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Original articles

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: The index of microvascular resistance identifies patients with periprocedural myocardial infarction in elective percutaneous coronary intervention (15 August, 2012)

  Jamie J Layland, Robert J Whitbourn, Andrew T Burns, Jithendra Somaratne, Georg Leitl, Andrew I MacIsaac, Andrew Wilson

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Cost-effectiveness of presentation versus delayed troponin testing for acute myocardial infarction (3 August, 2012)

  Praveen Thokala, Steve W Goodacre, Paul O Collinson, John W Stevens, Nicholas L Mills, David E Newby, Francis Morris, Jason Kendall, Matt D Stevenson

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Significance of intraplaque neovascularisation for vulnerability: optical coherence tomography study (6 August, 2012) Free

  Jinwei Tian, Jingbo Hou, Lei Xing, Soo-Joong Kim, Taishi Yonetsu, Koji Kato, Hang Lee, Shaosong Zhang, Bo Yu, Ik-Kyung Jang
• Original article: Evaluation of myocardial CT perfusion in patients presenting with acute chest pain to the emergency department: comparison with SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging (15 August, 2012)

  Gudrun Maria Feuchtner, Fabian Plank, Constantino Pena, Juan Battle, James Min, Jonathon Leipsic, Troy Labounty, Warren Janowitz, Barry Katzen, Jack Ziffer, Ricardo C Cury

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Direct comparison of mid-regional pro-atrial natriuretic peptide with N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of patients with atrial fibrillation and dyspnoea (3 August, 2012)

  Jens Eckstein, Mihael Potocki, Karsten Murray, Tobias Breidthardt, Ronny Ziller, Tamina Mosimann, Theresia Klima, Rebeca Hoeller, Berit Moehring, Seoung Mann Sou, Maria Rubini Gimenez, Nils G Morgenthaler, Christian Mueller

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: A randomised trial of a remote home support programme for infants with major congenital heart disease (11 August, 2012)

  Brian McCrossan, Gareth Morgan, Brian Grant, Andrew J Sands, Brian G Craig, Nicola N Doherty, Ashley M Agus, Graine E Crealey, Frank A Casey