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May 2002 (Volume 87, Number 5). [Index by author]

	(Cover illustration)	Editorials Journal scan Cardiovascular medicine Congenital heart disease Interventional cardiology and surgery Scientific letters Education in Heart Electronic pages Miscellanea

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Editorials

Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty
B D Prendergast, T R D Shaw, B Iung, A Vahanian, and D B Northridge
Heart 2002; 87: 401-404. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.401 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Prenatal diagnosis of structural heart disease: does it make a difference to survival?
I D Sullivan
Heart 2002; 87: 405-406. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Is surgery still the preferred option for coronary revascularisation in diabetics with multivessel coronary disease?
A Kapur and I S Malik
Heart 2002; 87: 407-409. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Journal scan

JournalScan
Iqbal Malik
Heart 2002; 87: 494-496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.494 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Cardiovascular medicine

Short and long term prognostic importance of regional dyskinesia versus akinesia in acute myocardial infarction
E Kjøller, L Køber, S Jørgensen, and C Torp-Pedersen
Heart 2002; 87: 410-414. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.410 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Prognostic implications of autonomic function assessed by analyses of catecholamines and heart rate variability in stable angina pectoris
L Forslund, I Björkander, M Ericson, C Held, T Kahan, N Rehnqvist, and P Hjemdahl
Heart 2002; 87: 415-422. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.415 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Lipid lowering in patients with diabetes mellitus: what coronary heart disease risk threshold should be used?
K Rowland Yeo and W W Yeo
Heart 2002; 87: 423-427. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.423 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Improvements in total mortality and lipid levels after acute myocardial infarction in an English health district (1995–1999)
J Harrop, R Donnelly, A Rowbottom, M Holt, and A R Scott
Heart 2002; 87: 428-431. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.428 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Effect of atrial antitachycardia pacing treatments in patients with an atrial defibrillator: randomised study comparing subthreshold and nominal pacing outputs
A R J Mitchell, P A R Spurrell, L Cheatle, and N Sulke
Heart 2002; 87: 433-437. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.433 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in arrhythmias: a rapid and systematic review of effectiveness
J Parkes, J Bryant, and R Milne
Heart 2002; 87: 438-442. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.438 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Atrial fibrillation recurrence after internal cardioversion: prognostic importance of electrophysiological parameters
M Biffi, G Boriani, M Bartolotti, L Bacchi Reggiani, R Zannoli, and A Branzi
Heart 2002; 87: 443-448. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.443 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Congenital heart disease

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect preserves right ventricular function
R Dhillon, M Josen, M Henein, and A Redington
Heart 2002; 87: 461-465. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.461 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Surgical and transcatheter (Amplatzer) closure of atrial septal defects: a prospective comparison of results and cost
J D R Thomson, E H Aburawi, K G Watterson, C Van Doorn, and J L Gibbs
Heart 2002; 87: 466-469. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.466 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Intrathoracic organ transplantation in the United Kingdom 1995–99: results from the UK cardiothoracic transplant audit
A C Anyanwu, C A Rogers, and A J Murday
Heart 2002; 87: 449-454. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.449 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Early experience with a helical coronary thrombectomy device in patients with acute coronary thrombosis.
S Constantinides, T S N Lo, M Been, and M F Shiu
Heart 2002; 87: 455-460. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.455 [Abstract] [Full text] [Publisher's correction] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Scientific letters

Pulmonary artery root dilatation in Marfan syndrome: quantitative assessment of an unknown criterion
G J Nollen, K E van Schijndel, J Timmermans, M Groenink, J O Barentsz, E E van der Wall, J Stoker, and B J M Mulder
Heart 2002; 87: 470-471. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Education in Heart

Heart disease, guidelines, regulations, and the law
M C Petch
Heart 2002; 87: 472-479. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

APOPTOSIS IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM
Martin R Bennett
Heart 2002; 87: 480-487. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.480 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

QUALITY OF LIFE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OF ICD PATIENTS
Samuel F Sears, Jr and Jamie B Conti
Heart 2002; 87: 488-493. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.488 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Electronic pages

Paracardial lipodystrophy versus pericardial effusion in HIV positive patients
T Neumann, A Chanbay, J Barkhausen, and T Bartel
Heart 2002; 87: e4. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.e4 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Churg-Strauss syndrome with critical endomyocardial fibrosis: 10 year survival after combined surgical and medical management
C R McGavin, A J Marshall, and C T Lewis
Heart 2002; 87: e5. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.e5 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Miscellanea

