Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Prevalence and impact of a chronic total occlusion in a non-infarct-related artery on long-term mortality in diabetic patients with ST elevation myocardial infarction (7 October, 2010)

  Bimmer E P M Claessen, Loes P Hoebers, René J van der Schaaf, Wouter J Kikkert, Annemarie E Engstrom, Marije M Vis, Jan Baan, Karel T Koch, Martijn Meuwissen, Niels van Royen, Robbert J de Winter, Jan G P Tijssen, Jan J Piek, José P S Henriques

Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing

• Original article: CT coronary angiography and exercise ECG in a population with chest pain and low-to-intermediate pre-test likelihood of coronary artery disease (4 November, 2010)

  Erica Maffei, Sara Seitun, Chiara Martini, Alessandro Palumbo, Giuseppe Tarantini, Elena Berti, Roberto Grilli, Carlo Tedeschi, Giancarlo Messalli, Andrea Guaricci, Annick C Weustink, Nico RA Mollet, Filippo Cademartiri

Heart failure and cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Insights into genotype–phenotype correlation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Findings from 18 Spanish families with a single mutation in MYBPC3 (18 November, 2010)

  M José Oliva-Sandoval, Francisco Ruiz-Espejo, Lorenzo Monserrat, Manuel Hermida-Prieto, Maria Sabater, Esperanza García-Molina, Martín Ortiz, M Isabel Rodríguez-García, Lucia Núñez, Juan R Gimeno, Alfonso Castro-Beiras, Mariano Valdés

Epidemiology

• Original article: Family history of premature coronary heart disease and risk prediction in the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population study (20 October, 2010) Free

  Suthesh Sivapalaratnam, S Matthijs Boekholdt, Mieke D Trip, Manjinder S Sandhu, Robert Luben, John J P Kastelein, Nicholas J Wareham, Kay-Tee Khaw
• Original article: Evidence of the role of short-term exposure to ozone on ischaemic cerebral and cardiac events: the Dijon Vascular Project (DIVA) (11 August, 2010)

  Jean-Bernard Henrotin, Marianne Zeller, Luc Lorgis, Yves Cottin, Maurice Giroud, Yannick Béjot
• Original article: Stroke risk estimation across nine European countries in the MORGAM project (14 October, 2010)

  Anders Borglykke, Anne H Andreasen, Kari Kuulasmaa, Susana Sans, Pierre Ducimetière, Diego Vanuzzo, Marco M Ferrario, Luigi Palmieri, Juha Karvanen, Hugh Tunstall-Pedoe, Torben Jørgensen, on behalf of the MORGAM Project

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Echocardiographic assessment of raised pulmonary vascular resistance: application to diagnosis and follow-up of pulmonary hypertension (18 November, 2010)

  Arun Dahiya, William Vollbon, Christine Jellis, David Prior, Sudhir Wahi, Thomas Marwick

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Exercise induces biventricular mechanical dyssynchrony in children with repaired tetralogy of Fallot (18 November, 2010)

  S Lucy Roche, Lars Grosse-Wortmann, Andrew N Redington, Cameron Slorach, Gareth Smith, Paul F Kantor, Mark K Friedberg