1. Prior coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients undergoing diagnostic coronary angiography have multiple uncontrolled coronary artery disease risk factors and high risk for cardiovascular events

   • Dustin M. Boatman
   • Bilal Saeed
   • Emmanouil S. Brilakis

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 241 - 246

2. Serum myeloperoxidase level predicts reperfusion in patients with myocardial infarction receiving thrombolytic therapy

   • Bilgehan Karadag
   • Bulent Vatan
   • Vural Ali Vural

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 247 - 253

3. Presence of irregularity in region between −1115 and −784 nt in P1 promoter of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 gene may indicate beneficial effect on coronary arteries in a group of patients with stable angina: preliminary data

   • Pawel Burchardt
   • Witold Nowak
   • Tomasz Siminiak

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 254 - 259

4. Expression of heat shock proteins and nitrotyrosine in small arteries from patients with coronary heart disease

   • Anton Paier
   • Stefan Agewall
   • Karolina Kublickiene

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 260 - 266

5. Baseline inflammation is not predictive of periprocedural troponin elevation after elective percutaneous coronary intervention

   • Olivier Gach
   • Olivier Louis
   • Victor Legrand

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 267 - 270

6. Interleukin-6 is a stronger prognostic predictor than high-sensitive C-reactive protein in patients with chronic stable heart failure

   • Borut Jug
   • Barbara Gužič Salobir
   • Irena Keber

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 271 - 276

7. Improved left and right ventricular functions with trimetazidine in patients with heart failure: a tissue Doppler study

   • Yilmaz Gunes
   • Unal Guntekin
   • Musa Sahin

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 277 - 282

8. Interleukin-2 enhances the cytotoxic activity of circulating natural killer cells in patients with chronic heart failure

   • Heng-Chen Yao
   • Shu-Qin Liu
   • Le-Xin Wang

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 283 - 286

9. Treatment strategy and clinical outcome in Japanese patients with atrial fibrillation

   • Shinya Suzuki
   • Takeshi Yamashita
   • Tadanori Aizawa

   Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 287 - 293

10. Olmesartan ameliorates myocardial function independent of blood pressure control in patients with mild-to-moderate hypertension

    • Rie Futai
    • Takahide Ito
    • Yasushi Kitaura

    Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 294 - 300

11. Influence of T-calcium channel blocker treatment on deterioration of renal function in chronic kidney disease

    • Kiyotsugu Omae
    • Tetsuya Ogawa
    • Kosaku Nitta

    Original Article 22 July 2009 Pages: 301 - 307

12. Late stent malapposition with marked positive vascular remodeling observed only at the site of drug-eluting stents after multivessel coronary stenting

    • Yusuke Watanabe
    • Ryuta Asano
    • Tetsuya Sumiyoshi

    Case Report 22 July 2009 Pages: 308 - 312

13. Different vascular response to concurrent implantation of sirolimus- and zotarolimus-eluting stents in the same vessel

    • Plinio Cirillo
    • Salvatore De Rosa
    • Massimo Chiariello

    Case Report 22 July 2009 Pages: 313 - 316

14. Transverse shifting of the esophagus according to the patient’s position helped achieve a safe and successful pulmonary vein isolation procedure

    • Koichiro Ejima
    • Morio Shoda
    • Hiroshi Kasanuki

    Case Report 22 July 2009 Pages: 317 - 319