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• Efficacy of a new balloon catheter for internal cardioversion of chronic atrial fibrillation without anaesthesia (1 February, 1998)

  E Alt, R Ammer, G Lehmann, C Schmitt, J Pasquantonio, A Schömig
• Investigation of the thoracic aorta in cholesterol embolism by transoesophageal echocardiography (1 February, 1998)

  E Ferrari, B Taillan, E Drai, P Morand, M Baudouy
• Atherosclerotic coronary lesions with inadequate compensatory enlargement have smaller plaque and vessel volumes: observations with three dimensional intravascular ultrasound in vivo (1 February, 1998)

  C von Birgelen, G S Mintz, E A de Vrey, T Kimura, J J Popma, S G Airiian, M B Leon, M Nobuyoshi, P W Serruys, P J de Feyter
• Shrinkage of human coronary arteries is an important determinant of de novo atherosclerotic luminal stenosis: an in vivo intravascular ultrasound study (1 February, 1998)

  P C Smits, L Bos, M A Quarles van Ufford, F D Eefting, G Pasterkamp, C Borst
• Stenting of “unprotected” left main coronary artery stenoses: early and late results (1 February, 1998)

  C J J Laruelle, G B R Brueren, S M P G Ernst, E T Bal, G E Mast, M-J Suttorp, A Brutel de la Rivière, T H W Plokker
• Lipophilic versus hydrophilic β₁ blockers and the cardiac sympatho-vagal balance during stress and daily activity in patients after acute myocardial infarction

  (1 February, 1998)

  A Kardos, V Long, J Bryant, J Singh, P Sleight, B Casadei
• High prevalence of arrhythmias in elderly male athletes with a lifelong history of regular strenuous exercise (1 February, 1998)

  K Jensen-Urstad, F Bouvier, B Saltin, M Jensen-Urstad
• Isoprenaline and inducibility of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (1 February, 1998)

  H Hatzinikolaou, L-M Rodriguez, J L R M Smeets, C Timmermans, G Vrouchos, G Grecas, H J J Wellens
• Nitric oxide, oxygen, and prostacyclin in children with pulmonary hypertension (1 February, 1998)

  M I Turanlahti, P O Laitinen, S J Sarna, E Pesonen
• Treatment of pulmonary hypertension with the continuous infusion of a prostacyclin analogue, iloprost (1 February, 1998)

  T W Higenbottam, A Y Butt, A T Dinh-Xaun, M Takao, G Cremona, S Akamine
• Monosomy 22q11 in patients with pulmonary atresia, ventricular septal defect, and major aortopulmonary collateral arteries (1 February, 1998)

  Michael Hofbeck, Anita Rauch, Gernot Buheitel, Georg Leipold, Jürgen von der Emde, Rudolf Pfeiffer, Helmut Singer
• Relation of genotype 22q11 deletion to phenotype of pulmonary vessels in tetralogy of Fallot and pulmonary atresia–ventricular septal defect (1 February, 1998)

  M Chessa, G Butera, P Bonhoeffer, L Iserin, J Kachaner, S Lyonnet, A Munnich, D Sidi, D Bonnet