Annals ofCardiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 51 - July 15, 2005

Outstanding

Trends in incidence and prognosis of heart failure: You always pass failure on the way to success

Mild and moderate aortic stenosis: Natural history and risk stratification by echocardiography

Validation of coronary flow reserve measurements by thermodilution in clinical practice

Guidelines on Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Executive Summary: The Task Force on Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology

Clinical Investigation

Mild and moderate aortic stenosis: Natural history and risk stratification by echocardiography

Standard vs double dose of N-acetylcysteine to prevent contrast agent associated nephrotoxicity

Validation of coronary flow reserve measurements by thermodilution in clinical practice

Effect of fixed low-dose warfarin added to aspirin in the long term after acute myocardial infarction: the LoWASA Study

Association of oestrogen receptor alpha gene polymorphism with the angiographic extent of coronary artery disease

Diagnostic value of abnormal Q waves for identification of preclinical carriers of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy based on a molecular genetic diagnosis

Prevalence of obstructive sleep apnoea and periodic limb movement in 45 subjects with heart transplantation

The comparative prognostic value of plasma neurohormones at baseline in patients with heart failure enrolled in Val-HeFT

Decreasing one-year mortality and hospitalization rates for heart failure in Sweden: Data from the Swedish Hospital Discharge Registry 1988 to 2000

Impaired fasting glucose and cardiogenic shock in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Creatine kinase-MB elevation after percutaneous coronary intervention predicts adverse outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes

Predictors of in-hospital mortality in 1333 patients with acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI): Results of the primary PCI registry of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende K

Low-risk patients with chest pain and without evidence of myocardial infarction may be safely discharged from emergency department

The 5A/6A polymorphism of the stromelysin-1 gene and restenosis after percutaneous coronary interventions

The Metabolic Syndrome is associated with advanced vascular damage in patients with coronary heart disease, stroke, peripheral arterial disease or abdominal aortic aneurysm

Exercise reduces plasma levels of the chemokines MCP-1 and IL-8 in subjects with the metabolic syndrome

Clinical paper

Oral acetylcysteine as an adjunct to saline hydration for the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy following coronary angiography: A randomized controlled trial and review of the current literature

Clinical Review

ST segment elevation at 72 hours in patients with a first anterior myocardial infarction best correlates with pre-discharge and 1-year regional contractility and ventricular dilatation

Editorial

Neurohormones in heart failure: predicting outcomes, optimizing care

Trends in incidence and prognosis of heart failure: You always pass failure on the way to success

Angiotensin receptor blockers and heart failure: still CHARMing after VALIANT?

Sympathetic activation and sub-clinical inflammation: a new combination to identify high risk subjects

Patent foramen ovale: the jury is still out

ESC Guidelines

Guidelines on Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Infective Endocarditis Executive Summary: The Task Force on Infective Endocarditis of the European Society of Cardiology

Review

Percutaneous coronary intervention in diabetic patients with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

Erythropoietin in cardiovascular diseases