Table of contents

Original articles

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Diffusion-weighted MRI determined cerebral embolic infarction following transcatheter aortic valve implantation: assessment of predictive risk factors and the relationship to subsequent health status (7 July, 2011) Free

  Timothy A Fairbairn, Adam N Mather, Petra Bijsterveld, Gillian Worthy, Stuart Currie, Anthony J P Goddard, Daniel J Blackman, Sven Plein, John P Greenwood
• Original article: Mild-to-moderate functional tricuspid regurgitation in patients undergoing valve replacement for rheumatic mitral disease: the influence of tricuspid valve repair on clinical and echocardiographic outcomes (19 September, 2011)

  Joon Bum Kim, Dong Gon Yoo, Gwan Sic Kim, Hyun Song, Sung-Ho Jung, Suk Jung Choo, Cheol Hyun Chung, Jae Won Lee

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Early measurements of plasma matrix metalloproteinase-2 predict infarct size and ventricular dysfunction in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (4 July, 2011)

  Lennart Nilsson, Jonas Hallén, Dan Atar, Lena Jonasson, Eva Swahn
• Original article: Comparison of diagnostic criteria to detect undiagnosed diabetes in hyperglycaemic patients with acute coronary syndrome (27 June, 2011)

  Maarten de Mulder, Rohit M Oemrawsingh, Frank Stam, Eric Boersma, Victor A Umans
• Original article: Mild chronic kidney disease is an independent predictor of long-term mortality after emergency angiography and primary percutaneous intervention in patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (31 August, 2011)

  Niall G Campbell, Mira Varagunam, Vinit Sawhney, Kumar R Ahuja, Nabila Salahuddin, Rodney De Palma, Martin T Rothman, Andrew Wragg, Muhammed M Yaqoob, Charles J Knight

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Maintenance of sinus rhythm with an ablation strategy in patients with atrial fibrillation is associated with a lower risk of stroke and death (19 September, 2011)

  Ross J Hunter, James McCready, Ihab Diab, Stephen P Page, Malcolm Finlay, Laura Richmond, Antony French, Mark J Earley, Simon Sporton, Michael Jones, Jubin P Joseph, Yaver Bashir, Tim R Betts, Glyn Thomas, Andrew Staniforth, Geoffrey Lee, Peter Kistler, Kim Rajappan, Anthony Chow, Richard J Schilling

Heart failure

• Original article: Optimisation of atrioventricular delay during exercise improves cardiac output in patients stabilised with cardiac resynchronisation therapy (31 August, 2011)

  Jing Ping Sun, Alex Pui-Wai Lee, Richard A Grimm, Ming-Jui Hung, Xing Sheng Yang, David DeLurgio, Angel R Leon, John D Merlino, Cheuk-Man Yu

Cardiovascular surgery

• Original article: What is the impact of endoscopic vein harvesting on clinical outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft surgery? (11 October, 2011)

  S W Grant, A D Grayson, J Zacharias, M J R Dalrymple-Hay, P D Waterworth, B Bridgewater