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Research Article

• Endothelin in heart failure: a promising therapeutic target? (1 February, 1997)

  M. P. Love, J. J. McMurray
• Is there a need to control the placebo in placebo controlled trials? (1 February, 1997)

  A. J. De Craen, J. G. Tijssen, J. Kleijnen
• Quality control of stress echocardiography. (1 February, 1997)

  H. Feigenbaum
• René Henri Marie Leriche (1879-1955). (1 February, 1997)

  M. K. Davies, A. Hollman
• Heart rate variability: why do spectral analysis? (1 February, 1997)

  J. M. Karemaker
• Thomas Lewis, a father of modern cardiology. (1 February, 1997)

  D. M. Krikler
• Experience with radiofrequency catheter ablation of fascicular tachycardia. (1 February, 1997)

  D. H. Bennett
• Heart rate variability in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: relation to disease severity and prognosis. (1 February, 1997)

  G. Yi, J. H. Goldman, P. J. Keeling, M. Reardon, W. J. McKenna, M. Malik
• Relation between ST segment elevation during dobutamine stress test and myocardial viability after a recent myocardial infarction. (1 February, 1997)

  A. Elhendy, J. H. Cornel, J. R. Roelandt, R. T. van Domburg, M. I. Geleijnse, P. R. Nierop, J. J. Bax, A. Sciarra, M. M. Ibrahim, M. el-Refaee, G. M. el-Said, P. M. Fioretti
• Plasma resistance to activated protein C regulates the activation of coagulation induced by thrombolysis in patients with ischaemic heart disease. (1 February, 1997)

  O. D. Pedersen, J. Gram, J. Jespersen
• Effect of heart rate on QT interval in children and adolescents. (1 February, 1997)

  S. Balaji, Y. R. Lau, P. C. Gillette
• Experience from clinical genetics in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: proposal for new diagnostic criteria in adult members of affected families. (1 February, 1997)

  W. J. McKenna, P. Spirito, M. Desnos, O. Dubourg, M. Komajda
• Effect of standing on ventricular parasystole: shortening of the parasystolic cycle length. (1 February, 1997)

  S. Kinoshita, T. Mitsuoka
• The increased ventilatory response to exercise in chronic heart failure: relation to pulmonary pathology. (1 February, 1997)

  A. L. Clark, M. Volterrani, J. W. Swan, A. J. Coats
• Adaptation of myocardial blood flow to increased metabolic demand is not dependent on endothelial vasodilators in the rat heart. (1 February, 1997)

  C. P. Tiefenbacher, H. Tillmanns, F. Niroomand, R. Zimmermann, W. Kübler
• Cardiovascular sequelae of toxaemia of pregnancy. (1 February, 1997)

  P. Hannaford, S. Ferry, S. Hirsch
• Abnormalities of skeletal muscle metabolism in patients with chronic heart failure: evidence that they are present at rest. (1 February, 1997)

  R. Andrews, J. T. Walsh, A. Evans, S. Curtis, A. J. Cowley
• A surgical approach to coexistent coronary and carotid artery disease. (1 February, 1997)

  M. Jahangiri, G. M. Rees, S. J. Edmondson, J. Lumley, R. Uppal
• Oxygen uptake kinetics during low intensity exercise: relevance for rate adaptive pacemaker programming. (1 February, 1997)

  T. Lewalter, H. Rickli, D. MacCarter, W. Jung, R. Schimpf, P. Schwartze, R. Candinas, B. Lüderitz
• Pulmonary atresia, "intact ventricular septum", and aortopulmonary collateral arteries. (1 February, 1997)

  R. J. Mildner, L. Kiraly, N. Sreeram
• Right ventricular outflow stent implantation: an alternative to palliative surgical relief of infundibular pulmonary stenosis. (1 February, 1997)

  J. L. Gibbs, O. Uzun, M. E. Blackburn, J. M. Parsons, D. F. Dickinson
• Mechanism of QRS electrical alternans. (1 February, 1997)

  B. Brembilla-Perrot, H. Lucron, F. Schwalm, A. Haouzi
• Thrombus in coarctation of the aorta masquerading as an interrupted aortic arch. (1 February, 1997)

  P. Bonhoeffer, D. Bonnet, D. Sidi, J. Kachaner