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Original articles

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Granulocyte colony stimulating factor in chronic angina to stimulate neovascularisation: a placebo controlled crossover trial (23 November, 2011)

  Sharon Chih, Peter S Macdonald, Jane A McCrohon, David Ma, John Moore, Michael P Feneley, Matthew Law, Jason C Kovacic, Robert M Graham

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: The evolution of infrahissian conduction time in myotonic dystrophy patients: clinical implications (29 October, 2011)

  Bénédicte Lallemand, Nicolas Clementy, Anne Bernard-Brunet, Bertrand Pierre, Philippe Corcia, Laurent Fauchier, Martine Raynaud, Sybille Pellieux, Dominique Babuty
• Original article: Predictors of clinical efficacy of ‘Ablate and Pace’ therapy in patients with permanent atrial fibrillation (17 November, 2011)

  M Brignole, G L Botto, L Mont, D Oddone, S Iacopino, G De Marchi, M Campoli, V Sebastiani, A Vincenti, D Garcia Medina, J Osca Asensi, A Mocini, N Grovale, T De Santo, C Menozzi

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Influence of access site selection on PCI-related adverse events in patients with STEMI: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials (6 December, 2011) Free

  Mamas A Mamas, Karim Ratib, Helen Routledge, Farzin Fath-Ordoubadi, Ludwig Neyses, Yves Louvard, Douglas G Fraser, Jim Nolan

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Very early diagnosis of chest pain by point-of-care testing: comparison of the diagnostic efficiency of a panel of cardiac biomarkers compared with troponin measurement alone in the RATPAC trial (10 November, 2011)

  Paul Collinson, Steve Goodacre, David Gaze, Alasdair Gray

Heart failure

• Original article: Use of cystatin C levels in estimating renal function and prognosis in patients with chronic systolic heart failure (29 October, 2011)

  Kevin Damman, Pim van der Harst, Tom D J Smilde, A A Voors, Gerjan Navis, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Hans L Hillege

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Effects of atorvastatin on endothelial function and the expression of proinflammatory cytokines and adhesion molecules in young subjects with successfully repaired coarctation of aorta (10 November, 2011)

  S Brili, D Tousoulis, A S Antonopoulos, C Antoniades, G Hatzis, C Bakogiannis, N Papageorgiou, C Stefanadis

Epidemiology

• Original article: Competing cardiovascular outcomes associated with electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (3 December, 2011)

  Chintan S Desai, Hongyan Ning, Donald M Lloyd-Jones