Table of contents

Original articles

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: The cost-effectiveness of transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement in patients with severe aortic stenosis at high operative risk (21 May, 2013) Free

  Timothy A Fairbairn, David M Meads, Claire Hulme, Adam N Mather, Sven Plein, Daniel J Blackman, John P Greenwood
• Original article: Inconsistent echocardiographic grading of aortic stenosis: is the left ventricular outflow tract important? (24 January, 2013)

  Hector I Michelena, Edit Margaryan, Fletcher A Miller, Mackram Eleid, Joseph Maalouf, Rakesh Suri, David Messika-Zeitoun, Patricia A Pellikka, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Human non-contrast T1 values and correlation with histology in diffuse fibrosis (24 January, 2013)

  Sacha Bull, Steven K White, Stefan K Piechnik, Andrew S Flett, Vanessa M Ferreira, Margaret Loudon, Jane M Francis, Theodoros D Karamitsos, Bernard D Prendergast, Matthew D Robson, Stefan Neubauer, James C Moon, Saul G Myerson

Sudden cardiac death

• Original article: Cardiac symptoms before sudden cardiac death caused by coronary artery disease: a nationwide study among young Danish people (10 April, 2013)

  Reza Jabbari, Bjarke Risgaard, Anders G Holst, Jonas B Nielsen, Charlotte Glinge, Thomas Engstrøm, Henning Bundgaard, Jesper H Svendsen, Stig Haunsø, Bo Gregers Winkel, Jacob Tfelt-Hansen

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: Fatty acid binding protein 4 predicts left ventricular mass and longitudinal function in overweight and obese women (18 April, 2013)

  Stefan Engeli, Wolfgang Utz, Sven Haufe, Valéria Lamounier-Zepter, Martin Pofahl, Julius Traber, Jürgen Janke, Friedrich C Luft, Michael Boschmann, Jeanette Schulz-Menger, Jens Jordan

Epidemiology

• Original article:

  Smoking and obesity associated BDNF gene variance predicts total and cardiovascular mortality in smokers

  (27 April, 2013)

  Sara Halldén, Marketa Sjögren, Bo Hedblad, Gunnar Engström, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Michal Hoffmann, Björn Wahlstrand, Thomas Hedner, Olle Melander
• Original article: Aging of the population may not lead to an increase in the numbers of acute coronary events: a community surveillance study and modelled forecast of the future (18 April, 2013)

  Veikko Salomaa, Aki S Havulinna, Heli Koukkunen, Päivi Kärjä-Koskenkari, Arto Pietilä, Juha Mustonen, Matti Ketonen, Aapo Lehtonen, Pirjo Immonen-Räihä, Seppo Lehto, Juhani Airaksinen, Y Antero Kesäniemi