Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Long-term prognostic value of mitral regurgitation in acute coronary syndromes (28 September, 2010)

  Anita Persson, Marianne Hartford, Johan Herlitz, Thomas Karlsson, Torbjørn Omland, Kenneth Caidahl
• Impact of early statin therapy on development of atrial fibrillation at the acute stage of myocardial infarction: data from the FAST-MI register (21 October, 2010)

  Nicolas Danchin, Laurent Fauchier, Eloi Marijon, Claude Barnay, Alain Furber, Philippe Mabo, Paul Bernard, Jean-Jacques Blanc, Xavier Jouven, Jean-Yves Le Heuzey, Bernard Charbonnier, Jean Ferrières, Tabassome Simon, for the French registry of Acute ST-elevation and non-ST-elevation Myocardial Infarction (FAST-MI) Investigators
• Prehospital triple antiplatelet therapy in patients with acute ST elevation myocardial infarction leads to better platelet aggregation inhibition and clinical outcome than dual antiplatelet therapy (3 October, 2010)

  Jaap Jan J Smit, Jochem W van Werkum, Jurrien ten Berg, Robbert Slingerland, Jan Paul Ottervanger, Ton Heestermans, Thorsten Dill, Christian Hamm, Arnoud W J van 't Hof, on behalf of the Ongoing Tirofiban in Myocardial Infarction Evaluation (On-TIME) trial investigators

Coronary artery disease

• Low serum testosterone and increased mortality in men with coronary heart disease (19 October, 2010) Free

  Chris J Malkin, Peter J Pugh, Paul D Morris, Sonia Asif, T Hugh Jones, Kevin S Channer

Heart rhythm disorders

• Analysis of initial rhythm, witnessed status and delay to treatment among survivors of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in Sweden (3 October, 2010)

  C Holmgren, L Bergfeldt, N Edvardsson, T Karlsson, J Lindqvist, J Silfverstolpe, L Svensson, J Herlitz

Valvular heart disease

• Prognosis of octogenarians with severe aortic valve stenosis at high risk for cardiovascular surgery (3 October, 2010)

  Robert Schueler, Christoph Hammerstingl, Jan-Malte Sinning, Georg Nickenig, Heyder Omran

Congenital heart disease

• Impact of restrictive physiology on intrinsic diastolic right ventricular function and lusitropy in children and adolescents after repair of tetralogy of Fallot (3 October, 2010)

  Christian Apitz, Heiner Latus, Wolfhard Binder, Anselm Uebing, Achim Seeger, Christiane Bretschneider, Ludger Sieverding, Michael Hofbeck