Sommario

• • ·Randomized double-blind Scandinavian trial of angiopeptin versus placebo for the prevention of clinical events and restenosis after coronary balloon angioplasty

    Pagina :1-8

    Ulrik Hedegaard Eriksen, Ole Amtorp, Jens Peder Bagger, Haakan Emanuelsson, Marie Foegh, Per Henningsen, Kari Saunamäki, Mark Schaeffer, Per Thayssen, Hans Ørskov, Richard E. Kuntz, Jeffrey J. Popma

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Stratification of the risk of thrombosis after intracoronary stenting for threatened or acute closure complicating coronary balloon angioplasty: A Cook registry study

    Pagina :8-13

    Ming Wei Liu, William D. Voorhees, Subodh Agrawal, Larry S. Dean, Gary S. Roubin

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Transradial artery Palmaz-Schatz coronary stent implantation: Results of a single-center feasibility study

    Pagina :14-21

    Ferdinand Kiemeneij, Gert Jan Laarman

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Stand-by versus stent-by during percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

    Pagina :21-26

    Jean-Christophe Stauffer, Eric Eeckhout, Pierre Vogt, Lukas Kappenberger, Jean-Jacques Goy

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Prompt and safe femoral hemostasis with a collagen device after intracoronary implantation of Palmaz-Schatz stents

    Pagina :26-32

    Antonio L. Bartorelli, Paolo Sganzerla, Franco Fabbiocchi, Piero Montorsi, Nicoletta De Cesare, Maurice Child, Emanuela Tavasci, Bruno Passaretti, Alessandro Loaldi

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Relation between collateral flow assessed by Doppler guide wire and angiographic collateral grades

    Pagina :32-37

    Tadakatsu Yamada, Mitsunori Okamoto, Takashi Sueda, Masaki Hashimoto, Goro Kajiyama

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Differential characterization of blood flow, velocity, and vascular resistance between proximal and distal normal epicardial human coronary arteries: Analysis by intracoronary Doppler spectral flow velocity

    Pagina :37-46

    Elizabeth O. Ofili, Morton J. Kern, Jeanette A. St. Vrain, Thomas J. Donohue, Richard Bach, Bassam Al-Joundi, Frank V. Aguirre, Ramon Castello, Arthur J. Labovitz

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Dynamic expansion of the coronary arteries: Implications for intravascular ultrasound measurements

    Pagina :46-51

    Neil J. Weissman, Igor F. Palacios, Arthur E. Weyman

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Effect of diabetes mellitus on short- and long-term mortality rates of patients with acute myocardial infarction: A statewide study

    Pagina :51-58

    Ziad A. Abbud, Daniel M. Shindler, Alan C. Wilson, John B. Kostis, Myocardial Infarction Data Acquisition System Study Group

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Prognostic significance of ST-segment depression during adenosine perfusion imaging

    Pagina :58-66

    Erik S. Marshall, Joel S. Raichlen, Sung M. Kim, Charles M. Intenzo, David T. Sawyer, Eric A. Brody, Dennis A. Tighe, Chan H. Park

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Results of adenosine single photon emission computed tomography thallium-201 imaging in hemodynamic nonresponders

    Pagina :67-70

    Seydi V. Aksut, Samir Pancholy, David Cassel, Virginia Cave, Jaekyeong Heo, Abdulmassih S. Iskandrian

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Time to arrhythmic, ischemic, and heart failure events: Exploratory analyses to elucidate mechanisms of adverse drug effects in the Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial

    Pagina :71-79

    Alfred P. Hallstrom, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Mark Carlson, Richard Davies, H.Leon Greene, James M. Kammerling, Donald W. Romhilt, Henry J. Duff, Melissa Huther, CAST Investigators

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Circadian variation of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias terminated by appropriate shocks in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator

    Pagina :79-84

    Steffen Behrens, Miroslawa Galecka, Thomas Brüggemann, Christoph Ehlers, Stefan N. Willich, Wolfgang Ziss, Rüdiger Dissmann, Dietrich Andresen

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial flutter: Procedural success and long-term outcome

    Pagina :85-92

    Jonathan S. Steinberg, Sanjay Prasher, Steven Zelenkofske, Frederick A. Ehlert

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Perivalvular cavities in endocarditis: Abscesses versus pseudoaneurysms? A transesophageal Doppler echocardiographic study in 118 patients with endocarditis

    Pagina :93-100

    Jens Tingleff, Henrik Egeblad, Carl-Otto Gøtzsche, Ulrik Baandrup, Bent Østergaard Kristensen, Hans Pilegaard, Gösta Pettersson

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Quantitative Doppler tissue imaging of the left ventricular myocardium: Validation in normal subjects

    Pagina :100-104

    Carolyn L. Donovan, William F. Armstrong, David S. Bach

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Ulcerated atherosclerotic plaques in the thoracic aorta are associated with cryptogenic stroke: A multiplane transesophageal echocardiographic study

