1. Are cardiovascular diseases a subspeciality of clinical immunology?

   • Pier Luigi Meroni
   • Piersandro Riboldi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 243 - 245

2. Cardiac involvement in systemic autoimmune diseases

   • Piersandro Riboldi
   • Maria Gerosa
   • Luca Catelli

   OriginalPaper Pages: 247 - 261

3. Anti-inflammatory and immunomodulating properties of statins

   • Pier Luigi Meroni
   • Cristina Luzzana
   • Donatella Ventura

   OriginalPaper Pages: 263 - 277

4. Neonatal lupus

   • Antonio Brucato
   • Rolando Cimaz
   • Marco Stramba-Badiale

   OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 299

5. Autoimmune mechanisms as the basis for human peripartum cardiomyopathy

   • Aftab A. Ansari
   • James D. Fett
   • J. Bruce Sundstrom

   OriginalPaper Pages: 301 - 324

6. Chronic heart failure and the immune system

   • Daniela Mari
   • Federica Di Berardino
   • Massimo Cugno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 325 - 340

7. Cardiac valvulopathy in the antiphospholipid syndrome

   • Shaul Lev
   • Yehuda Shoenfeld

   OriginalPaper Pages: 341 - 348