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Table of contents

April 2003 - Volume 89 - 4

Heart: 89 (4)

Electronic pages

Successful radiofrequency catheter ablation of “clockwise” and “counterclockwise” bundle branch re-entrant ventricular tachycardia in the absence of myocardial or valvar dysfunction without detecting bundle branch potentials (1 April, 2003)
K Matsuoka, E Fujii, F Uchida
Concordance for hypoplastic left heart syndrome in a monochorionic twin pregnancy (1 April, 2003)
R E Andrews, A C Cook, R W M Yates
Toad venom poisoning: resemblance to digoxin toxicity and therapeutic implications (1 April, 2003)
R M Gowda, R A Cohen, I A Khan

Editorials

Coronary flow: clinical considerations (1 April, 2003)
D V Cokkinos, A Manginas, V Voudris
Cardiac surgery and the brain: differences between adult and paediatric studies (1 April, 2003)
D C Bellinger
Protecting the damaged heart during coronary surgery (1 April, 2003)
D J Wheatley
Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy almost 50 years after the first surgical attempts (1 April, 2003)
I Cerveri, A M D’Armini, M Viganò

Miscellanea

An unusual presentation of delayed cardiac perforation caused by atrial screw-in lead (1 April, 2003)
P Velavan, A Chauhan
Computed tomography imaging of cardiac tamponade secondary to a posterior pericardial abscess (1 April, 2003)
A M Groves, A D Tasker
Prevention of embolisation during percutaneous vein graft intervention using a Filter Wire distal protection device (1 April, 2003)
D J Blackman, K M Channon
Prolonged cardiac arrest caused by glossopharyngeal neuralgia (1 April, 2003)
N Takaya, M Sumiyoshi, Y Nakata
Patency of coronary artery lumen surrounded by metallic stent evaluated by three dimensional volume rendering images using ECG gated multislice computed tomography (1 April, 2003)
N Funabashi, N Komiyama, I Komuro
WEB TOP 10 (1 April, 2003)
Erratum (1 April, 2003)
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(1 April, 2003)
Three dimensional images with ECG gated multislice computed tomography revealed stenosis of the descending aorta in 2 month old baby (1 April, 2003)
N Funabashi, T Honda, M Terai
An unusual complication of transvenous temporary pacing (1 April, 2003)
M James, M Townsend, S Aldington
A diagnostic pitfall in a patient with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (1 April, 2003)
H Burri, P Chevalier, P Touboul
Neonatal ECG changes caused by supratherapeutic flecainide following treatment for fetal supraventricular tachycardia (1 April, 2003)
A Rasheed, J Simpson, E Rosenthal

Review

The therapeutic potential of new insights into myocardial excitation–contraction coupling (1 April, 2003)
M Scoote, P A Poole-Wilson, A J Williams

Cardiovascular medicine

Long QTc predicts future cardiac death in stroke survivors (1 April, 2003)
K Y K Wong, R S Mac Walter, D Douglas, H W Fraser, S A Ogston, A D Struthers
Persistence of systolic coronary flow reversal predicts irreversible dysfunction after reperfused anterior myocardial infarction (1 April, 2003)
Y Nohtomi, M Takeuchi, K Nagasawa, K Arimura, K Miyata, K Kuwata, T Yamawaki, S Kondo, A Yamada, S Okamatsu
White blood cell count and long term mortality after non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome treated with very early revascularisation (1 April, 2003)
C Mueller, F-J Neumann, A P Perruchoud, H J Buettner
Impact of microvascular integrity and local viability on left ventricular remodelling after reperfused acute myocardial infarction (1 April, 2003)
P Garot, O Pascal, M Simon, J L Monin, E Teiger, J Garot, P Guéret, J L Dubois-Randé
Variation during the week in the incidence of acute myocardial infarction: increased risk for Japanese women on Saturdays (1 April, 2003)
K Kinjo, H Sato, H Sato, I Shiotani, T Kurotobi, Y Ohnishi, E Hishida, D Nakatani, H Mizuno, Y Yamada, S Fukui, M Fukunami, S Nanto, Y Matsu-ura, H Takeda, M Hori
Attenuation of hypercapnic carbon dioxide chemosensitivity after postinfarction exercise training: possible contribution to the improvement in exercise hyperventilation (1 April, 2003)
T Tomita, H Takaki, Y Hara, F Sakamaki, T Satoh, S Takagi, Y Yasumura, N Aihara, Y Goto, K Sunagawa
Serum magnesium aberrations in furosemide (frusemide) treated patients with congestive heart failure: pathophysiological correlates and prognostic evaluation (1 April, 2003)
N Cohen, D Almoznino-Sarafian, R Zaidenstein, I Alon, O Gorelik, M Shteinshnaider, S Chachashvily, Z Averbukh, A Golik, Z Chen-Levy, D Modai
Evolution of statin prescribing 1994–2001: a case of agism but not of sexism? (1 April, 2003)
S DeWilde, I M Carey, S A Bremner, N Richards, S R Hilton, D G Cook
Arterial dysfunction in syndrome X: results of arterial reactivity and pulse wave propagation tests (1 April, 2003)
M Kidawa, M Krzeminska-Pakula, J Z Peruga, J D Kasprzak

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Coronary surgery with non-cardioplegic methods in patients with advanced left ventricular dysfunction: immediate and long term results (1 April, 2003)
P E Antunes, J M Ferrão de Oliveira, M J Antunes
Validation of four different risk stratification systems in patients undergoing off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: a UK multicentre analysis of 2223 patients (1 April, 2003)
S Al-Ruzzeh, G Asimakopoulos, G Ambler, R Omar, R Hasan, B Fabri, A El-Gamel, A DeSouza, V Zamvar, S Griffin, D Keenan, U Trivedi, M Pullan, A Cale, M Cowen, K Taylor, M Amrani

Congenital heart disease

Neurodevelopment at 1 year of age in infants with congenital heart disease (1 April, 2003)
H Dittrich, C Bührer, I Grimmer, S Dittrich, H Abdul-Khaliq, P E Lange

Scientific letters

Obstacles to the initiation of β blockers for heart failure in a specialised clinic within a district general hospital (1 April, 2003)
M Mahmoudi, S McDonagh, Pa Poole-Wilson, S W Dubrey
Lack of association between angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) genotype, serum ACE activity, and haemodynamics in patients with primary pulmonary hypertension (1 April, 2003)
M M Hoeper, A Tacacs, U Stellmacher, R Lichtinghagen
Position and Mobilisation Post-Angiography Study (PAMPAS): a comparison of 4.5 hours and 2.5 hours bed rest (1 April, 2003)
S D Pollard, K Munks, C Wales, D C Crossman, D C Cumberland, G D G Oakley, J Gunn
Conduit arterial stiffness is associated with impaired left ventricular subendocardial function (1 April, 2003)
D Vinereanu, E Nicolaides, L Boden, N Payne, C J H Jones, A G Fraser

Education in Heart

Lipid lowering to delay the progression of coronary artery disease (1 April, 2003)
Michael D Feher
Management of ischaemic mitral regurgitation (1 April, 2003)
Bernard Iung
Challenges in the care of adult patients with congenital heart defects (1 April, 2003)
Gary D Webb

JournalScan

JournalScan (1 April, 2003)
Iqbal Malik

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