Table of contents

Original articles

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Cost-effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve replacement in patients ineligible for conventional aortic valve replacement (10 November, 2011) Free

  Maureen Watt, Stuart Mealing, James Eaton, Nicolo Piazza, Neil Moat, Pascale Brasseur, Stephen Palmer, Rachele Busca, Mark Sculpher
• Original article: A risk score for predicting mortality in patients with asymptomatic mild to moderate aortic stenosis (8 December, 2011)

  Ingar Holme, Terje R Pedersen, Kurt Boman, Kenneth Egstrup, Eva Gerdts, Y Antero Kesäniemi, William Malbecq, Simon Ray, Anne B Rossebø, Kristian Wachtell, Ronnie Willenheimer, Christa Gohlke-Bärwolf
• Original article: Remote ischaemic preconditioning reduces myocardial injury in patients undergoing heart valve surgery: randomised controlled trial (22 November, 2011)

  Jian-Jiang Xie, Xiao-Long Liao, Wen-Guang Chen, Da-De Huang, Feng-Jun Chang, Wen Chen, Zhao-Liu Luo, Zhi-Ping Wang, Jing-Song Ou

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Serial measurements of midregion proANP and copeptin in ambulatory patients with heart failure: incremental prognostic value of novel biomarkers in heart failure (22 December, 2011)

  Wayne L Miller, Karen A Hartman, Diane E Grill, Joachim Struck, Andreas Bergmann, Allan S Jaffe

Non-invasive testing

• Original article: Five-minute heart rate variability can predict obstructive angiographic coronary disease (25 November, 2011)

  D Kotecha, G New, M D Flather, D Eccleston, J Pepper, H Krum

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Impact of continuous intracardiac ST-segment monitoring on mid-term outcomes of ICD-implanted patients with coronary artery disease. Early results of a prospective comparison with conventional ICD outcomes (23 November, 2011)

  Giovanni B Forleo, Manfredi Tesauro, Germana Panattoni, Domenico G Della Rocca, Lida P Papavasileiou, Domenico Sergi, Arianna Di Molfetta, Luca Santini, Francesco Romeo

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Cardioprotection against ischaemia induced by dobutamine stress using glucagon-like peptide-1 in patients with coronary artery disease (10 May, 2011)

  Philip A Read, Fakhar Z Khan, David P Dutka

Epidemiology

• Original article: Case fatality rates for South Asian and Caucasian patients show no difference 2.5 years after percutaneous coronary intervention (29 November, 2011)

  D A Jones, K S Rathod, N Sekhri, C Junghans, S Gallagher, M T Rothman, S Mohiddin, A Kapur, C Knight, A Archbold, A K Jain, P G Mills, R Uppal, A Mathur, A D Timmis, A Wragg