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Original articles

• Cooled ablation reduces pulmonary vein isolation time: results of a prospective randomised trial (10 December, 2007)

  N Pérez-Castellano, J Villacastin, J Salinas, J Moreno, M Doblado, E Ruiz, R Isa, C Macaya
• Delay to angiography and outcomes following presentation with high-risk, non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes: results from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (18 September, 2008)

  N Swanson, G Montalescot, K A Eagle, S G Goodman, W Huang, D Brieger, G Devlin
• Sudden cardiac death and left ventricular ejection fraction during long-term follow-up after acute myocardial infarction in the primary percutaneous coronary intervention era: results from the HIJAMI-II registry (26 August, 2008)

  T Shiga, N Hagiwara, H Ogawa, A Takagi, M Nagashima, T Yamauchi, Y Tsurumi, R Koyanagi, H Kasanuki
• Evaluation of risk scores for risk stratification of acute coronary syndromes in the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) database (8 May, 2008)

  C P Gale, S O M Manda, C F Weston, J S Birkhead, P D Batin, A S Hall
• Impaired left ventricular energy metabolism in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is related to the extension of fibrosis at delayed gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (15 August, 2008)

  A Esposito, F De Cobelli, G Perseghin, M Pieroni, E Belloni, R Mellone, T Canu, F Gentinetta, P Scifo, C Chimenti, A Frustaci, L Luzi, A Maseri, A Del Maschio
• “Hypersynchronisation” by tissue velocity imaging in patients with cardiac amyloidosis (12 May, 2008)

  D Bellavia, P A Pellikka, T P Abraham, G B Al-Zahrani, A Dispenzieri, J K Oh, R E Espinosa, C G Scott, C Miyazaki, F A Miller
• Negative vascular remodelling after implantation of bioabsorbable magnesium alloy stents in porcine coronary arteries: a randomised comparison with bare-metal and sirolimus-eluting stents (22 August, 2008)

  M Maeng, L O Jensen, E Falk, H R Andersen, L Thuesen