Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: The Randomised Assessment of Treatment using Panel Assay of Cardiac Markers (RATPAC) trial: a randomised controlled trial of point-of-care cardiac markers in the emergency department (30 September, 2010) Free

  Steve W Goodacre, Mike Bradburn, Elizabeth Cross, Paul Collinson, Alasdair Gray, Alistair S Hall
• Original article: Quantitative troponin and death, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest and new heart failure in patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE ACS): insights from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (12 November, 2010)

  Sanjit S Jolly, Heather Shenkman, David Brieger, Keith A Fox, Andrew T Yan, Kim A Eagle, P Gabriel Steg, Ki-Dong Lim, Ann Quill, Shaun G Goodman, for the GRACE Investigators

Obesity and the heart

• Original article: Ventricular hypertrophy and cavity dilatation in relation to body mass index in women with uncomplicated obesity (18 May, 2010)

  Oliver J Rider, Steffen E Petersen, Jane M Francis, Mohammed K Ali, Lucy E Hudsmith, Monique R Robinson, Kieran Clarke, Stefan Neubauer

Heart failure

• Original article: β-blockade with nebivolol for prevention of acute ischaemic events in elderly patients with heart failure (6 December, 2010)

  Giuseppe Ambrosio, Marcus D Flather, Michael Böhm, Alain Cohen-Solal, Adriano Murrone, Flavio Mascagni, Giulio Spinucci, Maria Giovanna Conti, Dirk J van Veldhuisen, Luigi Tavazzi, Andrew J S Coats

Sudden cardiac death

• Original article:

  Non-cardiovascular drugs that inhibit hERG-encoded potassium channels and risk of sudden cardiac death

  (20 April, 2010)

  Charlotte van Noord, Miriam C J M Sturkenboom, Sabine M J M Straus, Jacqueline C M Witteman, Bruno H Ch Stricker

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Impact of early surgery on survival of patients with severe mitral regurgitation (11 November, 2010)

  Zainab Samad, Prashant Kaul, Linda K Shaw, Donald D Glower, Eric J Velazquez, Pamela S Douglas, James G Jollis

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Associations between the atrial electromechanical interval, atrial remodelling and outcome of catheter ablation in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (13 December, 2010)

  Tze-Fan Chao, Shih-Hsien Sung, Kang-Ling Wang, Yenn-Jiang Lin, Shih-Lin Chang, Li-Wei Lo, Yu-Feng Hu, Ta-Chuan Tuan, Kazuyoshi Suenari, Cheng-Hung Li, Kuo-Chang Ueng, Tsu-Juey Wu, Shih-Ann Chen

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Relationship between temporal sequence of right ventricular deformation and right ventricular performance in patients with corrected tetralogy of Fallot (6 December, 2010)

  Annelies E van der Hulst, Arno A W Roest, Victoria Delgado, Eduard R Holman, Albert de Roos, Nico A Blom, Jeroen J Bax