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Original articles

Interventional cardiology

• Development of lipid-rich plaque inside bare metal stent: possible mechanism of late stent thrombosis? An optical coherence tomography study (16 July, 2010)

  Jingbo Hou, Hai Qi, Maomao Zhang, Lijia Ma, Huimin Liu, Zhigang Han, Lingbo Meng, Shuang Yang, Shaosong Zhang, Bo Yu, Ik-Kyung Jang

Coronary artery disease

• Impact of family history on relations between insulin resistance, LDL cholesterol and carotid IMT in healthy adults (16 July, 2010)

  Christian Anderwald, Marietta Stadler, Alain Golay, Michael Krebs, John Petrie, Anton Luger, on behalf of the RISC Investigators

Acute coronary syndromes

• Six-month survival benefits associated with clinical guideline recommendations in acute coronary syndromes (7 June, 2010) Free

  D P Chew, F A Anderson, Á Avezum, K A Eagle, G FitzGerald, J M Gore, R Dedrick, D Brieger, for the GRACE Investigators

Heart failure

• Diagnostic value of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide for pleural effusion due to heart failure: a meta-analysis (29 May, 2010)

  Q Zhou, Z J Ye, Y Su, J C Zhang, H Z Shi

Congenital heart disease

• Balloon expandable stent implantation for native and recurrent coarctation of the aorta—prospective computed tomography assessment of stent integrity, aneurysm formation and stenosis relief (10 September, 2009)

  Santabhanu Chakrabarti, Damien Kenny, Gareth Morgan, Stephanie L Curtis, Mark C K Hamilton, Peter Wilde, Andrew J Tometzki, Mark S Turner, Robin P Martin
• Cardiac transplantation in adults with congenital heart disease (16 July, 2010)

  C Irving, G Parry, J O'Sullivan, J H Dark, R Kirk, D S Crossland, M Chaudhari, M Griselli, J R L Hamilton, A Hasan
• Cerebrovascular accidents in adult patients with congenital heart disease (16 July, 2010)

  A Hoffmann, P Chockalingam, O H Balint, A Dadashev, K Dimopoulos, R Engel, M Schmid, M Schwerzmann, M A Gatzoulis, B Mulder, E Oechslin

Syndrome X

• Serum bilirubin predicts long-term clinical outcomes in patients with cardiac syndrome X (16 July, 2010)

  Shao-Sung Huang, Po-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Bang Leu, Tao-Cheng Wu, Shing-Jong Lin, Jaw-Wen Chen