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Electronic pages

  • Coronary artery disease: Workload at the heart rate of 100 beats/min and mortality in middle-aged men with known or suspected coronary heart disease

    • K P Savonen,
    • T A Lakka,
    • J A Laukkanen,
    • T H Rauramaa,
    • J T Salonen,
    • R Rauramaa
    Heart 2008;94:4 e14 Published Online First: 4 October 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.123471

  • Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Load-sensitivity of regional tissue deformation in the right ventricle: isovolumic versus ejection-phase indices of contractility

    • C Missant,
    • S Rex,
    • P Claus,
    • L Mertens,
    • P F Wouters
    Heart 2008;94:4 e15 Published Online First: 8 August 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.109520

  • Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Significance of Wedensky Modulation testing in the evaluation of non-invasive risk stratification for ventricular tachyarrhythmia in patients with coronary artery disease and implantable cardioverter-defibrillator

    • N Elgarhi,
    • J Kreuz,
    • O Balta,
    • G Nickenig,
    • H Hoium,
    • T Lewalter,
    • J Otto Schwab
    Heart 2008;94:4 e16 Published Online First: 16 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.112730

  • Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Implantable loop recorder in unexplained syncope: classification, mechanism, transient loss of consciousness and role of major depressive disorder in patients with and without structural heart disease

    • T Pezawas,
    • G Stix,
    • J Kastner,
    • B Schneider,
    • M Wolzt,
    • H Schmidinger
    Heart 2008;94:4 e17 Published Online First: 18 October 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.116616

Featured editorial

  • NSAIDs and cardiovascular disease

    • Paola Patrignani,
    • Marta L Capone,
    • Stefania Tacconelli
    Heart 2008;94:4 395-397 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.136002

Editorials

  • Risk prediction in pericarditis: who to keep in hospital?

    • David H Spodick
    Heart 2008;94:4 398-399 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.113902

  • Ejection fraction: a measure of desperation?

    • Charlotte H Manisty,
    • Darrel P Francis
    Heart 2008;94:4 400-401 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.118976

  • Arrhythmic substrate

    • Marek Malik
    Heart 2008;94:4 402-403 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.124198

  • Assessment of right ventricular function

    • Lynne Williams,
    • Michael Frenneaux
    Heart 2008;94:4 404-405 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.130021

  • Social inequalities and cardiovascular disease in South Asians

    • Justin Zaman,
    • Eric Brunner
    Heart 2008;94:4 406-407 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.127480

Miscellanea

  • From BMJ Journals: Arthritis drugs are hazardous for high risk patients

    Heart 2008;94:4 403

  • WEB TOP 10

    Heart 2008;94:4 492

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

  • Coronary artery disease epidemic in Pakistan: more electrocardiographic evidence of ischaemia in women than in men

    • T H Jafar,
    • Z Qadri,
    • N Chaturvedi
    Heart 2008;94:4 408-413 Published Online First: 23 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.120774
    Open Access

Review

  • Medical treatment of Marfan syndrome: a time for change

    • A Williams,
    • S Davies,
    • A G Stuart,
    • D G Wilson,
    • A G Fraser
    Heart 2008;94:4 414-421 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.109454

Images in cardiology

  • An interesting presentation of antiphospholipid syndrome

    • S Aldous
    Heart 2008;94:4 421 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.121210

  • Bubbles in the left cardiac cavities after diving

    • A Boussuges,
    • J E Blatteau,
    • J M Pontier
    Heart 2008;94:4 445 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.109439

  • Acute renal artery embolism treated with a cardiac thrombectomy catheter

    • C Critoph,
    • J Radvan,
    • D Shepherd
    Heart 2008;94:4 462 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.115618

Rapid communication

  • Telomere length is shorter in healthy offspring of subjects with coronary artery disease: support for the telomere hypothesis

    • S W Brouilette,
    • A Whittaker,
    • S E Stevens,
    • P van der Harst,
    • A H Goodall,
    • N J Samani
    Heart 2008;94:4 422-425 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.139675

Viewpoint

  • Left ventricular ejection fraction: are the revised cut-off points for defining systolic dysfunction sufficiently evidence based?

    • G Mahadevan,
    • R C Davis,
    • M P Frenneaux,
    • F D R Hobbs,
    • G Y H Lip,
    • J E Sanderson,
    • M K Davies
    Heart 2008;94:4 426-428 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.123877

Coronary artery disease

  • Plaque characterisation by Virtual Histology intravascular ultrasound analysis in patients with type 2 diabetes

    • K Nasu,
    • E Tsuchikane,
    • O Katoh,
    • H Fujita,
    • J-F Surmely,
    • M Ehara,
    • Y Kinoshita,
    • N Tanaka,
    • T Matsubara,
    • Y Asakura,
    • K Asakura,
    • M Terashima,
    • T Suzuki
    Heart 2008;94:4 429-433 Published Online First: 23 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.118950

  • Beneficial effects of aggressive low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering in women with stable coronary heart disease in the Treating to New Targets (TNT) study

    • N K Wenger,
    • S J Lewis,
    • F K Welty,
    • D M Herrington,
    • V Bittner
    Heart 2008;94:4 434-439 Published Online First: 10 December 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.122325

Cardiac imaging and non-invasive imaging

  • Feasibility and clinical decision-making with 3D echocardiography in routine practice

