Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Effect of postconditioning on infarct size in patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (18 October, 2010)

  Peder Sörensson, Nawzad Saleh, Frederic Bouvier, Felix Böhm, Magnus Settergren, Kenneth Caidahl, Per Tornvall, Håkan Arheden, Lars Rydén, John Pernow
• Increased expression and plasma levels of myeloperoxidase are closely related to the presence of angiographically-detected complex lesion morphology in unstable angina (18 October, 2010) Free

  T Naruko, A Furukawa, K Yunoki, R Komatsu, M Nakagawa, Y Matsumura, N Shirai, K Sugioka, M Takagi, T Hozumi, A Itoh, K Haze, M Yoshiyama, A E Becker, M Ueda

Valvular heart disease

• Clinical characteristics and outcome of infective endocarditis in adults with bicuspid aortic valves: a multicentre observational study (16 May, 2010)

  C Tribouilloy, D Rusinaru, C Sorel, F Thuny, J-P Casalta, A Riberi, A Jeu, F Gouriet, F Collart, T Caus, D Raoult, G Habib
• Microsimulation and clinical outcomes analysis support a lower age threshold for use of biological valves (18 October, 2010)

  Serban Stoica, Kimberley Goldsmith, Nikolaos Demiris, Prakash Punjabi, Geoffrey Berg, Linda Sharples, Stephen Large

Coronary heart disease

• Left ventricular rotational mechanics in patients with coronary artery disease: differences in subendocardial and subepicardial layers (18 October, 2010)

  Matteo Bertini, Victoria Delgado, Gaetano Nucifora, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Arnold C T Ng, Miriam Shanks, M Louisa Antoni, Nico R L van de Veire, Rutger J van Bommel, Claudio Rapezzi, Martin J Schalij, Jeroen J Bax

Epidemiology

• Gender differences in the implementation of cardiovascular prevention measures after an acute coronary event (18 October, 2010)

  Jean Dallongevillle, Dirk De Bacquer, Jan Heidrich, Guy De Backer, Christoph Prugger, Kornelia Kotseva, Michèle Montaye, Philippe Amouyel

Congenital heart disease

• Late hepatic complications after Fontan operation; non-invasive markers of hepatic fibrosis and risk factors (18 October, 2010)

  Jae Suk Baek, Eun Jung Bae, Jae Sung Ko, Gi Beom Kim, Bo Sang Kwon, Sang Yun Lee, Chung Il Noh, Eun-Ah Park, Whal Lee
• Main pulmonary artery dilation in association with congenital bicuspid aortic valve in the absence of pulmonary valve abnormality (18 October, 2010)

  Shelby Kutty, Sheetal Kaul, Christopher J Danford, David A Danford