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Original articles

Cardiac catheterisation

• Chronic kidney injury in patients after cardiac catheterisation or percutaneous coronary intervention: a comparison of radial and femoral approaches (from the British Columbia Cardiac and Renal Registries) (28 July, 2010) Free

  Tycho Vuurmans, Jonathan Byrne, Eric Fretz, Christian Janssen, J David Hilton, W Peter Klinke, Ognjenka Djurdjev, Adeera Levin

Cardiac imaging

• Feasibility of 64-slice gadolinium-enhanced cardiac CT for the evaluation of obstructive coronary artery disease (20 April, 2010)

  Patricia Carrascosa, Carlos Capuñay, Alejandro Deviggiano, Marcelo Bettinotti, Alejandro Goldsmit, Carlos Tajer, Jorge Carrascosa, Mario J García

Acute coronary syndromes

• Acute coronary occlusion in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome: outcome and early identification by strain echocardiography (18 July, 2010)

  Bjørnar Grenne, Christian Eek, Benthe Sjøli, Thomas Dahlslett, Michael Uchto, Per K Hol, Helge Skulstad, Otto A Smiseth, Thor Edvardsen, Harald Brunvand
• Impact of implementation of evidence-based strategies to reduce door-to-balloon time in patients presenting with STEMI: continuous data analysis and feedback using a statistical process control plot (23 August, 2010)

  Babu Kunadian, Robert Morley, Anthony P Roberts, Zulfiquar Adam, Darragh Twomey, James A Hall, Robert A Wright, Andrew G C Sutton, Douglas F Muir, Mark A de Belder

Congenital heart disease

• Preferential streaming of the ductus venosus and inferior caval vein towards the right heart is associated with left heart underdevelopment in human fetuses with left-sided diaphragmatic hernia (11 August, 2010)

  Rüdiger Stressig, Rolf Fimmers, Kristina Eising, Ulrich Gembruch, Thomas Kohl
• The relationship of systemic right ventricular function to ECG parameters and NT-proBNP levels in adults with transposition of the great arteries late after Senning or Mustard surgery (18 August, 2010)

  Carla M Plymen, Marina L Hughes, Nathalie Picaut, Vasileios F Panoulas, Simon T MacDonald, Seamus Cullen, John E Deanfield, Fiona Walker, Andrew M Taylor, Pier D Lambiase, Aidan P Bolger

Interventional cardiology

• Angiographic, IVUS and OCT evaluation of the long-term impact of coronary disease severity at the site of overlapping drug-eluting and bare metal stents: a substudy of the ODESSA trial (23 August, 2010)

  Satoko Tahara, Hiram G Bezerra, Vasile Sirbu, Hiroyuki Kyono, Giuseppe Musumeci, Noah Rosenthal, Giulio Guagliumi, Marco A Costa

Peripheral vascular disease

• Differing effect of modifiable cardiovascular risk factors on intima-media thickening and plaque formation at different sites of the arterial vasculature (11 August, 2010)

  Sanjay Chaubey, Dorothea Nitsch, Daniel Altmann, Shah Ebrahim