Heart: 93 (11)

Abstracts

Abstracts from The British Society for Cardiovascular Research Spring Meeting 2007 (12 October, 2007)

Featured editorial

Where does the Occluded Artery Trial leave the late open artery hypothesis? (12 October, 2007)
Gervasio A Lamas, Judith S Hochman

Editorials

Magnetic resonance imaging versus computed tomography for the detection of coronary stenosis: do we really have to focus on “stenoses”? (12 October, 2007)
Christof Burgstahler, Stephen Schroeder
CT angiography: front line for acute coronary syndromes now? (12 October, 2007)
Sujith K Seneviratne, Fabian Bamberg, Udo Hoffmann
Sex in the CCU: women with non-ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome may do no worse despite less intervention (12 October, 2007)
Pamela J Bradshaw, Peter L Thompson
ST elevation after myocardial infarction: what does it mean? (12 October, 2007)
L A Piérard
Echocardiographic assessment of fetal arrhythmias (12 October, 2007)
Lisa K Hornberger

Images in cardiology

The changing faces of aortic dissection: an unusual presentation mimicking pulmonary embolism (12 October, 2007)
P N Stougiannos, D Z Mytas, V N Pyrgakis
Severe plaque prolapse after stenting a lesion with large areas of necrotic core (12 October, 2007)
P-T Tsui, C-l Lau
Incidental patent foramen ovale detected by 64-detector row CT before radiofrequency ablation therapy (12 October, 2007)
N E Manghat, N Kakani, G J Morgan-Hughes
Apical thrombus in tako-tsubo cardiomyopathy (12 October, 2007)
M Schmidt, C Herholz, M Block
Giant coronary artery aneurysm in Behçet’s disease (12 October, 2007)
T Cuisset, J Quilici, J-L Bonnet
An unexpected finding during planned primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty (12 October, 2007)
Simon D Robinson, Jim Hall, Andrew T Goodwin
Severe coronary luminal narrowing ascribed to aortic intramural haematoma after valve surgery (12 October, 2007)
V Marti, P Paniagua, A Ginel
Bridge to recovery in a patient with Churg–Strauss myocarditis by long-term percutaneous support with microaxial blood pump (12 October, 2007)
M Ferrari, R Pfeifer, T C Poerner, H R Figulla
An unusual origin of the left coronary system (12 October, 2007)
A Msairi, R Hornung, N D Palmer
Lung cancer in natural history crossing the pericardium: a rare echocardiographic view (12 October, 2007)
S Caputo, F Guarnaccia, B Villari
Single coronary artery: circumflex/right coronary circle (12 October, 2007)
P O Lim
Percutaneous coronary intervention for chronic total occlusions: value of preprocedural multislice CT guidance (12 October, 2007)
C A G Van Mieghem, M van der Ent, P J de Feyter

Miscellanea

WEB TOP 10 (12 October, 2007)
From BMJ Journals: Autodiagnosis of systolic dysfunction (12 October, 2007)
From BMJ Journals: New tests spot heart damage from anabolic steroids (12 October, 2007)
Corrections: Corrections (12 October, 2007)
Corrections: Corrections (12 October, 2007)

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

Perspectives on the management of coronary artery disease in India (12 October, 2007)
Ganesan Karthikeyan, Denis Xavier, Doriaraj Prabhakaran, Prem Pais

Review

Optimal use of echocardiography in cardiac resynchronisation therapy (12 October, 2007)
Gabe B Bleeker, Cheuk-Man Yu, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Johan de Sutter, Nico Van de Veire, Eduard R Holman, Martin J Schalij, Ernst E van der Wall, Jeroen J Bax

Viewpoint

Interventional cardiology and the medical devices industry: is there a conflict of interest? (12 October, 2007)

Rapid communication

Serial long-term evaluation of neointimal stent coverage and thrombus after sirolimus-eluting stent implantation by use of coronary angioscopy (12 October, 2007)
Masamichi Takano, Masanori Yamamoto, Yong Xie, Daisuke Murakami, Shigenobu Inami, Kentaro Okamatsu, Koji Seimiya, Takayoshi Ohba, Yoshihiko Seino, Kyoichi Mizuno

Acute coronary syndromes

Gender differences in management and outcome in non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndrome (3 November, 2006)
Joakim Alfredsson, Ulf Stenestrand, Lars Wallentin, Eva Swahn

