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Research Article

• Thalamic mechanisms of chest pain in the absence of cardiac pathology. (1 May, 1996)

  F. A. Lenz, P. M. Dougherty, T. A. Traill
• Out-of-hospital resuscitation: room for improvement. (1 May, 1996)

  P. W. Johnston, A. A. Adgey
• Venous thromboembolism in coronary artery surgery. (1 May, 1996)

  N. Briffa, S. R. Large
• The pathogenesis of spontaneous arterial dissection. (1 May, 1996)

  M. J. Davies, T. Treasure, P. D. Richardson
• Pain perception and brain evoked potentials in patients with angina despite normal coronary angiograms. (1 May, 1996)

  O. Frøbert, L. Arendt-Nielsen, P. Bak, P. Funch-Jensen, J. Peder Bagger
• Incidence of hibernating myocardium after acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolysis. (1 May, 1996)

  J. N. Adams, M. Norton, R. J. Trent, P. Mikecz, S. Walton, N. Evans
• Pacemaker endocarditis. (1 May, 1996)

  M. Federmann, O. R. Dirsch, R. Jenni
• Abrupt cessation of short-term continuous treatment with isosorbide dinitrate may cause a rebound increase in silent myocardial ischaemia in patients with stable angina pectoris. (1 May, 1996)

  S. Y. Martsevich, N. Koutishenko, V. I. Metelitsa
• Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: a neglected cause of acute myocardial ischaemia and sudden death. (1 May, 1996)

  C. Basso, G. L. Morgagni, G. Thiene
• Analysis of deaths in patients awaiting heart transplantation: impact on patient selection criteria. (1 May, 1996)

  G. A. Haywood, P. R. Rickenbacher, P. T. Trindade, L. Gullestad, J. P. Jiang, J. S. Schroeder, R. Vagelos, P. Oyer, M. B. Fowler
• Cardiovascular effects of dobutamine stress testing in women with suspected coronary artery disease. (1 May, 1996)

  P. Blomstrand, J. Engvall, E. Swahn, K. Säfström, O. Thulesius, B. Wranne
• Endothelial control of lower limb blood flow in chronic heart failure. (1 May, 1996)

  D. C. Lindsay, D. R. Holdright, D. Clarke, I. S. Anand, P. A. Poole-Wilson, P. Collins
• Ambulation three hours after elective cardiac catheterisation through the femoral artery. (1 May, 1996)

  G. Steffenino, A. Dellavalle, F. Ribichini, P. Russo, L. Conte, S. Dutto, G. Giachello, G. Lice, M. Tomatis, E. Uslenghi
• Non-invasive diagnosis of infarct artery patency after acute myocardial infarction by use of serial plasma troponin T concentrations: importance of measurement of peak levels. (1 May, 1996)

  R. M. Norris, R. N. Johnson, H. D. White, D. R. Robinson
• Colour doppler valvar and subvalvar flow diameter imaging versus echo score in mitral stenosis: comparison with type of surgery. (1 May, 1996)

  C. Veyrat, D. Pellerin, D. Sainte Beuve, F. Larrazet, D. Kalmanson, S. Witchitz
• Mechanisms of regional ischaemic changes during dipyridamole echocardiography in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis and normal coronary arteries. (1 May, 1996)

  M. Baroni, S. Maffei, M. Terrazzi, C. Palmieri, F. Paoli, A. Biagini
• QT interval and dispersion in primary autonomic failure. (1 May, 1996)

  S. S. Lo, C. J. Mathias, M. S. Sutton
• Effect of sequential radiofrequency ablation lesions at fast and slow atrioventricular nodal pathway positions in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation. (1 May, 1996)

  C. J. Garratt, J. D. Skehan, G. E. Payne, P. J. Stafford
• Disturbance of peripheral microvascular fluid permeability by the onset of atrioventricular asynchrony in patients with programmable pacemakers. (1 May, 1996)

  I. R. Mahy, D. M. Lewis, A. C. Shore, M. D. Penney, L. D. Smith, J. E. Tooke
• Pulmonary blood supply in bidirectional cavopulmonary anastomosis with pulsatile pulmonary blood flow: quantitative analysis using radionuclide angiocardiography. (1 May, 1996)

  O. Reich, P. Horváth, C. Ruth, M. Krejcír, J. Skovránek
• Trends in pacemaker mode prescription 1984-1994: a single centre study of 3710 patients. (1 May, 1996)

  R. K. Aggarwal, S. G. Ray, D. T. Connelly, D. S. Coulshed, R. G. Charles
• Redistribution of myocardial perfusion during permanent dual chamber pacing in symptomatic non-obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a quantitative positron emission tomography study. (1 May, 1996)

  J. L. Posma, P. K. Blanksma, E. E. van der Wall
• Permanent pacing in a patient with a left ventricular assist system. (1 May, 1996)

  M. H. Cave, J. Wallwork, P. M. Schofield
• Autonomic control of asystolic vasovagal syncope. (1 May, 1996)

  D. L. Jardine, H. Ikram, I. G. Crozier
• Fatal giant cell myocarditis after resection of thymoma. (1 May, 1996)

  P. E. Glennon, M. E. Petersen, M. N. Sheppard
• Intramural aortic haematoma causing ischaemia of the spinal cord. (1 May, 1996)

  J. D. Ferguson, N. Moore, A. P. Banning
• Guidelines for specialist training in paediatric cardiology. British Paediatric Association and the Specialist Advisory Committee in Cardiology of the Joint Committee on Higher Medical Training of the Royal College of Physicians. (1 May, 1996)

  S. Hunter, M. Tynan, E. Silove