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Table of contents

February 2008 - Volume 94 - 2

Heart: 94 (2)

Electronic pages

BSCR abstracts: The British Society for Cardiovascular Research Autumn Meeting 2007 (14 January, 2008)
Ischaemic symptoms, quality of care and mortality during myocardial infarction (16 July, 2007)
E B Schelbert, J S Rumsfeld, H M Krumholz, J G Canto, D J Magid, F A Masoudi, K J Reid, J A Spertus
Quantitative dobutamine stress echocardiography for the early detection of cardiac allograft vasculopathy in heart transplant recipients (4 October, 2007)
E Eroglu, J D’hooge, G R Sutherland, A Marciniak, D Thijs, W Droogne, L Herbots, J Van Cleemput, P Claus, B Bijnens, J Vanhaecke, F Rademakers
Economic evaluation of ASCOT-BPLA: antihypertensive treatment with an amlodipine-based regimen is cost effective compared with an atenolol-based regimen (4 October, 2007)
P Lindgren, M Buxton, T Kahan, N R Poulter, B Dahlöf, P S Sever, H Wedel, B Jönsson, on behalf of the ASCOT trial investigators*
These papers are available in full in the electronic pages of this issue of Heart
(14 January, 2008)

Featured editorial

Drug-eluting stents: do the risks really outweigh the benefits? (14 January, 2008)
David Austin, Jill P Pell, Keith G Oldroyd

Editorials

Assessing the safety of drugs through observational research (14 January, 2008)
Ross J Simpson
Can we use a low molecular weight heparin after mechanical prosthetic heart valve surgery? (14 January, 2008)
Philippe Meurin, Jean Yves Tabet
Inflammation and atrial fibrillation: cause or effect? (14 January, 2008)
Christopher J Boos, Gregory Y H Lip
Ensuring appropriate use of antiplatelet agents in the treatment of acute coronary syndromes—have cardiovascular physicians been given enough grace in getting it right? (14 January, 2008)
Anthony H Gershlick
Treatment of Anderson–Fabry disease (14 January, 2008)
Ales Linhart

Images in cardiology

In vivo visualisation of coronary artery development by high-resolution optical coherence tomography (14 January, 2008)
K Norozi, L Thrane, J Männer, F Pedersen, I Wolf, S Mottl-Link, H-P Meinzer, A Wessel, T M Yelbuz
Use of percutaneous angioplasty to facilitate implantation of the left ventricular pacemaker lead for CRT (14 January, 2008)
D J Fox, H S Lee, M Eisenberger, N C Davidson
A case of Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (14 January, 2008)
T Hassan, S Hutcheon, B O’Rourke
Follow-up in Tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (14 January, 2008)
O-A Breithardt, M Becker, T Kälsch, D Haghi
Stent strut fracture-induced restenosis in the right coronary artery: detection by MDCT (14 January, 2008)
S U Kwon, J H Doh, J Namgung, S Y Lee
Glagov remodelling in the atherosclerotic carotid artery by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (14 January, 2008)
N G Keenan, D J Pennell, R H Mohiaddin

Miscellanea

WEB TOP 10 (14 January, 2008)

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

Economic burden and the cost-effectiveness of treatment of cardiovascular diseases in Africa (14 January, 2008)
T A Gaziano

Review

Drug-eluting stents: a critique (14 January, 2008)
N Melikian, W Wijns

Original research

Clinical trials: Effects of enzyme replacement therapy on the cardiomyopathy of Anderson–Fabry disease: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial of agalsidase alfa (4 May, 2007)
D A Hughes, P M Elliott, J Shah, J Zuckerman, G Coghlan, J Brookes, A B Mehta
Acute coronary syndromes: Outcomes with the use of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors in non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (17 June, 2007)
O H Dabbous, F A Anderson, J M Gore, K A Eagle, K A A Fox, R H Mehta, R J Goldberg, G Agnelli, P G Steg, for the GRACE Investigators
Coronary artery disease: Post-ischaemic myocardial dysfunction (stunning) results from myofibrillar oedema (16 July, 2007)
T Bragadeesh, A R Jayaweera, M Pascotto, A Micari, D E Le, C M Kramer, F H Epstein, S Kaul
Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: NHS heart failure survey: a survey of acute heart failure admissions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (14 November, 2007)
E D Nicol, B Fittall, M Roughton, J G F Cleland, H Dargie, M R Cowie

Epidemiology

Coronary heart disease trends in England and Wales from 1984 to 2004: concealed levelling of mortality rates among young adults (19 July, 2007)
M O’Flaherty, E Ford, S Allender, P Scarborough, S Capewell
Influence of socioeconomic status on survival after primary aortic or mitral valve replacement (4 May, 2007)
J P Bagger, M-B Edwards, K M Taylor

Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers

Effect of cardiac resynchronisation therapy on occurrence of ventricular arrhythmia in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators undergoing upgrade to cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices (29 August, 2007) Free
G Lin, R F Rea, S C Hammill, D L Hayes, P A Brady
Digitalis: a dangerous drug in atrial fibrillation? An analysis of the SPORTIF III and V data (4 May, 2007)
K Gjesdal, J Feyzi, S B Olsson
Age alone is not a risk factor for left atrial thrombus in atrial fibrillation (25 June, 2007)
B Mazouz, A Keren, A Chenzbraun
The role of the post-cardioversion time course of hs-CRP levels in clarifying the relationship between inflammation and persistence of atrial fibrillation (17 June, 2007)
E M Kallergis, E G Manios, E M Kanoupakis, H E Mavrakis, S G Kolyvaki, G M Lyrarakis, G I Chlouverakis, P E Vardas

Cardiovascular surgery

Enoxaparin as bridging anticoagulant treatment in cardiac surgery (4 May, 2007)
N Rivas-Gándara, I Ferreira-González, P Tornos, A Torrents, G Permanyer-Miralda, I Nicolau, E Arellano-Rodrigo, N Vallejo, A Igual, J Soler-Soler

Congenital heart disease

Ventricular size and function assessed by cardiac MRI predict major adverse clinical outcomes late after tetralogy of Fallot repair (29 November, 2006)
A L Knauth, K Gauvreau, A J Powell, M J Landzberg, E P Walsh, J E Lock, P J del Nido, T Geva

Basic research

Does optical coherence tomography identify arterial healing after stenting? An in vivo comparison with histology, in a rabbit carotid model (16 July, 2007)
F Prati, M Zimarino, E Stabile, G Pizzicannella, T Fouad, R Rabozzi, A Filippini, J Pizzicannella, M Cera, R De Caterina

Technology and guidelines

Endovascular infrarenal abdominal aortic aneurysm repair (14 January, 2008)
M Davis, P R Taylor

Featured correspondence

Coronary heart disease trends in England and Wales from 1984 to 2004: concealed levelling of mortality rates among young adults (14 January, 2008)
Michael Chester
The author’s reply: (14 January, 2008)
Martin O’Flaherty

Correction

Correction (14 January, 2008) Free

Education in Heart

Ischaemic heart disease: What cardiology trainees should know about coronary artery surgery—and coronary artery surgeons (14 January, 2008)
Christopher Munsch
Congenital heart disease: Ebstein’s anomaly of the tricuspid valve: from fetus to adult (14 January, 2008)
Soizic Paranon, Philippe Acar
Myocardial disease: Neglected tropical cardiomyopathies: I. Chagas disease (14 January, 2008)
Sophie Yacoub, Ana Olga Mocumbi, Magdi H Yacoub

JournalScan

JournalScan (14 January, 2008)
Alistair Lindsay

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