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• Metabolic abnormality of calf skeletal muscle is improved by localised muscle training without changes in blood flow in chronic heart failure (1 November, 1997) Free

  Mitsunori Ohtsubo, Kazuya Yonezawa, Hirotaka Nishijima, Koichi Okita, Akiko Hanada, Tetsuro Kohya, Takeshi Murakami, Akira Kitabatake
• β Blockade in congestive heart failure: persistent adverse haemodynamic effects during chronic treatment with subsequent doses (1 November, 1997) Free

  Marrick L Kukin, Jill Kalman, Michael M Mannino, Cathleen Buchholz-Varley, Ofelia Ocampo
• Dietary determinants of ischaemic heart disease in health conscious individuals (1 November, 1997) Free

  Jim I Mann, Paul N Appleby, Timothy J Key, Margaret Thorogood
• Reduction in treatment delay by paramedic ECG diagnosis of myocardial infarction with direct CCU admission (1 November, 1997) Free

  M W Millar-Craig, A V Joy, M Adamowicz, R Furber, B Thomas
• Direct admission to the coronary care unit by the ambulance service for patients with suspected myocardial infarction (1 November, 1997) Free

  N Prasad, A Wright, K J Hogg, F G Dunn
• Change in ST segment elevation 60 minutes after thrombolytic initiation predicts clinical outcome as accurately as later electrocardiographic changes (1 November, 1997) Free

  I F Purcell, N Newall, M Farrer
• Cardiac valve calcification: characteristics of patients with calcification of the mitral annulus or aortic valve (1 November, 1997) Free

  Arthur Boon, Emile Cheriex, Jan Lodder, Fons Kessels
• A case-control investigation of the relation between hyperlipidaemia and calcific aortic valve stenosis (1 November, 1997) Free

  P T Wilmshurst, R N Stevenson, H Griffiths, J R Lord
• Right ventricular dysfunction during coronary artery occlusion: pressure–volume analysis using conductance catheters during coronary angioplasty (1 November, 1997) Free

  Andrew Bishop, Paul White, Peter Groves, Rajiv Chaturvedi, Carl Brookes, Andrew Redington, Paul Oldershaw
• Changes in pulmonary artery size before and after total cavopulmonary connection (1 November, 1997) Free

  Gernot Buheitel, Michael Hofbeck, Ursula Tenbrink, Georg Leipold, Jürgen von der Emde, Helmut Singer
• Bradykinin induced dilatation of human epicardial and resistance coronary arteries in vivo: effect of inhibition of nitric oxide synthesis (1 November, 1997) Free

  Masaya Kato, Nobuo Shiode, Togo Yamagata, Hideo Matsuura, Goro Kajiyama
• Delayed improvement of autonomic nervous abnormality after the Maze procedure: time and frequency domain analysis of heart rate variability using 24 hour Holter monitoring (1 November, 1997) Free

  Kengo Fukushima, Tetsuro Emori, Wataru Shimizu, Takashi Kurita, Naohiko Aihara, Yoshio Kosakai, Fumitaka Isobe, Katsuro Shimomura, Yasunaru Kawashima, Tohru Ohe