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Original articles

Interventional cardiology

• Two zotarolimus-eluting stent generations: a meta-analysis of 12 randomised trials versus other limus-eluting stents and an adjusted indirect comparison (4 September, 2012)

  Salvatore Cassese, Gjin Ndrepepa, Lamin A King, Tomohisa Tada, Massimiliano Fusaro, Adnan Kastrati

Valvular heart disease

• Successful transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is associated with transient left ventricular dysfunction (21 August, 2012) Free

  Rafal Dworakowski, Olaf Wendler, Amit Bhan, Lindsay Smith, Peter Pearson, Emma Alcock, Kailasam Rajagopal, Beth Brickham, Tracy Dew, Jonathan Byrne, Mark J Monaghan, Roy Sherwood, Ajay M Shah, Philip A MacCarthy

Heart failure

• Sexual problems in elderly male and female patients with heart failure (8 August, 2012)

  Tialda Hoekstra, Ivonne Lesman-Leegte, Marie Louise Luttik, Robbert Sanderman, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Tiny Jaarsma

Epidemiology

• No relation between coronary artery disease or electrocardiographic markers of disease in middle age and prenatal exposure to the Dutch famine of 1944–5 (15 August, 2012)

  L H Lumey, Lauren H Martini, Merle Myerson, Aryeh D Stein, Ronald J Prineas
• Utility of self-reported diagnosis and electrocardiogram Q-waves for estimating myocardial infarction prevalence: an international comparison study (2 September, 2012)

  Andrew Moran, Albert Shen, Daniel Turner-Lloveras, Aayla Khan, Els Clays, Walter Palmas, Dirk De Bacquer