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Table of contents

September 2003 - Volume 89 - 9

Heart: 89 (9)

Electronic pages

Emergency coronary stenting of unprotected critical left main coronary artery stenosis in acute myocardial infarction and cardiogenic shock (15 August, 2003)
H McArdle, M Bhandari, J Kovac
Successful brachytherapy of coronary vasospasm (15 August, 2003)
T Chatterjee, P D Juelke, P Thum, P Erne

Editorials

The elusive link between stenosis severity and prognosis in stable ischaemic heart disease (15 August, 2003)
F Crea, G A Lanza
Minor renal dysfunction: an emerging independent cardiovascular risk factor (15 August, 2003)
E Ritz
Bicuspid aortic valve and coarctation: two villains part of a diffuse problem (15 August, 2003)
C A Warnes
Revascularisation for acute coronary syndromes: PCI or CABG? (15 August, 2003)
J Gunn, D P Taggart
Ultrasound stethoscopy: a renaissance of the physical examination? (15 August, 2003)
J R T C Roelandt
Apical ballooning of the left ventricle: a distinct entity? (15 August, 2003)
Y Abe, M Kondo
Contemporary considerations for risk stratification, sudden death and prevention in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (15 August, 2003)
B J Maron

Miscellanea

Identifying long QT syndrome using genotypic-phenotypic correlations is a life saver (15 August, 2003)
The dynamics of an ascending aorta dissection by 16 row multislice computed tomography (15 August, 2003)
F Cademartiri, K Nieman, N R Mollet
Percutaneous balloon fenestration of the intimal flap for management of limb threatening ischaemia in acute aortic dissection (15 August, 2003)
H Eggebrecht, D Baumgart, O Dirsch, R Erbel
Congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries (L transposition) (15 August, 2003)
S M Deepak, M Royle, G K Goode
Long term warfarin associated with bilateral blindness in a patient with atrial fibrillation and macular degeneration (15 August, 2003)
T Ung, M James, R H Gray
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(15 August, 2003)
Significant inducible perfusion abnormality in an asymptomatic patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy demonstrated by radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (15 August, 2003)
C Y Loong, E Reyes, S R Underwood
Observational study of prehospital delays in patients with chest pain (15 August, 2003)
T Hitchcock, F Rossouw, D McCoubrie, S Meek
Should you remove an implantable loop recorder after the diagnosis is made? (15 August, 2003)
M D Sosin, P J Cadigan, D L Connolly
eHEART: www.heartjnl.com
(15 August, 2003)
Synergistic anticoagulation and transoesophageal echocardiographic surveillance for persistent left atrial appendage thrombus (15 August, 2003)
A R J Mitchell, J Timperley, A P Banning
Direct percutaneous left ventricular puncture (15 August, 2003)
P L Sanchez, E Pomerantsev, I F Palacios
Intermittent opening of a mitral valve tilting disc prosthesis 23 years after implantation caused by circumferential pannus (15 August, 2003)
S N Doshi, S K Sharma, M Been
Transoesophageal echocardiography imaging of a large left atrium thrombus: a two and a half year follow up (15 August, 2003)
D Chrissos, C Loupa, P Antonatos
Rheumatic carditis in an 18 year old man (15 August, 2003)
R van Kimmenade, J P Smedema, R J van Suylen
Suspected bilateral renal artery stenosis (15 August, 2003)
P-Y Lee, W Ng, W-H Chen
Myocardial infarction with myocardial rupture (15 August, 2003)
Q H Ly, R Lebeau
WEB TOP 10 (15 August, 2003)
Controlling CVD in older British women spells a heavy workload (15 August, 2003)
A rare cause of coronary obstruction and angina pectoris (15 August, 2003)
T Peikert, S Goetze, S Ghaffari

New features

Cased based learning on the web (15 August, 2003)
Roger Hall
Heart mini-symposia (15 August, 2003)
Iain A Simpson, Roger Hall

Education in Heart

Syncope and palpitation in a patient following aortic valve replacement (15 August, 2003)
Practical aspects of the management of pericardial disease (15 August, 2003)
Bernhard Maisch, Arsen D Ristić
Cardiac and vascular pathophysiology in hypertension (15 August, 2003)
Jamil Mayet, Alun Hughes
Development of the heart: (3) Formation of the ventricular outflow tracts, arterial valves, and intrapericardial arterial trunks (15 August, 2003)
Robert H Anderson, Sandra Webb, Nigel A Brown, Wouter Lamers, Antoon Moorman

Mini-symposium

Coronary microembolisation: introduction (15 August, 2003)
Gerd Heusch
Pathophysiology of coronary microembolisation (15 August, 2003)
G Heusch, R Schulz
Pathology of coronary microembolisation and no reflow (15 August, 2003)
E Falk, L Thuesen
Spontaneous and interventional coronary microembolisation (15 August, 2003)
R Erbel
Embolic protection devices (15 August, 2003)
G Sangiorgi, A Colombo

Review

Inflammatory and thrombotic mechanisms in coronary atherosclerosis (15 August, 2003)
D Tousoulis, G Davies, C Stefanadis, P Toutouzas, J A Ambrose

