Table of contents

Original articles

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: CT stress perfusion imaging for detection of haemodynamically relevant coronary stenosis as defined by FFR (14 May, 2013)

  Martin Greif, Franz von Ziegler, Fabian Bamberg, Janine Tittus, Florian Schwarz, Melvin D'Anastasi, Roy P Marcus, Jan Schenzle, Christoph Becker, Konstantin Nikolaou, Alexander Becker

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Alcohol septal ablation in patients with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy: low incidence of sudden cardiac death and reduced risk profile (3 May, 2013)

  Morten K Jensen, Christian Prinz, Dieter Horstkotte, Frank van Buuren, Thomas Bitter, Lothar Faber, Henning Bundgaard

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Suitability for subcutaneous defibrillator implantation: results based on data from routine clinical practice (23 May, 2013)

  Mihály K de Bie, Joep Thijssen, Johannes B van Rees, Hein Putter, Enno T van der Velde, Martin J Schalij, Lieselot van Erven

Epidemiology

• Original article: Interaction between dietary marine-derived n-3 fatty acids intake and J-point elevation on the risk of cardiac death: a 24-year follow-up of Japanese men (10 May, 2013)

  Takashi Hisamatsu, Katsuyuki Miura, Takayoshi Ohkubo, Takashi Yamamoto, Akira Fujiyoshi, Naoko Miyagawa, Aya Kadota, Naoyuki Takashima, Nagako Okuda, Yasuhiro Matsumura, Katsushi Yoshita, Yoshikuni Kita, Yoshitaka Murakami, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Tomonori Okamura, Minoru Horie, Akira Okayama, Hirotsugu Ueshima, for the NIPPON DATA80 Research Group
• Original article: Family history, comorbidity and risk of thoracic aortic disease: a population-based case-control study (27 April, 2013)

  Christian Olsson, Fredrik Granath, Elisabeth Ståhle

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Predictors for efficacy of percutaneous mitral valve repair using the MitraClip system: the results of the MitraSwiss registry (23 January, 2013)

  Daniel Sürder, Giovanni Pedrazzini, Oliver Gaemperli, Patric Biaggi, Christian Felix, Kaspar Rufibach, Christof auf der Maur, Raban Jeger, Peter Buser, Beat A Kaufmann, Marco Moccetti, David Hürlimann, Ines Bühler, Dominique Bettex, Jacques Scherman, Elena Pasotti, Francesco F Faletra, Michel Zuber, Tiziano Moccetti, Thomas F Lüscher, Paul Erne, Jürg Grünenfelder, Roberto Corti

Basic research

• Original article: Cardiomyocyte specific adipose triglyceride lipase overexpression prevents doxorubicin induced cardiac dysfunction in female mice (23 May, 2013)

  Jeevan Nagendran, Petra C Kienesberger, Thomas Pulinilkunnil, Beshay N Zordoky, Miranda M Sung, Ty Kim, Martin E Young, Jason R B Dyck