Table of contents

Original articles

Heart failure

• Original article: A novel discharge risk model for patients hospitalised for acute decompensated heart failure incorporating N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels: a European coLlaboration on Acute decompeNsated Heart Failure: ÉLAN-HF Score (31 October, 2013)

  Khibar Salah, Wouter E Kok, Luc W Eurlings, Paulo Bettencourt, Joana M Pimenta, Marco Metra, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Valerio Verdiani, Luca Bettari, Valentina Lazzarini, Peter Damman, Jan G Tijssen, Yigal M Pinto

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Aortic dilatation patterns and rates in adults with bicuspid aortic valves: a comparative study with Marfan syndrome and degenerative aortopathy (19 November, 2013) Free

  Delphine Detaint, Hector I Michelena, Vuyisile T Nkomo, Alec Vahanian, Guillaume Jondeau, Maurice Enriquez Sarano

Pericardial disease

• Original article: Myopericarditis in tuberculous pericardial effusion: prevalence, predictors and outcome (19 November, 2013)

  Faisal F Syed, Mpiko Ntsekhe, Freedom Gumedze, Motasim Badri, Bongani M Mayosi

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Comparison of contemporary troponin assays with the novel biomarkers, heart fatty acid binding protein and copeptin, for the early confirmation or exclusion of myocardial infarction in patients presenting to the emergency department with chest pain (22 November, 2013)

  Paul Collinson, David Gaze, Steve Goodacre

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Prognostic implications of bleeding measured by Bleeding Academic Research Consortium (BARC) categorisation in patients undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (31 October, 2013)

  Dragan M Matic, Dejan G Milasinovic, Milika R Asanin, Igor B Mrdovic, Jelena M Marinkovic, Nikola I Kocev, Marija M Marjanovic, Nebojsa M Antonijevic, Vladan D Vukcevic, Lidija Z Savic, Milorad N Zivkovic, Zlatko H Mehmedbegovic, Vladimir M Dedovic, Goran R Stankovic

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Incidence and predictors of restenosis after coronary stenting in 10 004 patients with surveillance angiography (22 November, 2013)

  Salvatore Cassese, Robert A Byrne, Tomohisa Tada, Susanne Pinieck, Michael Joner, Tareq Ibrahim, Lamin A King, Massimiliano Fusaro, Karl-Ludwig Laugwitz, Adnan Kastrati
• Original article: The effect of heart rate reduction by ivabradine on collateral function in patients with chronic stable coronary artery disease (1 November, 2013)

  Steffen Gloekler, Tobias Traupe, Michael Stoller, Deborah Schild, Hélène Steck, Ahmed Khattab, Rolf Vogel, Christian Seiler