Table of contents

Original articles

Heart failure

• Original article: Quantifying the added value of BNP in suspected heart failure in general practice: an individual patient data meta-analysis (8 April, 2011)

  Johannes C Kelder, Martin R Cowie, Theresa A McDonagh, Suzanna M C Hardman, Diederick E Grobbee, Bernard Cost, Arno W Hoes
• Original article: Diastolic relaxation and compliance reserve during dynamic exercise in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (8 April, 2011)

  Barry A Borlaug, Wissam A Jaber, Steve R Ommen, Carolyn S P Lam, Margaret M Redfield, Rick A Nishimura

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Circadian variations of infarct size in acute myocardial infarction (27 April, 2011) Free

  Aida Suárez-Barrientos, Pedro López-Romero, David Vivas, Francisco Castro-Ferreira, Ivan Núñez-Gil, Eduardo Franco, Borja Ruiz-Mateos, Juan Carlos García-Rubira, Antonio Fernández-Ortiz, Carlos Macaya, Borja Ibanez

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Endothelium-dependent coronary vasomotor response and neointimal coverage of zotarolimus-eluting stents 3 months after implantation (30 December, 2010)

  Kenichi Fujii, Daizo Kawasaki, Katsumi Oka, Hirokuni Akahori, Masashi Fukunaga, Hisashi Sawada, Motomaru Masutani, Masaaki Lee-Kawabata, Takeshi Tsujino, Mitsumasa Ohyanagi, Tohru Masuyama
• Original article: High on-treatment platelet reactivity to both aspirin and clopidogrel is associated with the highest risk of adverse events following percutaneous coronary intervention (8 April, 2011)

  Nicoline J Breet, Jochem W van Werkum, Heleen J Bouman, Johannes C Kelder, Ankie M Harmsze, Christian M Hackeng, Jurriën M ten Berg

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Assessment of coronary artery remodelling by dual-source CT: a head-to-head comparison with intravascular ultrasound (8 April, 2011)

  Sören Gauss, Stephan Achenbach, Tobias Pflederer, Annika Schuhbäck, Werner G Daniel, Mohamed Marwan
• Original article: Very high coronary calcium score unmasks obstructive coronary artery disease in patients with normal SPECT MPI (12 April, 2011)

  Jelena R Ghadri, Aju P Pazhenkottil, Rene N Nkoulou, Robert Goetti, Ronny R Buechel, Lars Husmann, Bernhard A Herzog, Mathias Wolfrum, Christophe A Wyss, Christian Templin, Philipp A Kaufmann

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Differential right ventricular regional function and the effect of pulmonary hypertension: three-dimensional echo study (12 April, 2011)

  Avin Calcutteea, Robin Chung, Per Lindqvist, Margaret Hodson, Michael Y Henein