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Scientific letters

• Insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins 2 and 3 are independent predictors of a poor prognosis in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (23 February, 2007)

  Sabine Hassfeld, Christina Eichhorn, Katja Stehr, Herbert Naegele, Christian Geier, Martin Steeg, Michael B Ranke, Cemil Oezcelik, Karl Josef Osterziel
• Increased prevalence of migraine in adult congenital heart disease (23 February, 2007)

  Hadewich Hermans, Martijn C Post, Vincent Thijs, Marijke Spaepen, Werner I H L Budts
• Evaluation of rheumatic tricuspid valve stenosis by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (23 February, 2007)

  Ashraf M Anwar, Marcel L Geleijnse, Osama I I Soliman, Jackie S McGhie, Attila Nemes, Folkert J ten Cate
• Increased levels of uric acid predict haemodynamic compromise in patients with heart failure independently of B-type natriuretic peptide levels (23 February, 2007)

  Michelle M Kittleson, Marcus E St John, Valeriani Bead, Hunter C Champion, Edward K Kasper, Stuart D Russell, Ilan S Wittstein, Joshua M Hare
• Increased carotid intima–media thickness in healthy young subjects with a parental history of hypertension (parental hypertension and vascular health) (23 February, 2007)

  Sergio Cuomo, Giovanni Gaeta, Pasquale Guarini, Georgio Tudisca, Mario De Michele, M Gene Bond, Maurizio Trevisan
• Cardiac catheterisation: radiation doses and lifetime risk of malignancy (23 February, 2007)

  Kunadian Vijayalakshmi, Dee Kelly, Claire-Louise Chapple, David Williams, Robert Wright, Michael J Stewart, James A Hall, Andrew Sutton, Adrian Davies, John Haywood, Mark A de Belder
• Outcomes after implantable cardioverter-defibrillator treatment in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (29 August, 2006)

  Juan Pablo Kaski, María Teresa Tomé Esteban, Martin Lowe, Simon Sporton, Philip Rees, John E Deanfield, William J McKenna, Perry M Elliott
• Scar tissue on contrast-enhanced MRI predicts left ventricular remodelling after acute infarction (23 February, 2007)

  Theodorus A M Kaandorp, Hildo J Lamb, Eric P Viergever, Don Poldermans, Eric Boersma, Ernst E van der Wall, Albert de Roos, Jeroen J Bax
• Increased interbreath variability of gas exchange during exercise in children with cardiomyopathy (23 February, 2007)

  Tony Reybrouck, Steven Vangesselen, Luc Mertens, Marc Gewillig
• Long-term cardiac events in men and women with angina at rest and transient ST segment elevation (23 February, 2007)

  Jaume Figueras, Josefa Cortadellas, José Barrabés, Enric Domingo, Eduardo Hermosilla
• Time from coronary artery bypass surgery does not affect outcome in patients treated with primary angioplasty for acute saphenous vein graft occlusion (23 February, 2007)

  René J van der Schaaf, Marije M Vis, Krischan D Sjauw, Karel T Koch, Jan Baan, Jan G P Tijssen, Robbert J de Winter, Jan J Piek, José P S Henriques