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Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: The cost-effectiveness of an early interventional strategy in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome based on the RITA 3 trial (21 November, 2007) Free

  M Henriksson, D M Epstein, S J Palmer, M J Sculpher, T C Clayton, S J Pocock, R A Henderson, M J Buxton, K A A Fox
• Acute coronary syndromes: Raised interleukin-10 is an indicator of poor outcome and enhanced systemic inflammation in patients with acute coronary syndrome (9 August, 2007)

  A Mälarstig, P Eriksson, A Hamsten, B Lindahl, L Wallentin, A Siegbahn
• Acute coronary syndromes: Infarct size by contrast enhanced cardiac magnetic resonance is a stronger predictor of outcomes than left ventricular ejection fraction or end-systolic volume index: prospective cohort study (10 December, 2007)

  E Wu, J T Ortiz, P Tejedor, D C Lee, C Bucciarelli-Ducci, P Kansal, J C Carr, T A Holly, D Lloyd-Jones, F J Klocke, R O Bonow
• Acute coronary syndromes: Sudden coronary death, fatal acute myocardial infarction and widespread coronary and myocardial inflammation (13 August, 2007)

  A Abbate, R Bussani, G Liuzzo, G G L Biondi-Zoccai, E Barresi, P Mellone, G Sinagra, A Dobrina, F De Giorgio, R Sharma, F Bassan, A Severino, F Baldi, L M Biasucci, F Pandolfi, F Silvestri, G W Vetrovec, A Baldi, F Crea
• Coronary artery disease: Residual platelet activity is increased in clopidogrel- and ASA-treated patients with coronary stenting for acute coronary syndromes compared with stable coronary artery disease (13 June, 2007)

  T Geisler, M Kapp, K Göhring-Frischholz, K Daub, C Dösch, B Bigalke, H Langer, C Herdeg, M Gawaz
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Perception of symptoms is out of proportion to cardiac pathology in patients with “diastolic heart failure” (10 December, 2007)

  L Ingle, J G F Cleland, A L Clark
• Epidemiology: Identifying patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia in primary care: an informatics-based approach in one primary care centre (17 June, 2007)

  J Gray, A Jaiyeola, M Whiting, M Modell, A S Wierzbicki
• Valvular heart disease: Left atrial remodelling early after mitral valve repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation (9 August, 2007)

  F Antonini-Canterin, C C Beladan, B A Popescu, C Ginghina, A C Popescu, R Piazza, E Leiballi, B Zingone, G L Nicolosi
• Endothelial function: Myocardial bridging is related to endothelial dysfunction but not to plaque as assessed by intracoronary ultrasound (19 September, 2007)

  J W Kim, H S Seo, J O Na, S Y Suh, C U Choi, E J Kim, S-W Rha, C G Park, D J Oh
• Molecular biology and genetics: Monocyte toll-like receptor 2 and 4 responses and expression following percutaneous coronary intervention: association with lesion stenosis and fractional flow reserve (8 August, 2007)

  D Versteeg, I E Hoefer, A H Schoneveld, D P V de Kleijn, E Busser, C Strijder, M Emons, P R Stella, P A Doevendans, G Pasterkamp
• Basic research: In vivo optical coherence tomography of experimental thrombosis in a rabbit carotid model (18 October, 2007)

  L Meng, B Lv, S Zhang, B Yv