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Editorials:

David J Grieve and Ajay M Shah
Oxidative stress in heart failure: More than just damage
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2161-2163. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kai C Wollert and Helmut Drexler
Growth hormone and proinflammatory cytokine activation in heart failure: Just a new verse to an old sirens’ song?
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2164-2165. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Andrew D. Blann, Sunil K. Nadar, and Gregory Y.H. Lip
The adhesion molecule P-selectin and cardiovascular disease
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2166-2179. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical research:

Kunihiko Kameda, Toshiro Matsunaga, Naoki Abe, Hiroyuki Hanada, Hiroshi Ishizaka, Hirotsugu Ono, Masayuki Saitoh, Kozo Fukui, Ikuo Fukuda, Tomohiro Osanai, and Ken Okumura
Correlation of oxidative stress with activity of matrix metalloproteinase in patients with coronary artery disease: Possible role for left ventricular remodelling
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2180-2185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stamatis Adamopoulos, John T. Parissis, Ioannis Paraskevaidis, Dimitrios Karatzas, Efthimios Livanis, Michael Georgiadis, George Karavolias, Dimitrios Mitropoulos, Dimitrios Degiannis, and Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos
Effects of growth hormone on circulating cytokine network, and left ventricular contractile performance and geometry in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2186-2196. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clair E.D. Chilvers, Rebecca C. Knibb, Sarah J. Armstrong, Kent L. Woods, and Richard F.A. Logan
Post menopausal hormone replacement therapy and risk of acute myocardial infarction — a case control study of women in the East Midlands, UK
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2197-2205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kim M. Fox, Udho Thadani, Patrick T.S. Ma, Stephen D. Nash, Zoe Keating, Michael A. Czorniak, Hunter Gillies, and Mátyás Keltai on behalf of the CAESAR I investigators
Sildenafil citrate does not reduce exercise tolerance in men with erectile dysfunction and chronic stable angina
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2206-2212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Phillip E. Gates, Hirofumi Tanaka, Jayne Graves, and Douglas R. Seals
Left ventricular structure and diastolic function with human ageing: Relation to habitual exercise and arterial stiffness
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2213-2220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Viviane M. Conraads, Johan M. Bosmans, Annemie J. Schuerwegh, Luc S. De Clerck, Chris H. Bridts, Floris L. Wuyts, Wim J. Stevens, and Christiaan J. Vrints
Association of lipoproteins with cytokines and cytokine receptors in heart failure patients: Differences between ischaemic versus idiopathic cardiomyopathy
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2221-2226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tommaso Sanna, Antonio Dello Russo, Daniela Toniolo, Michal Vytopil, Gemma Pelargonio, Giuseppe De Martino, Enzo Ricci, Gabriella Silvestri, Vincenzo Giglio, Loredana Messano, Elisabetta Zachara, and Fulvio Bellocci
Cardiac features of Emery–Dreifuss muscular dystrophy caused by lamin A/C gene mutations
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2227-2236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Special ESC report:

Jean-Pierre Bassand
The relations between the ESC and the European UnionMajor initiatives to come in health and cardiovascular research: Excerpts from the presidential address at the opening ceremony of the Annual Congress of the European Society of Cardiology, Vienna 2003
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2237-2238. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Fernando Alfonso, Muzahir H. Tayebjee, and Gregory Y.H. Lip
Restenosis after coronary stenting: the ‘gender paradox’
Eur Heart J 2003 24: 2239. [Extract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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