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Dear Readers,
We are pleased to present our annual Journal Watch Cardiology Top Stories list for 2012. Our editors voted on the stories published during the past year that they believe to be most important to you and your practices.
In the spirit of “less is more,” several major studies this year failed to show that new drugs or fancy devices produce benefits for patients. We learned that intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation therapy in patients with acute myocardial infarction (MI) and shock does not improve survival. We discovered that patent foramen ovale (PFO) closure in patients with cryptogenic stroke was not superior to medical therapy, and that most recurrent events were unrelated to the PFO. Radiofrequency ablation was not better tha…