Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Normal presenting levels of high-sensitivity troponin and myocardial infarction (19 April, 2013)

  Rebeca Hoeller, María Rubini Giménez, Tobias Reichlin, Raphael Twerenbold, Christa Zellweger, Berit Moehring, Karin Wildi, Michael Freese, Claudia Stelzig, Beate Hartmann, Melanie Stoll, Tamina Mosimann, Miriam Reiter, Philip Haaf, Mira Mueller, Bernadette Meller, Thomas Hochgruber, Cathrin Balmelli, Seoung Mann Sou, Karsten Murray, Heike Freidank, Stephan Steuer, Jan Minners, Stefan Osswald, Christian Mueller

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Prognosis of the bradycardia pacemaker recipient assessed at first implantation: a nationwide cohort study (22 August, 2013)

  Erik O Udo, Norbert M van Hemel, Nicolaas P A Zuithoff, Pieter A Doevendans, Karel G M Moons

Hypertension and renovascular disease

• Original article: Size of blood pressure reduction from renal denervation: insights from meta-analysis of antihypertensive drug trials of 4121 patients with focus on trial design: the CONVERGE report (15 September, 2013)

  James P Howard, Alexandra N Nowbar, Darrel P Francis

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Global left ventricular longitudinal systolic strain as a major predictor of cardiovascular events in patients with atrial fibrillation (7 September, 2013)

  Ho-Ming Su, Tsung-Hsien Lin, Po-Chao Hsu, Wen-Hsien Lee, Chun-Yuan Chu, Chee-Siong Lee, Wen-Chol Voon, Wen-Ter Lai, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu

Epidemiology

• Original article: The efficiency of cardiovascular risk assessment: do the right patients get statin treatment? (4 June, 2013)

  Tjeerd-Pieter van Staa, Liam Smeeth, Edmond S-W Ng, Ben Goldacre, Martin Gulliford

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Stenting of the right ventricular outflow tract (11 July, 2013)

  Oliver Stumper, Bharat Ramchandani, Patrick Noonan, Chetan Mehta, Vinay Bhole, Zdenka Reinhardt, Rami Dhillon, Paul A Miller, Joseph V de Giovanni

Cardiac syncope

• Original article: The effect of dual-chamber closed-loop stimulation on syncope recurrence in healthy patients with tilt-induced vasovagal cardioinhibitory syncope: a prospective, randomised, single-blind, crossover study (30 May, 2013)

  Vincenzo Russo, Anna Rago, Andrea Antonio Papa, Paolo Golino, Raffaele Calabrò, Maria Giovanna Russo, Gerardo Nigro