Table of contents

Original articles

Antiplatelet therapy

• Original article: Personalised antiplatelet therapy in stent thrombosis: observations from the Clopidogrel Resistance in Stent Thrombosis (CREST) registry (20 April, 2012)

  Nalyaka Sambu, Ashwin Radhakrishnan, Hazel Dent, Alison Louise Calver, Simon Corbett, Huon Gray, Iain A Simpson, Nick Curzen
• Original article: Prior antiplatelet or anticoagulant therapy and mortality in stroke (10 February, 2012) Free

  Chun Shing Kwok, Jane Skinner, Anthony K Metcalf, John F Potter, Phyo Kyaw Myint
• Original article: Lower GI bleeding is more common than upper among patients on dual antiplatelet therapy: long-term follow-up of a cohort of patients commonly using PPI co-therapy (20 April, 2012)

  Rubén Casado Arroyo, Mónica Polo-Tomas, Maria P Roncalés, James Scheiman, Ángel Lanas

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Long-term outcomes following infection of cardiac implantable electronic devices: a prospective matched cohort study (20 April, 2012)

  Jean-Claude Deharo, Amandine Quatre, Julien Mancini, Paul Khairy, Yvan Le Dolley, Jean-Paul Casalta, Eric Peyrouse, Sébastien Prévôt, Franck Thuny, Frédéric Collart, Didier Raoult, Gilbert Habib, Frédéric Franceschi

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Timing of troponin I measurement in pulmonary embolism (20 April, 2012)

  Emile Ferrari, Pamela Moceri, Christophe Crouzet, Denis Doyen, Pierre Cerboni

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations in contemporary Eisenmenger syndrome patients: predictive value and response to disease targeting therapy (7 March, 2012)

  Gerhard-Paul Diller, Rafael Alonso-Gonzalez, Aleksander Kempny, Konstantinos Dimopoulos, Ryo Inuzuka, Georgios Giannakoulas, Lianne Castle, Astrid E Lammers, James Hooper, Anselm Uebing, Lorna Swan, Michael Gatzoulis, Stephen J Wort