Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Non-contrast second harmonic imaging improves interobserver agreement and accuracy of dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with impaired image quality (1 February, 2000)

  A Franke, R Hoffmann, H P Kühl, W Lepper, O A Breithardt, M Schormann, P Hanrath
• Negative stress echocardiographic responses in normotensive and hypertensive patients with angina pectoris, positive exercise stress testing, and normal coronary arteriograms (1 February, 2000)

  E G Zouridakis, I D Cox, X Garcia-Moll, S Brown, P Nihoyannopoulos, J C Kaski
• Chronic heart failure in the elderly: value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in risk stratification (1 February, 2000)

  L C Davies, D P Francis, M Piepoli, A C Scott, P Ponikowski, A J S Coats
• “Apparent” heart failure: a syndrome caused by renal artery stenoses (1 February, 2000)

  C G Missouris, A-M Belli, G A MacGregor
• The alveolar-capillary membrane diffusing capacity and the pulmonary capillary blood volume in heart transplant candidates (1 February, 2000)

  O A Al-Rawas, R Carter, R D Stevenson, S K Naik, D J Wheatley
• Dissociation between muscle metabolism and oxygen kinetics during recovery from exercise in patients with chronic heart failure (1 February, 2000)

  A Hanada, K Okita, K Yonezawa, M Ohtsubo, T Kohya, T Murakami, H Nishijima, M Tamura, A Kitabatake
• Antianginal and anti-ischaemic efficacy of tedisamil, a potassium channel blocker (1 February, 2000)

  K M Fox, J R Henderson, J C Kaski, A Sachse, L Kuester, S Wonnacott
• Is there a synergic effect of propafenone associated with atrial overdrive pacing for atrial arrhythmia prevention? A randomised crossover study (1 February, 2000)

  S Garrigue, S S Barold, S Cazeau, M Hocini, P Jais, M Haissaguerre, J Clementy
• Induction of atrial fibrillation with rapid high voltage ventricular pacing for ventricular fibrillation conversion testing (1 February, 2000)

  A Schuchert, M Kühl, R Rüppel, T Meinertz
• Haemodynamic effects of increasing angle of head up tilt (1 February, 2000)

  A Zaidi, D Benitez, P A Gaydecki, A Vohra, A P Fitzpatrick
• Left sided valvar regurgitation in normal children and adolescents (1 February, 2000)

  J D R Thomson, J Allen, J L Gibbs