1. The year in Clinical Research in Cardiology

   • Michael Böhm
   • Hugo Katus

   EDITORIAL 14 March 2009 Pages: 205 - 207

   

2. Clinical characteristics of patients with drug-induced QT interval prolongation and torsade de pointes: identification of risk factors

   • Konstantinos P. Letsas
   • Michalis Efremidis
   • Fotis Kardaras

   ORIGINAL PAPER 24 November 2008 Pages: 208 - 212

3. Incremental predictive value of pre-procedural N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide for short-term recurrence in atrial fibrillation ablation

   • Hye Jin Hwang
   • Jung Woo Son
   • Sung Soon Kim

   ORIGINAL PAPER 19 February 2009 Pages: 213 - 218

   

4. The basic pacing rate in CRT patients: the higher the better?

   • Frederik Voss
   • Ruediger Becker
   • Alexander Bauer

   ORIGINAL PAPER 13 February 2009 Pages: 219 - 223

   

5. Clinical variables affecting survival in patients with decompensated diastolic versus systolic heart failure

   • Oleg Gorelik
   • Dorit Almoznino-Sarafian
   • Natan Cohen

   ORIGINAL PAPER 13 February 2009 Pages: 224 - 232

   

6. Prognostic value of heart rate variability and ventricular arrhythmias during 13-year follow-up in patients with mild to moderate heart failure

   • Tom D. J. Smilde
   • Dirk J. van Veldhuisen
   • Maarten P. van den Berg

   ORIGINAL PAPER 13 February 2009 Pages: 233 - 239

   

7. A novel approach to define risk of stent thrombosis after percutaneous coronary intervention with drug-eluting stents: the DERIVATION score

   • Davide Capodanno
   • Piera Capranzano
   • Corrado Tamburino

   ORIGINAL PAPER 13 February 2009 Pages: 240 - 248

   

8. Risk factor profile, management and prognosis of patients with peripheral arterial disease with or without coronary artery disease: results of the prospective German REACH registry cohort

   • Uwe Zeymer
   • Klaus G. Parhofer
   • Joachim Röther

   ORIGINAL PAPER 16 February 2009 Pages: 249 - 256

   

9. Immediate versus delayed angioplasty in infarct-related arteries with TIMI III flow and ST segment recovery: a matched comparison in acute myocardial infarction patients

   • Nicolas Meneveau
   • Marie France Séronde
   • Jean-Pierre Bassand

   ORIGINAL PAPER 09 February 2009 Pages: 257 - 264

   

10. Significant improvement of right ventricular function by imatinib mesylate in scleroderma-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension

    • Henrik ten Freyhaus
    • Daniel Dumitrescu
    • Stephan Rosenkranz

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 13 February 2009 Pages: 265 - 267

    

11. Persistent left superior vena cava: an unusual but conquerable obstacle in device implantation

    • Stefan Asbach
    • Jürgen Biermann
    • Thomas S. Faber

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 13 February 2009 Pages: 268 - 270

    

12. Pioglitazone-induced heart failure in a patient with restrictive cardiomyopathy and metabolic myopathy

    • Josef Finsterer
    • Claudia Stöllberger

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 09 February 2009 Pages: 271 - 274

    

13. Transcatheter closure of a ventricular septal defect adjacent to a post infarction aneurysm using an atrial septal defect occluder

    • Uta C. Hoppe
    • Mathias Emmel
    • Narayanswami Sreeram

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 13 February 2009 Pages: 275 - 277

    

14. Cervical esophageal perforation by transesophageal echocardiography probe detected during coronary artery bypass grafting

    • Torsten Bossert
    • Markus Paxian
    • Khosro Hekmat

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 13 February 2009 Pages: 278 - 279

    

15. Pseudoaneurysm of left ventricular following left ventricular apical venting

    • Sakir Arslan
    • Bilgehan Erkut
    • Sule Karakelleoglu

    CLINICAL CORRESPONDENCE 13 February 2009 Pages: 280 - 282

    

16. Biventricular repair despite hypoplastic tricuspid valve and right ventricle

    • Bert Nagel
    • Albrecht Beitzke
    • Martin Koestenberger

    LETTER TO THE EDITORS 13 February 2009 Pages: 283 - 283