1. Decreased plasma concentrations of adiponectin in patients with slow coronary flow

   • Hatice Selcuk
   • Mehmet Timur Selcuk
   • Ali Sasmaz

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 1 - 7

2. Comparison of myocardial performance index obtained either by conventional echocardiography or tissue Doppler echocardiography in healthy subjects and patients with heart failure

   • Mehmet Akif Duzenli
   • Kurtulus Ozdemir
   • Hasan Gök

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 8 - 15

3. Comparative effects of levosimendan and dobutamine on right ventricular function in patients with biventricular heart failure

   • Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz
   • Can Yontar
   • Izzet Tandogan

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 16 - 21

4. Chronic systemic inflammation accompanies impaired ventricular diastolic function, detected by Doppler imaging, in patients with newly diagnosed systolic heart failure (Hellenic Heart Failure Study)

   • Christina Chrysohoou
   • Christos Pitsavos
   • Christodoulos Stefanadis

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 22 - 26

5. Alcohol septal ablation for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: ultra-low dose of alcohol (1 ml) is still effective

   • Josef Veselka
   • David Zemánek
   • Kateřina Linhartová

   OriginalPaper 23 January 2009 Pages: 27 - 31

6. Right atrial spontaneous echo contrast indicates a high incidence of perfusion defects in pulmonary scintigraphy in patients with atrial fibrillation

   • Yoshinori Yasuoka
   • Johji Naito
   • Yukihiro Koretsune

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 32 - 36

7. Left ventricular mass regression following implantation of MIRA bileaflet valves in patients with severe aortic stenosis

   • Stefan Toggweiler
   • Michel Zuber
   • Peter Stulz

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 37 - 40

8. Ventricular energetics in aortic root replacement for annuloaortic ectasia with aortic regurgitation

   • Yoshihisa Tanoue
   • Yukihiro Tomita
   • Ryuji Tominaga

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 41 - 45

9. Echocardiographic and electrocardiographic analyses of patients with severe motor and intellectual disabilities

   • Keiichi Hirono
   • Tohru Konishi
   • Toshio Miyawaki

   Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 46 - 53

10. Altered expression of Na⁺ transporters at the mRNA level in rat normal and hypertrophic myocardium

    • Taku Yamamoto
    • Takeshi Shirayama
    • Hiroaki Matsubara

    Original Article 23 January 2009 Pages: 54 - 62

11. Naxos disease presenting with ventricular tachycardia and troponin elevation

    • George Lazaros
    • Aris Anastasakis
    • Christodoulos Stefanadis

    Case Report 23 January 2009 Pages: 63 - 65

12. Regression of a thrombosed persistent sciatic artery aneurysm

    • Tatsuya Sasaki
    • Yoshino Mitsunaga
    • Kunihiro Yoshioka

    Case Report 23 January 2009 Pages: 66 - 69

13. A new technique to avoid the intraoperative complications of septal myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    • Oguz Omay
    • Emre Ozker
    • Ilhan Ozgol

    Short Communication 23 January 2009 Pages: 70 - 72