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• • ·Time delays in the diagnosis and treatment of acute myocardial infarction: A tale of eight cities Report from the Pre-hospital Study Group and the Cincinnati Heart Project

    Pagina :773-780

    Dean J. Kereiakes, W.Douglas Weaver, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Ted Feldman, Brian Gibler, Thomas Aufderheide, David O. Williams, Linda H. Martin, Linda C. Anderson, Jenny S. Martin, George McKendall, Mark Sherrid, Henry Greenberg, Sam L. Teichman

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• • ·Assay of serum cardiac myosin heavy chain fragments in patients with acute myocardial infarction: Determination of infarct size and long-term follow-up

    Pagina :781-790

    J.O.C. Léger, C. Larue, Tao Ming, C. Calzolari, P. Gautier, C. Mouton, R. Grolleau, P. Louisot, P. Puech, B. Peperstraete, M. Staroukine, M. Telerman, B. Pau, J.J. Léger

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Myocardial infarct size reduction by the synergistic effect of hyperbaric oxygen and recombinant tissue plasminogen activator

    Pagina :791-800

    M.Paul Thomas, Leon A. Brown, David R. Sponseller, Stephen E. Williamson, Jose A. Diaz, Daniel P. Guyton

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• • ·Reduction in infarct size by the phospholipase inhibitor quinacrine in dogs with coronary artery occlusion

    Pagina :801-807

    Massimo Chiariello, Giuseppe Ambrosio, Maurizio Cappelli-Bigazzi, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Isabella Tritto, Edoardo Nevola, Paolo Golino

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• • ·Intracoronary adenosine administration during reperfusion following 3 hours of ischemia: Effects on infarct size, ventricular function, and regional myocardial blood flow

    Pagina :808-818

    David G. Babbitt, Renu Virmani, Harry D. Vildibill, Elizabeth Daughtry Norton, Mervyn B. Forman

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• • ·DMPO and reperfusion injury: Arrhythmia, heart function, electron spin resonance, and nuclear magnetic resonance studies in isolated working guinea pig hearts

    Pagina :819-830

    Arpad Tosaki, Pierre Braquet

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• • ·Clinical significance of plasminogen activator inhibitor activity in patients with exercise-induced ischemia

    Pagina :831-838

    Kazuyuki Sakata, Chinori Kurata, Takahisa Taguchi, Shingo Suzuki, Akira Kobayashi, Noboru Yamazaki, Andrzej Rydzewski, Yumiko Takada, Akikazu Takada

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• • ·Comparison of coronary angiography and early oral dipyridamole thallium-201 scintigraphy in patients receiving thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :839-847

    Avanindra Jain, Rachelle R. Hicks, G.Hunter Myers, James J. McCarthy, John R. Perry, Kirkwood F. Adams

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• • ·Similar time course of ST depression during and after exercise in patients with coronary artery disease and syndrome X

    Pagina :848-854

    Giuseppe Pupita, Juan Carlos Kaski, Alfredo R. Galassi, Stavros Gavrielides, Filippo Crea, Attilio Maseri

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• • ·Prolongation of ventricular refractoriness by class Ia antiarrhythmic drugs in the prevention of ventricular tachycardia induction

    Pagina :855-863

    Teresa Kus, Paolo Costi, Marc Dubuc, Mohammad Shenasa

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• • ·Lesions in side branches of arteries having undergone percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: A histopathologic study

    Pagina :864-872

    Shin-ichiro Morimoto, Shinya Hiramitsu, Kenji Yamada, Akihisa Uemura, Natsuko Kubo, Yasushi Mizuno

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• • ·Residual atrial septal perforation after percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy with inoue balloon catheter

    Pagina :873-878

    Fuminobu Ishikura, Seiki Nagata, Satoshi Yasuda, Nobushige Yamashita, Kunio Miyatake

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• • ·Results of repeat percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty for pulmonary valvar restenosis

    Pagina :878-881

    M.A. Ali Khan, Saad Al-Yousef, John W. Moore, William Sawyer

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• • ·Delayed decline in plasma atrial natriuretic peptide levels after an abrupt reduction in atrial pressures: Observation in patients with dual-chamber pacing

    Pagina :882-885

    Cheuk-Kit Wong, Chu-Pak Lau, Chun-Ho Cheng, Wing-Hung Leung, Kin-Kee Pun, M.Gary Nicholls

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• • ·Noninvasive discrimination of right atrial ectopic tachycardia from sinus tachycardia in “dilated cardiomyopathy”

    Pagina :886-891

    Bruce D. Gelb, Arthur Garson

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• • ·Left ventricular end-systolic stress-volume index ratio in aortic and mitral regurgitation with normal ejection fraction

    Pagina :892-901

    Makoto Nakagawa, Kunio Shirato, Tadasu Ohyama, Masahito Sakuma, Tamotsu Takishima

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• • ·Maximal oxygen uptake in severe aortic regurgitation: A different view of left ventricular function

    Pagina :902-909

    Anthony J.I. Scriven, David P. Lipkin, Kim M. Fox, Philip A. Poole-Wilson

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• • ·Contribution of transesophageal echocardiography to patient diagnosis and treatment: A prospective analysis

