Table of contents

Original research

• Real-time three-dimensional dobutamine stress echocardiography for coronary artery disease diagnosis: validation with coronary angiography (3 November, 2006)

  Constadina Aggeli, Georgios Giannopoulos, Platon Misovoulos, George Roussakis, Euaggelia Christoforatou, Christos Kokkinakis, Stela Brili, Christodoulos Stefanadis
• Left ventricular non-compaction cardiomyopathy in children: characterisation of clinical status using tissue Doppler-derived indices of left ventricular diastolic relaxation (29 November, 2006)

  Colin J McMahon, Ricardo H Pignatelli, Sherif F Nagueh, Vei-Vei Lee, William Vaughn, Santiago O Valdes, John P Kovalchin, J Lynn Jefferies, William J Dreyer, Susan W Denfield, Sarah Clunie, Jeffrey A Towbin, Benjamin W Eidem
• Pulmonary arterial hypertension in adults born with a heart septal defect: the Euro Heart Survey on adult congenital heart disease (12 December, 2006)

  Peter M Engelfriet, Marielle G J Duffels, Thomas Möller, Eric Boersma, Jan G P Tijssen, Erik Thaulow, Michael A Gatzoulis, Barbara J M Mulder
• Can atrial fibrillation with a coarse electrocardiographic appearance be treated with catheter ablation of the tricuspid valve–inferior vena cava isthmus? Results of a multicentre randomised controlled trial (29 November, 2006)

  Dhiraj Gupta, Mark J Earley, Guy A Haywood, Laura Richmond, Melissa Fitzgerald, Pipin Kojodjojo, Simon C Sporton, Nicholas S Peters, Paul Broadhurst, Richard J Schilling
• Target lesion revascularisation in patients treated with a sirolimus-eluting or paclitaxel-eluting stent (28 December, 2006)

  Michael Maeng, Lisette Okkels Jensen, Klaus Rasmussen, Jens Flensted Lassen, Lars Romer Krusell, Per Thayssen, Leif Thuesen
• Trimetazidine in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy after coronary procedures (25 October, 2006)

  Alper O Onbasili, Yavuz Yeniceriglu, Pınar Agaoglu, Aslıhan Karul, Tarkan Tekten, Harun Akar, Guzel Discigil
• Protective effect of an acute oral loading dose of trimetazidine on myocardial injury following percutaneous coronary intervention (8 May, 2007)

  Laurent Bonello, Pascal Sbragia, Nicolas Amabile, Olivier Com, Sandrine V Pierre, Samuel Levy, Franck Paganelli
• Evidence that pharmacological strategies lack efficacy for the prevention of sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (14 May, 2007)

  P Melacini, B J Maron, F Bobbo, C Basso, B Tokajuk, M Zucchetto, G Thiene, S Iliceto
• Prognosis and prognostic factors in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Japan: results from a nationwide study (3 November, 2006)

  Ali Nasermoaddeli, Katsuyuki Miura, Akira Matsumori, Yoshiyuki Soyama, Yuko Morikawa, Akira Kitabatake, Yutaka Inaba, Hideaki Nakagawa
• Carbohydrate antigen 125: an emerging prognostic risk factor in acute heart failure? (12 December, 2006)

  Julio Núñez, Eduardo Núñez, Luciano Consuegra, Juan Sanchis, Vicent Bodí, Angel Martínez-Brotons, Vicente Bertomeu-González, Rocio Robles, Maria J Bosch, Lorenzo Fácila, Helene Darmofal, Angel Llàcer
• Influence of water immersion, water gymnastics and swimming on cardiac output in patients with heart failure (12 December, 2006)

  Jean-Paul Schmid, Markus Noveanu, Cyrill Morger, Raymond Gaillet, Mauro Capoferri, Matthias Anderegg, Hugo Saner
• Chronic health conditions and survival after out-of-hospital ventricular fibrillation cardiac arrest (19 February, 2007)

  Heather T Carew, Weiya Zhang, Thomas D Rea
• Longitudinal left ventricular contractile dysfunction after exercise in aortic stenosis (7 November, 2006)

  Niels C Van Pelt, Ralph A H Stewart, Malcolm E Legget, Gillian A Whalley, Selwyn P Wong, Irene Zeng, Margaret Oldfield, Andrew J Kerr
• Epoprostenol treatment in children with severe pulmonary hypertension (25 October, 2006)

  Astrid E Lammers, Alison A Hislop, Yvette Flynn, Sheila G Haworth
• Has the publication of cardiac surgery outcome data been associated with changes in practice in northwest England: an analysis of 25 730 patients undergoing CABG surgery under 30 surgeons over eight years (19 January, 2007)

  Ben Bridgewater, Antony D Grayson, Nicholas Brooks, Geir Grotte, Brian M Fabri, John Au, Tim Hooper, Mark Jones, Bruce Keogh
• Remote ischaemic postconditioning protects the heart during acute myocardial infarction in pigs (20 April, 2007) Free

  Gyorgy Andreka, Marton Vertesaljai, Gergely Szantho, Gusztav Font, Zsolt Piroth, Geza Fontos, Eszter D Juhasz, Laszlo Szekely, Zsolt Szelid, Mark S Turner, Houman Ashrafian, Michael P Frenneaux, Peter Andreka