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Original articles

Heart failure and cardiomyopathy

• Inverse shift in serum polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids is associated with adverse dilatation of the heart (31 August, 2009)

  H Rupp, T P Rupp, P Alter, B Maisch
• Is there benefit in implanting defibrillators in patients with severe heart failure? (31 March, 2010)

  Tushar V Salukhe, Natalia I Briceno, Emily A Ferenczi, Richard Sutton, Darrel P Francis

Acute coronary syndrome

• The effect of optimal medical therapy on 1-year mortality after acute myocardial infarction (29 March, 2010) Free

  P Bramlage, C Messer, N Bitterlich, C Pohlmann, A Cuneo, E Stammwitz, J Tebbenjohanns, H Gohlke, J Senges, U Tebbe

Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing

• Quantification of non-calcified coronary atherosclerotic plaques with dual-source computed tomography: comparison with intravascular ultrasound (20 November, 2009)

  Tiziano Schepis, Mohamed Marwan, Tobias Pflederer, Martin Seltmann, Dieter Ropers, Werner G Daniel, Stephan Achenbach
• Dobutamine stress magnetic resonance imaging for the detection of coronary artery disease in women (16 August, 2009)

  R Gebker, C Jahnke, T Hucko, R Manka, J G Mirelis, A Hamdan, B Schnackenburg, E Fleck, I Paetsch

Congenital heart disease

• 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome is under-recognised in adult patients with tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia (31 March, 2010)

  Klaartje van Engelen, Ana Topf, Bernard D Keavney, Judith A Goodship, Enno T van der Velde, Marieke J H Baars, Simone Snijder, Antoon F Moorman, Alex V Postma, Barbara J M Mulder
• Percutaneous closure of hypertensive ductus arteriosus (31 March, 2010)

  Carlos Zabal, José Antonio García-Montes, Alfonso Buendía-Hernández, Juan Calderón-Colmenero, Emilia Patiño-Bahena, Antonio Juanico-Enriquez, Fause Attie