Heart failure

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Scientific letters
Confirmation of a role for the 389R>G ß-1 adrenoceptor polymorphism on exercise capacity in heart failure

A J Sandilands, J Parameshwar, S Large, M J Brown, and K M O’Shaughnessy
Heart 2005; 91: 1613-1614. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific letters
Prediction of beneficial effect of ß blocker treatment in severe ischaemic cardiomyopathy: assessment of global left ventricular ejection fraction using dobutamine stress cardiovascular magnetic resonance

T A M Kaandorp, H J Lamb, J J Bax, E Boersma, E P Viergever, E E van der Wall, and A de Roos
Heart 2005; 91: 1471-1472. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific letters
Lung water content is not increased in chronic cardiac failure

C S O’Dochartaigh, B Kelly, M S Riley, and D P Nicholls
Heart 2005; 91: 1473-1474. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular medicine
Predictors of adverse outcome in patients with arrhythmogenic right ventricular dysplasia/cardiomyopathy: long term experience of a tertiary care centre

K Lemola, C Brunckhorst, U Helfenstein, E Oechslin, R Jenni, and F Duru
Heart 2005; 91: 1167-1172. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific letters
Angiotensin II, but not aldosterone and renin, correlates positively with increased concentrations of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in patients with chronic heart failure

O Gosling, M Martin, E Clarke, A Smith, E Coombes, and M Dawes
Heart 2005; 91: 1223-1224. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific letters
Oral anticoagulation in patients aged 75 years or older with chronic non-valvar atrial fibrillation: effectiveness and safety in daily clinical practice

M Ruiz Ortiz, E Romo Peñas, M F Franco Zapata, D Mesa Rubio, M Anguita Sánchez, A López Granados, J M Arizón del Prado, and F Vallés Belsué
Heart 2005; 91: 1225-1226. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Scientific letters
Safe use of brain natriuretic protein to rule out the diagnosis of heart failure depends on the selection of cut off value

S G Williams, L L Ng, R J O’Brien, D Barker, Y-F Li, and L-B Tan
Heart 2005; 91: 1090-1091. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Cardiovascular medicine
Myocardial cytokine gene expression is higher in aortic stenosis than in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

M Vanderheyden, W J Paulus, M Voss, P Knuefermann, N Sivasubramanian, D Mann, and G Baumgarten
Heart 2005; 91: 926-931. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Interventional cardiology and surgery
Prosthetic valve endocarditis: who needs surgery? A multicentre study of 104 cases

G Habib, C Tribouilloy, F Thuny, R Giorgi, A Brahim, M Amazouz, J-P Remadi, G Nadji, J-P Casalta, F Coviaux, J-F Avierinos, X Lescure, A Riberi, P-J Weiller, D Metras, and D Raoult
Heart 2005; 91: 954-959. [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Papers
Left main stem coronary disease: the case for percutaneous coronary intervention in a high risk patient with complex disease

K Kosuga and H Tamai
Heart 2005; 91: iii35-38iii. [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]