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Original articles

• Valvular heart disease: Adherence to patient selection criteria in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation with the 18F CoreValve ReValving System (10 September, 2009)

  N Piazza, A Otten, C Schultz, Y Onuma, H M Garcia-Garcia, E Boersma, P de Jaegere, P W Serruys
• Epidemiology: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in South Asian and white populations in London: database evaluation of characteristics and outcome (10 September, 2009)

  A S Shah, R Bhopal, S Gadd, R Donohoe
• Acute coronary syndromes: Type D personality and depressive symptoms are independent predictors of impaired health status following acute myocardial infarction (23 September, 2009)

  F Mols, E J Martens, J Denollet
• Diabetes, lipids and metabolism: Continuous, non-invasive measurement of the haemodynamic response to submaximal exercise in patients with diabetes mellitus: evidence of impaired cardiac reserve and peripheral vascular response (22 October, 2009)

  D Joshi, A Shiwalkar, M R Cross, S K Sharma, A Vachhani, C Dutt
• Epidemiology: Physical activity and physiological cardiac remodelling in a community setting: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) (26 October, 2009)

  E B Turkbey, N W Jorgensen, W C Johnson, A G Bertoni, J F Polak, A V Diez Roux, R P Tracy, J A C Lima, D A Bluemke
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Left ventricular twist mechanics in patients with apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: assessment with 2D speckle tracking echocardiography (26 October, 2009)

  S-A Chang, H-K Kim, D-H Kim, J-C Kim, Y-J Kim, H-C Kim, D-W Sohn, B-H Oh, Y-B Park
• Biomarkers and heart disease: Preoperative NT-proBNP and CRP predict perioperative major cardiovascular events in non-cardiac surgery (26 October, 2009)

  J-H Choi, D K Cho, Y-B Song, J-Y Hahn, S Choi, H-C Gwon, D-K Kim, S H Lee, J K Oh, E-S Jeon