Table of contents

Original articles

Myocarditis

• Original article: Development of diastolic heart failure in a 6-year follow-up study in patients after acute myocarditis (5 December, 2010) Free

  Felicitas Escher, Dirk Westermann, Regina Gaub, Johannes Pronk, Thomas Bock, Nidal Al-Saadi, Uwe Kühl, Heinz-Peter Schultheiss, Carsten Tschöpe

Coronary artery disease

• Original article: Expression of HMG-CoA reductase in human coronary atherosclerotic plaques and relationship to plaque destabilisation (19 July, 2010)

  Cheol Whan Lee, Chan-Sik Park, Ilseon Hwang, Youngji Kim, Duk-Woo Park, Soo-Jin Kang, Seung-Hwan Lee, Young-Hak Kim, Seong-Wook Park, Seung-Jung Park

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Measurement of aortic valve calcification using multislice computed tomography: correlation with haemodynamic severity of aortic stenosis and clinical implication for patients with low ejection fraction (18 August, 2010)

  Caroline Cueff, Jean-Michel Serfaty, Claire Cimadevilla, Jean-Pierre Laissy, Dominique Himbert, Florence Tubach, Xavier Duval, Bernard Iung, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Alec Vahanian, David Messika-Zeitoun

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: Use of cardiovascular magnetic resonance for risk stratification in chronic heart failure: prognostic value of late gadolinium enhancement in patients with non-ischaemic dilated cardiomyopathy (20 November, 2010)

  Stephanie Lehrke, Dirk Lossnitzer, Michael Schöb, Henning Steen, Constanze Merten, Helmut Kemmling, Regina Pribe, Philipp Ehlermann, Christian Zugck, Grigorios Korosoglou, Evangelos Giannitsis, Hugo A Katus
• Original article: Fractalkine in human inflammatory cardiomyopathy (25 February, 2011)

  F Escher, R Vetter, U Kühl, D Westermann, H-P Schultheiss, C Tschöpe

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Radiofrequency ablation for persistent atrial fibrillation in patients with advanced heart failure and severe left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a randomised controlled trial (4 November, 2010)

  Michael R MacDonald, Derek T Connelly, Nathaniel M Hawkins, Tracey Steedman, John Payne, Morag Shaw, Martin Denvir, Sai Bhagra, Sandy Small, William Martin, John J V McMurray, Mark C Petrie

Cardiovascular imaging

• Original article: Layer-specific analysis of myocardial function for accurate prediction of reversible ischaemic dysfunction in intermediate viability defined by contrast-enhanced MRI (17 March, 2011)

  Michael Becker, Ertunc Altiok, Christina Lente, Susanne Otten, Zvi Friedman, Dan Adam, Renate Hoffmann, Ralf Koos, Gabriele Krombach, Nikolaus Marx, Rainer Hoffmann
• Original article: Effects of myocardial ischaemia on left ventricular untwist and filling pressure (17 February, 2011)

  Willis Lam, Rodel Leano, Brian Haluska, Thomas H Marwick