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Original articles

• Interventional cardiology: Incidence of aortic valve regurgitation and outcome after percutaneous closure of atrial septal defects and patent foramen ovale (10 December, 2007)

  S P Schoen, A Boscheri, S A Lange, M U Braun, J Fuhrmann, U Kappert, R H Strasser
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Dual source coronary computed tomography angiography for detecting in-stent restenosis (19 September, 2007)

  F Pugliese, A C Weustink, C Van Mieghem, F Alberghina, M Otsuka, W B Meijboom, N van Pelt, N R Mollet, F Cademartiri, G P Krestin, M G M Hunink, P J de Feyter
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: New two-dimensional global longitudinal strain and strain rate imaging for assessment of systemic right ventricular function (29 January, 2008)

  P-C Chow, X-C Liang, E W Y Cheung, W W M Lam, Y-F Cheung
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Biochemical and functional abnormalities of left and right ventricular function after ultra-endurance exercise (4 May, 2007)

  A La Gerche, K A Connelly, D J Mooney, A I MacIsaac, D L Prior
• Acute coronary syndromes: Short- and long-term outcomes following atrial fibrillation in patients with acute coronary syndromes with or without ST-segment elevation (10 March, 2008)

  R D Lopes, K S Pieper, J R Horton, S M Al-Khatib, L K Newby, R H Mehta, F Van de Werf, P W Armstrong, K W Mahaffey, R A Harrington, E M Ohman, H D White, L Wallentin, C B Granger
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Blood pressure-independent relations of left ventricular geometry to the metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance: a population-based study (11 October, 2007)

  J Sundström, J Ärnlöv, K Stolare, L Lind
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Long-term effects of cardiac resynchronisation therapy in patients with atrial fibrillation (20 January, 2008)

  K Khadjooi, P W Foley, S Chalil, J Anthony, R E A Smith, M P Frenneaux, F Leyva
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Biphasic energy selection for transthoracic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation. The BEST AF Trial (25 June, 2007)

  B M Glover, S J Walsh, C J McCann, M J Moore, G Manoharan, G W N Dalzell, A McAllister, B McClements, D J McEneaney, T G Trouton, T P Mathew, A A J Adgey
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: The implantable loop recorder in children (30 July, 2007)

  B Yeung, K McLeod
• Valvular heart disease: The association between the timing of valve surgery and 6-month mortality in left-sided infective endocarditis (28 February, 2008)

  I M Tleyjeh, J M Steckelberg, G Georgescu, H M K Ghomrawi, T L Hoskin, F B Enders, F Mookadam, W C Huskins, W R Wilson, L M Baddour
• Valvular heart disease: B-type natriuretic peptide and left ventricular dysfunction on exercise echocardiography in patients with chronic aortic regurgitation (1 November, 2007)

  R S Gabriel, A J Kerr, V Sharma, I S L Zeng, R A H Stewart
• Molecular biology and genetics: Role of the C-344T aldosterone synthase gene variant in left ventricular mass and left ventricular structure-related phenotypes (13 August, 2007)

  S Sookoian, T F Gianotti, C J Pirola
• Molecular biology and genetics: Subacute cardiac toxicity following autologous haematopoietic stem cell transplantation in patients with normal cardiac function (10 December, 2007)

  T Chung, W-C Lim, R Sy, I Cunningham, J Trotman, L Kritharides
• Congenital heart disease: Impact of aortic stenting on peripheral vascular function and daytime systolic blood pressure in adult coarctation (8 August, 2007) Free

  S S M Chen, A E Donald, C Storry, J P Halcox, P Bonhoeffer, J E Deanfield
• Congenital heart disease: Stenting of the arterial duct in newborns with duct-dependent pulmonary circulation (30 July, 2007)

  G Santoro, G Gaio, M T Palladino, C Iacono, M Carrozza, R Esposito, M G Russo, G Caianiello, R Calabrò