Table of contents

Original research

• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Long-term effect of cardiac resynchronisation in patients reporting mild symptoms of heart failure: a report from the CARE-HF study (5 November, 2007)

  J G F Cleland, N Freemantle, J-C Daubert, W D Toff, F Leisch, L Tavazzi
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Ventricular long-axis function is of major importance for long-term survival in patients with heart failure (17 June, 2007)

  B Grüner Sveälv, E L Olofsson, B Andersson
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Prevalence of coronary artery disease and plaque morphology assessed by multi-slice computed tomography coronary angiography and calcium scoring in asymptomatic patients with type 2 diabetes (23 July, 2007)

  A J H A Scholte, J D Schuijf, A V Kharagjitsingh, J W Jukema, G Pundziute, E E van der Wall, J J Bax
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Nature and prognostic importance of abnormal glucose tolerance and diabetes in acute heart failure (30 July, 2007)

  C Berry, M Brett, K Stevenson, J J V McMurray, J Norrie
• Acute coronary syndromes: Increased granzyme B production from peripheral blood mononuclear cells in patients with acute coronary syndrome (25 June, 2007)

  R Tsuru, H Kondo, Y Hojo, M Gama, O Mizuno, T Katsuki, K Shimada, M Kikuchi, T Yashiro
• Coronary artery disease: Combination of clinical risk profile, early exercise testing and circulating biomarkers for evaluation of patients with acute chest pain without ST-segment deviation or troponin elevation (16 July, 2007)

  J Sanchis, X Bosch, V Bodí, N Bellera, J Núñez, B Benito, J Ordóñez, L Consuegra, M Heras, À Llècer
• Coronary artery disease: Arachidonic acid and docosahexaenoic acid supplementation increases coronary flow velocity reserve in Japanese elderly individuals (25 June, 2007)

  H Oe, T Hozumi, E Murata, H Matsuura, K Negishi, Y Matsumura, S Iwata, K Ogawa, K Sugioka, Y Takemoto, K Shimada, M Yoshiyama, Y Ishikura, Y Kiso, J Yoshikawa
• Interventional cardiology: Impact of late incomplete stent apposition after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation on 4-year clinical events: intravascular ultrasound analysis from the multicentre, randomised, RAVEL, E-SIRIUS and SIRIUS trials (29 August, 2007)

  R Hoffmann, M-C Morice, J W Moses, P J Fitzgerald, L Mauri, G Breithardt, J Schofer, P W Serruys, H-P Stoll, M B Leon
• Interventional cardiology: Volume–outcome relation for contemporary percutaneous coronary interventions (PCI) in daily clinical practice: is it limited to high-risk patients? Results from the Registry of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärzte (ALKK) (30 July, 2007)

  R Zahn, M Gottwik, M Hochadel, J Senges, U Zeymer, A Vogt, T Meinertz, R Dietz, K E Hauptmann, E Grube, S Kerber, U Sechtem
• Interventional cardiology: Long-term results after fluoroscopy-guided closure of patent foramen ovale for secondary prevention of paradoxical embolism (16 July, 2007)

  A Wahl, M Kunz, A Moschovitis, T Nageh, M Schwerzmann, C Seiler, H P Mattle, S Windecker, B Meier
• Epidemiology: Trends in hospital admissions, in-hospital case fatality and population mortality from congenital heart disease in England, 1994 to 2004 (23 July, 2007)

  J Billett, A Majeed, M Gatzoulis, M Cowie
• Epidemiology: The obstacles to maximising the impact of public access defibrillation: an assessment of the dispatch mechanism for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (31 May, 2007)

  K J Cairns, A J Hamilton, A H Marshall, M J Moore, A A J Adgey, F Kee
• Epidemiology: Ethnic differences in healthcare-seeking behaviour and management for acute chest pain: secondary analysis of the MINAP dataset 2002–2003 (25 June, 2007)

  Y Ben-Shlomo, H Naqvi, I Baker