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Original articles

Heart failure

• Original article: Prevalence of left ventricular dysfunction in a UK community sample of very old people: the Newcastle 85+ study (2 August, 2012)

  Fahad Yousaf, Joanna Collerton, Andrew Kingston, Antoinette Kenny, Karen Davies, Carol Jagger, Louise Robinson, Thomas B L Kirkwood, Bernard Keavney

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Different cardiac biomarkers to detect peri-procedural myocardial infarction in contemporary coronary stent trials: impact on outcome reporting (21 July, 2012)

  Pascal Vranckx, Vasim Farooq, Scot Garg, Gerrit-Anne Van Es, Sigmund Silber, Stephan Windecker, Gregg W Stone, Patrick W Serruys
• Original article: Use of troponin to diagnose periprocedural myocardial infarction: effect on composite endpoints in the British Bifurcation Coronary Study (BBC ONE) (31 July, 2012)

  James Cockburn, Miles Behan, Adam de Belder, Tim Clayton, Rod Stables, Keith Oldroyd, Nick Curzen, David Hildick-Smith

Non-invasive testing

• Original article: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance measurement of myocardial extracellular volume in health and disease (30 August, 2012) Free

  Daniel M Sado, Andrew S Flett, Sanjay M Banypersad, Steven K White, Viviana Maestrini, Giovanni Quarta, Robin H Lachmann, Elaine Murphy, Atul Mehta, Derralynn A Hughes, William J McKenna, Andrew M Taylor, Derek J Hausenloy, Philip N Hawkins, Perry M Elliott, James C Moon

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Relative apical sparing of longitudinal strain using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography is both sensitive and specific for the diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis (3 August, 2012)

  Dermot Phelan, Patrick Collier, Paaladinesh Thavendiranathan, Zoran B Popović, Mazen Hanna, Juan Carlos Plana, Thomas H Marwick, James D Thomas

Epidemiology

• Original article: Temporal trends in the incidence and recurrence of hospitalised atherothrombotic disease in an Australian population, 2000–07: data linkage study (21 July, 2012)

  Lee Nedkoff, Thomas G Briffa, Matthew Knuiman, Joseph Hung, Paul E Norman, Graeme J Hankey, Peter L Thompson, Elizabeth Geelhoed, Frank M Sanfilippo, Siobhan Hickling, Alexandra Bremner, Michael Hobbs