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Original articles

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Desmosomal protein gene mutations in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy undergoing cardiac transplantation: a clinicopathological study (22 August, 2011)

  Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Petros Syrris, Clara Salas, Alison Evans, Jesus G Mirelis, Marta Cobo-Marcos, Carlos Vilches, Belen Bornstein, Javier Segovia, Luis Alonso-Pulpon, Perry M Elliott

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Impact of contrast-induced acute kidney injury with transient or persistent renal dysfunction on long-term outcomes of patients with acute myocardial infarction undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (20 May, 2011) Free

  Jin Wi, Young-Guk Ko, Jung-Sun Kim, Byeong-Keuk Kim, Donghoon Choi, Jong-Won Ha, Myeong-Ki Hong, Yangsoo Jang

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Diagnostic and prognostic value of Doppler echocardiographic coronary flow reserve in the left anterior descending artery (11 August, 2011)

  Lauro Cortigiani, Fausto Rigo, Maurizio Galderisi, Sonia Gherardi, Francesco Bovenzi, Eugenio Picano, Rosa Sicari
• Original article: Relationship between QRS duration and left ventricular mass and volume in patients at high cardiovascular risk (11 August, 2011)

  Ralph A Stewart, Alistair A Young, Craig Anderson, Koon K Teo, Garry Jennings, Brett R Cowan

Hypertension

• Original article: How quickly should we titrate antihypertensive medication? Systematic review modelling blood pressure response from trial data (17 May, 2011)

  Daniel S Lasserson, Thierry Buclin, Paul Glasziou

Endothelial function

• Original article: NOX2-mediated arterial dysfunction in smokers: acute effect of dark chocolate (31 July, 2011)

  Lorenzo Loffredo, Roberto Carnevale, Ludovica Perri, Elisa Catasca, Teresa Augelletti, Roberto Cangemi, Fabiana Albanese, Cristina Piccheri, Cristina Nocella, Pasquale Pignatelli, Francesco Violi

Obesity and the heart

• Original article: Central obesity and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndrome: observations from the MERLIN-TIMI 36 trial (23 August, 2011)

  Mitul B Kadakia, Caroline S Fox, Benjamin M Scirica, Sabina A Murphy, Marc P Bonaca, David A Morrow

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Assessment of vascular phenotype using a novel very-high-resolution ultrasound technique in adolescents after aortic coarctation repair and/or stent implantation: relationship to central haemodynamics and left ventricular mass (27 July, 2011)

  Taisto Sarkola, Andrew N Redington, Cameron Slorach, Wei Hui, Timothy Bradley, Edgar Jaeggi