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Table of contents

December 2002 - Volume 88 - 6

Heart: 88 (6)

Electronic pages

Author index (1 December, 2002) Free
Subject index (1 December, 2002) Free

Editorials

What’s bad for the gander . . . Women and sudden cardiac death (1 December, 2002)
W J Groh, E von der Lohe, D P Zipes
Relation between blood pressure after an acute coronary event and subsequent cardiovascular risk (1 December, 2002)
C-K Wong, H D White
Measuring left ventricular volume and ejection fraction with the biplane Simpson’s method (1 December, 2002)
J E Otterstad
Pathogenesis of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations: role of hepatopulmonary interactions (1 December, 2002)
J J Vettukattil

Miscellanea

Resolution of renal artery thrombus with direct administration of tissue plasminogen activator (1 December, 2002)
K P Balachandran, A C H Pell, K G Oldroyd
An unusual cause of mixed mitral valve disease (1 December, 2002)
K S Nair, D R Lawrence, P L C Smith
Near-fatal arrhythmia caused by hyperkalaemia (1 December, 2002)
R B Walter, E B Bachli
Imaging in aortoarteritis (1 December, 2002)
K M Krishnamoorthy, A Patle
Coronary occlusion caused by embolisation from a mass in the sinus of Valsalva (1 December, 2002)
P Elsman, A van ’t Hof, M J de Boer
Regression of HTLV1 associated intracardiac lymphoma following chemotherapy (1 December, 2002)
A Hamaad, R C Davis, D L Connolly
Atrio-auricular mechanical dissociation following electrical cardioversion for atrial fibrillation (1 December, 2002)
S Carerj, M P Calabrò, S Di Rosa
Postextrasystolic “T wave hump” augmentation as a marker of increased arrhythmogenic risk in the long QT syndrome (1 December, 2002)
H Wedekind, E Schulze-Bahr, H Djonlagic
An unusual image within the left atrium with UFO-like appearance on transoesophageal echocardiography (1 December, 2002)
N Özdemir, C Kaymaz, M Özkan
Pronounced PR depression (1 December, 2002)
C Lee, W Czarnecki
WEB TOP 10 (1 December, 2002)
What is the best treatment for Kawasaki disease? (1 December, 2002)
Successful use of the Guardwire Plus distal embolisation protection device in a native left anterior descending coronary artery (1 December, 2002)
S N Doshi, J D Marmur, M Kamran

Viewpoint

Nitric oxide and myocardial function in heart failure: friend or foe? (1 December, 2002)
J M Cotton, M T Kearney, A M Shah

Cardiovascular Research Funders Forum

Heart failure: aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment (1 December, 2002)
C George

Review

Transfer for primary angioplasty: who and how? (1 December, 2002)
M Dalby, G Montalescot

Cardiovascular medicine

Impact of age and sex on sudden cardiovascular death following myocardial infarction (1 December, 2002)
S Z Abildstrom, C Rask-Madsen, M M Ottesen, P K Andersen, S Rosthøj, C Torp-Pedersen, L Køber
Characteristics and outcome among patients having out of hospital cardiac arrest at home compared with elsewhere (1 December, 2002)
J Herlitz, M Eek, M Holmberg, J Engdahl, S Holmberg
Interaction between arrival time and thrombolytic treatment in determining early outcome of acute myocardial infarction (1 December, 2002)
J Wilkinson, K Foo, N Sekhri, J Cooper, A Suliman, K Ranjadayalan, A D Timmis
Hypertension control at hospital discharge after acute coronary event: influence on cardiovascular prognosis—the PREVENIR study (1 December, 2002)
J Amar, B Chamontin, J Ferriéres, N Danchin, O Grenier, C Cantet, J-P Cambou
Early prediction of improvement in ejection fraction after acute myocardial infarction using low dose dobutamine echocardiography (1 December, 2002)
F Nijland, O Kamp, P M J Verhorst, W G de Voogt, C A Visser
The economic burden of coronary heart disease in the UK (1 December, 2002)
J L Y Liu, N Maniadakis, A Gray, M Rayner
Antiarrhythmic and anti-ischaemic effects of angina in patients with and without coronary collaterals (1 December, 2002)
R J Edwards, S R Redwood, P D Lambiase, E Tomset, R D Rakhit, M S Marber
β Blockers in older persons with heart failure: tolerability and impact on quality of life (1 December, 2002)
A J Baxter, A Spensley, A Hildreth, G Karimova, J E O’Connell, C S Gray
Widespread cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in primary amyloidosis: does spontaneous hyperventilation have a compensatory role against postural hypotension? (1 December, 2002)
L Bernardi, C Passino, C Porta, E Anesi, G Palladini, G Merlini

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Clinical and angiographic outcome after conventional angioplasty with optional stent implantation compared with direct stenting without predilatation (1 December, 2002)
S Miketic, J Carlsson, U Tebbe
Population need for coronary revascularisation: are national targets for England credible? (1 December, 2002)
R M Martin, H Hemingway, D Gunnell, K R Karsch, A Baumbach, S Frankel

Congenital heart disease

Sinus venosus syndrome: atrial septal defect or anomalous venous connection? A multiplane transoesophageal approach (1 December, 2002)
J M Oliver, P Gallego, A Gonzalez, F J Dominguez, A Aroca, J M Mesa

Scientific letters

The mechanism of formation of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations associated with the classic Glenn shunt (superior cavopulmonary anastomosis) (1 December, 2002)
H Ashrafian, L Swan
Variable seasonal peaks for different types of aortic dissection? (1 December, 2002)
R Kobza, M Ritter, B Seifert, R Jenni
Relations between alcohol consumption, heart rate, and heart rate variability in men (1 December, 2002)
J M Ryan, L G Howes
Why do UK cardiac surgeons not perform their first choice operation for coronary artery bypass graft? (1 December, 2002)
P A Catarino, E Black, D P Taggart
Long term follow up after deferral of revascularisation in patients with intermediate coronary stenoses and negative dobutamine stress echocardiography (1 December, 2002)
T Giesler, S Lamprecht, J-U Voigt, D Ropers, K Pohle, J Ludwig, F A Flachskampf, W G Daniel, U Nixdorff
Serum cardiac troponin T and plasma brain natriuretic peptide in patients with cardiac decompensation (1 December, 2002)
Y Sato, R Taniguchi, T Makiyama, K Nagai, H Okada, T Yamada, A Matsumori, Y Takatsu
Association between aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2) gene polymorphism and left ventricular volume in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (1 December, 2002)
E Takai, H Akita, K Kanazawa, N Shiga, M Terashima, Y Matsuda, C Iwai, Y Miyamoto, H Kawai, A Takarada, M Yokoyama

Education in Heart

DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF VALVAR REGURGITATION (1 December, 2002)
James D Thomas
PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN THE YOUNG (1 December, 2002)
Sheila G Haworth
MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY AND THE HEART (1 December, 2002)
G Pelargonio, A Dello Russo, T Sanna, G De Martino, F Bellocci

JournalScan

JournalScan (1 December, 2002)
Iqbal Malik

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