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• Audit of cardiac catheterisation in a district general hospital: implications for training (1 May, 1999)

  L D R Smith, G Spyer, J W Dean
• Diagnostic cardiac catheterisation in a hospital without on-site cardiac surgery (1 May, 1999)

  H D Papaconstantinou, A J Marshall, C J Burrell
• Appropriateness of referral of coronary angiography patients in Sweden (1 May, 1999)

  S J Bernstein, B Brorsson, T Åberg, H Emanuelsson, R H Brook, L Werkö
• Hospital mortality of acute myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era (1 May, 1999)

  N G Mahon, C O’Rorke, M B Codd, H A McCann, K McGarry, D D Sugrue
• Plasma adrenomedullin as an indicator of prognosis after acute myocardial infarction (1 May, 1999)

  N Nagaya, T Nishikimi, M Uematsu, Y Yoshitomi, Y Miyao, S Miyazaki, Y Goto, S Kojima, M Kuramochi, H Matsuo, K Kangawa, H Nonogi
• High apolipoprotein AI concentrations are associated with lower mortality and myocardial infarction five years after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (1 May, 1999)

  J S Skinner, M Farrer, C J Albers, H A W Neil, P C Adams
• Intraoperative cardiac troponin T release and lactate metabolism during coronary artery surgery: comparison of beating heart with conventional coronary artery surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass (1 May, 1999)

  T W Koh, G S Carr-White, A C DeSouza, F D Ferdinand, J Hooper, M Kemp, D G Gibson, J R Pepper
• Abnormalities of vascular endothelial function may contribute to increased coronary heart disease risk in UK Indian Asians (1 May, 1999)

  J C Chambers, A McGregor, J Jean-Marie, J S Kooner
• Effects of l- and d-arginine on the basal tone of human diseased coronary arteries and their responses to substance P

  (1 May, 1999)

  D Tousoulis, C Tentolouris, T Crake, G Katsimaglis, C Stefanadis, P Toutouzas, G J Davies
• Effects of L-arginine on lower limb vasodilator reserve and exercise capacity in patients with chronic heart failure (1 May, 1999)

  Y Kanaya, M Nakamura, N Kobayashi, K Hiramori
• Methylene tetrahydrofolate reductase genotype and the risk and extent of coronary artery disease in a population with low plasma folate (1 May, 1999)

  S L Tokgözoğlu, M Alikaşifoğlu, I˙ Ünsal, E Atalar, K Aytemir, N Özer, K Övünç, Ö Usal, S Kes, E Tunçbilek
• Low dose dobutamine stress echocardiography predicts the improvement of left ventricular systolic function in dilated cardiomyopathy (1 May, 1999)

  H Kitaoka, J Takata, T Yabe, N Hitomi, T Furuno, Y L Doi
• Long lasting spasticity in controlled vasospastic angina (1 May, 1999)

  O Ueda, K Kohchi, Y Kishi, F Numano
• QT dispersion is not related to infarct size or inducibility in patients with coronary artery disease and life threatening ventricular arrhythmias (1 May, 1999)

  J De Sutter, R Tavernier, C Van de Wiele, J De Backer, J Kazmierczak, G De Backer, R Dierckx, L Jordaens
• The feasibility of complete anatomical correction in the setting of discordant atrioventricular connections (1 May, 1999)

  C Alva, E Horowitz, S Y Ho, M L Rigby, R H Anderson