Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• A randomised trial of target-vessel versus multi-vessel revascularisation in ST-elevation myocardial infarction: major adverse cardiac events during long-term follow-up (23 September, 2009) Free

  Luigi Politi, Fabio Sgura, Rosario Rossi, Daniel Monopoli, Elisa Guerri, Chiara Leuzzi, Francesca Bursi, Giuseppe Massimo Sangiorgi, Maria Grazia Modena
• Primary angioplasty versus thrombolysis for acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction: an economic analysis of the National Infarct Angioplasty project (8 June, 2009)

  Allan Wailoo, Steve Goodacre, Fiona Sampson, Mónica Hernández Alava, Christian Asseburg, Stephen Palmer, Mark Sculpher, Keith Abrams, Mark de Belder, Huon Gray

Congenital heart disease

• Familial transposition of the great arteries caused by multiple mutations in laterality genes (20 November, 2009)

  Alessandro De Luca, Anna Sarkozy, Federica Consoli, Rosangela Ferese, Valentina Guida, Maria Lisa Dentici, Rita Mingarelli, Emanuele Bellacchio, Giulia Tuo, Giuseppe Limongelli, Maria Cristina Digilio, Bruno Marino, Bruno Dallapiccola

Interventional cardiology

• Clinical outcome of coronary stenting after thoracic radiotherapy: a case-control study (27 April, 2010)

  Christophe L Dubois, Christos Pappas, Ann Belmans, Katrien Erven, Tom Adriaenssens, Peter Sinnaeve, Mark Coosemans, Peter Kayaert, Caroline Weltens, Walter Desmet

Heart rhythm disorders

• Relationship of functional mitral regurgitation to new-onset atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction (27 April, 2010)

  Fadel Bahouth, Diab Mutlak, Moran Furman, Anees Musallam, Haim Hammerman, Jonathan Lessick, Saleem Dabbah, Shimon Reisner, Yoram Agmon, Doron Aronson

Valvular heart disease

• Treadmill exercise in apparently asymptomatic patients with moderate or severe aortic stenosis: relationship between cardiac index and revealed symptoms (27 April, 2010)

  Ronak Rajani, Helen Rimington, John B Chambers
• Preoperative use and safety of coronary angiography for acute aortic valve infective endocarditis (27 April, 2010)

  Guillaume Hekimian, Myongchan Kim, Stephanie Passefort, Xavier Duval, Michel Wolff, Catherine Leport, Carole Leplat, Gabriel Steg, Bernard Iung, Alec Vahanian, David Messika-Zeitoun

Drug-induced cardiotoxicity

• Subclinical anthracycline- and trastuzumab-induced cardiotoxicity in the long-term follow-up of asymptomatic breast cancer survivors: a speckle tracking echocardiographic study (27 April, 2010)

  Emily Ho, Angela Brown, Patrick Barrett, Roisin B Morgan, Gerard King, M John Kennedy, Ross T Murphy

Technology and guidelines

• ‘Your Heart Forecast’: a new approach for describing and communicating cardiovascular risk? (27 April, 2010)

  Susan Wells, Andrew Kerr, Stewart Eadie, Chris Wiltshire, Rod Jackson