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Table of contents

March 2003 - Volume 89 - 3

Heart: 89 (3)

Electronic pages

Takayasu’s arteritis: management of left main stem stenosis (1 March, 2003)
I S Malik, O Harare, A AL-Nahhas, K Beatt, J Mason
Artefact mimicking tachycardia during magnetic resonance imaging in a patient with an implantable loop recorder (1 March, 2003)
J R Gimbel, B L Wilkoff
Unexplained recurrent pericardial effusion: a lethal warning? (1 March, 2003)
C H Lee, G S W Chan, W M Chan

Editorials

Diagnosis of culture negative endocarditis: novel strategies to prove the suspect guilty (1 March, 2003)
C K Naber, R Erbel
Management of prosthetic valve endocarditis: a clinical challenge (1 March, 2003)
P Tornos
Outcome following percutaneous coronary intervention: not, so far, in our genes (1 March, 2003)
B Keavney
The primacy of clinical effectiveness for cost effectiveness analysis (1 March, 2003)
I P Casserly, E J Topol

Miscellanea

An incidental case of thrombus formation in a patient with a portacath inserted for regular blood transfusions (1 March, 2003)
M A Westwood, J S Wainscoat, R Mohiaddin
Prolonged asymptomatic sinus pause indicated by implantable loop recording (1 March, 2003)
G H Mairesse, B Marchand
Misplaced pacemaker wire as a cause of mitral regurgitation (1 March, 2003)
J M Brophy
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(1 March, 2003)
Multiple cystic aneurysms in aortitis demonstrated by three dimensional volume rendering images of multislice computed tomography (1 March, 2003)
N Funabashi, N Komiyama, I Komuro
Left atrial thrombus caused by the primary antiphospholipid syndrome causing critical functional mitral stenosis (1 March, 2003)
S Yusuf, B P Madden, C W Pumphrey
An unusual “right atrial mass” on echocardiography (1 March, 2003)
C G Sajeev, M N Krishnan, K Venugopal
Effect of temperature on the Brugada ECG (1 March, 2003)
J Smith, A Hannah, D H Birnie
Left circumflex coronary artery arising as a terminal extension of the right coronary artery (1 March, 2003)
O Sagkan, M Yazici, S Demircan
Women miss out on coronary care (1 March, 2003)
Epidural haematoma presenting as polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (1 March, 2003)
T R Webb, J M Morgan, P R Roberts
Aortic abscess (1 March, 2003)
M L R Suárez, L R Redondo, T R Raviña
Percutaneous closure of a false aneurysm of the superficial femoral artery under fluoroscopic guidance (1 March, 2003)
J M Ernst, B J Rensing
Acute myocardial infarction caused by gunshot wound (1 March, 2003)
R Topsakal, N K Eryol, M Çalişkan
Non-haemorrhagic cardiac tamponade caused by a horse kick (1 March, 2003)
C Skene, A D Timmis
Malposition of ventricular pacemaker lead as an incidental finding (1 March, 2003)
K Soon, H Koutsounis, J Selvanayagam
WEB TOP 10 (1 March, 2003)
Acquired supravalvar type of left ventricular to right atrial communication following non-penetrating cardiac trauma caused by traffic accident (1 March, 2003)
N Sasaki, M Shimoyama

Review

Erectile dysfunction and the cardiovascular patient: endothelial dysfunction is the common denominator (1 March, 2003)
H Solomon, J W Man, G Jackson

Viewpoint

A “natural experiment” in cardiovascular epidemiology in the early 21st century (1 March, 2003)
A Sekikawa, B Y Horiuchi, D Edmundowicz, H Ueshima, J D Curb, K Sutton-Tyrrell, T Okamura, T Kadowaki, A Kashiwagi, K Mitsunami, K Murata, Y Nakamura, B L Rodriguez, L H Kuller

