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Original research

• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Measurement of left ventricular dyssynchrony in patients with ischaemic cardiomyopathy: a comparison of real-time three-dimensional and tissue Doppler echocardiography (7 March, 2007)

  Malcolm I Burgess, Carly Jenkins, Jonathan Chan, Thomas H Marwick
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Impact of left ventricular lead position on the efficacy of cardiac resynchronisation therapy: a two-dimensional strain echocardiography study (19 February, 2007)

  Michael Becker, Andreas Franke, Ole A Breithardt, Christina Ocklenburg, Theresa Kaminski, Rafael Kramann, Christian Knackstedt, Christoph Stellbrink, Peter Hanrath, Patrick Schauerte, Rainer Hoffmann
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Assessment of intravascular and extravascular mechanisms of myocardial perfusion abnormalities in obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy by myocardial contrast echocardiography (8 May, 2007)

  Osama I I Soliman, Paul Knaapen, Marcel L Geleijnse, Pieter A Dijkmans, Ashraf M Anwar, Attila Nemes, Michelle Michels, Wim B Vletter, Adriaan A Lammertsma, Folkert J ten Cate
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Prediction of sudden death in patients with mild-to-moderate chronic heart failure by using cardiac iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging (7 March, 2007)

  Hidetaka Kioka, Takahisa Yamada, Takanao Mine, Takashi Morita, Yasumasa Tsukamoto, Shunsuke Tamaki, Masaharu Masuda, Keiji Okuda, Masatsugu Hori, Masatake Fukunami
• Acute coronary syndromes: Impact of arterial remodelling and plaque rupture on target and non-target lesion revascularisation after stent implantation in patients with acute coronary syndrome: an intravascular ultrasound study (29 March, 2007)

  Hiroyuki Okura, Haruyuki Taguchi, Tomoichiro Kubo, Iku Toda, Minoru Yoshiyama, Junichi Yoshikawa, Kiyoshi Yoshida
• Acute coronary syndromes: Effect of drug combinations on admission for recurrent myocardial infarction (13 May, 2007)

  Menno E van der Elst, Marcel L Bouvy, Cornelis J de Blaey, Anthonius de Boer
• Acute coronary syndromes: Coronary microvascular dysfunction after myocardial infarction: increased coronary zero flow pressure both in the infarcted and in the remote myocardium is mainly related to left ventricular filling pressure (29 March, 2007)

  P L Van Herck, S G Carlier, M J Claeys, S E Haine, P Gorissen, H Miljoen, J M Bosmans, C J Vrints
• Interventional cardiology: Is primary angioplasty cost effective in the UK? Results of a comprehensive decision analysis (23 August, 2007)

  Yolanda Bravo Vergel, Stephen Palmer, Christian Asseburg, Elisabeth Fenwick, Mark de Belder, Keith Abrams, Mark Sculpher
• Interventional cardiology: Assessing the effectiveness of primary angioplasty compared with thrombolysis and its relationship to time delay: a Bayesian evidence synthesis (3 February, 2007)

  Christian Asseburg, Yolanda Bravo Vergel, Stephen Palmer, Elisabeth Fenwick, Mark de Belder, Keith R Abrams, Mark Sculpher
• Interventional cardiology: Sirolimus-eluting stent treatment for unprotected versus protected left main coronary artery disease in widespread clinical routine: 6-month and 3-year clinical follow-up results from the prospective multicentre German Cypher Registry (21 September, 2007)

  Ahmed A Khattab, Christian W Hamm, Jochen Senges, Ralph Toelg, Volker Geist, Tassilo Bonzel, Malte Kelm, Benny Levenson, Franz-Josef Neumann, Christoph A Nienaber, Thomas Pfannebecker, Georg Sabin, Steffen Schneider, Ulrich Tebbe, Gert Richardt
• Epidemiology: Inequalities in the primary care of patients with coronary heart disease and serious mental health problems: a cross-sectional study (7 March, 2007)

  Julia Hippisley-Cox, Chris Parker, Carol Coupland, Yana Vinogradova
• Epidemiology: The autoantibody rheumatoid factor may be an independent risk factor for ischaemic heart disease in men (5 June, 2007)

  C J Edwards, H Syddall, R Goswami, P Goswami, E M Dennison, N K Arden, C Cooper
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Prediction of cognitive dysfunction after resuscitation from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest using serum neuron-specific enolase and protein S-100 (13 May, 2007)

  Neil R Grubb, Catriona Simpson, Roy A Sherwood, Hagosa D Abraha, Stuart M Cobbe, Ronan E O’Carroll, Ian Deary, Keith A A Fox
• Endothelial function: Light cigarette smoking impairs coronary microvascular functions as severely as smoking regular cigarettes (13 May, 2007)

  Hakan Gullu, Mustafa Caliskan, Ozgur Ciftci, Dogan Erdogan, Semra Topcu, Erkan Yildirim, Aylin Yildirir, Haldun Muderrisoglu
• Basic research: Human embryonic stem cell transplantation to repair the infarcted myocardium (12 June, 2007)

  Jonathan Leor, Sharon Gerecht, Smadar Cohen, Liron Miller, Radka Holbova, Anna Ziskind, Michal Shachar, Micha S Feinberg, Esther Guetta, Joseph Itskovitz-Eldor