Original research

Acute coronary syndromes: Safety and diagnostic accuracy of stress cardiac magnetic resonance imaging vs exercise tolerance testing early after acute ST elevation myocardial infarction (19 February, 2007) Free
J P Greenwood, J F Younger, J P Ridgway, M U Sivananthan, S G Ball, S Plein
Acute coronary syndromes: Gender differences in management and outcomes in patients with acute coronary syndromes: results on 20 290 patients from the AMIS Plus Registry (12 October, 2007)
Dragana Radovanovic, Paul Erne, Philip Urban, Osmund Bertel, Hans Rickli, Jean-Michel Gaspoz
Acute coronary syndromes: Functional and structural correlates of persistent ST elevation after acute myocardial infarction successfully treated by percutaneous coronary intervention (19 February, 2007)
Leonarda Galiuto, Sabrina Barchetta, Serena Paladini, Gaetano Lanza, Antonio G Rebuzzi, Mario Marzilli, Filippo Crea
Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Assessment of myocardial perfusion for detection of coronary artery stenoses by steady-state, free-precession magnetic resonance first-pass imaging (8 May, 2007)
Nico Merkle, Jochen Wöhrle, Olaf Grebe, Thorsten Nusser, Markus Kunze, Hans A Kestler, Matthias Kochs, Vinzenz Hombach
Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: 64-Slice CT coronary angiography in patients with non-ST elevation acute coronary syndrome (7 March, 2007)
Willem B Meijboom, Nico R Mollet, Carlos A Van Mieghem, Annick C Weustink, Francesca Pugliese, Niels van Pelt, Filippo Cademartiri, Eleni Vourvouri, Peter de Jaegere, Gabriel P Krestin, Pim J de Feyter
Cardiac imaging and non-invasive testing: Left atrial Frank–Starling law assessed by real-time, three-dimensional echocardiographic left atrial volume changes (13 May, 2007)
Ashraf M Anwar, Marcel L Geleijnse, Osama I I Soliman, Attila Nemes, Folkert J ten Cate
Clinical trials: Disease management programme for secondary prevention of coronary heart disease and heart failure in primary care: a cluster randomised controlled trial (19 February, 2007)
Kamlesh Khunti, Margaret Stone, Sanjoy Paul, Jan Baines, Louise Gisborne, Azhar Farooqi, Xiujie Luan, Iain Squire
Coronary artery disease: Adverse prognosis associated with the metabolic syndrome in established coronary artery disease: data from the EUROPA trial (31 May, 2007)
C A Daly, P Hildebrandt, M Bertrand, R Ferrari, W Remme, M Simoons, K M Fox
Coronary artery disease: IgA anticardiolipin antibody is associated with the extent of daily-life ischaemia in patients with chronic coronary artery disease (12 October, 2007)
Ignatios Ikonomidis, John Lekakis, Georgia Vamvakou, Sozos Loizou, Ioanna Revela, Felicita Andreotti, Dimitrios T Kremastinos, Petros Nihoyannopoulos
Coronary artery disease: Comparison between clinical and autopsy diagnoses in a cardiology hospital (29 March, 2007)
Rafael Saad, Alice Tatsuko Yamada, Fernando Henrique Ferraz Pereira da Rosa, Paulo Sampaio Gutierrez, Alfredo José Mansur
Heart failure and cardiomyopathy: Left atrial volume provides independent and incremental information compared with exercise tolerance parameters in patients with heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction (12 December, 2006)
Andrea Rossi, Mariantonietta Cicoira, Stefano Bonapace, Giorgio Golia, Luisa Zanolla, Lorenzo Franceschini, Corrado Vassanelli
Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: The interaction of interventricular pacing intervals and left ventricular lead position during temporary biventricular pacing evaluated by tissue Doppler imaging (3 February, 2007)
R E Lane, A W C Chow, J Mayet, D P Francis, N S Peters, R J Schilling, D W Davies
Heart rhythm disorders and pacemakers: Use of intravenous magnesium to treat acute onset atrial fibrillation: a meta-analysis (20 April, 2007)
Kwok M Ho, David J Sheridan, Timothy Paterson
Peripheral vascular disease: Effect of endovascular stenting of aortic coarctation on biventricular function in adults (17 June, 2007)
Yat-Yin Lam, Mehmet G Kaya, Wei Li, Vaikom S Mahadevan, Arif A Khan, Michael Y Henein, Michael Mullen
Congenital heart disease: Evaluation of fetal arrhythmias from simultaneous pulsed wave Doppler in pulmonary artery and vein (12 December, 2006)
Julene S Carvalho, Federico Prefumo, Valentina Ciardelli, Shanthi Sairam, Amarnath Bhide, Elliot A Shinebourne
Congenital heart disease: Fetal ECG: a novel predictor of atrioventricular block in anti-Ro positive pregnancies (3 November, 2006)
Helena M Gardiner, Cristian Belmar, Lucia Pasquini, Anna Seale, Matthew Thomas, William Dennes, Myles J O Taylor, Elena Kulinskaya, Ruwan Wimalasundera

Technology and guidelines

Multi-modality imaging to assess left atrial size, anatomy and function (12 October, 2007)
Laurens F Tops, Ernst E van der Wall, Martin J Schalij, Jeroen J Bax

Featured Correspondence

Letters: Ischaemic heart disease in men (12 October, 2007)
Craig J Currie, Pete Conway, Chris D Poole
Letters: Ischaemic heart disease in men (12 October, 2007)
Manivannan Srinivasan
The author’s reply: (12 October, 2007)
Christopher J Edwards

Education in Heart

Coronary disease: Long term medical treatment of stable coronary disease (12 October, 2007)
Electrophysiology: Primary and secondary prevention of sudden cardiac death: who should get an ICD? (12 October, 2007)
Massimo Santini, Carlo Lavalle, Renato Pietro Ricci
Pathology: Coronary artery pathology (12 October, 2007)

JournalScan

JournalScan (12 October, 2007)

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November 2007 - Volume 93 - 11

Abstracts

Featured editorial

Editorials

Images in cardiology

Miscellanea

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

Review

Viewpoint

Rapid communication

Acute coronary syndromes

Original research

Technology and guidelines

Featured Correspondence

Education in Heart

JournalScan

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Table of contents

November 2007 - Volume 93 - 11

Abstracts

Featured editorial

Editorials

Images in cardiology

Miscellanea

Global burden of cardiovascular disease

Review

Viewpoint

Rapid communication

Acute coronary syndromes

Original research

Technology and guidelines

Featured Correspondence

Education in Heart

JournalScan

Issue Information