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Original research

• Interventional cardiology: Neointimal coverage of bare-metal and sirolimus-eluting stents evaluated with optical coherence tomography (8 October, 2007)

  B X Chen, F Y Ma, W Luo, J H Ruan, W L Xie, X Z Zhao, S H Sun, X M Guo, F Wang, T Tian, X W Chu
• Interventional cardiology: Pre-closure of femoral venous access sites used for large-sized sheath insertion with the Perclose device in adults undergoing cardiac intervention (3 November, 2006)

  V S Mahadevan, S Jimeno, L N Benson, P R McLaughlin, E M Horlick
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: The Hong Kong diastolic heart failure study: a randomised controlled trial of diuretics, irbesartan and ramipril on quality of life, exercise capacity, left ventricular global and regional function in heart failure with a normal ejection fraction (20 January, 2008) Free

  G W K Yip, M Wang, T Wang, S Chan, J W H Fung, L Yeung, T Yip, S-T Lau, C-P Lau, M-O Tang, C-M Yu, J E Sanderson
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Hypocalcaemia and vitamin D deficiency: an important, but preventable, cause of life-threatening infant heart failure (9 August, 2007) Free

  S Maiya, I Sullivan, J Allgrove, R Yates, M Malone, C Brain, N Archer, Q Mok, P Daubeney, R Tulloh, M Burch
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Clinical and prognostic implications of self-rating depression scales and plasma B-type natriuretic peptide in hospitalised patients with chronic heart failure (29 August, 2007)

  J T Parissis, M Nikolaou, D Farmakis, V Bistola, I A Paraskevaidis, S Adamopoulos, G Filippatos, D T Kremastinos
• Valvular heart disease: Three-dimensional characteristics of functional mitral regurgitation in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction: a real-time three-dimensional colour Doppler echocardiography study (23 July, 2007)

  J-M Song, M-J Kim, Y-J Kim, S-H Kang, J-J Kim, D-H Kang, J-K Song
• Valvular heart disease: Left ventricular torsion in primary chronic mitral regurgitation (19 September, 2007)

  A N Borg, J L Harrison, R A Argyle, S G Ray
• Acute coronary syndromes: Effects of stem cell therapy with G-CSF on coronary artery after drug-eluting stent implantation in patients with acute myocardial infarction (10 December, 2007)

  H-J Kang, Y-S Kim, B-K Koo, K W Park, H-Y Lee, D-W Sohn, B-H Oh, Y-B Park, H-S Kim
• Acute coronary syndromes: Cardiovascular events and re-stenosis following administration of G-CSF in acute myocardial infarction: systematic review and meta-analysis (29 August, 2007)

  H Ince, M Valgimigli, M Petzsch, J Suarez de Lezo, F Kuethe, S Dunkelmann, G Biondi-Zoccai, C A Nienaber
• Acute coronary syndromes: B-type natriuretic peptide infusions in acute myocardial infarction (16 July, 2007)

  R J Hillock, C M Frampton, T G Yandle, R W Troughton, J G Lainchbury, A M Richards
• Coronary artery disease: Do the extent and direction of arterial remodelling predict subsequent progression of coronary atherosclerosis? A serial intravascular ultrasound study (10 December, 2007)

  I Sipahi, E M Tuzcu, K-W Moon, S J Nicholls, P Schoenhagen, J Zhitnik, T D Crowe, S Kapadia, S E Nissen
• Coronary artery disease: Long-term outcome of low-risk patients attending a rapid-assessment chest pain clinic (4 October, 2007)

  G L Taylor, N F Murphy, C Berry, J Christie, A Finlayson, K MacIntyre, C Morrison, J McMurray
• Epidemiology: Life expectancy and death from cardiomyopathy amongst carriers of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy in Scotland (11 October, 2007)

  S M Holloway, D E Wilcox, A Wilcox, J C S Dean, J N Berg, D R Goudie, M A Denvir, M E M Porteous
• Cardiovascular surgery: Impact of patient-prosthesis mismatch on exercise capacity in patients after bioprosthetic aortic valve replacement (8 August, 2007)

  S Bleiziffer, W B Eichinger, I Hettich, D Ruzicka, M Wottke, R Bauernschmitt, R Lange