Table of contents

Original articles

Heart failure

• Original article: The national heart failure audit for England and Wales 2008–2009 (20 December, 2010) Free

  John G F Cleland, Theresa McDonagh, Alan S Rigby, Ashraf Yassin, Tracy Whittaker, Henry J Dargie

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Trans-radial approach for catheterisation in non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome: an analysis of major bleeding complications in the ABOARD Study (18 March, 2011)

  G Cayla, J Silvain, O Barthelemy, S 'O Connor, L Payot, A Bellemain-Appaix, F Beygui, M Aout, J-P Collet, E Vicaut, G Montalescot, for the ABOARD investigators
• Original article: Prognostic value of mid-regional pro-adrenomedullin in patients with heart failure after an acute myocardial infarction (17 March, 2011)

  IJsbrand T Klip, Adriaan A Voors, Stefan D Anker, Hans L Hillege, Joachim Struck, Iain Squire, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Kenneth Dickstein, for the OPTIMAAL investigators

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Aortic regurgitation after transcatheter aortic valve implantation: incidence and early outcome. Results from the German transcatheter aortic valve interventions registry (12 March, 2011)

  Mohamed Abdel-Wahab, Ralf Zahn, Martin Horack, Ulrich Gerckens, Gerhard Schuler, Horst Sievert, Holger Eggebrecht, Jochen Senges, Gert Richardt, for the German transcatheter aortic valve interventions registry investigators

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: Three-year follow-up in a subset of high-risk patients randomly assigned to off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: the Best Bypass Surgery Trial (17 March, 2011)

  Christian H Møller, Mario J Perko, Jens T Lund, Lars W Andersen, Henning Kelbæk, Jan K Madsen, Per Winkel, Christian Gluud, Daniel A Steinbrüchel

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Estimation of atrial fibrillation recency of onset and safety of cardioversion using NTproBNP levels in patients with unknown time of onset (8 February, 2011)

  Spyridon Deftereos, Georgios Giannopoulos, Charalampos Kossyvakis, Konstantinos Raisakis, Andreas Kaoukis, Constadina Aggeli, Konstantina Toli, Andreas Theodorakis, Vasiliki Panagopoulou, Metaxia Driva, Ioannis Mantas, Vlasios Pyrgakis, Ilias Rentoukas, Christodoulos Stefanadis
• Original article: Long-term endurance sport is a risk factor for development of lone atrial flutter (12 March, 2011)

  Guido Claessen, Erwin Colyn, André La Gerche, Pieter Koopman, Becker Alzand, Christophe Garweg, Rik Willems, Dieter Nuyens, Hein Heidbuchel

Epidemiology

• Original article: Decline in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentration: lipid-lowering drugs, diet, or physical activity? Evidence from the Whitehall II study (12 April, 2011)

  Kim Bouillon, Archana Singh-Manoux, Markus Jokela, Martin J Shipley, G David Batty, Eric J Brunner, Séverine Sabia, Adam G Tabák, Tasnime Akbaraly, Jane E Ferrie, Mika Kivimäki