Images in Cardiology: Ruptured thoracic aneurysm in a 10 year old boy
M Noordzij, E Hanlo-Ploeger, and E J Meijboom
Heart 2002; 87: 404. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.404 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Stamps in Cardiology: Werner Forssmann
M K Davies and A Hollman
Heart 2002; 87: 409. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Pyoderma gangrenosum presented as a refractory wound infection following permanent pacemaker implantation
T S N Lo, M Griffith, and M E Heber
Heart 2002; 87: 414. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Amplifying the error
Heart 2002; 87: 422. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Single coronary artery and tetralogy of Fallot
S Dhakam, K Kazmi, and M Atiq
Heart 2002; 87: 432. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Spontaneous recovery from prolonged cardiac arrest
S W Dubrey and R Grocott-Mason
Heart 2002; 87: 432. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.432-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Magnetic resonance angiography showing bilateral subclavian artery aneurysm and stenosis in Marfan's syndrome
B Sievers, P Kilner, and R Mohiaddin
Heart 2002; 87: 437. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa induced coronary thrombolysis
C Bickel, B Henkel, and H Fallen
Heart 2002; 87: 442. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.442 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Pneumomediastinum: a cause of chest pain
K Naganuma, M Ito, and Y Aizawa
Heart 2002; 87: 448. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Large fistula between right coronary artery and right atrium in a 50 year old asymptomatic woman
D Boulmier, M Bedossa, C Almange, and H Le Breton
Heart 2002; 87: 454. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.454 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Haemodynamically insignificant fast ventricular tachycardia
D K Satchithananda, S Tsui, and S R Large
Heart 2002; 87: 469. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

WEB TOP 10
Heart 2002; 87: 471. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Development of the human heart: days 15–21
J-Marc Schleich
Heart 2002; 87: 487. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.487 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

ELECTRONIC PAGES
Heart 2002; 87: 496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.496 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

Images in Cardiology: Imaging of a rupture line of an aortic aneurysm by spiral CT scan
Y Nakamura, S San, and T Ohe
Heart 2002; 87: 496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.496-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

