Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Changing the diagnostic criteria for myocardial infarction in patients with a suspected heart attack affects the measurement of 30 day mortality but not long term survival (1 October, 2002)

  C Packham, D Gray, C Weston, A Large, P Silcocks, J Hampton
• Myocardial infarction redefined: the new ACC/ESC definition, based on cardiac troponin, increases the apparent incidence of infarction (1 October, 2002)

  J L Ferguson, G J Beckett, M Stoddart, S W Walker, K A A Fox
• T lymphocyte infiltration in non-rheumatic aortic stenosis: a comparative descriptive study between tricuspid and bicuspid aortic valves (1 October, 2002)

  L Wallby, B Janerot-Sjöberg, T Steffensen, M Broqvist
• Improved prognosis of patients presenting with clinical markers of spontaneous reperfusion during acute myocardial infarction (1 October, 2002)

  D Rimar, E Crystal, A Battler, S Gottlieb, D Freimark, H Hod, V Boyko, L Mandelzweig, S Behar, J Leor
• Management and outcome of patients with atrial fibrillation during acute myocardial infarction: the GUSTO-III experience (1 October, 2002)

  C-K Wong, H D White, R G Wilcox, D A Criger, R M Califf, E J Topol, E M Ohman
• Role of echocardiography in the evaluation of syncope: a prospective study (1 October, 2002)

  F P Sarasin, A-F Junod, D Carballo, S Slama, P-F Unger, M Louis-Simonet
• Changes in transmural distribution of myocardial perfusion assessed by quantitative intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography in humans (1 October, 2002)

  S Fukuda, T Muro, T Hozumi, H Watanabe, K Shimada, M Yoshiyama, K Takeuchi, J Yoshikawa
• Perindopril improves six minute walking distance in older patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: a randomised double blind placebo controlled trial (1 October, 2002)

  S D Hutcheon, N D Gillespie, I K Crombie, A D Struthers, M E T McMurdo
• The pNNx files: re-examining a widely used heart rate variability measure (1 October, 2002)

  J E Mietus, C-K Peng, I Henry, R L Goldsmith, A L Goldberger