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Table of contents

February 2003 - Volume 89 - 2

Heart: 89 (2)

Electronic pages

Acute thrombosis of the sinus node artery: arrhythmological implications (1 February, 2003)
G Ando’, A Gaspardone, I Proietti
Intrastent sonotherapy in pulmonary vein restenosis: a new treatment for a recalcitrant problem (1 February, 2003)
C J McMahon, C E Mullins, H G El Said
Protein C deficiency manifesting as an acute myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke (1 February, 2003)
I Y Tiong, M L Alkotob, S Ghaffari
Obstructive intramural coronary amyloidosis and papillary muscle rupture (1 February, 2003)
D Coisne, P Corbi, P Sosner

Editorials

Cardiovascular effects of testosterone: implications of the “male menopause”? (1 February, 2003)
K S Channer, T H Jones
Syncope: what is the trigger? (1 February, 2003)
R Hainsworth
Exercise blood pressure in congenital heart disease and in patients after coarctation repair (1 February, 2003)
M Hauser

Miscellanea

Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular node (1 February, 2003)
Y Nojima, H Ishibashi-Ueda, M Yamagishi
Prophylactic indomethacin can harm very low birthweight babies with severe CHD (1 February, 2003)
A giant thrombus aspirated from a coronary artery (1 February, 2003)
T Miyamoto, T Sasaki, A Niwa
In-stent restenosis and atherosclerosis in a human saphenous vein graft (1 February, 2003)
N J Alp, J Gunn, K M Channon
Anomalous right coronary artery originating from the mid left main coronary artery (1 February, 2003)
T Chatterjee, P Erne
Huge mass bordering on left atrium raises coronary artery (1 February, 2003)
H Okamura, K Bando, M Higashi
Acute left ventricular rupture after myocardial infarction (1 February, 2003)
P L Sanchez
Lipoprotein (a) is not part of the acute phase response (1 February, 2003)
Spontaneous coronary artery dissection: stent it or wait for healing? (1 February, 2003)
R Sarmento-Leite, P R M Machado, S L Garcia
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(1 February, 2003)
Sudden cardiac death caused by hypertrophic cardiomyopathy associated with midventricular obstruction and apical aneurysm (1 February, 2003)
H-F Tse, H-H Ho
Vasospastic angina (1 February, 2003)
V Suresh, R Levy
WEB TOP 10 (1 February, 2003)
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(1 February, 2003)

Viewpoint

Drug eluting stents: maximising benefit and minimising cost (1 February, 2003)
J Gunn, A C Morton, C Wales, C M H Newman, D C Crossman, D C Cumberland

Review

Drug eluting stents: are human and animal studies comparable? (1 February, 2003)
R Virmani, F D Kolodgie, A Farb, A Lafont

Cardiovascular medicine

Myocardial contrast echocardiography is superior to other known modalities for assessing myocardial reperfusion after acute myocardial infarction (1 February, 2003)
K Greaves, S R Dixon, M Fejka, W W O’Neill, S R Redwood, M S Marber, R Senior
Assessment of myocardial perfusion abnormalities by intravenous myocardial contrast echocardiography with harmonic power Doppler imaging: comparison with positron emission tomography (1 February, 2003)
T Muro, T Hozumi, H Watanabe, H Yamagishi, M Yoshiyama, K Takeuchi, J Yoshikawa
NT-proBNP: a new diagnostic screening tool to differentiate between patients with normal and reduced left ventricular systolic function (1 February, 2003)
M Bay, V Kirk, J Parner, C Hassager, H Nielsen, K Krogsgaard, J Trawinski, S Boesgaard, J Aldershvile
Comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation programme for implantable cardioverter-defibrillator patients: a randomised controlled trial (1 February, 2003)
A Fitchet, P J Doherty, C Bundy, W Bell, A P Fitzpatrick, C J Garratt
Mitral annular calcification: a marker of severe coronary artery disease in patients under 65 years old (1 February, 2003)
S Atar, D S Jeon, H Luo, R J Siegel
Atrial fibrillation: relation between clinical risk factors and transoesophageal echocardiographic risk factors for thromboembolism (1 February, 2003)
S Illien, S Maroto-Järvinen, G von der Recke, C Hammerstingl, H Schmidt, S Kuntz-Hehner, B Lüderitz, H Omran
Abnormal response to sodium channel blockers in patients with Brugada syndrome: augmented localised wall motion abnormalities in the right ventricular outflow tract region detected by electron beam computed tomography (1 February, 2003)
M Takagi, N Aihara, S Kuribayashi, A Taguchi, T Kurita, K Suyama, S Kamakura, M Takamiya
Rarefaction of skin capillaries in normotensive offspring of individuals with essential hypertension (1 February, 2003)
T F T Antonios, F M Rattray, D R J Singer, N D Markandu, P S Mortimer, G A MacGregor