    Pagina :105-108

    David A. Stone, Mary W. Hawke, Marian LaMonte, Steven J. Kittner, Joseph Acosta, Mary Corretti, Cindy Sample, Thomas R. Price, Gary D. Plotnick

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms during transthoracic echocardiography

    Pagina :109-115

    Mark J. Eisenberg, Salvatore J. Geraci, Nelson B. Schiller

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Validation of risk factors in predicting recoarctation after initially successful balloon angioplasty for native aortic coarctation

    Pagina :116-121

    P.Syamasundar Rao, Rebecca Koscik

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Improved left atrial transport and function with orthotopic heart transplantation by bicaval and pulmonary venous anastomoses

    Pagina :121-126

    Dov Freimark, Lawrence S.C. Czer, Ivan Aleksic, Cord Barthold, Dan Admon, Alfredo Trento, Carlos Blanche, Mario Valenza, Robert J. Siegel

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Relation between pulmonary venous flow and pulmonary wedge pressure: Influence of cardiac output

    Pagina :127-134

    Ramon Castello, Michele Vaughn, Frederick A. Dressler, Lawrence R. McBride, Vallee L. Willman, George C. Kaiser, John F. Schweiss, Elizabeth O. Ofili, Arthur J. Labovitz

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Low-dosage dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging as an alternative to echocardiography in the detection of viable myocardium after acute infarction

    Pagina :134-140

    Paul A.C. Dendale, Philippe R. Franken, Geert-Jan Waldman, Doris G.E. De Moor, Dirk A.M. Tombeur, Pierre F.C. Block, Albert De Roos

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Screening for sinus node dysfunction by analysis of short-term sinus cycle variations on the surface electrocardiogram

    Pagina :141-147

    Lennart Bergfeldt, Mårten Rosenqvist, Hans Vallin, Rolf Nordlander, Hans Åström

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Hypoplasia of the eustachian valve and abnormal orientation of the limbus of the foramen ovale in hypoplastic left heart syndrome

    Pagina :148-152

    Diane R. Remmell-Dow, Saroja Bharati, J.Terrance Davis, Maurice Lev, Hugh D. Allen

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment of diastolic heart failure

    Pagina :153-166

    Daniel J. Lenihan, Myron C. Gerson, Brian D. Hoit, Richard A. Walsh

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Protocol for two-dimensional magnetic resonance coronary angiography studied in three-dimensional magnetic resonance data sets

    Pagina :167-173

    Johannes C. Post, Albert C. van Rossum, Mark B.M. Hofman, Jaap Valk, Cees A. Visser

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Left atrial appendage “stunning” after spontaneous conversion of atrial fibrillation demonstrated by transesophageal Doppler echocardiography

    Pagina :174-176

    Richard A. Grimm, Dominic Y. Leung, Ian W. Black, William J. Stewart, James D. Thomas, Allan L. Klein

    
• • ·Acute myopericarditis resulting from Lyme disease

    Pagina :176-178

    Harold W. Horowitz, Robert N. Belkin

    
• • ·Diastolic intraventricular pressure gradient in symmetric left ventricular hypertrophy

    Pagina :178-180

    Daniel Krauss, Richard H. Marcus, Lynn Weinert, Claudia Korcarz, Roberto M. Lang

    
• • ·Combined pulmonary embolectomy and right atrial thromboembolectomy guided by transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :180-182

    Howard J. Willens, Robert Ciraldo, Terri Vuoto, Kenneth M. Kessler

    
• • ·Abnormal myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography and normal coronary arteriogram: The role of intracoronary vascular ultrasound in providing diagnostic confirmation

    Pagina :182-186

    Hosen Kiat, Athar Ansari, Daniel S. Berman, John Friedman, Robert Siegel

    
• • ·Active compression-decompression defibrillation provides effective defibrillation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation

    Pagina :186-187

    Todd J. Cohen, Hassan Noubani, Bruce G. Goldner, Kelly J. Tucker, Weilun Quan, Salvatore Trazzera, Gary Stern

    
• • ·Treatment of atrial flutter by antitachycardia pacemaker: A 13-year follow-up

    Pagina :187-191

    S.Serge Barold, Michael D. Falkoff

    
• • ·Mitral valve prolapse simulating a mitral tumor or vegetation

    Pagina :191-193

    Takashi Oki, Nobuo Fukuda, Arata Iuchi, Tomotsugu Tabata, Kazuyo Manabe, Yoshimi Kageji, Miwa Sasaki, Susumu Ito

    
• • ·Spontaneous echo contrast in a large atrial septal aneurysm

    Pagina :193-194

    Ajit Bhagwat, Michael Meleca, Brian D. Hoit

    
• • ·Editorial Board

    Pagina :A6