Assessment of left atrial volume: a focus on echocardiographic methods and clinical implications

Chee W. Khoo, Suresh Krishnamoorthy, Hoong Sern Lim, Gregory Y. H. Lip

Adaptive servoventilation improves cardiac function and respiratory stability

Olaf Oldenburg, Thomas Bitter, Roman Lehmann, Stefan Korte, Zisis Dimitriadis, Lothar Faber, Anke Schmidt, Nina Westerheide, Dieter Horstkotte

Time between first symptoms and diagnosis in patients with acute pulmonary embolism: are patients with recurrent episodes diagnosed earlier?

Thomas M. Berghaus, W. von Scheidt, M. Schwaiblmair

Ivabradine for the treatment of stable angina pectoris in octogenarians

Ralf Koester, Jan Kaehler, Thomas Meinertz

Functional effects of β1-adrenoceptor polymorphisms on the hemodynamic response to dobutamine with and without β-blocker administration

Michael Kindermann, Ute Seeland, Patrick Ruhnke, Michael Böhm, Christoph Maack

Drug-eluting versus bare-metal stents in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: a mortality analysis from the EUROTRANSFER Registry

Artur Dziewierz, Zbigniew Siudak, Tomasz Rakowski, Ralf Birkemeyer, Waldemar Mielecki, Paweł Ranosz, Jacek S. Dubiel, Dariusz Dudek

Rosuvastatin induces apoptosis in CD4+CD28null T cells in patients with acute coronary syndromes

Andreas Link, Simina Selejan, Lisa Hewera, Felix Walter, Georg Nickenig, Michael Böhm

Impact of oxygen uptake efficiency slope as a marker of cardiorespiratory reserve on response to cardiac resynchronization therapy

Thomas Berger, Ralf Harun Zwick, Markus Stuehlinger, Wolfgang Dichtl, Gerhard Poelzl, Michael Edlinger, Otmar Pachinger, Florian Hintringer

New-onset versus chronic atrial fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction: differences in short- and long-term follow-up

Petra Maagh, Thomas Butz, Ingo Wickenbrock, Magnus Wilhelm Prull, Gunnar Plehn, Hans-Joachim Trappe, Axel Meissner

Severe traumatic tricuspid insufficiency detected 10 years after blunt chest trauma

M. Y. Emmert, R. Pretre, S. Suendermann, B. Weber, D. A. Bettex, S. P. Hoerstrup, V. Falk

Apparent short PR interval during atrial tachycardia: what is the mechanism?

Yan Huo, Philipp Sommer, Sergio Richter, Arash Arya

Galectin-3-independent prognosis in heart failure

Francisco Javier Carrasco Sánchez

Acknowledgement to the referees