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Original articles

Cardiovascular surgery

• Aspirin plus clopidogrel for optimal platelet inhibition following off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: results from the CRYSSA (prevention of Coronary arteRY bypaSS occlusion After off-pump procedures) randomised study (2 September, 2012)

  Vito Antonio Mannacio, Luigi Di Tommaso, Anita Antignan, Vincenzo De Amicis, Carlo Vosa

Coronary artery disease

• In vivo measurement of plaque neovascularisation and thermal heterogeneity in intermediate lesions of human carotid arteries (26 September, 2012)

  Konstantinos Toutouzas, Maria Drakopoulou, Constantina Aggeli, Charalampia Nikolaou, Ioannis Felekos, Haralampos Grassos, Andreas Synetos, Konstantinos Stathogiannis, Antonis Karanasos, Eleftherios Tsiamis, Elias Siores, Christodoulos Stefanadis

Acute coronary syndromes

• Safety and feasibility of hospital discharge 2 days following primary percutaneous intervention for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (10 October, 2012)

  Daniel A Jones, Krishnaraj S Rathod, James Philip Howard, Sean Gallagher, Sotiris Antoniou, Rodney De Palma, Oliver Guttmann, Samantha Cliffe, Judith Colley, Jane Butler, Eileen Ferguson, Saidi Mohiddin, Akhil Kapur, Charles J Knight, Ajay K Jain, Martin T Rothman, Anthony Mathur, Adam D Timmis, Elliot J Smith, Andrew Wragg
• Trends and predictors of rehospitalisation following an acute coronary syndrome: report from the Australian and New Zealand population of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) (25 September, 2012) Free

  Prashanthi V Sangu, Isuru Ranasinghe, Bernadette Aliprandi Costa, Gerard Devlin, John Elliot, Jeffery Lefkovitz, David Brieger
• Prevalence, predictors and clinical impact of unique and multiple chronic total occlusion in non-infarct-related artery in patients presenting with ST-elevation myocardial infarction (26 September, 2012)

  Yoann Bataille, Jean-Pierre Déry, Éric Larose, Ugo Déry, Olivier Costerousse, Josep Rodés-Cabau, Stéphane Rinfret, Robert De Larochellière, Eltigani Abdelaal, Jimmy Machaalany, Gérald Barbeau, Louis Roy, Olivier F Bertrand
• Symptom onset-to-balloon time and mortality in the first seven years after STEMI treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (28 September, 2012)

  Daniela Rollando, Enrico Puggioni, Stefano Robotti, Angelo De Lisi, Maura Ferrari Bravo, Adriana Vardanega, Ivo Pattaro, Federica De Benedetti, Michele Brignole