Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Reciprocal ECG change in reperfused ST-elevation myocardial infarction is associated with myocardial salvage and area at risk assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (7 September, 2013)

  Ananth Kidambi, Adam N Mather, Akhlaque Uddin, Manish Motwani, David P Ripley, Bernhard A Herzog, Adam McDiarmid, Julian Gunn, Sven Plein, John P Greenwood
• Original article: Strategic target temperature management in myocardial infarction—a feasibility trial (24 September, 2013)

  Christoph Testori, Fritz Sterz, Georg Delle-Karth, Reinhard Malzer, Michael Holzer, Peter Stratil, Mathias Stöckl, Christoph Weiser, Raphael van Tulder, Clemens Gangl, Dieter Sebald, Andreas Zajicek, Angelika Buchinger, Irene Lang

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Type A aortic dissection in patients with bicuspid aortic valves: clinical and pathological comparison with tricuspid aortic valves (4 September, 2013)

  Mackram F Eleid, Inga Forde, William D Edwards, Joseph J Maleszewski, Rakesh M Suri, Hartzell V Schaff, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Hector I Michelena

Lipid therapy and atherosclerosis

• Original article: MRI-measured regression of carotid atherosclerosis induced by statins with and without niacin in a randomised controlled trial: the NIA plaque study (19 July, 2013) Free

  Christopher T Sibley, Andrea L Vavere, Ilan Gottlieb, Christopher Cox, Matthew Matheson, Amy Spooner, Gustavo Godoy, Veronica Fernandes, Bruce A Wasserman, David A Bluemke, Joao A C Lima

Myocarditis

• Original article: The effects of gender and age on occurrence of clinically suspected myocarditis in adulthood (23 September, 2013)

  Ville Kytö, Jussi Sipilä, Päivä Rautava

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Bile acids induce arrhythmias in human atrial myocardium—implications for altered serum bile acid composition in patients with atrial fibrillation (26 July, 2013)

  Peter P Rainer, Uwe Primessnig, Sandra Harenkamp, Bernhard Doleschal, Markus Wallner, Guenter Fauler, Tatjana Stojakovic, Rolf Wachter, Ameli Yates, Klaus Groschner, Michael Trauner, Burkert M Pieske, Dirk von Lewinski

Epidemiology

• Original article: Secular trends in echocardiographic left ventricular mass in the community: the Framingham Heart Study (16 September, 2013)

  Bernhard M Kaess, Philimon Gona, Martin G Larson, Susan Cheng, Jayashree Aragam, Satish Kenchaiah, Emelia J Benjamin, Ramachandran S Vasan