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Original articles

Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing

• Combined non-invasive anatomical and functional assessment with MSCT and MRI for the detection of significant coronary artery disease in patients with an intermediate pre-test likelihood (26 October, 2009) Free

  Jacob M van Werkhoven, Mark W Heijenbrok, Joanne D Schuijf, J Wouter Jukema, Ernst E van der Wall, Joop H M Schreur, Jeroen J Bax

Heart failure and cardiomyopathy

• Diversity of molecular forms of plasma brain natriuretic peptide in heart failure—different proBNP-108 to BNP-32 ratios in atrial and ventricular overload (4 December, 2009)

  T Nishikimi, N Minamino, M Ikeda, Y Takeda, K Tadokoro, I Shibasaki, H Fukuda, Y Horiuchi, S Oikawa, T Ieiri, M Matsubara, T Ishimitsu
• Speckle myocardial imaging modalities for early detection of myocardial impairment in isolated left ventricular non-compaction (4 December, 2009)

  Diego Bellavia, Hector I Michelena, Matthew Martinez, Patricia A Pellikka, Charles J Bruce, Heidi M Connolly, Hector R Villarraga, Gabriella Veress, Jae K Oh, Fletcher A Miller

Epidemiology

• Lipid re-screening: what is the best measure and interval? (14 June, 2009)

  Osamu Takahashi, Paul P Glasziou, Rafael Perera, Takuro Shimbo, Jiro Suwa, Sonoe Hiramatsu, Tsuguya Fukui
• Gender perspective on risk factors, coronary lesions and long-term outcome in young patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (18 March, 2010)

  Sofia Sederholm Lawesson, Ulf Stenestrand, Bo Lagerqvist, Lars Wallentin, Eva Swahn

Pulmonary embolism

• Mean platelet volume predicts early death in acute pulmonary embolism (11 November, 2009)

  Maciej Kostrubiec, Andrzej Łabyk, Justyna Pedowska-Włoszek, Anna Hrynkiewicz-Szymańska, Szymon Pacho, Krzysztof Jankowski, Barbara Lichodziejewska, Piotr Pruszczyk

Ethnicity and heart disease

• Ethnicity-related differences in left ventricular function, structure and geometry: a population study of UK Indian Asian and European white subjects (2 July, 2009)

  Navtej S Chahal, Tiong K Lim, Piyush Jain, John C Chambers, Jaspal S Kooner, Roxy Senior
• Correction (18 March, 2010) Free