Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Risk of ST versus non-ST elevation myocardial infarction associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (31 August, 2011)

  Lamiae Grimaldi-Bensouda, Michel Rossignol, Nicolas Danchin, P Gabriel Steg, Gerard Bessede, Michel Ovize, Yves Cottin, Elisabeth Autret-Leca, Jacques Benichou, Lucien Abenhaim, for the PGRx-Myocardial Infarction Study Group

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Detection of very early stent healing after primary angioplasty: an optical coherence tomographic observational study of chromium cobaltum and first-generation drug-eluting stents. The DETECTIVE Study (31 August, 2011)

  Francesco Prati, Filippo Stazi, Jaime Dutary, Alessio La Manna, Alessandro Di Giorgio, Tomasz Pawlosky, Nieves Gonzalo, Maria Elena Di Salvo, Fabrizio Imola, Corrado Tamburino, Mario Albertucci, Fernando Alfonso

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Impact of left atrial fibrosis and left atrial size on the outcome of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (25 February, 2011) Free

  Dennis W den Uijl, Victoria Delgado, Matteo Bertini, Laurens F Tops, Serge A Trines, Nico R van de Veire, Katja Zeppenfeld, Martin J Schalij, Jeroen J Bax

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Safety of serial MRI in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators (26 August, 2011)

  M Juhani Junttila, Joel E Fishman, Gustavo A Lopera, Pradip M Pattany, Darcy L Velazquez, Adam R Williams, Barry H Trachtenberg, Cristina Sanina, Jacques Mather, Joshua M Hare

Ischaemic preconditioning

• Original article: Bradykinin does not mediate remote ischaemic preconditioning or ischaemia-reperfusion injury in vivo in man (26 August, 2011)

  Christian M Pedersen, Michael R Schmidt, Gareth Barnes, Hans Erik Bøtker, Rajesh K Kharbanda, David E Newby, Nicholas L Cruden

Epidemiology

• Original article: Overestimation of the effects of adherence on outcomes: a case study in healthy user bias and hypertension (17 May, 2011)

  Joanne LaFleur, Richard E Nelson, Brian C Sauer, Jonathan R Nebeker

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Oral sildenafil treatment for Eisenmenger syndrome: a prospective, open-label, multicentre study (21 September, 2011)

  Zhen-Ning Zhang, Xin Jiang, Rui Zhang, Xin-Li Li, Bing-Xiang Wu, Qin-Hua Zhao, Yong Wang, Li-Zhi Dai, Lei Pan, Mardi Gomberg-Maitland, Zhi-Cheng Jing