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Cardiovascular medicine

• Are the cardiac effects of anabolic steroid abuse in strength athletes reversible? (14 April, 2004)

  A Urhausen, T Albers, W Kindermann
• Left ventricular pacing improves haemodynamic variables in patients with heart failure with a normal QRS duration (14 April, 2004)

  M S Turner, R A Bleasdale, C E Mumford, M P Frenneaux, J A Morris-Thurgood
• Pulsed wave tissue Doppler imaging for the quantification of contractile reserve in stunned, hibernating, and scarred myocardium (14 April, 2004)

  M Bountioukos, A F L Schinkel, J J Bax, V Rizzello, R Valkema, B J Krenning, E Biagini, E C Vourvouri, J R T C Roelandt, D Poldermans
• Poor concordance of commonly used echocardiographic measures of left ventricular diastolic function in patients with suspected heart failure but preserved systolic function: is there a reliable echocardiographic measure of diastolic dysfunction? (14 April, 2004)

  M C Petrie, K Hogg, L Caruana, J J V McMurray
• Lack of a close confidant, but not depression, predicts further cardiac events after myocardial infarction (14 April, 2004)

  C M Dickens, L McGowan, C Percival, J Douglas, B Tomenson, L Cotter, A Heagerty, F H Creed
• Comparison of the short form (SF)-12 health status instrument with the SF-36 in patients with coronary heart disease (14 April, 2004)

  J Müller-Nordhorn, S Roll, S N Willich
• Implications of plasma concentrations of adiponectin in patients with coronary artery disease (14 April, 2004)

  Y Nakamura, K Shimada, D Fukuda, Y Shimada, S Ehara, M Hirose, T Kataoka, K Kamimori, S Shimodozono, Y Kobayashi, M Yoshiyama, K Takeuchi, J Yoshikawa
• Sinus rhythm maintenance following DC cardioversion of atrial fibrillation is not improved by temporary precardioversion treatment with oral verapamil (14 April, 2004)

  C-J A Lindholm, O Fredholm, S-J Möller, N Edvardsson, T Kronvall, T Pettersson, V Firsovaite, A Roijer, C J Meurling, P G Platonov, S B Olsson
• Assessment of severity of mechanical prosthetic mitral regurgitation by transoesophageal echocardiography (14 April, 2004)

  A Vitarelli, Y Conde, E Cimino, T Leone, I D’Angeli, S D’Orazio, S Stellato