Table of contents

Research Article

• Ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring and the management of arrhythmias. Precision versus inflexibility. (1 March, 1983)

  P Coumel
• Blood lipids in middle-aged British men. (1 March, 1983)

  D S Thelle, A G Shaper, T P Whitehead, D G Bullock, D Ashby, I Patel
• Acute haemodynamic comparison of amrinone and pirbuterol in chronic heart failure. Additional effects of isosorbide dinitrate. (1 March, 1983)

  J Bayliss, M Norell, R Canepa-Anson, S R Reuben, P A Poole-Wilson, G C Sutton
• Treatment of recurrent sustained ventricular tachycardia with mexiletine and disopyramide. Control by programmed ventricular stimulation. (1 March, 1983)

  M Manz, G Steinbeck, J Nitsch, B Lüderitz
• Effect of very early intervention with metoprolol on myocardial infarct size. (1 March, 1983)

  D M Boyle, J M Barber, E L McIlmoyle, K S Salathia, A E Evans, G Cran, J H Elwood, R G Shanks
• Mechanism of systolic anterior motion of mitral valve and site of intraventricular pressure gradient in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. (1 March, 1983)

  S Nagata, Y Nimura, S Beppu, Y D Park, H Sakakibara
• Correlation between velocity measurements from Doppler echocardiography and from M-mode contrast echocardiography. (1 March, 1983)

  R S Meltzer, B Diebold, N K Valk, D Blanchard, J L Guermonprez, C T Lancée, P Peronneau, J Roelandt
• Estimation of time constant of left ventricular relaxation. (1 March, 1983)

  D S Thompson, C B Waldron, D J Coltart, B S Jenkins, M M Webb-Peploe
• Pressure-derived indices of left ventricular isovolumic relaxation in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. (1 March, 1983)

  D S Thompson, P Wilmshurst, S M Juul, C B Waldron, B S Jenkins, D J Coltart, M M Webb-Peploe
• Need for cardiac catheterisation in assessment of patients for valve surgery. (1 March, 1983)

  R J Hall, O A Kadushi, K Evemy
• Occluded left main stem coronary artery. Report of five patients and review of published reports. (1 March, 1983)

  D E Ward, H Valantine, W Hui
• Perioperative coronary artery spasm leading to myocardial ischaemia after vein graft surgery. (1 March, 1983)

  B Zingone, A Salvi, B Branchini
• Transcatheter occlusion of coronary to bronchial anastomosis by detachable balloon combined with coronary angioplasty at same procedure. (1 March, 1983)

  J F Reidy, E Sowton, D N Ross