Table of contents

Original articles

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Prognostic value of B-type natriuretic peptide in elderly patients with aortic valve stenosis: the COFRASA–GENERAC study (24 January, 2013)

  Claire Cimadevilla, Caroline Cueff, Guillaume Hekimian, Monique Dehoux, Laurent Lepage, Bernard Iung, Xavier Duval, Virginie Huart, Florence Tubach, Alec Vahanian, David Messika-Zeitoun

Cardiovascular pharmacology

• Original article: Effect of amlodipine on platelet inhibition by clopidogrel in patients with ischaemic heart disease: a randomised, controlled trial (31 October, 2012) Free

  Andrew Y W Li, Fook-Hong Ng, Francis K L Chan, Prabowo Tunggal, Kit Chan, Yuk-Kong Lau

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Increase in J-CTO lesion complexity score explains the disparity between recanalisation success and evolution of chronic total occlusion strategies: insights from a single-centre 10-year experience (2 February, 2013)

  Dimitrios Syrseloudis, Gioel Gabrio Secco, Eduardo Alegria Barrero, Alistair C. Lindsay, Matteo Ghione, Kadriye Kilickesmez, Nicolas Foin, Ramon Martos, Carlo Di Mario
• Original article: Operator exposure to x-ray in left and right radial access during percutaneous coronary procedures: OPERA randomised study (23 January, 2013)

  Marcello Dominici, Roberto Diletti, Caterina Milici, Carlo Bock, Attilio Placanica, Gianluigi D'Alessandro, Alessio Arrivi, Marco Italiani, Eduardo Buono, Enrico Boschetti

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Loss to specialist follow-up in congenital heart disease; out of sight, out of mind (20 December, 2012)

  Jo Wray, Alessandra Frigiola, Catherine Bull, Adult Congenital Heart disease Research Network (ACoRN)
• Original article: MELD-XI score and cardiac mortality or transplantation in patients after Fontan surgery (13 February, 2013)

  Gabriele Egidy Assenza, Dionne A Graham, Michael J Landzberg, Anne Marie Valente, Michael N Singh, Aamir Bashir, Susan Fernandes, Koenraad J Mortele, Chinweike Ukomadu, Massimo Volpe, Fred Wu