1. How to repair the "human machine"

   • T. Hölzenbein

   Editorial Pages: 59 - 61

2. Editorial: The old and multimorbid patient – a challenge in cardiac surgery and cardiology

   • B. K. Podesser

   Main Topic Pages: 62 - 62

3. The ageing population – a challenge for cardiovascular surgery

   • B. K. Podesser

   Main Topic Pages: 63 - 68

4. Cardiac aging – a review

   • D. Czuriga
   • Z. Papp
   • Á. Balogh

   Main Topic Pages: 69 - 77

5. Inflammation and the cardiovascular system

   • S. Demyanets
   • K. Huber
   • J. Wojta

   Main Topic Pages: 78 - 89

6. Urgent cardiac surgery in octogenarians

   • G. Faggian
   • A. D. Milano
   • A. Mazzucco

   Main Topic Pages: 90 - 95

7. Minimally invasive mitral valve surgery in the old patient

   • L. C. Müller
   • H. Hangler
   • M. Grimm

   Main Topic Pages: 96 - 98

8. Transcatheter aortic valve implantation – TAVI: early results from the transapical approach in a multimorbid, elderly, high-risk population^*

   • Ch. Holzinger
   • B. K. Podesser
   • H. Kassal

   Main Topic Pages: 99 - 102

9. Off-pump multi-vessel revascularization in patients with poor left ventricular function^*

   • B. K. Podesser
   • Ch. Holzinger
   • H. Kassal

   Main Topic Pages: 103 - 109

10. Gene expression profiles characterizing the progression of heart failure in patients with aortic valve stenosis

    • W. M. Schmidt
    • G. Mitterer
    • B. K. Podesser

    Main Topic Pages: 110 - 119

11. Breast cancer in pregnancy

    • M. Wani
    • T. A. Dass
    • N. Wani

    Review Pages: 120 - 125

12. Book Review

    • Ludwig Ch. Müller

    Book Review Pages: 126 - 126