Table of contents

Original articles

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Prognostic relevance of coronary collateral function: confounded or causal relationship? (25 July, 2013) Free

  Christian Seiler, Rebecca Engler, Lea Berner, Michael Stoller, Pascal Meier, Hélène Steck, Tobias Traupe

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Balloon pulmonary angioplasty in patients with inoperable chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (11 July, 2013)

  Arne K Andreassen, Asgrimur Ragnarsson, Einar Gude, Odd Geiran, Rune Andersen

Secondary prevention of coronary disease

• Original article: Effect of a nurse-coordinated prevention programme on cardiovascular risk after an acute coronary syndrome: main results of the RESPONSE randomised trial (28 June, 2013)

  Harald T Jorstad, Clemens von Birgelen, A Marco W Alings, Anho Liem, Jan Melle van Dantzig, Wybren Jaarsma, Dirk J A Lok, Hans J A Kragten, Keesjan de Vries, Paul A R de Milliano, Adrie J A M Withagen, Wilma J M Scholte op Reimer, Jan G P Tijssen, Ron J G Peters

Clinical trials

• Original article: Remote ischaemic postconditioning: does it protect against ischaemic damage in percutaneous coronary revascularisation? Randomised placebo-controlled clinical trial (12 July, 2013)

  Fernando Carrasco-Chinchilla, Antonio J Muñoz-García, Antonio Domínguez-Franco, Gloria Millán-Vázquez, Alicia Guerrero-Molina, Carmen Ortiz-García, Alfredo Enguix-Armada, Juan H Alonso-Briales, Jose M Hernández-García, Eduardo de Teresa-Galván, Manuel F Jiménez-Navarro

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Acute catecholamine cardiomyopathy in patients with phaeochromocytoma or functional paraganglioma (9 July, 2013)

  Alessandra Giavarini, Antoine Chedid, Guillaume Bobrie, Pierre-François Plouin, Albert Hagège, Laurence Amar

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: Real time monitoring of risk-adjusted paediatric cardiac surgery outcomes using variable life-adjusted display: implementation in three UK centres (5 April, 2013)

  Christina Pagel, Martin Utley, Sonya Crowe, Thomas Witter, David Anderson, Ray Samson, Andrew McLean, Victoria Banks, Victor Tsang, Katherine Brown