Cardiovascular medicine

Body surface mapping improves early diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction in patients with chest pain and left bundle branch block (15 August, 2003)
S J Maynard, I B A Menown, G Manoharan, J Allen, J McC Anderson, A A J Adgey
Creatinine clearance and adverse hospital outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes: findings from the global registry of acute coronary events (GRACE) (15 August, 2003)
J J Santopinto, K A A Fox, R J Goldberg, A Budaj, G Piñero, A Avezum, D Gulba, J Esteban, J M Gore, J Johnson, E P Gurfinkel
Prognostic and clinical correlates of angiographically diffuse non-obstructive coronary lesions (15 August, 2003)
R Bigi, L Cortigiani, P Colombo, A Desideri, J J Bax, O Parodi
Portable spectral Doppler echocardiographic device: overcoming limitations (15 August, 2003)
J Quiles, M Á García-Fernández, P B Almeida, E Pérez-David, J Bermejo, M Moreno, P Avanzas
Cardiovascular risk factors in patients with aortic stenosis predict prevalence of coronary artery disease but not of aortic stenosis: an angiographic pair matched case–control study (15 August, 2003)
J R Ortlepp, F Schmitz, T Bozoglu, P Hanrath, R Hoffmann
The prevalence of haemochromatosis gene mutations in the West of Scotland and their relation to ischaemic heart disease (15 August, 2003)
S Campbell, D K George, S D Robb, R Spooner, T A McDonagh, H J Dargie, P R Mills
Apical ballooning of the left ventricle: first series in white patients (15 August, 2003)
W J R Desmet, B F M Adriaenssens, J A Y Dens
Comparison of monophasic and biphasic shocks for transthoracic cardioversion of atrial fibrillation (15 August, 2003)
M Scholten, T Szili-Torok, P Klootwijk, L Jordaens
Ablate and pace revisited: long term survival and predictors of permanent atrial fibrillation (15 August, 2003)
A Queiroga, H J Marshall, M Clune, M D Gammage
Usefulness of myocardial perfusion SPECT in patients with left bundle branch block and previous myocardial infarction (15 August, 2003)
J Candell-Riera, G Oller-Martínez, O Pereztol-Valdés, J Castell-Conesa, S Aguadé-Bruix, M Soler-Peter, M Simó, C Santana-Boado, J Soler-Soler

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Continued improvement of clinical outcome and cost effectiveness following intravascular ultrasound guided PCI: insights from a prospective, randomised study (15 August, 2003)
A L Gaster, U Slothuus Skjoldborg, J Larsen, L Korsholm, C von Birgelen, S Jensen, P Thayssen, K E Pedersen, T H Haghfelt
Clinical and angiographic outcome of directional atherectomy followed by stent implantation in de novo lesions located at the ostium of the left anterior descending coronary artery (15 August, 2003)
F Airoldi, C Di Mario, G Stankovic, C Briguori, M Carlino, A Chieffo, F Liistro, M Montorfano, P Pagnotta, V Spanos, D Tavano, A Colombo
Incidence of embolism and paravalvar leak after St Jude Silzone valve implantation: experience from the Cardiff Embolic Risk Factor Study (15 August, 2003)
A Ionescu, N Payne, A G Fraser, J Giddings, G L Grunkemeier, E G Butchart
Socioeconomic deprivation is a predictor of poor postoperative cardiovascular outcomes in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (15 August, 2003)
F C Taylor, R Ascione, K Rees, P Narayan, G D Angelini

Congenital heart disease

Low pressure giant pulmonary artery aneurysms in the adult: natural history and management strategies (15 August, 2003)
G R Veldtman, J A Dearani, C A Warnes
Tricuspid regurgitation in the diagnosis of chromosomal anomalies in the fetus at 11–14 weeks of gestation (15 August, 2003)
I C Huggon, D B DeFigueiredo, L D Allan
Aortic valve and aortic arch pathology after coarctation repair (15 August, 2003)
J W Roos-Hesselink, B E Schölzel, R J Heijdra, S E C Spitaels, F J Meijboom, E Boersma, A J J C Bogers, M L Simoons

Basic research

On-line detection of cholesterol and calcification by catheter based Raman spectroscopy in human atherosclerotic plaque ex vivo (15 August, 2003)
S W E van de Poll, K Kastelijn, T C Bakker Schut, C Strijder, G Pasterkamp, G J Puppels, A van der Laarse

Scientific letters

International comparison of mortality rates in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary events (15 August, 2003)
E P Gurfinkel, G Bozovich, B Mautner
Safety and potential benefits of low dose diamorphine during exercise in patients with chronic heart failure (15 August, 2003)
S G Williams, D J Wright, P Marshall, A Reese, B-H Tzeng, A J S Coats, L-B Tan
Restrictive transmitral filling patterns predict improvements in left ventricular function after biventricular pacing (15 August, 2003)
R Thaman, R T Murphy, S Firoozi, S M Hamid, J R Gimeno, B Sachdev, V Paul, E Rowland, M P Frenneaux, P M Elliott
Diagnostic accuracy of a new shorter dobutamine infusion protocol in stress echocardiography (15 August, 2003)
J A San Román, A Serrador, J R Ortega, A Medina, F Fernández-Avilés
Comparison of radiofrequency versus cryothermy catheter ablation of septal accessory pathways (15 August, 2003)
G P Kimman, T Szili-Torok, D A M J Theuns, J C Res, M F Scholten, L J Jordaens
Platelet activation, haemorheology and thrombogenesis in acute atrial fibrillation: a comparison with permanent atrial fibrillation (15 August, 2003)
S Kamath, A D Blann, B S P Chin, G Y H Lip

JournalScan

JournalScan (15 August, 2003)
Iqbal Malik

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