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Myocardial viability, coronary flow reserve, and in-hospital predictors of late recovery of contractility following successful primary stenting for acute myocardial infarction (1 February, 2003)
F Beygui, C Le Feuvre, G Helft, C Maunoury, J P Metzger
Coronary stenting versus coronary bypass surgery in patients with multiple vessel disease and significant proximal LAD stenosis: results from the ERACI II study (1 February, 2003)
A Rodriguez, M Rodríguez Alemparte, J Baldi, J Navia, A Delacasa, D Vogel, R Oliveri, C Fernández Pereira, V Bernardi, W O’Neill, I F Palacios

Congenital heart disease

Exercise systolic blood pressures are of questionable value in the assessment of the adult with a previous coarctation repair (1 February, 2003)
L Swan, S Goyal, C Hsia, S Hechter, G Webb, M A Gatzoulis
Fontan conversion to total cavopulmonary connection and arrhythmia ablation: clinical and functional results (1 February, 2003)
G Agnoletti, A Borghi, G Vignati, G C Crupi
Experience with transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects using the Amplatzer septal occluder: a single centre study in 236 consecutive patients (1 February, 2003)
G Fischer, J Stieh, A Uebing, U Hoffmann, G Morf, H H Kramer

Scientific letters

Heart rate variability in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (1 February, 2003)
G Butera, D Bonnet, J Kachaner, D Sidi, E Villain
Decreased serum vascular endothelial growth factor concentrations in patients with congestive heart failure (1 February, 2003)
H Arakawa, U Ikeda, Y Hojo, S Ueno, M Nonaka-Sarukawa, K Yamamoto, K Shimada
Prolonged temporary cardiac pacing using subcutaneous tunnelled active-fixation permanent pacing leads (1 February, 2003)
N Lever, J D Ferguson, Y Bashir, K M Channon
Enhanced endothelin-1 degradation by intravenous morphine in patients with congestive heart failure: role of neutral endopeptidase 24.11 (1 February, 2003)
T-L Wang, C-R Hung
Deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin I converting enzyme gene is a potent risk factor for coronary artery ectasia (1 February, 2003)
S Gülec, Ö Aras, Y Atmaca, Ö Akyürek, N Q Hanson, T Sayin, M Y Tsai, N Akar, D Oral
Asymptomatic ventricular pre-excitation in children and adolescents: a 15 year follow up study (1 February, 2003)
B Sarubbi, G Scognamiglio, G Limongelli, B Mercurio, G Pacileo, C Pisacane, M G Russo, R Calabrò

Education in Heart

IN-STENT STENOSIS: PATHOLOGY AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF DRUG ELUTING STENTS (1 February, 2003)
Martin R Bennett
CHRONIC COR PULMONALE (1 February, 2003)
Emmanuel Weitzenblum
CLINICAL ASSESSMENT OF LEFT VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FUNCTION (1 February, 2003)
Derek G Gibson, Darrel P Francis

JournalScan

JournalScan (1 February, 2003)
Iqbal Malik

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