Table of contents

Original articles

Arrhythmias and sudden death

• Original article: Myocardial scar burden predicts survival benefit with implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation in patients with severe ischaemic cardiomyopathy: influence of gender (31 October, 2013)

  Deborah H Kwon, Rory Hachamovitch, Aderonke Adeniyi, Benjamin Nutter, Zoran B Popovic, Bruce L Wilkoff, Milind Y Desai, Scott D Flamm, Thomas Marwick

Aortic and vascular disease

• Original article: Retrospective analysis of the effect of angiotensin II receptor blocker versus β-blocker on aortic root growth in paediatric patients with Marfan syndrome (22 November, 2013)

  Goetz C Mueller, Lydia Stierle, Veronika Stark, Kristoffer Steiner, Yskert von Kodolitsch, Jochen Weil, Thomas S Mir

Clinical trials

• Original article: Effects of intravenous and oral β-blockade in persistent asthmatics controlled on inhaled corticosteroids (7 November, 2013)

  Philip M Short, William J Anderson, Peter A Williamson, Brian J Lipworth

Pulmonary hypertension

• Original research: Sildenafil add-on therapy in paediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension, experiences of a national referral centre (3 January, 2014)

  Johannes M Douwes, Marcus T R Roofthooft, Rosa L E Van Loon, Mark-Jan Ploegstra, Beatrijs Bartelds, Hans L Hillege, Rolf M F Berger

Heart failure

• Original article: Heart failure in pregnant women with cardiac disease: data from the ROPAC (29 November, 2013) Free

  Titia P E Ruys, Jolien W Roos-Hesselink, Roger Hall, Maria T Subirana-Domènech, Jennifer Grando-Ting, Mette Estensen, Roberto Crepaz, Vlasta Fesslova, Michelle Gurvitz, Julie De Backer, Mark R Johnson, Petronella G Pieper

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Socioeconomic inequalities in acute myocardial infarction incidence in migrant groups: has the epidemic arrived? Analysis of nation-wide data (15 November, 2013)

  C Agyemang, A A M van Oeffelen, M L Bots, K Stronks, I Vaartjes

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Contemporary predictors of death and sustained ventricular tachycardia in patients with repaired tetralogy of Fallot enrolled in the INDICATOR cohort (31 October, 2013)

  Anne Marie Valente, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Gabriele Egidy Assenza, Sonya V Babu-Narayan, Jenna Schreier, Michael A Gatzoulis, Maarten Groenink, Ryo Inuzuka, Philip J Kilner, Zeliha Koyak, Michael J Landzberg, Barbara Mulder, Andrew J Powell, Rachel Wald, Tal Geva