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Table of contents

October 2003 - Volume 89 - 10

Heart: 89 (10)

Electronic pages

Cor triatriatum sinister presenting in the adult as mitral stenosis (15 September, 2003) Free
R D Slight, O C Nzewi, R Sivaprakasam, P S Mankad

Editorials

Left ventricular remodelling after myocardial infarction: importance of residual myocardial viability and ischaemia (15 September, 2003) Free
C A Visser
Radiation exposure to cardiologists: how it could be reduced (15 September, 2003) Free
E Vano
The CARDia trial protocol (15 September, 2003) Free
D Smith
Cardiac function and obesity (15 September, 2003) Free
R S Vasan

Miscellanea

Right atrium and testis tumour: is there a link? (15 September, 2003) Free
J Kefer, F Dumont, B Gerber
Life threatening total occlusion of the left coronary artery after acetylcholine infusion (15 September, 2003) Free
J S Wijpkema, G A J Jessurun, R A Tio
Multi-vessel dissections in Marfan syndrome demonstrated by multislice computed tomography (15 September, 2003) Free
N Funabashi, K Ito, I Komuro
Giant P waves (15 September, 2003) Free
T A Simmers, J H Kirkels
Procedure Guidelines for Radionuclide Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (15 September, 2003) Free
C Anagnostopoulos, M Harbinson, A Kelion, K Kundley, CY Loong, A Notghi, E Reyes, W Tindale, SR Underwood
β Thalassaemia major and severe left ventricular dysfunction (15 September, 2003) Free
M D Sosin, S Handa, D L Connolly, R Davis
Left atrial standstill in a patient with mitral stenosis and sinus rhythm: a risk of thrombus hidden by left and right atrial electrical dissociation (15 September, 2003) Free
T R D Shaw, D B Northridge, C M Francis
Spontaneous dissection of left atrium presenting as pulmonary oedema (15 September, 2003) Free
G M Reddy, J K Babu, S P Kumar
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com (15 September, 2003) Free
Brugada-like acute myocardial infarction (15 September, 2003) Free
J Tomcsányi, A Zsoldos, B Bozsik
Transcatheter closure of direct communication between right pulmonary artery and left atrium using Amplatzer device (15 September, 2003) Free
C Duke, M Alwi
Himalayan P waves in a patient with combined tricuspid and pulmonic stenosis (15 September, 2003) Free
V Davutoglu, M Kilinc, M H Dinckal
Patients admitted to a district general hospital with unstable angina are disadvantaged compared with those admitted to a tertiary centre (15 September, 2003) Free
www.heartjnl.com (15 September, 2003) Free
Spontaneous pneumopericardium (15 September, 2003) Free
A S Iskander, E C Schick, A B Levin
Giant right atrial thrombosis associated with Hickman catheter (15 September, 2003) Free
S Kula, A Saygili, S F Tunaoglu, R Olgunturk
Job strain and high work demands and lack of opportunity to control work are related to increased risk of coronorary heart disease in British government employees (15 September, 2003) Free

Viewpoint

Acquired combined immunodeficiency associated with protein losing enteropathy complicating Fontan operation (15 September, 2003) Free
S Chakrabarti, B R Keeton, A P Salmon, J J Vettukattil

Featured case report

Percutaneous technique for the reduction of knotted coronary catheters (15 September, 2003) Free
M A Tanner, D Ward

Review

Off-pump coronary artery bypass graft surgery: the incidence of postoperative atrial fibrillation (15 September, 2003) Free
R A Archbold, N P Curzen

Cardiovascular medicine

Influence of contractile reserve and inducible ischaemia on left ventricular remodelling after acute myocardial infarction (15 September, 2003) Free
C Coletta, A Sestili, F Seccareccia, R Rambaldi, R Ricci, A Galati, R Bigi, N Aspromonte, M Renzi, V Ceci
Long term outcome of patients with postinfarction left ventricular pseudoaneurysm (15 September, 2003) Free
R Moreno, E Gordillo, J Zamorano, C Almeria, J C Garcia-Rubira, A Fernandez-Ortiz, C Macaya
Relation of coronary flow pattern to myocardial blush grade in patients with first acute myocardial infarction (15 September, 2003) Free
R Hoffmann, P Haager, W Lepper, A Franke, P Hanrath
Effects of isolated obesity on systolic and diastolic left ventricular function (15 September, 2003) Free
M Pascual, D A Pascual, F Soria, T Vicente, A M Hernández, F J Tébar, M Valdés
QRS duration: a simple marker for predicting cardiac mortality in ICD patients with heart failure (15 September, 2003) Free
L Bode-Schnurbus, D Böcker, M Block, R Gradaus, A Heinecke, G Breithardt, M Borggrefe
Coronary flow velocity analysis during short term follow up after coronary reperfusion: use of transthoracic Doppler echocardiography to predict regional wall motion recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction (15 September, 2003) Free
T Hozumi, Y Kanzaki, Y Ueda, A Yamamuro, T Takagi, T Akasaka, S Homma, K Yoshida, J Yoshikawa
The effects of α and β blockade on ventilatory responses to exercise in chronic heart failure (15 September, 2003) Free
K K A Witte, S D R Thackray, N P Nikitin, J G F Cleland, A L Clark
Increased distance between mitral valve coaptation point and mitral annular plane: significance and correlations in patients with heart failure (15 September, 2003) Free
S E Karagiannis, G T Karatasakis, N Koutsogiannis, G D Athanasopoulos, D V Cokkinos
Mutations of the β myosin heavy chain gene in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: critical functional sites determine prognosis (15 September, 2003) Free
A Woo, H Rakowski, J C Liew, M-S Zhao, C-C Liew, T G Parker, M Zeller, E D Wigle, M J Sole
Risk progression to chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy: influence of male sex and of parasitaemia detected by polymerase chain reaction (15 September, 2003) Free
A L Basquiera, A Sembaj, A M Aguerri, M Omelianiuk, S Guzmán, J Moreno Barral, T F Caeiro, R J Madoery, O A Salomone
Three dimensional volume quantification of aortic valve calcification using multislice computed tomography (15 September, 2003) Free
G J Morgan-Hughes, P E Owens, C A Roobottom, A J Marshall
Epistatic interaction between variations in the angiotensin I converting enzyme and angiotensin II type 1 receptor genes in relation to extent of coronary atherosclerosis (15 September, 2003) Free
S Ye, S Dhillon, R Seear, L Dunleavey, L B Day, W Bannister, I N M Day, I Simpson

