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Original articles

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Effect of erythropoietin as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a randomised controlled clinical trial (7 September, 2011) Free

  Andrew J Ludman, Derek M Yellon, Jonathan Hasleton, Cono Ariti, Girish Ganesha Babu, Edney Boston-Griffiths, Vinod Venugopal, Malcolm Walker, Diana Holdright, Howard Swanton, Tom Crake, David Brull, James C Moon, Rajesh Puranik, Vivek Mutharangu, Andrew Taylor, Derek J Hausenloy
• Original article: Non-cardiac surgery in patients with coronary stents: the RECO study (26 July, 2011)

  Pierre Albaladejo, Emmanuel Marret, Charles-Marc Samama, Jean-Philippe Collet, Kou Abhay, Olivier Loutrel, Hélène Charbonneau, Samir Jaber, Sophie Thoret, Jean-Luc Bosson, Vincent Piriou

Sports cardiology

• Original article: Performance of the 2010 European Society of Cardiology criteria for ECG interpretation in athletes (20 May, 2011)

  Rory B Weiner, Adolph M Hutter, Francis Wang, Jonathan H Kim, Malissa J Wood, Thomas J Wang, Michael H Picard, Aaron L Baggish

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Comparison of two-dimensional and three-dimensional imaging techniques for measurement of aortic annulus diameters before transcatheter aortic valve implantation (23 June, 2011)

  Ertunc Altiok, Ralf Koos, Jörg Schröder, Kathrin Brehmer, Sandra Hamada, Michael Becker, Andreas H Mahnken, Mohammad Almalla, Guido Dohmen, Rüdiger Autschbach, Nikolaus Marx, Rainer Hoffmann

Obesity and the heart

• Original article: Myocardial steatosis, cardiac remodelling and fitness in insulin-sensitive and insulin-resistant obese women (20 July, 2011)

  Wolfgang Utz, Stefan Engeli, Sven Haufe, Petra Kast, Mario Hermsdorf, Susanne Wiesner, Martin Pofahl, Julius Traber, Friedrich C Luft, Michael Boschmann, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Jens Jordan

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: Sustained postoperative anaemia is associated with an impaired outcome after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: insights from the IMAGINE trial (13 July, 2011)

  B Daan Westenbrink, Lennaert Kleijn, Rudolf A de Boer, Jan G Tijssen, Wayne J Warnica, Richard Baillot, Jean L Rouleau, Wiek H van Gilst, for the IMAGINE Investigators

Sudden cardiac death

• Original article: Electrocardiographic and clinical predictors separating atherosclerotic sudden cardiac death from incident coronary heart disease (20 July, 2011)

  Elsayed Z Soliman, Ronald J Prineas, L Douglas Case, Gregory Russell, Wayne Rosamond, Thomas Rea, Nona Sotoodehnia, Wendy S Post, David Siscovick, Bruce M Psaty, Gregory L Burke

Heart disease in older people

• Original article: Prevalence of geriatric syndromes and impact on clinical and functional outcomes in older patients with acute cardiac diseases (27 July, 2011)

  Elísabet Sánchez, María T Vidán, José A Serra, Francisco Fernández-Avilés, Héctor Bueno