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Original articles

Interventional cardiology

• Establishing the cost-effectiveness of percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusion in stable angina: a decision-analytic model (4 October, 2012)

  Hemal Gada, Patrick L Whitlow, Thomas H Marwick

Heart failure

• Improvement of hyponatraemia during hospitalisation for acute heart failure is not associated with improvement of prognosis: an analysis from the Korean Heart Failure (KorHF) registry (2 November, 2012)

  Sang Eun Lee, Dong-Ju Choi, Chang-Hwan Yoon, Il-Young Oh, Eun-Seok Jeon, Jae-Joong Kim, Myeong-Chan Cho, Shung Chull Chae, Kyu-Hyung Ryu, Byung-Hee Oh

Pulmonary hypertension

• Pulmonary hypertension: prevalence and mortality in the Armadale echocardiography cohort (3 July, 2012)

  Geoff Strange, David Playford, Simon Stewart, Jenny A Deague, Helen Nelson, Aaron Kent, Eli Gabbay

Endothelial function

• Differential effects of heart rate reduction by atenolol or ivabradine on peripheral endothelial function in type 2 diabetic patients (19 October, 2012)

  Roberto Nerla, Antonino Di Franco, Maria Milo, Dario Pitocco, Francesco Zaccardi, Pierpaolo Tarzia, Filippo Maria Sarullo, Angelo Villano, Giulio Russo, Alessandra Stazi, Giovanni Ghirlanda, Gaetano Antonio Lanza, Filippo Crea

Epidemiology

• Adherence to statins is associated with reduced incidence of idiopathic venous thromboembolism: real-life data from a large healthcare maintenance organisation (4 October, 2012)

  Liane Rabinowich, Arie Steinvil, Eran Leshem-Rubinow, Shlomo Berliner, David Zeltser, Ori Rogowski, Varda Shalev, Raanan Raz, Gabriel Chodick

Congenital heart disease

• Aortopathy and bicuspid aortic valve: haemodynamic burden is main contributor to aortic dilatation (30 November, 2012)

  Yong-Giun Kim, Byung Joo Sun, Gyung-Min Park, Seungbong Han, Dae-Hee Kim, Jong-Min Song, Duk-Hyun Kang, Jae-Kwan Song