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Impact of preprocedural white blood cell count on long term mortality after percutaneous coronary intervention: insights from the EPIC, EPILOG, and EPISTENT trials (15 September, 2003) Free
H S Gurm, D L Bhatt, A M Lincoff, J E Tcheng, D J Kereiakes, N S Kleiman, G Jia, E J Topol
Radiation exposure benefit of a lead cap in invasive cardiology (15 September, 2003) Free
E Kuon, J Birkel, M Schmitt, J B Dahm

Congenital heart disease

Management of fetal tachyarrhythmia based on superior vena cava/aorta Doppler flow recordings (15 September, 2003) Free
J-C Fouron, A Fournier, F Proulx, J Lamarche, J L Bigras, C Boutin, M Brassard, S Gamache
Cardiovascular malformations in infants of diabetic mothers (15 September, 2003) Free
C Wren, G Birrell, G Hawthorne
Acute endothelin A receptor antagonism improves pulmonary and systemic haemodynamics in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension that is primary or autoimmune and related to congenital heart disease (15 September, 2003) Free
S C Apostolopoulou, S Rammos, Z S Kyriakides, D J Webb, N R Johnston, D V Cokkinos, D Th Kremastinos
Modified technique of stent fenestration of the atrial septum (15 September, 2003) Free
O Stümper, M Gewillig, J Vettukattil, W Budts, M Chessa, M Chaudhari, J G C Wright
Impaired myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve of the anatomical right systemic ventricle in patients with congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (15 September, 2003) Free
M Hauser, F M Bengel, A Hager, A Kuehn, S G Nekolla, H Kaemmerer, M Schwaiger, J Hess

Basic research

Angiotensin II receptor blockade prevents microangiopathy and preserves diastolic function in the diabetic rat heart (15 September, 2003) Free
T Hayashi, K Sohmiya, A Ukimura, S Endoh, T Mori, H Shimomura, M Okabe, F Terasaki, Y Kitaura

Scientific letters

Preoperative left ventricular end systolic dimension as a predictor of postoperative ventricular dysfunction in children with mitral regurgitation (15 September, 2003) Free
J Y Lee, C I Noh, E J Bae, Y S Yun, J R Lee, Y J Kim
Predictors of mortality in patients with acute coronary syndrome undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (15 September, 2003) Free
S S Constantinides, S Gieowarsingh, M Halim, M Been, M F Shiu
Frequent atrial premature contractions as a surrogate marker for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation in patients with acute ischaemic stroke (15 September, 2003) Free
D Wallmann, D Tüller, N Kucher, J Fuhrer, M Arnold, E Delacretaz
Family history of premature death from ischaemic heart disease is associated with an increased risk of delivering a low birth weight baby (15 September, 2003) Free
J P Pell, G C S Smith, A Dominiczak, S M Cobbe, R Dobbie, A D McMahon, I Ford
Flash pulmonary oedema: accurate evaluation of the renal arteries with multislice computed tomography (15 September, 2003) Free
G Morgan-Hughes, A J Marshall, C Roobottom
The central role of platelet activation in determining the severity of acute coronary syndromes (15 September, 2003) Free
S Kennon, C P Price, P G Mills, M Macey, J Cooper, H Clarke, A D Timmis
Interstitial fibrosis in the dilated non-ischaemic myocardium (15 September, 2003) Free
A Brooks, V Schinde, A C Bateman, P J Gallagher
Incidence of pericardial effusion during attacks of familial Mediterranean fever (15 September, 2003) Free
E Tutar, F Yalçinkaya, N Özkaya, M Ekim, S Atalay
Primary cardiac valve tumours (15 September, 2003) Free
C Basso, T Bottio, M Valente, R Bonato, D Casarotto, G Thiene
Flecainide induced ventricular fibrillation in a neonate (15 September, 2003) Free
F Ackland, R Singh, S Thayyil

Education in Heart

Basic aspects of plaque vulnerability (15 September, 2003) Free
Antoine Lafont
Plaque stabilisation in acute coronary syndromes: clinical considerations (15 September, 2003) Free
Adam D Timmis
Antiplatelet treatment in stable coronary artery disease (15 September, 2003) Free
Charles J Knight

JournalScan

JournalScan (15 September, 2003) Free
Iqbal Malik

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