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Table of contents

January 2005 - Volume 91 - 1

Heart: 91 (1)

Editorials

Statins for heart failure: at the crossroads between cholesterol reduction and pleiotropism? (16 December, 2004)
S von Haehling, S D Anker
Pathogenesis of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: evasive after half a century of clinical, epidemiological, and laboratory investigation (16 December, 2004)
E L Kaplan
Should ablation be the first line treatment for supraventricular arrhythmias? (16 December, 2004)
F G Cosío
Catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation (16 December, 2004)
P Jais, P Sanders, L F Hsu, M Hocini, M Haissaguerre

Electronic pages

Intracerebral haematoma masquerading as ventricular standstill (16 December, 2004)
A K J Mandal, S Baltsezak, C G Missouris
Apical myocardial injury caused by collateralisation of a septal artery during ethanol septal ablation (16 December, 2004)
S C Agarwal, I F Purcell, S S Furniss
Moderate mitral stenosis in pregnancy: the haemodynamic impact of diuresis (16 December, 2004)
A Siva, A M Shah
Left ventricular thrombi in a patient with left ventricular non-compaction in visualisation of the rationale for anticoagulation (16 December, 2004)
S E Petersen, J Timperley, S Neubauer
Hyperkalaemia induced complete atrioventricular block with a narrow QRS complex (16 December, 2004)
N-H Kim, S K Oh, J-W Jeong
Intermittent chordal entrapment following mitral valve replacement: diagnosis from the arterial pressure waveform (16 December, 2004)
T M BinEsmael, A A Azzu, E G Butchart
Ischaemia induced QRS widening with acute inferior myocardial infarction (16 December, 2004)
S J Walsh, D J McEneaney
Impending coronary perforation after cutting balloon angioplasty (16 December, 2004)
J Ako, Y Honda, P J Fitzgerald
Subendocardial and papillary muscle involvement in a patient with Churg-Strauss syndrome, detected by contrast enhanced cardiovascular magnetic resonance (16 December, 2004)
S E Petersen, A Kardos, S Neubauer

Miscellanea

Renal tumour with cavoatrioventricular extension (16 December, 2004)
P A Davlouros, A S Manolis, E E Apostolakis
Calcific constrictive pericarditis (concretio cordis) (16 December, 2004)
S M Divakaramenon, M N Krishnan, K Venugopal
Heart Online case reports: www.heartjnl.com (16 December, 2004)
Wire artefact—in reverse! (16 December, 2004)
R A Archbold, C J Knight
Spontaneous spasm of the arterial duct: a pitfall for transcatheter occlusion (16 December, 2004)
A Tzifa, R Tulloh, E Rosenthal
End stage ischaemic heart failure (16 December, 2004)
G A J Jessurun, J G Grandjean, F Zijlstra
Radiofrequency ablation of a posteroseptal atrioventricular accessory pathway in a patient with mechanical mitral valve (16 December, 2004)
J Hong, X Li, J Guo
Heart Online case reports: www.heartjnl.com (16 December, 2004)
Aortic tornado (16 December, 2004)
S V Babu-Narayan, P J Kilner
Percutaneous transluminal septal coil embolisation as an alternative to alcohol septal ablation for hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (16 December, 2004)
A Lafont, E Durand, C Brasselet, E Mousseaux, A Hagege, M Desnos
WEB TOP 10 (16 December, 2004)
Immediate endovascular stent graft repair of acute thoracic aortic rupture caused by blunt trauma (16 December, 2004)
G P Georghiou, B A Vidne, E Sharoni
Complete aortic dissection demonstrated by intraoperative transoesophageal echocardiography (16 December, 2004)
A Diaz, D Martin-Raymondi, J Barba
Giant thymic cyst presenting as cardiac compression (16 December, 2004)
N Becit, H Koçak, C U Koçoğullari
Severe aortic regurgitation in Ehlers-Danlos syndrome type IV (16 December, 2004)
C Wunderlich, M R Schulze, R H Strasser

Review

Getting the most out of cardiac rehabilitation: a review of referral and adherence predictors (16 December, 2004)
L Jackson, J Leclerc, Y Erskine, W Linden

Featured case report

Bilateral thoracoscopic cervical sympathectomy for the treatment of recurrent polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (16 December, 2004)
A J Turley, J Thambyrajah, A A Harcombe

