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Cardiovascular medicine

• Plasma haemostatic markers, endothelial function and ambulatory blood pressure changes with home versus hospital cardiac rehabilitation: the Birmingham Rehabilitation Uptake Maximisation Study (28 June, 2006)

  K W Lee, A D Blann, K Jolly, G Y H Lip
• A population study of the long-term consequences of Rose angina: 20-year follow-up of the Renfrew–Paisley study (28 June, 2006)

  N F Murphy, S Stewart, C L Hart, K MacIntyre, D Hole, J J V McMurray
• CLimate Impacts on Myocardial infarction deaths in the Athens TErritory: the CLIMATE study (13 July, 2006)

  P Dilaveris, A Synetos, G Giannopoulos, E Gialafos, A Pantazis, C Stefanadis
• Accuracy and impact of risk assessment in the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease: a systematic review (18 April, 2006)

  P Brindle, A Beswick, T Fahey, S Ebrahim
• Long-term impact of multivessel disease on cause-specific mortality after ST elevation myocardial infarction treated with reperfusion therapy (27 April, 2006)

  R J van der Schaaf, J R Timmer, J P Ottervanger, J C A Hoorntje, M-J de Boer, H Suryapranata, F Zijlstra, J-H E Dambrink
• Efficacy of emergent transcatheter transplantation of stem cells for treatment of acute myocardial infarction (TCT-STAMI) (14 June, 2006)

  J Ge, Y Li, J Qian, J Shi, Q Wang, Y Niu, B Fan, X Liu, S Zhang, A Sun, Y Zou
• Effects of serial levosimendan infusions on left ventricular performance and plasma biomarkers of myocardial injury and neurohormonal and immune activation in patients with advanced heart failure (18 July, 2006)

  J T Parissis, S Adamopoulos, D Farmakis, G Filippatos, I Paraskevaidis, F Panou, E Iliodromitis, D Th Kremastinos
• Pathological effects of alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (28 June, 2006)

  A L Baggish, R N Smith, I Palacios, G J Vlahakes, D M Yoerger, M H Picard, P A Lowry, I-k Jang, M A Fifer
• Comprehensive cardiac assessment with multislice computed tomography: evaluation of left ventricular function and perfusion in addition to coronary anatomy in patients with previous myocardial infarction (1 June, 2006)

  M M Henneman, J D Schuijf, J W Jukema, H J Lamb, A de Roos, P Dibbets, M P Stokkel, E E van der Wall, J J Bax
• Left ventricular growth response to exercise and cigarette smoking: data from LARGE Heart (27 June, 2006)

  J R Payne, K I Eleftheriou, L E James, E Hawe, J Mann, A Stronge, P Kotwinski, M World, S E Humphries, D J Pennell, H E Montgomery
• Diagnostic accuracy of tissue Doppler echocardiography for patients with acute heart failure (27 June, 2006)

  C-H Huang, M-S Tsai, C-C Hsieh, T-D Wang, W-T Chang, W-J Chen
• Comparison of the haemodynamics of different pacing sites in patients undergoing resynchronisation treatment: need for individualisation of lead localisation (27 June, 2006)

  C M C van Campen, F C Visser, C C de Cock, H S Vos, O Kamp, C A Visser
• Microvascular perfusion 1 week and 6 months after myocardial infarction by first-pass perfusion cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (27 June, 2006)

  V Bodí, J Sanchis, M P López-Lereu, J Núñez, R Sanz, P Palau, C Gómez, D Moratal, F J Chorro, À Llácer