van Norel, Arietje J.L. Zandijk, Sarah Rathwell, Cynthia Westerhout,
Finlay A. Mcalister, Nariman Sepehrvand, Adriaan A. Voors, and Justin A. Ezekowitz
942 Early Identification of Patients at Risk for Incident Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction:
Novel Approach to Echocardiographic Trends
Carolyn L. Lekavich, Dennis Abraham, Marat Fudim, Cynthia Green, Robert J. Mentz,
Karol Harshaw-Ellis, Margaret Bowers, Anita Kelsey, Kishan Parikh, Tracy Truong, Debra Barksdale, and
William E. Kraus
949 Clinical Outcome Predictions for the VerICiguaT Global Study in Subjects With Heart Failure With Reduced
Ejection Fraction (VICTORIA) Trial
Robert J. Mentz, Hillary Mulder, Arend Mosterd, Nancy K. Sweitzer, Michele senni, Javed Butler,
Justin A. Ezekowitz, Carolyn S.P. Lam, Burkert Pieske, Piotr Ponikowski, Adriaan A. Voors, Kevin J. Anstrom,
Paul W. Armstrong, Christopher M. O’connor, and Adrian F. Hernandez, on behalf of the VICTORIA Study Group
957 Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist in the Current Era of Pediatric Heart Transplantation
Shahnawaz Amdani, Salima A. Bhimani, Gerard Boyle, Wei Liu, Sarah Worley, Elizabeth Saarel, and Eileen Hsich
965 Effects of Neighborhood-level Data on Performance and Algorithmic Equity of a Model That Predicts 30-day
Heart Failure Readmissions at an Urban Academic Medical Center
Gary E. Weissman, Stephanie Teeple, Nwamaka D. Eneanya, Rebecca A. Hubbard, and Shreya Kangovi
974 Chronic Intravenous Inotropic Support as Palliative Therapy and Bridge Therapy for Patients With Advanced
Heart Failure: A Single-Center Experience
Anirudh Rao, Kelley M. Anderson, Selma Mohammed, Mark Hofmeyer, Sherry S. Gholami, Farooq H.
Sheikh, Maria E. Rodrigo, Nancy A. Crowell, Hasan Javed, Shantal Gupta, Said Hajouli, Diana E. Stewart,
Ahmad Hamad, Samer S. Najjar, and Hunter Groninger

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981 Hepatocyte Growth Factor and Incident Heart Failure Subtypes: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
(MESA)
Richard A. Ferraro, Oluseye Ogunmoroti, Di Zhao, Chiadi E. Ndumele, Vishal Rao, Ambarish Pandey,
Nicholas B. Larson, Suzette J. Bielinski, and Erin D. Michos
991 Right Ventricular Pressure Volume Analysis During Left Ventricular Assist Device Speed Optimization Studies:
Insights Into Interventricular Interactions and Right Ventricular Failure
Michael I. Brener, Nadira B. Hamid, Justin A. Fried, Amirali Masoumi, Jayant raikhelkar, Manreet K. Kanwar,
Mohit Pahuja, Giulio M. Mondellini, Lorenzo Braghieri, David T. Majure, Paolo C. Colombo,
Melana Yuzefpolskaya, Gabriel T. Sayer, Nir Uriel, and Daniel Burkhoff

STATE OF THE ART REVIEW

1002 Physical Functioning in Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction
Michael F. Cosiano, Rachel Tobin, Robert J. Mentz, and Stephen J. Greene

PERSPECTIVE
1017 On Leadership—A Call to Action for Aspirational Leadership Development for Programs Supporting Patients
With Heart Failure
Andrew J. Sauer, Anju Bhardwaj, and Ajay V. Srivastava

BRIEF REPORTS
1020 Retinol Binding Protein 4 as a Screening Biomarker for Hereditary TTR Amyloidosis in African American
Adults With TTR V142I
Amy R. Kontorovich, and Noura S. Abul-Husn
1023 Changes in Stressed Blood Volume with Levosimendan in Pulmonary Hypertension from Heart Failure with
Preserved Ejection Fraction: Insights Regarding Mechanism of Action From the HELP Trial
Michael I. Brener, Nadira B. Hamid, Kenji Sunagawa, Barry A. Borlaug, Sanjiv J. Shah, Stuart Rich, and
Daniel Burkhoff

RESEARCH LETTERS
1027 Treatment Effects of Sacubitril/Valsartan Compared With Valsartan by Ejection Fraction in Patients With
Recent Hospitalization
Ankeet S. Bhatt, Brian L. Claggett, Milton Packer, Martin P. Lefkowitz, Michael R. Zile, John J.V. McMurray,
Scott D. Solomon, and Muthiah Vaduganathan
1031 Pulmonary Vascular Alterations on Computed Tomography Imaging and Outcomes in Heart Failure With
Preserved Ejection Fraction: a Preliminary Data
Kazuki Kagami, Masao Takemura, Kotaro Yoshida, Tomonari Harada, Hayato Adachi, Hidemi Sorimachi,
Koichi Yamaguchi, Kuniko Yoshida, Toshimitsu Kato, Takeshi Adachi, Masahiko Kurabayashi, and
Masaru Obokata

EARLY CAREER AND TRAINEE SPOTLIGHT

1034 The CardioNerds #CardsJC: How Twitter Journal Clubs Elevate the Scientific Discourse
Eunice Dugan, Rick Ferraro, Carine Hamo, Daniel Ambinder, and Amit Goyal
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PATIENT STORY
1037 You Are Here For a Reason
Glen Kelley

HFSA SOCIETY PAGE

1039 Medicare in the Age of COVID: A Case Study in HFSA Advocacy
Paul Heidenreich, and Bob Jasak, on behalf of HFSA Advocacy Committee

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