Table of contents

Original articles

Acute coronary syndromes

• Original article: Performance of angiographic, electrocardiographic and MRI methods to assess the area at risk in acute myocardial infarction (19 September, 2011)

  Mathijs O Versteylen, Sebastiaan C A M Bekkers, Martijn W Smulders, Bjorn Winkens, Casper Mihl, Mark H M Winkens, Tim Leiner, Johannes L Waltenberger, Raymond J Kim, Anton P M Gorgels

Cardiomyopathy

• Original article: The long-term survival and the risks and benefits of implantable cardioverter defibrillators in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (13 July, 2011)

  Constantinos O'Mahony, Pier D Lambiase, Giovanni Quarta, Montserrat Cardona, Margherita Calcagnino, Konstantinos Tsovolas, Shereen Al-Shaikh, Shafiqur M Rahman, Samer Arnous, Sue Jones, William McKenna, Perry Elliott

Valvular heart disease

• Original article: Acute haemodynamic changes after percutaneous mitral valve repair: relation to mid-term outcomes (7 October, 2011) Free

  Oliver Gaemperli, Marco Moccetti, Daniel Surder, Patric Biaggi, David Hurlimann, Oliver Kretschmar, Ines Buehler, Dominique Bettex, Christian Felix, Thomas F Luscher, Volkmar Falk, Jurg Grunenfelder, Roberto Corti

Heart rhythm disorders

• Original article: Type 2 diabetes, glucose homeostasis and incident atrial fibrillation: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study (19 September, 2011)

  Rachel R Huxley, Alvaro Alonso, Faye L Lopez, Kristian B Filion, Sunil K Agarwal, Laura R Loehr, Elsayed Z Soliman, James S Pankow, Elizabeth Selvin

Interventional cardiology

• Original article: Association of cytochrome P450 2C19*2 polymorphism with clopidogrel response variability and cardiovascular events in Koreans treated with drug-eluting stents (23 June, 2011)

  Il-Young Oh, Kyung Woo Park, Si-Hyuk Kang, Jin Joo Park, Sang-Hoon Na, Hyun-Jae Kang, Bon-Kwon Koo, Young-Hoon Jeong, Jin-Yong Hwang, Choong Hwan Kwak, Yongwhi Park, Seok-Jae Hwang, Young-Guk Ko, Dong Jik Shin, Yangsoo Jang, Hyo-Soo Kim

Congenital heart disease

• Original article: Maternal cardiovascular events during childbirth among women with congenital heart disease (11 October, 2011)

  Alexander R Opotowsky, Omar K Siddiqi, Benjamin D'Souza, Gary D Webb, Susan M Fernandes, Michael J Landzberg

Biomarkers and heart disease

• Original article: The effect of glycosylation on plasma N-terminal proBNP-76 levels in patients with heart or renal failure (30 June, 2011)

  Toshio Nishikimi, Masashi Ikeda, Yosuke Takeda, Toshihiko Ishimitsu, Ikuko Shibasaki, Hirotsugu Fukuda, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Yasuaki Nakagawa, Koichiro Kuwahara, Kazuwa Nakao