CardioimmunologyReview

The heart, an immune organ

Brahim Abdelouaeb

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“The stability of the internal environment is the condition for a free and independent life.”

Claude Bernard, 1878

“In the fields of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind.”

Louis Pasteur, Lille, 1854

“The heart of animals is the foundation of their life.”

William Harvey, De motu cordis, 1628

The map of the field

Cardioimmunology

Mechanisms, cells and clinical phenotypes: sixty themes, each opening onto a selected reading.

Innate and adaptive immunity interact across these themes.

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Select a star to open its reading. Connections indicate related readings; they are not causal claims.

Brahim Abdelouaeb · author and editorcardioimmunologyreview.orgA reading map · connections are not causal claims
Sources and thematic catalog

A curated reading map: each source is an entry point, not evidence for every possible connection. Method and coverage audit →

  1. Pattern recognitionExperimental & Molecular Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  2. ComplementClinical Science · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  3. InflammasomeFrontiers in Pharmacology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  4. Cytokine networksKidney International Reports · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  5. ImmunometabolismMolecular Biomedicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  6. Gut–heart axisNature Communications · 2026 · Human cohort studySelected reading ↗
  7. Cardiac macrophagesNature Reviews Cardiology · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  8. T lymphocytesJournal of Clinical Investigation · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  9. Dendritic cellsMedComm · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  10. Neutrophils & NETsEuropean Journal of Inflammation · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  11. Antigen presentationMedComm · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  12. Immune toleranceHuman Immunology · 2026 · Translational reviewSelected reading ↗
  13. ResolutionEuropean Heart Journal Open · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  14. RemodelingAmerican Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology · 2026 · Mechanistic reviewSelected reading ↗
  15. FibrosisThe International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  16. RegenerationExperimental & Molecular Medicine · 2026 · Translational reviewSelected reading ↗
  17. AtherosclerosisImmunological Reviews · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  18. PericarditisLa Revue de Médecine Interne · 2026 · National care protocolSelected reading ↗
  19. MyocarditisEuropean Heart Journal · 2025 · Clinical guidelineSelected reading ↗
  20. SarcoidosisFrontiers in Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  21. AmyloidosisEuropean Journal of Internal Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  22. Systemic diseasesRheumatology · 2026 · Clinical guidelineSelected reading ↗
  23. VasculitisRheumatology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  24. AutoinflammationLa Revue de Médecine Interne · 2026 · National care protocolSelected reading ↗
  25. Pulmonary hypertensionComprehensive Physiology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  26. Heart failure & cardiomyopathyESC Heart Failure · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  27. Cardio-oncologyFrontiers in Pharmacology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  28. Cardio-infectiologyImmunity · 2026 · Human tissue & animal studySelected reading ↗
  29. TransplantationFrontiers in Transplantation · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  30. Ocular immunityFrontiers in Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  31. Renal immunityCommunications Biology · 2026 · Human single-cell studySelected reading ↗
  32. Neuroimmune axisFrontiers in Immunology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  33. Pulmonary immunityComprehensive Physiology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  34. Cardio-rheumatologyMayo Clinic Proceedings · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  35. Clonal hematopoiesisnpj Cardiovascular Health · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  36. Chemokines & traffickingMed Research · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  37. AutoantibodiesJACC: Basic to Translational Science · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  38. Trained immunityCell Research · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  39. B cells & plasma cellsCells · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  40. NK cells & ILCsExperimental & Molecular Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  41. EosinophilsJournal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  42. Mast cellsPeerJ · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  43. PlateletsInternational Journal of Inflammation · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  44. EndotheliumJCI Insight · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  45. CardiomyocytesExperimental & Molecular Medicine · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  46. Fibroblast nichesCirculation Research · 2024 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  47. Cardiac lymphaticsFrontiers in Immunology · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  48. EfferocytosisInternational Immunopharmacology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  49. Cell death & dangerApoptosis · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  50. Immune agingImmunological Reviews · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  51. Systemic hypertensionHypertension · 2024 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  52. Rhythm & conductionAmerican Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  53. Valvular diseaseFrontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  54. Aorta & large vesselsRMD Open · 2026 · Human observational studySelected reading ↗
  55. Immunothrombosis & APSMetabolites · 2025 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  56. Cardiac imagingThe International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  57. Biomarkers & samplingMayo Clinic Proceedings · 2026 · ReviewSelected reading ↗
  58. Single-cell & spatialNature · 2023 · Human tissue atlasSelected reading ↗
  59. Causal evidenceNew England Journal of Medicine · 2017 · Randomized clinical trialSelected reading ↗
  60. Therapeutic translationNew England Journal of Medicine · 2025 · Randomized clinical trialSelected reading ↗

Editorial selection · October 19, 2026 · Scope and limits

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The Review

Issue 1 · October 2026

The Silent Heart in ANCA-Associated Vasculitis

The 2026 French national protocol for ANCA-associated vasculitis, read from a cardiac perspective: nearly one death in three is cardiac in eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis, and no treatment trial in ANCA-associated vasculitis has had a cardiac end point.

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The author

Dr. Brahim Abdelouaeb is a general practitioner in Paris whose practice includes cardiac imaging. He is the author of the French treatise Cardioimmunologie, of La Méthode (in English, The Method) and of Le Bilan, and the editor of Cardioimmunology Review.