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Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Assessment of severe reperfusion injury with T2* cardiac MRI in patients with acute myocardial infarction (21 October, 2010) Free

  Declan P O'Regan, Ben Ariff, Clare Neuwirth, Yvonne Tan, Giuliana Durighel, Stuart A Cook
• Cardiac troponin I for the prediction of functional recovery and left ventricular remodelling following primary percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (9 November, 2010)

  Jonas Hallén, Jesper K Jensen, Morten W Fagerland, Allan S Jaffe, Dan Atar
• Staccato reperfusion improves myocardial microcirculatory function and long-term left ventricular remodelling: a randomised contrast echocardiography study (9 November, 2010)

  Ignatios Ikonomidis, Efstathios K Iliodromitis, Stavros Tzortzis, Aias Antoniadis, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, Ioanna Andreadou, Katerina Fountoulaki, Dimitrios Farmakis, Dimitrios T Kremastinos, Maria Anastasiou-Nana

Heart rhythm disorders

• Utility of high and standard right precordial leads during ajmaline testing for the diagnosis of Brugada syndrome (20 October, 2010)

  Malini Govindan, Velislav N Batchvarov, Hariharan Raju, Nesan Shanmugam, Mukhtar Bizrah, Rachael Bastiaenen, Anatoli Kiotsekoglou, John Camm, Elijah R Behr
• Predicting atrial fibrillation recurrence with circulating inflammatory markers in patients in sinus rhythm at high risk for atrial fibrillation: data from the GISSI atrial fibrillation trial (21 October, 2010)

  Serge Masson, Aneta Aleksova, Chiara Favero, Lidia Staszewsky, Marino Bernardinangeli, Chiara Belvito, Giovanni Cioffi, Gianfranco Sinagra, Carmine Mazzone, Federico Bertocchi, Tarcisio Vago, Giuseppe Peri, Ivan Cuccovillo, Nobuhito Masuda, Simona Barlera, Alberto Mantovani, Aldo P Maggioni, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Marcello Disertori, Roberto Latini

Heart failure and cardiomyopathy

• The right ventricle in Fabry disease: natural history and impact of enzyme replacement therapy (21 October, 2010)

  Markus Niemann, Frank Breunig, Meinrad Beer, Sebastian Herrmann, Jörg Strotmann, Kai Hu, Andrea Emmert, Wolfram Voelker, Georg Ertl, Christoph Wanner, Frank Weidemann

Epidemiology

• Cost-effectiveness of interventions to reduce dietary salt intake (1 November, 2010)

  Linda J Cobiac, Theo Vos, J Lennert Veerman

Syndrome X

• High prevalence of intramural coronary infection in patients with drug-resistant cardiac syndrome X: comparison with chronic stable angina and normal controls (3 October, 2010)

  Cristina Chimenti, Patrizio Sale, Romina Verardo, Stefania Cicalini, Nicola Petrosillo, Matteo A Russo, Francesco Fedele, Andrea Frustaci