Cardiovascular medicine

Blood culture negative endocarditis: analysis of 63 cases presenting over 25 years (1 March, 2003)
C C Lamas, S J Eykyn
Molecular diagnosis of culture negative infective endocarditis: clinical validation in a group of surgically treated patients (1 March, 2003)
M Grijalva, R Horváth, M Dendis, J Erný, J Benedík
Prosthetic valve endocarditis: early and late outcome following medical or surgical treatment (1 March, 2003)
E F Akowuah, W Davies, S Oliver, J Stephens, I Riaz, P Zadik, G Cooper
Clinical criteria and the appropriate use of transthoracic echocardiography for the exclusion of infective endocarditis (1 March, 2003)
K Greaves, D Mou, A Patel, D S Celermajer
Bangladeshi patients present with non-classic features of acute myocardial infarction and are treated less aggressively in east London, UK (1 March, 2003)
K Barakat, Z Wells, S Ramdhany, P G Mills, A D Timmis
Multicentre evaluation of the diagnostic value of cardiac troponin T, CK-MB mass, and myoglobin for assessing patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes in routine clinical practice (1 March, 2003)
P O Collinson, P J Stubbs, A-C Kessler
Cost effectiveness of extended treatment with low molecular weight heparin (dalteparin) in unstable coronary artery disease: results from the FRISC II trial (1 March, 2003)
M Janzon, L-Å Levin, E Swahn
Relation between heart rate, heart rhythm, and reverse left ventricular remodelling in response to carvedilol in patients with chronic heart failure: a single centre, observational study (1 March, 2003)
R H Arnold, E Kotlyar, C Hayward, A M Keogh, P S Macdonald
Treatment of chronic heart failure with β adrenergic blockade beyond controlled clinical trials: the BRING-UP experience (1 March, 2003)
A P Maggioni, G Sinagra, C Opasich, E Geraci, M Gorini, E Gronda, D Lucci, G Tognoni, E Balli, L Tavazzi
Haemodynamic and catecholamine response to simulated ventricular tachycardia in man: effect of baseline left ventricular function (1 March, 2003)
T M Kolettis, E Psarros, Z S Kyriakides, C S Katsouras, L K Michalis, D A Sideris
Intravascular ultrasound of the elastic pulmonary arteries: a new approach for the evaluation of primary pulmonary hypertension (1 March, 2003)
J Rodés-Cabau, E Domingo, A Román, J Majó, B Lara, F Padilla, I Anívarro, J Angel, J C Tardif, J Soler-Soler

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Evaluation of intracoronary stenting by intravascular optical coherence tomography (1 March, 2003)
B E Bouma, G J Tearney, H Yabushita, M Shishkov, C R Kauffman, D DeJoseph Gauthier, B D MacNeill, S L Houser, H T Aretz, E F Halpern, I-K Jang
Prospective evaluation of the effect of an angiotensin I converting enzyme gene polymorphism on the long term risk of major adverse cardiac events after percutaneous coronary intervention (1 March, 2003)
M Hamon, S Fradin, A Denizet, E Filippi-Codaccioni, G Grollier, R Morello

Scientific letters

Women, older persons, and ethnic minorities: factors associated with their inclusion in randomised trials of statins 1990 to 2001 (1 March, 2003)
C Bartlett, P Davey, P Dieppe, L Doyal, S Ebrahim, M Egger
Coronary angioplasty enhances platelet reactivity through von Willebrand factor release (1 March, 2003)
D A Gorog, H Douglas, N Ahmed, D C Lefroy, G J Davies
Accuracy of reporting cardiac related events during long term follow up (1 March, 2003)
F Taylor, B Reeves, R Ascione, G Angelini
Role of the autonomic nervous system in vagal atrial fibrillation (1 March, 2003)
M P van den Berg, R J Hassink, C Baljé-Volkers, H J G M Crijns
Short term clinical outcome of acute saddle pulmonary embolism (1 March, 2003)
P Pruszczyk, R Pacho, M Ciurzynski, M Kurzyna, B Burakowska, W Tomkowski, A Bochowicz, A Torbicki
The relative contribution of the sinus and AV node to heart rate variability (1 March, 2003)
J O Schwab, G Eichner, H Schmitt, S Weber, M Coch, B Waldecker
Relation between circulating soluble Fas ligand and subsequent ventricular remodelling following myocardial infarction (1 March, 2003)
T Soeki, Y Tamura, H Shinohara, K Sakabe, Y Onose, N Fukuda

Erratum

Erratum (1 March, 2003)

Education in Heart

CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY (1 March, 2003)
Michael J Stewart
DO GUIDELINES INFLUENCE PRACTICE? (1 March, 2003)
Paul W Armstrong
DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF CARDIOGENIC SYNCOPE AND SEIZURE DISORDERS (1 March, 2003)
Lennart Bergfeldt

JournalScan

JournalScan (1 March, 2003)
Iqbal Malik

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