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Table of contents

May 2000 - Volume 83 - 5

Heart: 83 (5)

Electronic pages: case report

Transient appearance of antegrade conduction via an AV accessory pathway caused by atrial fibrillation in a patient with intermittent Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome (1 May, 2000)
S Niwano, Y Kitano, M Moriguchi, T Izumi
Coronary arteries from a single coronary ostium in the right coronary sinus: a previously unreported anatomy (1 May, 2000)
D A H Neil, R S Bonser, J N Townend

Editorial

Coronary angioplasty is like going to the dentist (1 May, 2000)
BERNHARD MEIER
Assessment of left ventricular systolic function in research and in clinical practice (1 May, 2000)
SALLY C GREAVES
Cardiovascular risks and outcomes: ethnic variations in hypertensive patients (1 May, 2000)
RAJ BHOPAL, SUSHMITA SENGUPTA-WIEBE

Stamps in cardiology

World Health Organization (1 May, 2000)
M K DAVIES, A HOLLMAN

Hypothesis

Intravascular radiotherapy: restenosis and more? (1 May, 2000)
PAUL WEXBERG, MICHAEL GOTTSAUNER-WOLF

Images in cardiology

Fatal unruptured myocardial abscesses (1 May, 2000)
LOUISA MCILWAINE, STEPHEN STOTT, DUNCAN HOGG
Strangulated gastric volvulus: an unusual cause of cardiac compression resulting in electromechanical dissociation (1 May, 2000)
P R KALRA, R FRYMANN, D R ALLEN
Effusive–constrictive pericarditis (1 May, 2000)
MAURO SANTARONE, GIOVANNI CORRADO, GIANMARCO BELLONI
Potentially fatal atrial pacemaker lead disruption detected by fluoroscopic surveillance (1 May, 2000)
DIANA A GOROG, DAVID C LEFROY
Onset and termination of atrial fibrillation (1 May, 2000)
THOMAS C GERBER, PETER A BRADY, JOSEPH L BLACKSHEAR

Review

Left ventricular free wall rupture: clinical presentation and management (1 May, 2000)
J Figueras, J Cortadellas, J Soler-Soler

Cardiovascular medicine

Survival of patients with a new diagnosis of heart failure: a population based study (1 May, 2000)
M R Cowie, D A Wood, A J S Coats, S G Thompson, V Suresh, P A Poole-Wilson, G C Sutton
Abnormal cardiopulmonary exercise variables in asymptomatic relatives of patients with dilated cardiomyopathy who have left ventricular enlargement (1 May, 2000)
N G Mahon, S Sharma, P M Elliott, M K Baig, M W Norman, S Barbeyto, W J McKenna
Comparison of myocardial contrast echocardiography with NC100100 and ^99mTc sestamibi SPECT for detection of resting myocardial perfusion abnormalities in patients with previous myocardial infarction
(1 May, 2000)
I Jucquois, P Nihoyannopoulos, A-M D'Hondt, V Roelants, A Robert, J A Melin, D Glass, J-L J Vanoverschelde
Long term outcome of infective endocarditis in patients who were not drug addicts: a 10 year study (1 May, 2000)
J C Castillo, M P Anguita, A Ramírez, J R Siles, F Torres, D Mesa, M Franco, I Muñoz, M Concha, F Vallés
Heart rate variability and baroreflex sensitivity in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (1 May, 2000)
J Hoffmann, W Grimm, V Menz, H-H Müller, B Maisch
Left atrial volume assessed by transthoracic three dimensional echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging: dynamic changes during the heart cycle in children (1 May, 2000)
T Poutanen, A Ikonen, P Vainio, E Jokinen, T Tikanoja

Short cases in cardiology

Mid-ventricular HOCM with apical asynergy (1 May, 2000)
J C Cooke, J M Cotton, M J Monaghan

