The world is not short of medical journals, especially in cardiology where many publications deliver to their readership the most current advances in clinical and laboratory research. The challenge of keeping up to date with the flood of new studies often means that busy physicians do not have the time to reflect in depth on the progress and impact of a single topic of cardiological relevance. Journals abound with a potpourri of exciting but often unrelated investigations, and sometimes it is difficult to trace and fully appreciate the complex matrix of studies that, when combined, represent the current body of knowledge on a specific area of cardiovascular medicine. Dialogues in Cardiovascular Medicine seeks to address this problem...