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Original articles

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Darbepoetin improves endothelial function and increases circulating endothelial progenitor cell number in patients with coronary artery disease (30 June, 2011)

  Cornelius Mueller, Karin Wodack, Kaja Twelker, Nikos Werner, Florian Custodis, Georg Nickenig

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: The GRACE score's performance in predicting in-hospital and 1-year outcome in the era of high-sensitivity cardiac troponin assays and B-type natriuretic peptide (28 March, 2011) Free

  Christophe Meune, Beatrice Drexler, Philip Haaf, Tobias Reichlin, Miriam Reiter, Julia Meissner, Raphael Twerenbold, Claudia Stelzig, Michael Freese, Katrin Winkler, Christian Mueller
• Original article: Unfractionated heparin administration in patients treated with bivalirudin during primary percutaneous coronary intervention is associated lower mortality and target lesion thrombosis: a report from the Swedish Coronary Angiography and Angioplasty Registry (SCAAR) (12 April, 2011)

  Michael Koutouzis, Bo Lagerqvist, Stefan James, Elmir Omerovic, Göran Matejka, Lars Grip, Per Albertsson

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Hospital characteristics are associated with patient outcomes following out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (21 June, 2011)

  Dion Stub, Karen Smith, Janet E Bray, Stephen Bernard, Stephen J Duffy, David M Kaye

Heart failure

• Original article: Effect of partial inhibition of fatty acid oxidation by trimetazidine on whole body energy metabolism in patients with chronic heart failure (23 June, 2011)

  Gabriele Fragasso, Anna Salerno, Guido Lattuada, Amarild Cuko, Giliola Calori, Antonella Scollo, Francesca Ragogna, Francesco Arioli, Giorgio Bassanelli, Roberto Spoladore, Livio Luzi, Alberto Margonato, Gianluca Perseghin

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Long-term clinical outcomes of overlapping heterogeneous drug-eluting stents compared with homogeneous drug-eluting stents (30 June, 2011)

  Sung-Ho Her, Ki Dong Yoo, Chul-Soo Park, Dong-Bin Kim, Jong-Min Lee, Pum Joon Kim, Hee-Yeol Kim, Kiyuk Chang, Doo Soo Jeon, Wook Sung Chung, Ki-Bae Seung, Jae-Hyung Kim

Epidemiology

• Original article: Risk factors and outcomes for patients with vascular disease and serious bleeding events (29 June, 2011)

  Mark J Alberts, Deepak L Bhatt, Sidney C Smith, Joachim Röther, Shinya Goto, Alan T Hirsch, Ph Gabriel Steg, for the REACH Registry Investigators

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Atrial strain rate is a sensitive measure of alterations in atrial phasic function in healthy ageing (11 July, 2011)

  Anita C Boyd, David A B Richards, Thomas Marwick, Liza Thomas