Interventional cardiology surgery

Distal end of the atrioventricular nodal artery predicts the risk of atrioventricular block during slow pathway catheter ablation of atrioventricular nodal re-entrant tachycardia (1 May, 2000)
J-L Lin, S K S Huang, L-P Lai, L-J Lin, J-H Chen, Y-Z Tseng, W-P Lien
Intracoronary dipyridamole reduces the incidence of abrupt vessel closure following PTCA: a prospective randomised trial (1 May, 2000)
M P Heintzen, U E Heidland, W J Klimek, M Leschke, M Kelm, B Schwartzkopff, E G Vester, C J Michel, B E Strauer
Triage of patients for short term observation after elective coronary angioplasty (1 May, 2000)
K T Koch, J J Piek, M H Prins, R J de Winter, K Mulder, K I Lie, J G P Tijssen

Practice observed

The Newcastle protocols for head-up tilt table testing in the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope, carotid sinus hypersensitivity, and related disorders (1 May, 2000)
R A Kenny, D O'Shea, S W Parry

Basic research

Evaluation of in vivo biocompatibility of different devices for interventional closure of the patent ductus arteriosus in an animal model (1 May, 2000)
M Sigler, S Handt, M-C Seghaye, G von Bernuth, R G Grabitz
Inhibition of angiotensin converting enzyme cannot prevent increases in angiotensin II production in coronary circulation (1 May, 2000)
Y Hojo, U Ikeda, T Katsuki, O Mizuno, H Fujikawa, K Shimada

Scientific letters

Plasma fibrinogen, soluble P-selectin, and von Willebrand factor in aortic valve disease: evidence for abnormal haemorheology, platelet activation, and endothelial dysfunction (1 May, 2000)
I R A GOLDSMITH, A D BLANN, R L PATEL, G Y H LIP
Raised interleukin 6 concentrations as a predictor of postangioplasty restenosis (1 May, 2000)
TORU SUZUKI, SUGAO ISHIWATA, KOHTARO HASEGAWA, KENJI YAMAMOTO, TSUTOMU YAMAZAKI

Featured clinical case

Late aortic homograft valve endocarditis caused byCardiobacterium hominis: a case report and review of the literature
(1 May, 2000)
P F Currie, M Codispoti, P S Mankad, M J Godman

Letters to the editor

Ultrasound guided percutaneous thrombin injection for the treatment of iatrogenic pseudoaneurysms (1 May, 2000)
J D FERGUSON, A P BANNING
Rapid Responses now available oneHeart
(1 May, 2000)
Mobile intracardiac calcinosis: risk of thromboembolism in patients with haemodialysed end stage renal disease (1 May, 2000)
A FARZANEH-FAR, C SHANAHAN, D PROUDFOOT, PL WEISSBERG
Instantaneous pressure–flow velocity relations of systemic venous return in patients with univentricular circulation (1 May, 2000)
T-Y HSIA, S KHAMBADKONE, A N REDINGTON, M R DE LEVAL
Surgery for aortic stenosis in severely symptomatic patients older than 80 years: experience in a single UK centre (1 May, 2000)
OMP JOLOBE
Flying after heart surgery (1 May, 2000)
MICHAEL JOY
Radial coronary angiography and stenting (1 May, 2000)
DAVID HILDICK-SMITH, MARTIN LOWE, MICHAEL PETCH, PETER LUDMAN
Pre-excitation or post-excitation (1 May, 2000)
JÁNOS TOMCSÁNYI, JÓZSEF TENCZER
On the management of scorpion stings (1 May, 2000)
S B DESHPANDE, A B ALEX
Dr Carey Coombs and his non-existent cardiac infarct (1 May, 2000)
A HOLLMAN

Education in Heart

CARDIOMYOPATHY: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy: diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment (1 May, 2000)
Domenico Corrado, Cristina Basso, Gaetano Thiene
HEART FAILURE: Epidemiology, aetiology, and prognosis of heart failure (1 May, 2000)
John J McMurray, Simon Stewart
HEART FAILURE: Non-transplant surgery for heart failure (1 May, 2000)
Stephen Westaby

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