Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Can we define patients with no chance of survival after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest? (14 September, 2004)

  J Herlitz, J Engdahl, L Svensson, M Young, K-A Ängquist, S Holmberg
• Cholinergic stimulation with pyridostigmine protects against exercise induced myocardial ischaemia (14 September, 2004)

  R R T Castro, G Porphirio, S M Serra, A C L Nóbrega
• Patients’ perceptions of informed consent in acute myocardial infarction research: a questionnaire based survey of the consent process in the DANAMI-2 trial (14 September, 2004)

  A Gammelgaard, O S Mortensen, P Rossel
• National survey of the prevalence, incidence, primary care burden, and treatment of heart failure in Scotland (14 September, 2004)

  N F Murphy, C R Simpson, F A McAlister, S Stewart, K MacIntyre, M Kirkpatrick, J Chalmers, A Redpath, S Capewell, J J V McMurray
• Predicting sudden death in patients with mild to moderate chronic heart failure (14 September, 2004)

  M T Kearney, K A A Fox, A J Lee, W P Brooksby, A M Shah, A Flapan, R J Prescott, R Andrews, P D Batin, D L Eckberg, N Gall, A G Zaman, H S Lindsay, J Nolan
• Exercise capacity and cardiac function assessed by tissue Doppler imaging in chronic heart failure (14 September, 2004)

  K K A Witte, N P Nikitin, R De Silva, J G F Cleland, A L Clark
• Left atrioventricular plane displacement but not left ventricular ejection fraction is influenced by the degree of aortic stenosis (14 September, 2004)

  E Rydberg, P Gudmundsson, L Kennedy, L Erhardt, R Willenheimer
• Beneficial effects of fluvastatin following percutaneous coronary intervention in patients with unstable and stable angina: results from the Lescol intervention prevention study (LIPS) (14 September, 2004)

  C H Lee, P de Feyter, P W Serruys, F Saia, P A Lemos, D Goedhart, P R Soares, V A W M Umans, M Ciccone, M Cortellaro
• Plasma von Willebrand factor, soluble thrombomodulin, and fibrin D-dimer concentrations in acute onset non-rheumatic atrial fibrillation (14 September, 2004)

  F Marín, V Roldán, V E Climent, A Ibáñez, A García, P Marco, F Sogorb, G Y H Lip
• Long term follow up of children with myocarditis treated by immunosuppression and of children with dilated cardiomyopathy (14 September, 2004)

  M Giulia Gagliardi, M Bevilacqua, C Bassano, B Leonardi, R Boldrini, F Diomedi Camassei, A Fierabracci, A G Ugazio, G F Bottazzo