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Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: Acute hyperglycaemia prevents the protective effect of pre-infarction angina on microvascular function after primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (1 April, 2008)

  T Takahashi, Y Hiasa, Y Ohara, S Miyazaki, K Mahara, R Ogura, H Miyajima, K Yuba, N Suzuki, S Hosokawa, K Kishi, R Ohtani
• Acute coronary syndromes: Predictors of in-hospital mortality for patients admitted with ST-elevation myocardial infarction: a real-world study using the Myocardial Infarction National Audit Project (MINAP) database (10 December, 2007)

  C P Gale, S O M Manda, P D Batin, C F Weston, J S Birkhead, A S Hall
• Coronary artery disease: Improvements in physical and mental domains of quality of life by anti-ischaemic drug and revascularisation treatment in elderly men and women with chronic angina (20 January, 2008)

  M A Buser, P T Buser, G M Kuster, L Grize, M Pfisterer, for the TIME Investigators
• Coronary artery disease: Secondary prevention clinics for coronary heart disease: a 10-year follow-up of a randomised controlled trial in primary care (15 January, 2008)

  E K Delaney, P Murchie, A J Lee, L D Ritchie, N C Campbell
• Interventional cardiology: Comorbid conditions and outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention (8 October, 2007) Free

  M Singh, C S Rihal, V L Roger, R J Lennon, J Spertus, A Jahangir, D R Holmes
• Epidemiology: Age threshold for vascular prophylaxis by aspirin in patients without diabetes (15 August, 2008)

  U Bulugahapitiya, S Siyambalapitiya, J Sithole, D J Fernando, I Idris
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Influence of respiratory instability during neurocardiogenic presyncope on cerebrovascular and cardiovascular dynamics (18 October, 2007)

  C Porta, G Casucci, S Castoldi, A Rinaldi, L Bernardi
• Valvular heart disease: Preoperative tissue Doppler imaging differentiates beneficial from detrimental left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with surgical aortic stenosis. A postoperative morbidity study (20 January, 2008)

  F Bauer, F Mghaieth, N Dervaux, E Donal, G Derumeaux, A Cribier, J-P Bessou
• Congenital heart disease: Fetal pulmonary venous Doppler patterns in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: relationship to atrial septal restriction (8 October, 2007)

  K Chintala, Z Tian, W Du, D Donaghue, J Rychik
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Prognostic impact of diabetes mellitus in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: a prospective five-year study (20 January, 2008)

  C Tribouilloy, D Rusinaru, H Mahjoub, J-M Tartière, L Kesri-Tartière, S Godard, M Peltier
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Coronary vasospasm as the underlying cause for chest pain in patients with PVB19 myocarditis (29 January, 2008)

  A Yilmaz, H Mahrholdt, A Athanasiadis, H Vogelsberg, G Meinhardt, M Voehringer, E-M Kispert, C Deluigi, H Baccouche, E Spodarev, K Klingel, R Kandolf, U Sechtem
• Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Improvement of left ventricular myocardial short-axis, but not long-axis function or torsion after cardiac resynchronisation therapy: an assessment by two-dimensional speckle tracking (15 January, 2008)

  Q Zhang, J W-H Fung, G W K Yip, J Y-S Chan, A P-W Lee, Y-Y Lam, L-W Wu, E B Wu, C-M Yu
• Peripheral vascular disease: Detection of inflammation in patients with acute aortic syndrome: comparison of FDG-PET/CT imaging and serological markers of inflammation (10 December, 2007)

  H Kuehl, H Eggebrecht, T Boes, G Antoch, S Rosenbaum, S Ladd, A Bockisch, J Barkhausen, R Erbel
• Molecular biology and genetics: Idiopathic restrictive cardiomyopathy in children is caused by mutations in cardiac sarcomere protein genes (8 May, 2008)

  J P Kaski, P Syrris, M Burch, M-T Tomé-Esteban, M Fenton, M Christiansen, P S Andersen, N Sebire, M Ashworth, J E Deanfield, W J McKenna, P M Elliott