Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Cardiovascular effects of tumour necrosis factor α antagonism in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a first in human study (10 April, 2013)

  Gareth J Padfield, Jehangir N Din, Elena Koushiappi, Nicholas L Mills, Simon D Robinson, Nicholas Le May Cruden, Andrew John Lucking, Stanley Chia, Scott A Harding, David E Newby

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Long-term efficacy of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy for restenosis after previous mitral commissurotomy (27 April, 2013) Free

  Claire Bouleti, Bernard Iung, Dominique Himbert, Eric Brochet, David Messika-Zeitoun, Delphine Détaint, Eric Garbarz, Bertrand Cormier, Alec Vahanian

Peripheral vascular disease

• Original article: Secondhand smoke exposure and intermittent claudication: a Scotland-wide study of 4231 non-smokers (19 July, 2013)

  Liya Lu, Daniel F Mackay, Jill P Pell

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: The unnatural history of an atrial septal defect: Longitudinal 35 year follow up after surgical closure at young age (25 July, 2013)

  Judith A A E Cuypers, Petra Opić, Myrthe E Menting, Elisabeth M W J Utens, Maarten Witsenburg, Wim A Helbing, Annemien E van den Bosch, Mohamed Ouhlous, Ron T van Domburg, Folkert J Meijboom, Ad J J C Bogers, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink

Epidemiology

• Original article: Improved long-term survival in patients on combination therapies following an incident acute myocardial infarction: a longitudinal population-based study (25 July, 2013)

  Anthony S Gunnell, Kristjana Einarsdóttir, Frank Sanfilippo, Danny Liew, C D'Arcy J Holman, Tom Briffa
• Original article: Ischaemic heart disease deaths in Brazil: current trends, regional disparities and future projections (25 July, 2013)

  Cristina P Baena, Rajiv Chowdhury, Nicolle Amboni Schio, Ary Elias Sabbag, Luiz Cesar Guarita-Souza, Marcia Olandoski, Oscar H Franco, José Rocha Faria-Neto