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Original research

• Tissue synchronisation imaging accurately measures left ventricular dyssynchrony and predicts response to cardiac resynchronisation therapy (19 February, 2007)

  Nico R Van de Veire, Gabe B Bleeker, Johan De Sutter, Claudia Ypenburg, Eduard R Holman, Ernst E van der Wal, Martin J Schalij, Jeroen J Bax
• Use of automatic exposure control in multislice computed tomography of the coronaries: comparison of 16-slice and 64-slice scanner data with conventional coronary angiography (29 March, 2007)

  Anja Deetjen, Susanne Möllmann, Guido Conradi, Andreas Rolf, Axel Schmermund, Christian W Hamm, Thorsten Dill
• Determinants of implantable defibrillator discharges in high-risk patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (14 August, 2007)

  Anna Woo, Daniel Monakier, Louise Harris, Ann Hill, Prasad Shah, E Douglas Wigle, Harry Rakowski, Evelyn Rozenblyum, Douglas A Cameron
• Circulating endothelial progenitor cells and clinical outcome in patients with congestive heart failure (3 February, 2007)

  Yoav Michowitz, Emil Goldstein, Dov Wexler, David Sheps, Gad Keren, Jacob George
• Syncope and QT prolongation among patients treated with methadone for heroin dependence in the city of Copenhagen (7 March, 2007)

  Søren Fanoe, Christian Hvidt, Peter Ege, Gorm Boje Jensen
• Cigarette smoking induces atrial fibrosis in humans via nicotine (29 March, 2007)

  Andreas Goette, Uwe Lendeckel, Anja Kuchenbecker, Alicja Bukowska, Brigitte Peters, Helmut U Klein, Christof Huth, Christoph Röcken
• Vascular endothelial function and circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with cardiac syndrome X (8 May, 2007)

  Po-Hsun Huang, Yung-Hsiang Chen, Yuh-Lien Chen, Tao-Cheng Wu, Jaw-Wen Chen, Shing-Jong Lin
• Circulating endothelial progenitor cells in patients with cardiac syndrome X (28 December, 2006)

  Haim Shmilovich, Varda Deutsch, Arie Roth, Hylton Miller, Gad Keren, Jacob George
• B-type natriuretic peptide release in the coronary effluent after acute transient ischaemia in humans (29 March, 2007)

  Domingo A Pascual-Figal, María J Antolinos, Antoni Bayes-Genis, Teresa Casas, Francisco Nicolas, Mariano Valdés
• Cost effectiveness of perindopril in reducing cardiovascular events in patients with stable coronary artery disease using data from the EUROPA study (29 November, 2006)

  Andrew Briggs, Borislava Mihaylova, Mark Sculpher, Alistair Hall, Jane Wolstenholme, Maarten Simoons, Jaap Deckers, Roberto Ferrari, Willem J Remme, Michel Bertrand, Kim Fox
• Prognostic impact of preprocedural C reactive protein levels on 6-month angiographic and 1-year clinical outcomes after drug-eluting stent implantation (19 February, 2007)

  Duk-Woo Park, Cheol Whan Lee, Sung-Cheol Yun, Young-Hak Kim, Myeong-Ki Hong, Jae-Joong Kim, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park
• QRS and QTc interval prolongation in the prediction of long-term mortality of patients with acute destabilised heart failure (29 March, 2007)

  Tobias Breidthardt, Michael Christ, Miriam Matti, Delia Schrafl, Kirsten Laule, Markus Noveanu, Tujana Boldanova, Theresia Klima, Willibald Hochholzer, André P Perruchoud, Christian Mueller
• Associations between tooth loss and mortality patterns in the Glasgow Alumni Cohort (12 December, 2006)

  Yu-Kang Tu, Bruna Galobardes, George Davey Smith, Peter McCarron, Mona Jeffreys, Mark S Gilthorpe
• Persistent ischaemic ECG abnormalities on repeated ECG examination have important prognostic value for cardiovascular disease beyond established risk factors: a population-based study in middle-aged men with up to 32 years of follow-up (4 May, 2007)

  Christina Ström Möller, Björn Zethelius, Johan Sundström, Lars Lind
• Vascular disease in a population-based cohort of individuals hospitalised with coeliac disease (3 February, 2007)

  J F Ludvigsson, U de Faire, A Ekbom, S M Montgomery
• Selection bias resulting from the requirement for prior consent in observational research: a community cohort of people with ischaemic heart disease (13 May, 2007)

  Brian Buckley, Andrew W Murphy, Molly Byrne, Liam Glynn
• Intracardiac echocardiography in the diagnosis of prosthetic valve endocarditis (14 August, 2007)

  D Q Kolodner, D Shimbo, A R Magnano
• Comprehensive evaluation of preoperative patients with aortic valve stenosis: usefulness of cardiac multidetector computed tomography (4 May, 2007) Free

  Jean-Pierre Laissy, David Messika-Zeitoun, Jean-Michel Serfaty, Vincent Sebban, Elisabeth Schouman-Claeys, Bernard Iung, Alec Vahanian
• Comparison of clinical and economic outcomes of two antibiotic prophylaxis regimens for sternal wound infection in high-risk patients following coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a prospective randomised double-blind controlled trial (19 February, 2007)

  Kay Dhadwal, Sharif Al-Ruzzeh, Thanos Athanasiou, Marina Choudhury, Paris Tekkis, Pynee Vuddamalay, Haifa Lyster, Mohamed Amrani, Shane George