1. Genetics and heritability of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction

   • Björn Mayer
   • Jeanette Erdmann
   • Heribert Schunkert

   REVIEW 10 October 2006 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Opposite effects of vascular irradiation on inflammatory response and apoptosis induction in the vessel wall layers via the peroxynitrite-poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase pathway

   • Carsten J. Beller
   • Eszter Horvath
   • Gábor Szabó

   ORIGINAL PAPER 10 October 2006 Pages: 8 - 16

3. Superior vena cava stenting and transvenous pacemaker implantation (stent and pace) after the Mustard operation

   • Mathias Emmel
   • Narayanswami Sreeram
   • Gerardus Bennink

   ORIGINAL PAPER 30 October 2006 Pages: 17 - 22

4. Prevalence and prognostic impact of comorbidities in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis

   • Christian Bruch
   • Daniela Kauling
   • Thomas Wichter

   ORIGINAL PAPER 30 October 2006 Pages: 23 - 29

5. A prospective cohort study of prognostic power of N-terminal probrain natriuretic peptide in patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

   • Gjin Ndrepepa
   • Siegmund Braun
   • Adnan Kastrati

   ORIGINAL PAPER 30 October 2006 Pages: 30 - 37

6. Isolated parachute mitral valve as an incidental finding in an asymptomatic hypertensive adult

   • Dimitrios Patsouras
   • Panagiotis Korantzopoulos
   • Konstantinos Siogas

   CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 30 October 2006 Pages: 38 - 41

7. Subclavian vein thrombosis and backpacking

   • Norbert Schön
   • C. Netzsch
   • K. Kröger

   CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 14 December 2006 Pages: 42 - 44

8. Surgical treatment of multiple atherosclerotic coronary artery aneurysms in a patient presenting with acute myocardial infarction

   • Anas Aboud
   • Torsten Bossert
   • Jan Gummert

   CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 30 October 2006 Pages: 45 - 48

9. Ortner's syndrome associated with aortic arch aneurysm

   • O. Gulel
   • M. Elmali
   • B. Tascanov

   CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE Pages: 49 - 50

10. Bacterial endocarditis of a recanalized Waterston-Cooley anastomosis –

    • Christian Apitz
    • Claudia Ambrock
    • Michael Hofbeck

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 30 October 2006 Pages: 51 - 55

11. Cryoablation of an anteroseptal accessory pathway

    • Georg Grossmann
    • Patrick Stiller
    • Sascha Stiller

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 08 December 2006 Pages: 56 - 59