1. Editor-in-Chief: thank you and farewell

   • Gian Franco Gensini

   Editor's Page 12 May 2009 Pages: 187 - 187

2. Should lung scan be abandoned for pulmonary embolism diagnosis in the age of multislice spiral CT? Yes

   • Edwin J. R. van Beek

   IM - Debate 18 April 2009 Pages: 189 - 191

3. Should lung scan be abandoned for pulmonary embolism diagnosis in the age of multislice spiral CT? No

   • Massimo Miniati
   • Simonetta Monti

   IM - Debate 28 April 2009 Pages: 193 - 194

   

4. Contemporary issues on clopidogrel therapy: a critical appraisal

   • Davide Capodanno
   • Dominick J. Angiolillo

   IM - Commentary 31 March 2009 Pages: 195 - 198

   

5. What does the Italian population think about colorectal screening?

   • Francesco Di Costanzo

   IM - Commentary 23 April 2009 Pages: 199 - 200

6. Contemporary issues on clopidogrel therapy

   • Giuseppe Patti
   • Germano Di Sciascio

   IM - Review 08 January 2009 Pages: 201 - 211

   

7. Attitude of the Italian general population towards prevention and screening of the most common tumors, with special emphasis on colorectal malignancies

   • Federica Domati
   • Estratios Travlos
   • Maurizio Ponz de Leon

   IM - Original 20 September 2008 Pages: 213 - 220

   

8. Usefulness of procalcitonin for diagnosis of infective endocarditis

   • Matjaz Jereb
   • Tadeja Kotar
   • Tatjana Lejko Zupanc

   IM - Original 09 April 2009 Pages: 221 - 226

   

9. Hypothermia: an under-estimated risk

   • Costantino Caroselli
   • Alberto Gabrieli
   • Guglielmo Bruno

   IM - Case Record 19 February 2009 Pages: 227 - 230

10. Keep an eye on the pupil: developing countries under chemical attack

    • Husni Al-Goshae
    • Mahdy Al-Karewany
    • Pietro Amedeo Modesti

    IM - Physical Examination 15 April 2009 Pages: 231 - 233

11. Is every chest pain a cardiac event?

    • Sahoo Saddichha
    • Mukul Kumar Saxena

    EM - Original 15 April 2009 Pages: 235 - 239

    

12. Usefulness of simplified acute physiology score II in predicting mortality in patients admitted to an emergency medicine ward

    • Roberto Cosentini
    • Christian Folli
    • Anna Maria Brambilla

    EM - Original 23 April 2009 Pages: 241 - 247

    

13. Acute effects of positive end-expiratory pressure on left ventricle diastolic function in healthy subjects

    • Alberto Maestroni
    • Stefano Aliberti
    • Roberto Cosentini

    EM - Original 29 April 2009 Pages: 249 - 254

    

14. Systematic reviews of diagnostic test accuracy and the Cochrane collaboration

    • Gianni Virgili
    • Andrea A. Conti
    • Roberto Gusinu

    CE - Cochrane's Corner 09 April 2009 Pages: 255 - 258

15. New evidence in public health and general practice

    • Andrea Alberto Conti
    • Beatrice Dilaghi
    • Carlo Nozzoli

    CE - The Cutting Edge: Research Update 31 March 2009 Pages: 259 - 261

16. Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in heart failure: from ugly duckling to swan

    • Damiano Magrì
    • Massimo Volpe

    CE - Letter to the Editor 04 March 2009 Pages: 263 - 264

17. The ugly duckling and the swan

    • Angela Beatrice Scardovi
    • Renata De Maria

    CE - Letter to the Editor 12 May 2009 Pages: 265 - 266

18. Is catheter-related thrombosis after cardiac surgery clinically relevant?

    • Alessandro Squizzato
    • Elisa Manfredi
    • Victor E. Gerdes

    CE - Letter to the Editor 19 March 2009 Pages: 267 - 268

19. Is there any novelty on the horizon of heart failure management in internal medicine? The evaluation of body fluid accumulation

    • Gaspare Parrinello
    • Daniele Torres
    • Giuseppe Licata

    CE - Letter to the Editor 31 March 2009 Pages: 269 - 270

20. Management of intradialytic hypertension: old problem, old drug?

    • Emanuela Rizzioli
    • Elena Incasa
    • Roberto Manfredini

    CE - Letter to the Editor 15 April 2009 Pages: 271 - 272