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Research Article

• Investigation in general practice of patients with suspected heart failure. How should the essential echocardiographic service be delivered? (1 October, 1995)

  M. C. Colquhoun, C. Waine, M. J. Monaghan, A. D. Struthers, P. G. Mills
• New directions in anticoagulant and antiplatelet treatment. (1 October, 1995)

  M. L. Simoons, J. W. Deckers
• Long-term complications of cardiac transplantation. (1 October, 1995)

  J. Parameshwar, P. Schofield, S. Large
• Angiographic trials of lipid-lowering therapy: end of an era? (1 October, 1995)

  G. R. Thompson
• Rescue thrombolysis: alteplase as adjuvant treatment after streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction. (1 October, 1995)

  J. P. Mounsey, J. S. Skinner, T. Hawkins, A. F. MacDermott, S. S. Furniss, P. C. Adams, P. J. Kesteven, D. S. Reid
• Thrombolytic treatment and proteinuria. (1 October, 1995)

  M. Lynch, N. V. Hoffmann, C. N. Aroney
• Dobutamine echocardiography and thallium-201 imaging predict functional improvement after revascularisation in severe ischaemic left ventricular dysfunction. (1 October, 1995)

  R. Senior, B. Glenville, S. Basu, B. S. Sridhara, E. Anagnostou, R. Stanbridge, S. J. Edmondson, C. E. Handler, E. B. Raftery, A. Lahiri
• Serum lipoprotein(a) concentrations are related to coronary disease progression without new myocardial infarction. (1 October, 1995)

  A. Tamura, T. Watanabe, Y. Mikuriya, M. Nasu
• Absence of circadian variation in the onset of acute myocardial infarction in diabetic subjects. (1 October, 1995)

  S. Fava, J. Azzopardi, H. A. Muscat, F. F. Fenech
• Failure of "effective" treatment for heart failure to improve normal customary activity. (1 October, 1995)

  J. T. Walsh, R. Andrews, A. Evans, A. J. Cowley
• Anatomical dead space, ventilatory pattern, and exercise capacity in chronic heart failure. (1 October, 1995)

  A. L. Clark, T. P. Chua, A. J. Coats
• Inspiratory muscle strength is a determinant of maximum oxygen consumption in chronic heart failure. (1 October, 1995)

  T. P. Chua, S. D. Anker, D. Harrington, A. J. Coats
• Exercise ventilation after balloon dilatation of the mitral valve. (1 October, 1995)

  A. P. Banning, N. P. Lewis, J. S. Elborn, R. J. Hall
• Heart rate and respiratory rhythm dynamics on ascent to high altitude. (1 October, 1995)

  L. A. Lipsitz, F. Hashimoto, L. P. Lubowsky, J. Mietus, G. B. Moody, O. Appenzeller, A. L. Goldberger
• Comparison of dual chamber and ventricular rate responsive pacing in patients over 75 with complete heart block. (1 October, 1995)

  M. R. Hargreaves, K. M. Channon, T. R. Cripps, M. Gardner, O. J. Ormerod
• Atrial electromechanical sequence in normal subjects and patients with DDD pacemakers. (1 October, 1995)

  K. Wang, H. B. Xiao, S. Fujimoto, D. G. Gibson
• Favourable outcome in idiopathic ventricular fibrillation with treatment aimed at prevention of high sympathetic tone and suppression of inducible arrhythmias. (1 October, 1995)

  H. J. Crijns, A. C. Wiesfeld, J. L. Posma, K. I. Lie
• Optimal analysis of the signal averaged P wave in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. (1 October, 1995)

  P. J. Stafford, D. Robinson, R. Vincent
• Early diastolic left ventricular inflow pressures in normal subjects and patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Reconstruction from pulsed Doppler echocardiography. (1 October, 1995)

  S. Fujimoto, K. H. Parker, H. B. Xiao, K. S. Inge, D. G. Gibson
• Myocardial calcium-independent nitric oxide synthase activity is present in dilated cardiomyopathy, myocarditis, and postpartum cardiomyopathy but not in ischaemic or valvar heart disease. (1 October, 1995)

  A. J. de Belder, M. W. Radomski, H. J. Why, P. J. Richardson, J. F. Martin
• Reductions in muscle sympathetic nerve activity after long-term metoprolol for dilated cardiomyopathy: preliminary observations. (1 October, 1995)

  M. A. Rahman, K. Hara, P. A. Daly, E. D. Wigle, J. S. Floras
• Morphology of the sinus node in human and mouse hearts with isomerism of the atrial appendages. (1 October, 1995)

  S. Y. Ho, J. W. Seo, N. A. Brown, A. C. Cook, N. L. Fagg, R. H. Anderson
• Echocardiographic-anatomical correlations in aorto-left ventricular tunnel. (1 October, 1995)

  A. C. Cook, N. L. Fagg, S. Y. Ho, A. M. Groves, G. K. Sharland, R. H. Anderson, L. D. Allan
• Mortality in participants and non-participants of a multifactorial prevention study of cardiovascular diseases: a 28 year follow up of the Helsinki Businessmen Study. (1 October, 1995)

  T. E. Strandberg, V. V. Salomaa, H. T. Vanhanen, V. A. Naukkarinen, S. J. Sarna, T. A. Miettinen
• Combined mechanical and thrombolytic treatment for totally occluded bypass grafts. (1 October, 1995)

  C. Lotan, M. Mosseri, Y. Rozenman, Y. Hasin, M. S. Gotsman
• In vitro validation of right ventricular volume measurement by three dimensional echocardiography. (1 October, 1995)

  M. Vogel, P. A. White, A. N. Redington
• Chest pain during exercise as first manifestation of Friedreich's ataxia. (1 October, 1995)

  P. Ferrés-Sánchez, M. Subirana-Domènech, M. Torner-Soler
• Excessive numbers of skin cancers and pre-malignant skin lesions in an Australian heart transplant recipient. (1 October, 1995)

  J. N. Bouwes Bavinck, I. Robertson, R. W. Wainwright, A. Green
• Direct evidence of patent foramen ovale as a route for paradoxical embolism. (1 October, 1995)

  E. Balli, A. Alfieri, F. Del Citerna