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Original articles

• Acute coronary syndromes: Relationship of QRS duration at baseline and changes over 60 min after fibrinolysis to 30-day mortality with different locations of ST elevation myocardial infarction: results from the Hirulog and Early Reperfusion or Occlusion-2 trial (15 December, 2008)

  C-K Wong, W Gao, R A H Stewart, J K French, P E G Aylward, H D White
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Pathological role of angiostatin in heart failure: an endogenous inhibitor of mesenchymal stem-cell activation (18 December, 2008)

  K Yamahara, K D Min, H Tomoike, K Kangawa, S Kitamura, N Nagaya
• Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Determinants of left ventricular untwisting behaviour in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy: analysis by two-dimensional speckle tracking (18 September, 2008)

  M Saito, H Okayama, K Nishimura, A Ogimoto, T Ohtsuka, K Inoue, G Hiasa, T Sumimoto, J Funada, Y Shigematsu, J Higaki
• Coronary artery disease: Limited utilities of N-terminal pro B-type natriuretic peptide and other newer risk markers compared with traditional risk factors for prediction of significant angiographic lesions in stable coronary artery disease (15 August, 2008) Free

  A Peer, G Falkensammer, H Alber, A Kroiss, A Griesmacher, H Ulmer, O Pachinger, J Mair
• Coronary artery disease: Improving long-term outcomes following coronary artery bypass graft or percutaneous coronary revascularisation: results from a large, population-based cohort with first intervention 1995–2004 (10 November, 2008)

  H M Blackledge, I B Squire
• Pulmonary hypertension: Treatment and survival in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension: the UK Pulmonary Hypertension Service for Children 2001–2006 (24 October, 2008)

  S G Haworth, A A Hislop
• Pulmonary hypertension: Gender differences in the long-term outcomes after valve replacement surgery (24 July, 2008)

  A Kulik, B-K Lam, F D Rubens, P J Hendry, R G Masters, W Goldstein, P Bédard, T G Mesana, M Ruel