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Original research

• Effects of long-term treatment with carvedilol on myocardial blood flow in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (19 January, 2007)

  Danilo Neglia, Renata De Maria, Stefano Masi, Michela Gallopin, Patrizia Pisani, Silvia Pardini, Antonello Gavazzi, Antonio L’Abbate, Oberdan Parodi
• Failure to consult for symptoms of heart failure in patients with a type-D personality (7 March, 2007)

  Angélique A Schiffer, Johan Denollet, Jos W Widdershoven, Eric H Hendriks, Otto R F Smith
• Added value of a physician-and-nurse-directed heart failure clinic: results from the Deventer–Alkmaar heart failure study (25 October, 2006)

  Pieta W F Bruggink-André de la Porte, Dirk J A Lok, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Jan van Wijngaarden, Jan H Cornel, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Erik Badings, Arno W Hoes
• Myeloperoxidase aids prognostication together with N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide in high-risk patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (28 December, 2006)

  Sohail Q Khan, Dominic Kelly, Paulene Quinn, Joan E Davies, Leong L Ng
• Optimising the dichotomy limit for left ventricular ejection fraction in selecting patients for defibrillator therapy after myocardial infarction (19 January, 2007)

  Yee Guan Yap, Trinh Duong, J Martin Bland, Marek Malik, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Lars Køber, Mark M Gallagher, A John Camm
• One-day kinetics of myocardial engraftment after intracoronary injection of bone marrow mononuclear cells in patients with acute and chronic myocardial infarction (19 February, 2007)

  M Penicka, O Lang, P Widimsky, P Kobylka, T Kozak, T Vanek, J Dvorak, J Tintera, J Bartunek
• The delay of contrast arrival in magnetic resonance first-pass perfusion imaging: a novel non-invasive parameter detecting collateral-dependent myocardium (7 March, 2007)

  O M Muehling, A Huber, C Cyran, S O Schoenberg, M Reiser, G Steinbeck, M Nabauer, M Jerosch-Herold
• Impact of blood pressure on the Doppler echocardiographic assessment of severity of aortic stenosis (29 November, 2006) Free

  Stephen H Little, Kwan-Leung Chan, Ian G Burwash
• Thr164Ile polymorphism of β2-adrenergic receptor negatively modulates cardiac contractility: implications for prognosis in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (14 June, 2007)

  Emanuele Barbato, Martin Penicka, Leen Delrue, Frederic Van Durme, Bernard De Bruyne, Marc Goethals, William Wijns, Marc Vanderheyden, Jozef Bartunek