1. B-type natriuretic peptide levels in patients with paroxysmal lone atrial fibrillation

   • Jingtian Li
   • Lexin Wang

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 137 - 140

2. Safety of gadodiamide mixed with a small quantity of iohexol in patients with impaired renal function undergoing coronary angiography

   • Cem Barcin
   • Hurkan Kursaklioglu
   • Ersoy Isik

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 141 - 145

3. Preprocedural statin therapy reduces the risk and extent of cardiac biomarker release following percutaneous coronary intervention

   • Josef Veselka
   • Šárka Procházková
   • Kevin A. Bybee

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 146 - 151

4. The acute cardioprotective effect of glucocorticoid in myocardial ischemia–reperfusion injury occurring during cardiopulmonary bypass

   • Yavuz Enc
   • Pelin Karaca
   • Sertac Cicek

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 152 - 156

5. Is the coronary flow velocity reserve improvement after aortic valve replacement for aortic stenosis transient? Results of a 3-year follow-up

   • Attila Nemes
   • Tamás Forster
   • Miklós Csanády

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 157 - 161

6. Effects of verapamil and nifedipine on different parameters in lipopolysaccharide-induced septic shock

   • Basar Sirmagul
   • Fatma Sultan Kilic
   • Kevser Erol

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 162 - 168

7. Inhalation of nebulized nitroglycerin, a nitric oxide donor, for the treatment of pulmonary hypertension induced by high pulmonary blood flow

   • Kan Puikuan
   • Zhang Chunyu
   • Du Junbao

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 169 - 179

8. Autologous bone marrow cell transplantation improves left ventricular function in rabbit hearts with cardiomyopathy via myocardial regeneration-unrelated mechanisms

   • Chuanjiang Lu
   • Masazumi Arai
   • Hisayoshi Fujiwara

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 180 - 187

9. A permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia with an atypically located accessory pathway successfully ablated from within the middle cardiac vein

   • Basri Amasyali
   • Sedat Kose
   • Ersoy Isik

   CASE REPORT Pages: 188 - 191

10. Left ventricular aneurysm associated with isolated noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium

    • Yuichi Sato
    • Naoya Matsumoto
    • Yasushi Koyama

    CASE REPORT Pages: 192 - 194

11. Noncompaction of the ventricular myocardium combined with polycystic kidney disease

    • Jae-Youn Moon
    • Namsik Chung
    • Se-Joong Rim

    CASE REPORT Pages: 195 - 198

12. Acrobatic vascular disease

    • Jerzy Wojciuk
    • Roger W. Bury
    • Michael J. Brack

    GRAPHIC REPORT Pages: 199 - 200

13. Myocardial and skeletal muscle biopsy in left ventricular hypertrabeculation/noncompaction

    • Josef Finsterer
    • Claudia Stöllberger
    • Gerhard Blazek

    LETTER TO THE EDITOR Pages: 201 - 203