Table of contents

Original articles

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: Mild renal dysfunction in patients undergoing cardiac surgery as a new risk factor for EuroSCORE (30 September, 2010)

  Antonio Miceli, Vito D Bruno, Radek Capoun, Simon M J Duggan, Francesco Romeo, Gianni D Angelini, Massimo Caputo

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Improving safety in the electrophysiology laboratory using a simple radiation dose reduction strategy: a study of 1007 radiofrequency ablation procedures (29 October, 2010) Free

  Dominic P S Rogers, Fiona England, Konstantin Lozhkin, Martin D Lowe, Pier D Lambiase, Anthony W C Chow
• Original article: Changes in anxiety and depression over 2 years in medically stable patients after myocardial infarction and their spouses in the Home Automatic External Defibrillator Trial (HAT): a longitudinal observational study (7 October, 2010)

  Sue A Thomas, Erika Friedmann, Hyeon-Joo Lee, Heesook Son, Patricia G Morton, the HAT Investigators

Heart failure

• Original article: Cardiac-specific sympathetic activation in men and women with and without heart failure (28 September, 2010)

  Peter R Mitoff, Daniel Gam, Joan Ivanov, Abdul Al-hesayen, Eduardo R Azevedo, Gary E Newton, John D Parker, Susanna Mak

Systemic disease and the heart

• Original article: Quantification of myocardial iron deposition by two-dimensional speckle tracking in patients with β-thalassaemia major and Blackfan–Diamond anaemia (4 February, 2011)

  P Garceau, E T Nguyen, S Carasso, H Ross, J Pendergrast, G Moravsky, B Bruchal-Garbicz, H Rakowski

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Efficacy of percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale: comparison among three commonly used occluders (4 February, 2011)

  R Thaman, G Faganello, J R Gimeno, G V Szantho, M Nelson, S Curtis, R P Martin, M S Turner

Epidemiology

• Original article: Discordant age and sex-specific trends in the incidence of a first coronary heart disease event in Western Australia from 1996 to 2007 (6 January, 2011)

  Tom Briffa, Lee Nedkoff, Anna Peeters, Andrew Tonkin, Joseph Hung, Stephen C Ridout, Matthew Knuiman
• Original article: Racial and ethnic differences in subclinical myocardial function: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (21 January, 2011)

  Verônica Rolim S Fernandes, Susan Cheng, Yu-Jen Cheng, Boaz Rosen, Sachin Agarwal, Robyn L McClelland, David A Bluemke, João A C Lima