    • J L Hare,
    • C Jenkins,
    • S Nakatani,
    • A Ogawa,
    • C-M Yu,
    • T H Marwick
    Heart 2008;94:4 440-445 Published Online First: 30 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.123570

Heart failure and cardiomyopathy

  • A novel mechanism of heart failure with normal ejection fraction

    • D H MacIver,
    • M Townsend
    Heart 2008;94:4 446-449 Published Online First: 4 May 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.114082

  • Pulmonary embolism causes endomyocarditis in the human heart

    • M P V Begieneman,
    • F R W van de Goot,
    • I A C van der Bilt,
    • A Vonk Noordegraaf,
    • M D Spreeuwenberg,
    • W J Paulus,
    • V W M van Hinsbergh,
    • F C Visser,
    • H W M Niessen
    Heart 2008;94:4 450-456 Published Online First: 23 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.118638

Epidemiology

  • Evaluation of the association between the first observation and the longitudinal change in C-reactive protein, and all-cause mortality

    • C J Currie,
    • C D Poole,
    • P Conway
    Heart 2008;94:4 457-462 Published Online First: 29 August 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.118794

  • Trends for coronary heart disease and stroke mortality among migrants in England and Wales, 1979–2003: slow declines notable for some groups

    • S Harding,
    • M Rosato,
    • A Teyhan
    Heart 2008;94:4 463-470 Published Online First: 9 August 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.122044
    Open Access

  • Smoking status, sports participation and mortality from coronary heart disease

    • H Noda,
    • H Iso,
    • H Toyoshima,
    • C Date,
    • A Yamamoto,
    • S Kikuchi,
    • A Koizumi,
    • T Kondo,
    • Y Watanabe,
    • Y Wada,
    • Y Inaba,
    • A Tamakoshi
    Heart 2008;94:4 471-475 Published Online First: 4 October 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.126458

  • Cardiovascular disease mortality in relation to childhood and adulthood socioeconomic markers in British South Asian men

    • T Tillin,
    • N Chaturvedi,
    • N G Forouhi,
    • G D Smith,
    • P M McKeigue
    Heart 2008;94:4 476-481 Published Online First: 23 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.109165

  • Rose angina predicts 23-year coronary heart disease mortality in women and men aged 40–49 years

    • S Graff-Iversen,
    • R Selmer,
    • M-L Løchen
    Heart 2008;94:4 482-486 Published Online First: 30 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.115931

Endothelial function

  • Chronic treatment with tetrahydrobiopterin reverses endothelial dysfunction and oxidative stress in hypercholesterolaemia

    • F Cosentino,
    • D Hürlimann,
    • C Delli Gatti,
    • R Chenevard,
    • N Blau,
    • N J Alp,
    • K M Channon,
    • M Eto,
    • P Lerch,
    • F Enseleit,
    • F Ruschitzka,
    • M Volpe,
    • T F Lüscher,
    • G Noll
    Heart 2008;94:4 487-492 Published Online First: 4 October 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.122184

Cardiovascular surgery

  • Women’s Recovery from Sternotomy-Extension (WREST-E) study: examining long-term pain and discomfort following sternotomy and their predictors

    • K M King,
    • M Parry,
    • D Southern,
    • P Faris,
    • R T Tsuyuki
    Heart 2008;94:4 493-497 Published Online First: 16 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.117606

Pericardial disease

  • Myopericarditis versus viral or idiopathic acute pericarditis

    • M Imazio,
    • E Cecchi,
    • B Demichelis,
    • A Chinaglia,
    • S Ierna,
    • D Demarie,
    • A Ghisio,
    • F Pomari,
    • R Belli,
    • R Trinchero
    Heart 2008;94:4 498-501 Published Online First: 17 June 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2006.104067

Technology and guidelines

  • Clinical indications for genetic testing in familial sudden cardiac death syndromes: an HRUK position statement

    • Heart Rhythm UK Familial Sudden Death Syndromes Statement Development Group
    Heart 2008;94:4 502-507 Published Online First: 30 July 2007 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.127761

Featured correspondence

  • Impact of blood pressure on the Doppler echocardiographic assessment of severity of aortic stenosis

    • Katerina Linhartova
    Heart 2008;94:4 508

  • The authors’ reply

    • I G Burwash,
    • S H Little,
    • K L Chan
    Heart 2008;94:4 508

  • Prolonged QRS and QTc interval and mortality

    • F Grigioni,
    • G Piovaccari,
    • G Boriani
    Heart 2008;94:4 508-509

  • The authors’ reply

    • T Breidthardt,
    • C Mueller
    Heart 2008;94:4 509

Education in Heart

  • Non-invasive imaging: The use of cardiac magnetic resonance imaging to determine the aetiology of left ventricular disease and cardiomyopathy

    • Tjeerd Germans,
    • Albert C van Rossum
    Heart 2008;94:4 510-518 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.122770

  • Valvular heart disease: Management of the elderly patient with aortic stenosis

    • Bernard Iung
    Heart 2008;94:4 519-524 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.122804

  • Clinical pharmacology: Anthracycline associated cardiotoxicity in survivors of childhood cancer

    • Steven E Lipshultz,
    • Jorge A Alvarez,
    • Rebecca E Scully
    Heart 2008;94:4 525-533 doi:10.1136/hrt.2007.136093

Summary of electronic pages

  • These papers are available in full in the electronic pages of this issue of Heart

    Heart 2008;94:4 534

JournalScan

  • JournalScan

    • Alistair Lindsay
    Heart 2008;94:4 535-536

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