    Pagina :910-914

    Gregory S. Pavlides, Andrew M. Hauser, James R. Stewart, William W. O'Neill, Gerald C. Timmis

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• • ·Spontaneous echocardiographic contrast in the descending aorta

    Pagina :915-919

    Ramon Castello, Anthony C. Pearson, Leonard Fagan, Arthur J. Labovitz

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• • ·Left ventricular mass regression after aortic valve replacement measured by ultrafast computed tomography

    Pagina :919-927

    Peter B. Kurnik, Michael Innerfield, Joseph D. Wachspress, W.Jay Eldredge, Harvey L. Waxman

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• • ·Hypertensive heart disease: Relationship of silent ischemia to coronary artery disease and left ventricular hypertrophy

    Pagina :928-933

    Alexei P. Yurenev, Vincent DeQuattro, Richard B. Devereux

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• • ·Marfan syndrome in China: A collective review of 564 cases among 98 families

    Pagina :934-948

    Qi Bin Sun, Kai Zi Zhang, Tsung O. Cheng, Shu Lin Li, Bing Xin Lu, Zi Bin Zhang, Wei Wang

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• • ·Atrial septal aneurysm: Recognition and clinical relevance

    Pagina :948-957

    Robert N. Belkin, Joseph Kisslo

    
• • ·Techniques for the determination of left ventricular mass by signal-averaged electrocardiography

    Pagina :958-963

    James L. Vacek, David B. Wilson, Gregory W. Botteron, James Dobbins

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• • ·Parental history is an independent risk factor for coronary artery disease: The Framingham Study

    Pagina :963-969

    Richard H. Myers, Dan K. Kiely, L.Adrienne Cupples, William B. Kannel

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• • ·Successful coronary angioplasty in two patients with cardiogenic shock using the Nimbus Hemopump support device

    Pagina :970-972

    A.Michael Lincoff, Jeffrey J. Popma, Eric R. Bates, G. Michael Deeb, Steven F. Bolling, Joan S. Meagher, Ann M. Kelly, Richard K. Wampler, John M. Nicklas

    
• • ·Delayed complete heart block complicating percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

    Pagina :972-975

    R.Andrew Rauh, Dale G. Senior, William P. Miller

    
• • ·Successful treatment of prosthetic tricuspid valve thrombosis with short-course recombinant tissue-type plasminogen activator

    Pagina :975-977

    Marc D. Tischler, Richard T. Lee, James M. Kirshenbaum

    
• • ·Treatment of prosthetic tricuspid valve thrombosis with low-dose tissue plasminogen activator

    Pagina :978-980

    Mark L. Cohen, Benico Barzilai, Fernando Gutierrez, Allan S. Jaffe, Paul Eisenberg

    
• • ·Cocaine-induced torsades de pointes in a patient with the idiopathic long QT syndrome

    Pagina :980-984

    Stanley S. Schrem, Paul Belsky, David Schwartzman, William Slater

    
• • ·Conduction system disease in a child with long QT syndrome

    Pagina :984-986

    Christopher L. Case, Paul C. Gillette

    
• • ·AV blockade via selective AV nodal artery injection in a patient

    Pagina :986-988

    Jodie L. Hurwitz, Ronald J. Kanter, Paul Gurbel, Ruth Ann Greenfield, Jack H. Kasell, Charles J. Davidson

    
• • ·Spontaneous echo contrast in the left atrium during paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :988-990

    Timothy P. Obarski, Ernesto E. Salcedo, Lon W. Castle, William J. Stewart

    
• • ·Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm: Detection and postoperative follow-up by color Doppler echocardiography

    Pagina :990-992

    Benjamin Rueda, Ioannis P. Panidis, Ray Gonzales, Michael McDonough

    
• • ·Congenital left atrial appendage aneurysm with intact pericardium: Diagnosis by transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :992-996

    Keith Allen Comess, Dennis Peter Labate, Jerrold A. Winter, Arthur C. Hill, D.Craig Miller

    
• • ·Cardiac manifestations of Churg-Strauss syndrome: Report of a case and review of the literature

    Pagina :996-999

    Peggy B. Hasley, William P. Follansbee, John L. Coulehan

    
• • ·Persistent left superior vena cava: Unusual wave contour of left jugular vein as the presenting feature

    Pagina :999-1002

    Paul Spearman, Carl V. Leier

    
• • ·Pseudoaneurysm of a Shiley composite aortic valve and graft prosthesis

    Pagina :1002-1004

    Barbara Kong, J.David Ogilby, Richard Poynton

    
• • ·Echocardiographic diagnosis of rheumatic cardiopathy affecting all four cardiac valves

    Pagina :1004-1007

    Manuel Angel Bandin, Jesus Vargas-Barron, Candace Keirns, Angel Romero-Cardenas, Manuel Villegas, Alfonso Buendia

    
• • ·Acute combined aortic and mitral regurgitation during balloon catheter valvuloplasty for a third recurrence of critical aortic stenosis

    Pagina :1007-1011

    Morton J. Kern, Ubeydullah Deligonul, Harvey Serota, Chalapathirao Gudipati, Michael Ring, Frank Aguirre

    
• • ·Assessment of myocardial viability

    Pagina :1012-1014

    Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian, Jaekyeong Heo