Table of contents

Original articles

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Indexing aortic valve area by body surface area increases the prevalence of severe aortic stenosis (22 August, 2013) Free

  Nikolaus Jander, Christa Gohlke-Bärwolf, Edda Bahlmann, Eva Gerdts, Kurt Boman, John B Chambers, Kenneth Egstrup, Christoph A Nienaber, Terje R Pedersen, Simon Ray, Anne B Rossebø, Ronnie Willenheimer, Rolf-Peter Kienzle, Kristian Wachtell, Franz-Josef Neumann, Jan Minners

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Reduced Klotho is associated with the presence and severity of coronary artery disease (28 October, 2013)

  Juan F Navarro-González, Javier Donate-Correa, Mercedes Muros de Fuentes, Horacio Pérez-Hernández, Rafael Martínez-Sanz, Carmen Mora-Fernández
• Original article: Tailored antiplatelet therapy and clinical adverse outcomes (5 November, 2013)

  Jiabei Li, Zhao Jian, Mingbao Song, Wenyun Guo, Guozhu Chen, Wei Lu, Dehui Qian, Jing'e Ouyang, Jie Yu, Houyuan Hu, Jun Jin, Xiaojing Wu, Lan Huang

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Pulmonary hypertension leads to a loss of gravity dependent redistribution of regional lung perfusion: a SPECT/CT study (1 November, 2013)

  Edmund MT Lau, Dale L Bailey, Elizabeth A Bailey, Paul J Torzillo, Paul J Roach, Geoffrey P Schembri, Tamera J Corte, David S Celermajer

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Right aortic arch diagnosed antenatally: associations and outcome in 98 fetuses (5 November, 2013)

  Joana O Miranda, Nicky Callaghan, Owen Miller, John Simpson, Gurleen Sharland

Epidemiology

• Original article: Ethnicity and prediction of cardiovascular disease: performance of QRISK2 and Framingham scores in a UK tri-ethnic prospective cohort study (SABRE—Southall And Brent REvisited) (1 November, 2013)

  Therese Tillin, Alun D Hughes, Peter Whincup, Jamil Mayet, Naveed Sattar, Paul M McKeigue, Nish Chaturvedi, On behalf of the SABRE Study Group