Cardiovascular medicine

Acute coronary syndrome and chronic infection in the Cork coronary care case–control study (16 December, 2004)
J Sheehan, P M Kearney, S O Sullivan, C Mongan, E Kelly, I J Perry
Lack of clopidogrel–CYP3A4 statin interaction in patients with acute coronary syndrome (16 December, 2004)
D Mukherjee, E Kline-Rogers, J Fang, K Munir, K A Eagle
Effects of atorvastatin on reactive hyperaemia and the thrombosis–fibrinolysis system in patients with heart failure (16 December, 2004)
D Tousoulis, C Antoniades, E Bosinakou, M Kotsopoulou, C Tsioufis, C Tentolouris, A Trikas, C Pitsavos, C Stefanadis
Insulin resistance and inflammatory activation in older patients with systolic and diastolic heart failure (16 December, 2004)
N Wisniacki, W Taylor, M Lye, J P H Wilding
Left ventricular myocardial mass determination by contrast enhanced colour Doppler compared with magnetic resonance imaging (16 December, 2004)
G P Bezante, X Chen, G Molinari, A Valbusa, L Deferrari, V Sebastiani, N Yokoyama, S Steinmetz, A Barsotti, K Q Schwarz
QT interval abnormalities are often present at diagnosis in diabetes and are better predictors of cardiac death than ankle brachial pressure index and autonomic function tests (16 December, 2004)
B S Rana, P O Lim, A A O Naas, S A Ogston, R W Newton, R T Jung, A D Morris, A D Struthers
Pulmonary vein ablation for idiopathic atrial fibrillation: six month outcome of first procedure in 100 consecutive patients (16 December, 2004)
J P Bourke, A Dunuwille, D O’Donnell, S Jamieson, S S Furniss
Acute improvement of atrial mechanical stunning after electrical cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation: comparison between biatrial and single atrial pacing (16 December, 2004)
M Takagi, A Doi, N Shirai, K Hirata, Y Takemoto, K Takeuchi, J Yoshikawa

Interventional cardiology and surgery

Relation between the TIMI frame count and the degree of microvascular injury after primary coronary angioplasty in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction (16 December, 2004)
Y Ohara, Y Hiasa, T Takahashi, K Yamaguchi, R Ogura, T Ogata, K Yuba, K Kusunoki, S Hosokawa, K Kishi, R Ohtani
Assessment of left ventricular function long term after arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries by dobutamine stress echocardiography (16 December, 2004)
L Hui, A K T Chau, M P Leung, C S W Chiu, Y F Cheung

Congenital heart disease

Coagulation profile and liver function in 102 patients after total cavopulmonary connection at mid term follow up (16 December, 2004)
V Chaloupecký, I Svobodová, I Hadačová, V Tomek, B Hučín, T Tláskal, J Janoušek, O Reich, J Škovránek

Basic research

Reduced cardiac expression of plasminogen activator inhibitor 1 and transforming growth factor β₁ in obese Zucker rats by perindopril
(16 December, 2004)
J E Toblli, G Cao, G DeRosa, P Forcada

Scientific letters

Herpes simplex virus type 1 infection in rheumatic valvar disease (16 December, 2004)
Y Li, Z Pan, Y Ji, H Zhang, L C Archard
Description of modern practices of percutaneous coronary intervention and identification of risk factors for adverse outcome in the French nationwide OPEN registry (16 December, 2004)
G Montalescot, B Chevalier, M C Dalby, P G Steg, M-C Morice, A Cribier, P Meyer, F Alor
Left atrial remodelling after short duration atrial fibrillation in hypertrophic hearts (16 December, 2004)
A V Mattioli, S Bonatti, D Monopoli, M Zennaro, G Mattioli
Echocardiographic risk factors predisposing to sudden cardiac death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (16 December, 2004)
P P Dimitrow, J S Dubiel
Clinical implications of persistent ST segment depression after admission in patients with non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndrome (16 December, 2004)
M Kosuge, K Kimura, T Ishikawa, T Shimizu, K Hibi, N Nozawa, S Umemura
Impact of first line radiofrequency ablation in patients with lone atrial flutter on the long term risk of subsequent atrial fibrillation (16 December, 2004)
A Da Costa, C Romeyer-Bouchard, N Zarqane-Sliman, M Messier, B Samuel, A Kihel, E Faure, K Isaaz
Reduced post-infarction myocardial apoptosis in women: a clue to their different clinical course? (16 December, 2004)
G G L Biondi-Zoccai, A Abate, R Bussani, D Camilot, F D Giorgio, M-P D Marino, F Silvestri, F Baldi, L M Biasucci, A Baldi
Tako-tsubo transient left ventricular apical ballooning: is intravascular ultrasound the key to resolve the enigma? (16 December, 2004)
B Ibanez, F Navarro, M Cordoba, P M-Alberca, J Farre

Education in Heart

Investigation and management of chest pain (16 December, 2004)
Kevin F Fox
Clinical assessment of myocardial hibernation (16 December, 2004)
Arend F L Schinkel, Jeroen J Bax, Don Poldermans
Theory and practice of defibrillation: (2) defibrillation for ventricular fibrillation (16 December, 2004)
A A J Adgey, M S Spence, S J Walsh
Systolic murmur in an asymptomatic 70 year old man (16 December, 2004)

JournalScan

JournalScan (16 December, 2004)
Iqbal Malik

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