Table of contents

Original articles

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

• Original article: Prevention of cardiovascular disease in a rural region of India and strategies to address the unmet need (20 July, 2011)

  Anna Wood, Jill Pell, Anushka Patel, Bruce Neal, P Krishnam Raju, Clara K Chow

Coronary revascularisation

• Original article: Optical coherence evaluation of everolimus-eluting stents 8 months after implantation (4 November, 2010)

  Takumi Inoue, Junya Shite, Junghan Yoon, Toshiro Shinke, Hiromasa Otake, Takahiro Sawada, Hiroyuki Kawamori, Hiroki Katoh, Naoki Miyoshi, Naoki Yoshino, Amane Kozuki, Hirotoshi Hariki, Ken-ichi Hirata

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Prognostic performance of low-dose coronary CT angiography with prospective ECG triggering (12 April, 2011)

  Ronny R Buechel, Aju P Pazhenkottil, Bernhard A Herzog, Michael Brueckner, Rene Nkoulou, Jelena R Ghadri, Silke M Küest, Christophe A Wyss, Lars Husmann, Philipp A Kaufmann

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Increase in survival and bystander CPR in out-of-hospital shockable arrhythmia: bystander CPR and female gender are predictors of improved outcome. Experiences from Sweden in an 18-year perspective (29 June, 2011) Free

  Anna Adielsson, Jacob Hollenberg, Thomas Karlsson, Jonny Lindqvist, Stefan Lundin, Johan Silfverstolpe, Leif Svensson, Johan Herlitz

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Detection of disrupted plaques by coronary CT: comparison with angioscopy (7 June, 2011)

  Mayu Nishio, Yasunori Ueda, Koshi Matsuo, Mitsutoshi Asai, Takayoshi Nemoto, Akio Hirata, Kazunori Kashiwase, Kazuhisa Kodama

Heart failure

• Original article: Exercise training reverses adiponectin resistance in skeletal muscle of patients with chronic heart failure (16 June, 2011)

  An M Van Berendoncks, Anne Garnier, Paul Beckers, Vicky Y Hoymans, Nadine Possemiers, Dominique Fortin, Viviane Van Hoof, Sylvia Dewilde, Christiaan J Vrints, Renée Ventura-Clapier, Viviane M Conraads
• Original article: Does ventricular dyssynchrony on echocardiography predict response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy? A randomised controlled study (23 June, 2011)

  Ihab G Diab, Ross J Hunter, Ravindu Kamdar, Thomas Berriman, Edward Duncan, Laura Richmond, Victoria Baker, Dominic Abrams, Mark J Earley, Simon Sporton, Richard J Schilling

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Clinical outcomes of exercise-induced pulmonary hypertension in subjects with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: implication of an increase in left ventricular filling pressure during exercise (7 June, 2011)

  Chi Young Shim, Sung-Ai Kim, Donghoon Choi, Woo-In Yang, Jin-Mi Kim, Sun-Ha Moon, Hyun-Jin Lee, Sungha Park, Eui-Young Choi, Namsik Chung, Jong-Won Ha

Clinical trials

• Original article: Telmisartan reduces neointima volume and pulse wave velocity 8 months after zotarolimus-eluting stent implantation in hypertensive type 2 diabetic patients (23 June, 2011)

  Soon Jun Hong, Seung Cheol Choi, Chul Min Ahn, Jae Hyung Park, Jae Sang Kim, Do-Sun Lim