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Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: Percutaneous intramyocardial stem cell injection in patients with acute myocardial infarction: first-in-man study (30 March, 2009)

  K Krause, K Jaquet, C Schneider, S Haupt, M V Lioznov, K-M Otte, K-H Kuck
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Troponin T elevation after implanted defibrillator discharge predicts survival (13 April, 2009)

  D Blendea, M Blendea, J Banker, C A McPherson
• Basic research: Expression of a transgene encoding mutant p193/CUL7 preserves cardiac function and limits infarct expansion after myocardial infarction (11 May, 2009)

  R J Hassink, H Nakajima, H O Nakajima, P A Doevendans, L J Field
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy in paediatric and congenital heart disease: differential effects in various anatomical and functional substrates (22 March, 2009)

  J Janoušek, R A Gebauer, H Abdul-Khaliq, M Turner, L Kornyei, O Grollmuß, E Rosenthal, E Villain, A Früh, T Paul, N A Blom, J-M Happonen, U Bauersfeld, J R Jacobsen, F van den Heuvel, T Delhaas, J Papagiannis, C Trigo, for the Working Group for Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Independent value of left atrial volume index for the prediction of mortality in patients with suspected heart failure referred from the community (8 April, 2009) Free

  T K Lim, G Dwivedi, S Hayat, S Majumdar, R Senior
• Congenital heart disease: Sexuality and subjective wellbeing in male patients with congenital heart disease (12 April, 2009)

  M Vigl, A Hager, U Bauer, E Niggemeyer, B Wittstock, F-M Köhn, J Hess, H Kaemmerer
• Hypertension and renovascular disease: Strain rate evaluation of phasic atrial function in hypertension (26 April, 2009)

  S Eshoo, A C Boyd, D L Ross, T H Marwick, L Thomas