Table of contents

Original articles

• Interventional cardiology: Therapeutic strategies after coronary stenting in chronically anticoagulated patients: the MUSICA study (17 May, 2009)

  A Sambola, I Ferreira-González, J Angel, F Alfonso, J Maristany, O Rodríguez, H Bueno, J R López-Minguez, J Zueco, F Fernández-Avilés, A San Román, B Prendergast, V Mainar, D García-Dorado, P Tornos
• Interventional cardiology: Randomised trial of three rapamycin-eluting stents with different coating strategies for the reduction of coronary restenosis: 2-year follow-up results (9 July, 2009)

  R A Byrne, S Kufner, K Tiroch, S Massberg, K-L Laugwitz, A Birkmeier, S Schulz, J Mehilli, for the Intracoronary Stenting and Angiographic Restenosis–Test Efficacy of Rapamycin-Eluting STents with Different Polymer Coating Strategies (ISAR-TEST-3) Investigators
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Dual-phase multi-detector computed tomography assesses jeopardised and infarcted myocardium subtending infarct-related artery early after acute myocardial infarction (3 June, 2009) Free

  K-R Chiou, W-C Huang, N-J Peng, Y-L Huang, S-H Hsiao, K-H Chen, M-T Wu
• Systemic disease and the heart: Lowering interleukin-1 activity with anakinra improves myocardial deformation in rheumatoid arthritis (28 May, 2009)

  I Ikonomidis, S Tzortzis, J Lekakis, I Paraskevaidis, I Andreadou, M Nikolaou, T Kaplanoglou, P Katsimbri, G Skarantavos, P Soucacos, D Th Kremastinos
• Biomarkers and heart disease: Evaluation of novel biomarkers for the diagnosis of acute destabilised heart failure in patients with shortness of breath (11 June, 2009)

  B Dieplinger, A Gegenhuber, M Haltmayer, T Mueller
• Biomarkers and heart disease: Effect of estimated glomerular filtration rate on plasma concentrations of B-type natriuretic peptides measured with multiple immunoassays in elderly individuals (30 June, 2009)

  M Schou, U Alehagen, J P Goetze, F Gustafsson, U Dahlstrom
• Congenital heart disease: Long-term results of catheter-based treatment of pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum (28 May, 2009)

  M Marasini, P F Gorrieri, G Tuo, L Zannini, P Guido, M Pellegrini, S Bondanza, M G Calevo, G Pongiglione
• Endothelial function: Segmental coronary endothelial dysfunction in patients with minimal atherosclerosis is associated with necrotic core plaques (3 June, 2009)

  S Lavi, J-H Bae, C S Rihal, A Prasad, G W Barsness, R J Lennon, D R Holmes, A Lerman
• Pulmonary hypertension: Vardenafil treatment for patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension: a multicentre, open-label study (22 June, 2009)

  Z-C Jing, X Jiang, B-X Wu, X-Q Xu, Y Wu, C-R Ma, Y Wang, Y-J Yang, J-L Pu, W Gao