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Original articles

• Interventional cardiology: Pre-procedural C-reactive protein levels and clinical outcomes after percutaneous coronary interventions with and without abciximab: pooled analysis of four ISAR trials (18 September, 2008)

  R Iijima, R A Byrne, G Ndrepepa, S Braun, J Mehilli, P B Berger, A Schömig, A Kastrati
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Difference in long-term clinical outcome after cardiac resynchronisation therapy between ischaemic and non-ischaemic aetiologies of heart failure (24 July, 2008) Free

  Q Zhang, J W-H Fung, J Y-S Chan, G Yip, Y-Y Lam, Y-J Liang, C-M Yu
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Effect of intramyocardial bone marrow cell injection on left ventricular dyssynchrony and global strain (15 January, 2008)

  J van Ramshorst, D E Atsma, S L M A Beeres, S A Mollema, N Ajmone Marsan, E R Holman, E E van der Wall, M J Schalij, J J Bax
• Epidemiology: Should the first priority in cardiovascular risk management be those with prior cardiovascular disease? (1 April, 2008)

  A J Kerr, J Broad, S Wells, T Riddell, R Jackson
• Valvular heart disease: Determinants of the degree of functional aortic regurgitation in patients with anatomically normal aortic valve and ascending thoracic aorta aneurysm. Transoesophageal Doppler echocardiography study (28 February, 2008)

  G La Canna, F Maisano, L De Michele, A Grimaldi, F Grassi, E Capritti, M De Bonis, O Alfieri
• Pulmonary hypertension: Stroke volume increase to exercise in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is limited by increased pulmonary artery pressure (12 May, 2008)

  S Holverda, H Rietema, N Westerhof, J T Marcus, C T-J Gan, P E Postmus, A Vonk-Noordegraaf
• Congenital heart disease: Stenting of the right ventricular outflow tract in the symptomatic infant with tetralogy of Fallot (10 March, 2008)

  G Dohlen, R R Chaturvedi, L N Benson, A Ozawa, G S Van Arsdell, D S Fruitman, K-J Lee