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• The relation between transaortic pressure difference and flow during dobutamine stress echocardiography in patients with aortic stenosis (1 July, 1999)

  S Takeda, H Rimington, J Chambers
• QT dispersion is reduced after valve replacement in patients with aortic stenosis (1 July, 1999)

  D Darbar, C J Cherry, D M Kerins
• Aortic root dilatation in young men with normally functioning bicuspid aortic valves (1 July, 1999)

  S Nistri, M D Sorbo, M Marin, M Palisi, R Scognamiglio, G Thiene
• Anticoagulation in pregnant women with mechanical heart valve prostheses (1 July, 1999)

  S S Meschengieser, C G Fondevila, M T Santarelli, M A Lazzari
• Use of self expanding stents in stenotic aortopulmonary shunts in adults with complex cyanotic heart disease (1 July, 1999)

  R Bader, J Somerville, A Redington
• Incidence of secondary pulmonary hypertension in adults with atrial septal or sinus venosus defects (1 July, 1999)

  M Vogel, F Berger, A Kramer, V Alexi-Meshkishvili, P E Lange
• Spectrum of congenital heart defects and extracardiac malformations associated with chromosomal abnormalities: results of a seven year necropsy study (1 July, 1999)

  C Tennstedt, R Chaoui, H Körner, M Dietel
• Abnormalities in liver function and coagulation profile following the Fontan procedure (1 July, 1999)

  R C van Nieuwenhuizen, M Peters, L J Lubbers, M D Trip, J G P Tijssen, B J M Mulder
• Ten year survival after heart transplantation: palliative procedure or successful long term treatment? (1 July, 1999)

  S Fraund, K Pethig, U Franke, T Wahlers, W Harringer, J Cremer, H-G Fieguth, P Oppelt, A Haverich
• Cardiovascular disease in the Netherlands, 1975 to 1995: decline in mortality, but increasing numbers of patients with chronic conditions (1 July, 1999)

  J B Reitsma, J A A Dalstra, G J Bonsel, J H P van der Meulen, R W Koster, L J Gunning-Schepers, J G P Tijssen
• How often are angiotensin II and aldosterone concentrations raised during chronic ACE inhibitor treatment in cardiac failure? (1 July, 1999)

  R J MacFadyen, A F C Lee, J J Morton, S D Pringle, A D Struthers
• Combined assessment of reflow and collateral blood flow by myocardial contrast echocardiography after acute reperfused myocardial infarction (1 July, 1999)

  F Leclercq, P Messner-Pellenc, Q Descours, J-P Daures, J-L Pasquié, F-X Hager, J-M Davy, R Grolleau-Raoux
• Arterial remodelling of native human coronary arteries in patients with unstable angina pectoris: a prospective intravascular ultrasound study (1 July, 1999)

  M Gyöngyösi, P Yang, A Hassan, F Weidinger, H Domanovits, A Laggner, D Glogar
• Alterations of autonomic nervous activity in recurrence of variant angina (1 July, 1999)

  M Takusagawa, S Komori, K Umetani, T Ishihara, T Sawanobori, I Kohno, S Sano, D Yin, H Ijiri, K Tamura
• Clinical outcome of patients treated with spinal cord stimulation for therapeutically refractory angina pectoris (1 July, 1999)

  I A M TenVaarwerk, G A J Jessurun, M J L DeJongste, C Andersen, C Mannheimer, T Eliasson, W Tadema, M J Staal
• Spinal cord stimulation significantly decreases the need for acute hospital admission for chest pain in patients with refractory angina pectoris (1 July, 1999)

  S Murray, K G S Carson, P D Ewings, P D Collins, M A James
• Handgrip exercise increases postocclusion hyperaemic brachial artery dilatation (1 July, 1999)

  S Agewall, G A Whalley, R N Doughty, N Sharpe
• Stabilisation of medically refractory ventricular arrhythmia by intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (1 July, 1999)

  G D Fotopoulos, M J Mason, S Walker, N S Jepson, D J Patel, A G Mitchell, C D J Ilsley, V E Paul
• Initial experience in the extraction of chronically implanted pacemaker leads using the Excimer laser sheath (1 July, 1999)

  T Levy, S Walker, V Paul