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	Contemporary criteria for the selection of patients for percutaneous balloon mitral valvuloplasty B D Prendergast, T R D Shaw, B Iung, A Vahanian, and D B Northridge Heart 2002; 87: 401-404. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.401 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prenatal diagnosis of structural heart disease: does it make a difference to survival? I D Sullivan Heart 2002; 87: 405-406. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.405 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Is surgery still the preferred option for coronary revascularisation in diabetics with multivessel coronary disease? A Kapur and I S Malik Heart 2002; 87: 407-409. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.407 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	JournalScan Iqbal Malik Heart 2002; 87: 494-496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.494 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Short and long term prognostic importance of regional dyskinesia versus akinesia in acute myocardial infarction E Kjøller, L Køber, S Jørgensen, and C Torp-Pedersen Heart 2002; 87: 410-414. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.410 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Prognostic implications of autonomic function assessed by analyses of catecholamines and heart rate variability in stable angina pectoris L Forslund, I Björkander, M Ericson, C Held, T Kahan, N Rehnqvist, and P Hjemdahl Heart 2002; 87: 415-422. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.415 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Lipid lowering in patients with diabetes mellitus: what coronary heart disease risk threshold should be used? K Rowland Yeo and W W Yeo Heart 2002; 87: 423-427. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.423 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Improvements in total mortality and lipid levels after acute myocardial infarction in an English health district (1995–1999) J Harrop, R Donnelly, A Rowbottom, M Holt, and A R Scott Heart 2002; 87: 428-431. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.428 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Effect of atrial antitachycardia pacing treatments in patients with an atrial defibrillator: randomised study comparing subthreshold and nominal pacing outputs A R J Mitchell, P A R Spurrell, L Cheatle, and N Sulke Heart 2002; 87: 433-437. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.433 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Implantable cardioverter-defibrillators in arrhythmias: a rapid and systematic review of effectiveness J Parkes, J Bryant, and R Milne Heart 2002; 87: 438-442. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.438 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Atrial fibrillation recurrence after internal cardioversion: prognostic importance of electrophysiological parameters M Biffi, G Boriani, M Bartolotti, L Bacchi Reggiani, R Zannoli, and A Branzi Heart 2002; 87: 443-448. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.443 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect preserves right ventricular function R Dhillon, M Josen, M Henein, and A Redington Heart 2002; 87: 461-465. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.461 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Surgical and transcatheter (Amplatzer) closure of atrial septal defects: a prospective comparison of results and cost J D R Thomson, E H Aburawi, K G Watterson, C Van Doorn, and J L Gibbs Heart 2002; 87: 466-469. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.466 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Intrathoracic organ transplantation in the United Kingdom 1995–99: results from the UK cardiothoracic transplant audit A C Anyanwu, C A Rogers, and A J Murday Heart 2002; 87: 449-454. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.449 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Early experience with a helical coronary thrombectomy device in patients with acute coronary thrombosis. S Constantinides, T S N Lo, M Been, and M F Shiu Heart 2002; 87: 455-460. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.455 [Abstract] [Full text] [Publisher's correction] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Pulmonary artery root dilatation in Marfan syndrome: quantitative assessment of an unknown criterion G J Nollen, K E van Schijndel, J Timmermans, M Groenink, J O Barentsz, E E van der Wall, J Stoker, and B J M Mulder Heart 2002; 87: 470-471. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.470 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Heart disease, guidelines, regulations, and the law M C Petch Heart 2002; 87: 472-479. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.472 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	APOPTOSIS IN THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM Martin R Bennett Heart 2002; 87: 480-487. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.480 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	QUALITY OF LIFE AND PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OF ICD PATIENTS Samuel F Sears, Jr and Jamie B Conti Heart 2002; 87: 488-493. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.488 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Paracardial lipodystrophy versus pericardial effusion in HIV positive patients T Neumann, A Chanbay, J Barkhausen, and T Bartel Heart 2002; 87: e4. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.e4 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Churg-Strauss syndrome with critical endomyocardial fibrosis: 10 year survival after combined surgical and medical management C R McGavin, A J Marshall, and C T Lewis Heart 2002; 87: e5. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.e5 [Abstract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Ruptured thoracic aneurysm in a 10 year old boy M Noordzij, E Hanlo-Ploeger, and E J Meijboom Heart 2002; 87: 404. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.404 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Stamps in Cardiology: Werner Forssmann M K Davies and A Hollman Heart 2002; 87: 409. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.409 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Pyoderma gangrenosum presented as a refractory wound infection following permanent pacemaker implantation T S N Lo, M Griffith, and M E Heber Heart 2002; 87: 414. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.414 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Amplifying the error Heart 2002; 87: 422. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.422 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Single coronary artery and tetralogy of Fallot S Dhakam, K Kazmi, and M Atiq Heart 2002; 87: 432. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.432 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Spontaneous recovery from prolonged cardiac arrest S W Dubrey and R Grocott-Mason Heart 2002; 87: 432. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.432-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Magnetic resonance angiography showing bilateral subclavian artery aneurysm and stenosis in Marfan's syndrome B Sievers, P Kilner, and R Mohiaddin Heart 2002; 87: 437. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.437 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa induced coronary thrombolysis C Bickel, B Henkel, and H Fallen Heart 2002; 87: 442. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.442 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Pneumomediastinum: a cause of chest pain K Naganuma, M Ito, and Y Aizawa Heart 2002; 87: 448. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.448 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Large fistula between right coronary artery and right atrium in a 50 year old asymptomatic woman D Boulmier, M Bedossa, C Almange, and H Le Breton Heart 2002; 87: 454. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.454 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Haemodynamically insignificant fast ventricular tachycardia D K Satchithananda, S Tsui, and S R Large Heart 2002; 87: 469. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.469 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	WEB TOP 10 Heart 2002; 87: 471. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.471 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Development of the human heart: days 15–21 J-Marc Schleich Heart 2002; 87: 487. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.487 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	ELECTRONIC PAGES Heart 2002; 87: 496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.496 [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]

	Images in Cardiology: Imaging of a rupture line of an aortic aneurysm by spiral CT scan Y Nakamura, S San, and T Ohe Heart 2002; 87: 496. doi:10.1136/heart.87.5.496-a [Extract] [Full text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]