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• Left atrial appendage anatomy and function: short term response to sustained atrial fibrillation (1 November, 1999)

  M J Weigner, S E Katz, P S Douglas, W J Manning
• Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects in adults with the Amplatzer septal occluder (1 November, 1999)

  R Dhillon, B Thanopoulos, G Tsaousis, F Triposkiadis, M Kyriakidis, A Redington
• Stroke and atrial fibrillation: is stroke prevention treatment appropriate beforehand? (1 November, 1999)

  D Deplanque, F Corea, C Arquizan, L Parnetti, J L Mas, V Gallai, D Leys, the SAFE I Study Investigators
• Use of antithrombotic measures for stroke prevention in atrial fibrillation (1 November, 1999)

  I Perez, A Melbourn, L Kalra
• Left ventricular beat to beat performance in atrial fibrillation: dependence on contractility, preload, and afterload (1 November, 1999)

  H J Muntinga, A T M Gosselink, P K Blanksma, P J De Kam, E E Van Der Wall, H J G M Crijns
• Risk of myocardial infarction in young female smokers (1 November, 1999)

  N R Dunn, B Faragher, M Thorogood, L de Caestecker, T M MacDonald, C McCollum, S Thomas, R Mann
• Non-adherence with ACE inhibitor treatment is common in heart failure and can be detected by routine serum ACE activity assays (1 November, 1999)

  A D Struthers, G Anderson, R J MacFadyen, C Fraser, T M MacDonald
• Impact of concurrent amiodarone treatment on the tolerability and efficacy of carvedilol in patients with chronic heart failure (1 November, 1999)

  P S Macdonald, A M Keogh, C Aboyoun, M Lund, R Amor, D McCaffrey
• Evolution and long term outcome in cases with fetal diagnosis of congenital heart disease: Italian multicentre study (1 November, 1999)

  V Fesslova', S Nava, L Villa, the Fetal Cardiology Study Group of the Italian Society of Pediatric Cardiology
• Stent implantation for aortic coarctation and recoarctation (1 November, 1999)

  A G Magee, G Brzezinska-Rajszys, S A Qureshi, E Rosenthal, M Zubrzycka, J Ksiazyk, M Tynan
• Influence of left ventricular relaxation on the pressure half time of aortic regurgitation (1 November, 1999)

  S F de Marchi, S Windecker, B C Aeschbacher, C Seiler
• Utility of cardiac troponin I, creatine kinase-MB_mass, myosin light chain 1, and myoglobin in the early in-hospital triage of “high risk” patients with chest pain

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  G S Hillis, N Zhao, P Taggart, W C Dalsey, A Mangione
• A new mutation of the cardiac troponin T gene causing familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy without left ventricular hypertrophy (1 November, 1999)

  A Varnava, C Baboonian, F Davison, L de Cruz, P M Elliott, M J Davies, W J McKenna
• Malalignment of the sarcomeric filaments in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with cardiac myosin heavy chain gene mutation (1 November, 1999)

  A Muraishi, H Kai, K Adachi, H Nishi, T Imaizumi
• N-terminal proatrial natriuretic peptide correlates with systolic dysfunction and left ventricular filling pattern in patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (1 November, 1999)

  F M Fruhwald, A Fahrleitner, N Watzinger, H Dobnig, M Schumacher, R Maier, R Zweiker, G Leb, W Klein
• Is it possible to identify infrahissian cardiac conduction abnormalities in myotonic dystrophy by non-invasive methods? (1 November, 1999)

  D Babuty, L Fauchier, D Tena-Carbi, P Poret, J Leche, M Raynaud, J P Fauchier, P Cosnay