Table of contents

Original articles

CT coronary angiography

• A comparison of radiation doses between state-of-the-art multislice CT coronary angiography with iterative reconstruction, multislice CT coronary angiography with standard filtered back-projection and invasive diagnostic coronary angiography (10 June, 2010)

  O Gosling, R Loader, P Venables, C Roobottom, N Rowles, N Bellenger, G Morgan-Hughes
• Estimates of lifetime attributable risk of cancer after a single radiation exposure from 64-slice computed tomographic coronary angiography (10 June, 2010)

  F F Faletra, I D'Angeli, C Klersy, M Averaimo, J Klimusina, E Pasotti, G B Pedrazzini, M Curti, C Carraro, R DiLiberto, T Moccetti, A Auricchio
• Low-dose, 128-slice, dual-source CT coronary angiography: accuracy and radiation dose of the high-pitch and the step-and-shoot mode (10 June, 2010)

  Hatem Alkadhi, Paul Stolzmann, Lotus Desbiolles, Stephan Baumueller, Robert Goetti, Andre Plass, Hans Scheffel, Gudrun Feuchtner, Volkmar Falk, Borut Marincek, Sebastian Leschka

Epidemiology

• Individualising the risks of statins in men and women in England and Wales: population-based cohort study (20 May, 2010) Free

  Julia Hippisley-Cox, Carol Coupland

Hypertension

• Abnormal left ventricular function occurs on exercise in well-treated hypertensive subjects with normal resting echocardiography (10 June, 2010)

  Yu Ting Tan, Frauke Wenzelburger, Eveline Lee, Grant Heatlie, Michael Frenneaux, John E Sanderson

Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing

• Diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion imaging and stress echocardiography for the diagnosis of left main and triple vessel coronary artery disease: a comparative meta-analysis (10 June, 2010)

  N Mahajan, L Polavaram, H Vankayala, B Ference, Y Wang, J Ager, J Kovach, L Afonso

Interventional cardiology

• Improvement of migraine headaches after percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale for secondary prevention of paradoxical embolism (10 June, 2010)

  Andreas Wahl, Fabien Praz, Tony Tai, Oliver Findling, Nazan Walpoth, Krassen Nedeltchev, Markus Schwerzmann, Stephan Windecker, Heinrich P Mattle, Bernhard Meier