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Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: Long-term results after intracoronary injection of autologous mononuclear bone marrow cells in acute myocardial infarction: the ASTAMI randomised, controlled study (14 October, 2009)

  J O Beitnes, E Hopp, K Lunde, S Solheim, H Arnesen, J E Brinchmann, K Forfang, S Aakhus
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Plaque type and composition as evaluated non-invasively by MSCT angiography and invasively by VH IVUS in relation to the degree of stenosis (20 October, 2009) Free

  J E van Velzen, J D Schuijf, F R de Graaf, G Nucifora, G Pundziute, J W Jukema, M J Schalij, L J Kroft, A de Roos, J H C Reiber, E E van der Wall, J J Bax
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: High lipoprotein(a) level promotes both coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction: a path analysis using a large number of autopsy cases (25 August, 2009)

  M Sawabe, N Tanaka, K Nakahara, A Hamamatsu, K Chida, T Arai, K Harada, T Inamatsu, T Ozawa, M M Naka, S Matsushita
• Interventional cardiology: Dissociation of phenotypic and functional endothelial progenitor cells in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (28 May, 2009)

  N L Mills, O Tura, G J Padfield, C Millar, N N Lang, D Stirling, C Ludlam, M L Turner, G R Barclay, D E Newby
• Epidemiology: Long-term effects of the Niigata-Chuetsu earthquake in Japan on acute myocardial infarction mortality: an analysis of death certificate data (18 June, 2009)

  I Nakagawa, K Nakamura, M Oyama, O Yamazaki, K Ishigami, Y Tsuchiya, M Yamamoto
• Education and risk for acute myocardial infarction in 52 high, middle and low-income countries: INTERHEART case-control study (12 October, 2009)

  A Rosengren, S V Subramanian, S Islam, C K Chow, A Avezum, K Kazmi, K Sliwa, M Zubaid, S Rangarajan, S Yusuf
• Congenital heart disease: High serum levels of procollagen type III N-terminal amino peptide in patients with congenital heart disease (6 August, 2009)

  M Sugimoto, S Masutani, M Seki, H Kajino, K Fujieda, H Senzaki