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Table of contents

February 2002 - Volume 87 - 2

Heart: 87 (2)

Electronic pages

Reversible left ventricular dysfunction “takotsubo” cardiomyopathy associated with pneumothorax (1 February, 2002)
Y J Akashi, M Sakakibara, F Miyake
Myocardial infarction during adenosine stress test (1 February, 2002)
J E Polad, L M Wilson
Unusual case of refractory hypertension: late presentation of the mid-aortic syndrome (1 February, 2002)
S Kumar, R W Bury, D H Roberts

Editorials

Introducing a new role for BNP: as a general indicator of cardiac structural disease rather than a specific indicator of systolic dysfunction only (1 February, 2002)
A D Struthers
Warm up phenomenon and preconditioning in clinical practice (1 February, 2002)
F Tomai
Observational research in the evidence based environment: eclipsed by the randomised controlled trial? (1 February, 2002)
R H Stables

Miscellanea

Contrast enhanced magnetic resonance angiography of severe aortic coarctation (1 February, 2002)
R-S Tan, M T Dahdal, R H Mohiaddin
British Heart Foundation (1 February, 2002)
M K Davies, A Hollman
The following electronic only articles are published in conjunction with this issue of Heart.
(1 February, 2002)
Misleading appearance of a left atrial thrombus as a cystic mass on transoesophageal echocardiography (1 February, 2002)
M Cemrý, A Erkan, A Cengel
WEB TOP 10 (1 February, 2002)
Inhibition of temporary pacing by a mobile phone (1 February, 2002)
T R Betts, I A Simpson
Embolism of an idiopathic pulmonary artery aneurysm (1 February, 2002)
P Mann, D Seriki, P A Dodds
Magnetic resonance angiography in the evaluation of aortic pseudoaneurysm (1 February, 2002)
R S Lankipalli, M Pellecchia, J F Burke
Evaluation of pulmonary atresia with magnetic resonance imaging (1 February, 2002)
J Baque, J-F Paul
Anomalous origin of the posterior descending artery from the left anterior descending coronary artery: cardiac surgeons beware (1 February, 2002)
L C H John

Viewpoint

Good clinical practice and informed consent are inseparable (1 February, 2002)
L Doyal

Viewpoint

Commentary (1 February, 2002)
A Ågård, G Hermerén, J Herlitz

Review

Inflammatory gene polymorphisms and ischaemic heart disease: review of population association studies (1 February, 2002)
F Andreotti, I Porto, F Crea, A Maseri

JournalScan

Cardiovascular highlights from non-cardiology journals (1 February, 2002)
Iqbal Malik

Cardiovascular medicine

Does a selective adenosine A₁ receptor agonist protect against exercise induced ischaemia in patients with coronary artery disease?
(1 February, 2002)
A D Kelion, T P Webb, M A Gardner, O J M Ormerod, G L Shepherd, A P Banning
Left ventricular long axis function in diastolic heart failure is reduced in both diastole and systole: time for a redefinition? (1 February, 2002)
G Yip, M Wang, Y Zhang, J W H Fung, P Y Ho, J E Sanderson
Epidemiology of idiopathic cardiomyopathy in Japan: results from a nationwide survey (1 February, 2002)
K Miura, H Nakagawa, Y Morikawa, S Sasayama, A Matsumori, K Hasegawa, Y Ohno, A Tamakoshi, T Kawamura, Y Inaba
Value of plasma B type natriuretic peptide measurement for heart disease screening in a Japanese population (1 February, 2002)
M Nakamura, H Endo, M Nasu, N Arakawa, T Segawa, K Hiramori
Factors predicting compensatory vascular remodelling of the carotid artery affected by atherosclerosis (1 February, 2002)
D Saito, T Oka, A Kajiyama, N Ohnishi, T Shiraki

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Quality of life of patients with chronic stable angina before and four years after coronary revascularisation compared with a normal population (1 February, 2002)
B Brorsson, S J Bernstein, R H Brook, L Werkö

Congenital heart disease

Outcome of infants with right atrial isomerism: is prognosis better with normal pulmonary venous drainage? (1 February, 2002)
Y F Cheung, V Y W Cheng, A K T Chau, C S W Chiu, T C Yung, M P Leung

Basic research

Tumour necrosis factor α gene polymorphism: a predisposing factor to non-ischaemic myocardial dysfunction? (1 February, 2002)
C G Densem, I V Hutchinson, N Yonan, N H Brooks

Scientific letters

Is the value of QT dispersion a valid method to foresee the risk of sudden death? A study in Becker patients (1 February, 2002)
Ge Nigro, G Nigro, L Politano, L Santangelo, V R Petretta, L Passamano, F Panico, F De Luca, A Montefusco, L I Comi
Endogenous, local, vascular endothelial growth factor production in patients with chronic total coronary artery occlusions: further evidence for its role in angiogenesis (1 February, 2002)
H El-Gendi, A G Violaris, R Foale, H S Sharma, D J Sheridan
Determinants of procedural outcome of chronically implanted pacemaker and defibrillator leads using the Excimer laser sheath (1 February, 2002)
C A Rinaldi, J Bostock, N Patel, C A Bucknall

Education in Heart

The “no-reflow” phenomenon: basic science and clinical correlates (1 February, 2002)
Thorsten Reffelmann, Robert A Kloner
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: management, risk stratification, and prevention of sudden death (1 February, 2002)
William J McKenna, Elijah R Behr
Cardiac transplantation (1 February, 2002)
Mario C Deng

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