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Original articles

• Interventional cardiology: Comparison of inflammatory markers and angiographic outcomes after implantation of sirolimus and paclitaxel-eluting stents (4 September, 2008)

  W C Kang, T H Ahn, C I Moon, S H Han, E K Shin, J-S Kim, Y-G Ko, D Choi, Y Jang, B-K Kim, S J Oh, D W Jeon, J-Y Yang
• Valvular heart disease: Rupture of mitral chordae tendineae: adding to the list of hypertension complications (15 February, 2009)

  J J-M Juang, S-R Ke, J-L Lin, J-J Hwang, K-L Hsu, F-T Chiang, C-D Tseng, Y-Z Tseng, J-J Chen, F-C Hu, Y-T Lin, L-P Lai
• Systemic disease and the heart: Disease chronicity and activity predict subclinical left ventricular systolic dysfunction in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (23 February, 2009)

  G W-K Yip, Q Shang, L-S Tam, Q Zhang, E K-M Li, J W-H Fung, C-M Yu
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Interatrial dyssynchrony on tissue Doppler imaging predicts progression to chronic atrial fibrillation in patients with non-valvular paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (5 March, 2009) Free

  K Sakabe, N Fukuda, Y Fukuda, S Morishita, H Shinohara, Y Tamura
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Prophylactic cavotricuspid isthmus block during atrial fibrillation ablation in patients without atrial flutter: a randomised controlled trial (3 March, 2009)

  J Pontoppidan, J C Nielsen, S H Poulsen, H K Jensen, H Walfridsson, A K Pedersen, P S Hansen
• Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: The prognosis of patients with atrial fibrillation is improved when sinus rhythm is restored: report from the Stockholm Cohort of Atrial Fibrillation (SCAF) (19 March, 2009)

  L Friberg, N Hammar, N Edvardsson, M Rosenqvist
• Epidemiology: Smoking in relation to ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction: findings from the Register of Information and Knowledge about Swedish Heart Intensive Care Admissions (28 May, 2009)

  L Björck, A Rosengren, L Wallentin, U Stenestrand
• Cardiac rehabilitation: Effect of cardiac rehabilitation on angiogenic cytokines in postinfarction patients (19 March, 2009)

  B-C Lee, H-C Hsu, W-Y I Tseng, M-Y M Su, S-Y Chen, Y-W Wu, K-L Chien, M-F Chen