Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Association between admission hypoglycaemia and in-hospital and 3-year mortality in older patients with acute myocardial infarction (28 July, 2010)

  Shi-Wei Yang, Yu-Jie Zhou, Da-Yi Hu, Xiao-Min Nie, Yu-Yang Liu, Qi Hua, Xian Wang, Hong-Wei Li, for the BEAMIS Study Group
• Fibrinolytic therapy and bleeding complications: risk predictors from RIKS-HIA (23 July, 2010)

  Jonas Oldgren, Lisa Wernroth, Ulf Stenestrand, on behalf of the RIKS-HIA registry, Sweden

Heart failure

• Unrecognised myocardial infarction and long-term risk of heart failure in the elderly: the Rotterdam Study (18 May, 2010) Free

  Maarten J G Leening, Suzette E Elias-Smale, Janine F Felix, Jan A Kors, Jaap W Deckers, Albert Hofman, Bruno H Ch Stricker, Jacqueline C M Witteman

Valvular heart disease

• Inconsistent grading of aortic valve stenosis by current guidelines: haemodynamic studies in patients with apparently normal left ventricular function (2 September, 2010)

  Jan Minners, Martin Allgeier, Christa Gohlke-Baerwolf, Rolf-Peter Kienzle, Franz-Josef Neumann, Nikolaus Jander

Aortic disease

• Assessment of ascending aorta wall stiffness in hypertensive patients by tissue Doppler imaging and strain Doppler echocardiography (18 July, 2010)

  Antonio Vitarelli, Marcello Giordano, Giuseppe Germanò, Mario Pergolini, Paolo Cicconetti, Francesco Tomei, Angela Sancini, Daniela Battaglia, Olga Dettori, Lidia Capotosto, Valentina De Cicco, Melissa De Maio, Massimo Vitarelli, Pasqualina Bruno

Pulmonary hypertension

• Pulmonary vasoreactivity predicts long-term outcome in patients with Eisenmenger syndrome receiving bosentan therapy (28 July, 2010)

  Michele D'Alto, Emanuele Romeo, Paola Argiento, Giuseppe Santoro, Berardo Sarubbi, Giampiero Gaio, Christian Mélot, Maria Giovanna Russo, Robert Naeije, Raffaele Calabrò

Congenital heart disease

• Congenital heart defects are under-recognised in adult patients with Down's syndrome (18 July, 2010)

  Jeroen C Vis, Rianne H de Bruin-Bon, Berto J Bouma, Sylvia A Huisman, Luc Imschoot, Kathleen van den Brink, Barbara J Mulder