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Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Reperfusion haemorrhage as determined by cardiovascular MRI is a predictor of adverse left ventricular remodelling and markers of late arrhythmic risk (4 November, 2010) Free

  Adam N Mather, Timothy A Fairbairn, Stephen G Ball, John P Greenwood, Sven Plein
• Original article: Elevated serum osteoprotegerin levels measured early after acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction predict final infarct size (26 January, 2011)

  Geir Øystein Andersen, Eva Cecilie Knudsen, Pål Aukrust, Arne Yndestad, Erik Øie, Carl Müller, Ingebjørg Seljeflot, Thor Ueland

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Defective recovery of QT dispersion predicts late cardiac mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention (26 January, 2011)

  Marco Zimarino, Alessandro Corazzini, Alfonso Tatasciore, Stefania Marazia, Giuseppe Torge, Cesare Di Iorio, Raffaele De Caterina

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original article: Prolonged right ventricular post-systolic isovolumic period in pulmonary arterial hypertension is not a reflection of diastolic dysfunction (7 October, 2010)

  Gert-Jan Mauritz, J Tim Marcus, Nico Westerhof, Pieter E Postmus, Anton Vonk-Noordegraaf

Hypertension

• Original article: Candesartan versus imidapril in hypertension: a randomised study to assess effects of anti-AT1 receptor autoantibodies (4 February, 2011)

  Fen Wei, Xiu-Jie Jia, Su-Qin Yu, Ye Gu, Li Wang, Xiao-Mei Guo, Min Wang, Feng Zhu, Xiang Cheng, Yu-Miao Wei, Zi-Hua Zhou, Micheal Fu, Yu-Hua Liao, for the SOT-AT1 Study Group

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Electrocardiographic changes in early recognition of Fabry disease (26 January, 2011)

  Mehdi Namdar, Jan Steffel, Mile Vidovic, Corinna B Brunckhorst, Johannes Holzmeister, Thomas F Lüscher, Rolf Jenni, Firat Duru

Epidemiology

• Original article: Performance of the ASSIGN cardiovascular disease risk score on a UK cohort of patients from general practice (20 November, 2010)

  Beatriz de la Iglesia, John F Potter, Neil R Poulter, Margaret M Robins, Jane Skinner
• Original article: Depressive symptoms, physical inactivity and risk of cardiovascular mortality in older adults: the Cardiovascular Health Study (21 February, 2011)

  Sithu Win, Kapil Parakh, Chete M Eze-Nliam, John S Gottdiener, Willem J Kop, Roy C Ziegelstein