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Original articles

Cardiovascular surgery

• How does EuroSCORE II perform in UK cardiac surgery; an analysis of 23 740 patients from the Society for Cardiothoracic Surgery in Great Britain and Ireland National Database (21 August, 2012)

  Stuart William Grant, Graeme Lee Hickey, Ioannis Dimarakis, Uday Trivedi, Alan Bryan, Tom Treasure, Graham Cooper, Domenico Pagano, Iain Buchan, Ben Bridgewater

Epidemiology

• Recent UK trends in the unequal burden of coronary heart disease (11 August, 2012)

  Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard, Madhavi Bajekal, Shaun Scholes, Martin O'Flaherty, Nathaniel Mark Hawkins, Rosalind Raine, Simon Capewell

Valvular heart disease

• Effect of thoracic epidural analgesia on clinical outcomes following transapical transcatheter aortic valve implantation (11 July, 2012) Free

  Ignacio J Amat-Santos, Eric Dumont, Jacques Villeneuve, Daniel Doyle, Michel Rheault, Dominique Lavigne, Jerôme Lemieux, André St-Pierre, Michael Mok, Marina Urena, Luis Nombela-Franco, Steve Blackburn, Mathieu Simon, Christine Bourgault, José Luis Carrasco, Philippe Pibarot, Melanie Côté, Robert DeLarochellière, David J Cohen, Josep Rodés-Cabau
• Impact of aortic regurgitation on the prognosis of severe aortic stenosis (11 August, 2012)

  Satoshi Honda, Takeshi Kitai, Yukikatsu Okada, Tomoko Tani, Kitae Kim, Shuichiro Kaji, Natsuhiko Ehara, Makoto Kinoshita, Atsushi Kobori, Atsushi Yamamuro, Toru Kita, Yutaka Furukawa

Congenital heart disease

• Exercise capacity and stroke volume are preserved late after tetralogy repair, despite severe right ventricular dilatation (6 August, 2012)

  Shamus O'Meagher, Phillip A Munoz, Jennifer A Alison, Iven H Young, David J Tanous, David S Celermajer, Rajesh Puranik