Editorials:

Erectile dysfunction in congenital heart disease

Graham Jackson

Heart 2009; 95: 1127.
Published Online First: 12 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.164525

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Point of care testing in acute coronary syndromes: when and how?

Christopher P Gale, Alex D Simms, Brian A Cattle, Darren Greenwood, and Robert M West

Heart 2009; 95: 1128-1129.
Published Online First: 28 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.164608

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Global burden of cardiovascular disease:

The Chinese coronary artery bypass grafting registry study: analysis of the national multicentre database of 9248 patients

Y Li, Z Zheng, S Hu on behalf of the Chinese CABG Registry Study

Heart 2009; 95: 1140-1144.
Published Online First: 16 July 2008. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.146563

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JournalScan:

JournalScan

Alistair Lindsay

Heart 2009; 95: 1203-1204.

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Review:

Acute aortic syndrome: a new look at an old conundrum

I Vilacosta, P Aragoncillo, V Cañadas, J A San Román, J Ferreirós, and E Rodríguez

Heart 2009; 95: 1130-1139.
Published Online First: 8 January 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.153650

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Original articles:

Percutaneous intramyocardial stem cell injection in patients with acute myocardial infarction: first-in-man study

K Krause, K Jaquet, C Schneider, S Haupt, M V Lioznov, K-M Otte, and K-H Kuck

Heart 2009; 95: 1145-1152.
Published Online First: 30 March 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.155077

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Troponin T elevation after implanted defibrillator discharge predicts survival

D Blendea, M Blendea, J Banker, and C A McPherson

Heart 2009; 95: 1153-1158.
Published Online First: 13 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.162677

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Expression of a transgene encoding mutant p193/CUL7 preserves cardiac function and limits infarct expansion after myocardial infarction

R J Hassink, H Nakajima, H O Nakajima, P A Doevendans, and L J Field

Heart 2009; 95: 1159-1164.
Published Online First: 11 May 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.150128

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Cardiac resynchronisation therapy in paediatric and congenital heart disease: differential effects in various anatomical and functional substrates

J Janousek, R A Gebauer, H Abdul-Khaliq, M Turner, L Kornyei, O Grollmuß, E Rosenthal, E Villain, A Früh, T Paul, N A Blom, J-M Happonen, U Bauersfeld, J R Jacobsen, F van den Heuvel, T Delhaas, J Papagiannis, C Trigo, and for the Working Group for Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology

Heart 2009; 95: 1165-1171.
Published Online First: 22 March 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.160465

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Independent value of left atrial volume index for the prediction of mortality in patients with suspected heart failure referred from the community

T K Lim, G Dwivedi, S Hayat, S Majumdar, and R Senior

Heart 2009; 95: 1172-1178.
Published Online First: 8 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.151043

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Sexuality and subjective wellbeing in male patients with congenital heart disease

M Vigl, A Hager, U Bauer, E Niggemeyer, B Wittstock, F-M Köhn, J Hess, and H Kaemmerer

Heart 2009; 95: 1179-1183.
Published Online First: 12 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.156695

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Strain rate evaluation of phasic atrial function in hypertension

S Eshoo, A C Boyd, D L Ross, T H Marwick, and L Thomas

Heart 2009; 95: 1184-1191.
Published Online First: 26 April 2009. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.156208

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Featured correspondence:

Coronary heart disease epidemics

P A Lotufo and I M Bensenor

Heart 2009; 95: 1192.

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The authors’ reply:

M Mirzaei, A S Truswell, R Taylor, and S R Leeder

Heart 2009; 95: 1192.

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Education in Heart:

Cardiovascular manifestations of HIV infection

Jennifer E Ho and Priscilla Y Hsue

Heart 2009; 95: 1193-1202. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.161463

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Miscellanea:

Asymptomatic large unruptured left ventricular pseudoaneurysm

V Subban, R Sethuratnam, and M S Ajit

Heart 2009; 95: 1139. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.163493

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Rare case of blunt chest trauma induced left main and LAD dissection in association with anomalous RCA origin

G Goyal, G Singh, and R Kapoor

Heart 2009; 95: 1178. doi:10.1136/hrt.2009.168914

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Steroid-responsive sterile inflammation after transradial cardiac catheterisation using a sheath with hydrophilic coating

J Lim, A Suri, and T P Chua

Heart 2009; 95: 1202. doi:10.1136/hrt.2008.165068

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