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• • ·Reduction in angioplasty complications after the introduction of coronary stents: Results from a consecutive series of 2242 patients

    Pagina :503-507

    Dory B. Altmann, Michael Racz, David S. Battleman, Geoffrey Bergman, Artur Spokojny, Edward L. Hannan, Timothy A. Sanborn

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• • ·Differential characterization of human coronary collateral blood flow velocity

    Pagina :508-515

    Christophe Tron, Thomas J. Donohue, Richard G. Bach, Thomas Wolford, Eugene A. Caracciolo, Frank V. Aguirre, Alexander Khoury, Morton J. Kern

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• • ·Morphometric analysis in three-dimensional intracoronary ultrasound: An in vitro and in vivo study performed with a novel system for the contour detection of lumen and plaque

    Pagina :516-527

    Clemens von Birgelen, Carlo Di Mario, Wenguang Li, Johan C.H. Schuurbiers, Cornelis J. Slager, Pim J. de Feyter, Jos R.T.C. Roelandt, Patrick W. Serruys

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• • ·Myocardial contrast echocardiography in human beings: Correlation of resting perfusion defects to sestamibi single photon emission computed tomography

    Pagina :528-535

    Mario F. Meza, Sameh Mobarek, Robert Sonnemaker, Stanton Shuler, Stephen R. Ramee, Tyrone J. Collins, Christopher J. White, Dagnovar Aristizabal, Joseph P. Murgo, Jorge Cheirif

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• • ·Dipyridamole technetium 99m sestamibi myocardial tomography for preoperative cardiac risk stratification before major or minor nonvascular surgery

    Pagina :536-541

    Henry G. Stratmann, Liwa T. Younis, Mark D. Wittry, Maryellen Amato, Alexander L. Mark, D.Douglas Miller

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• • ·Inotropic stimulation by dobutamine increases left ventricular regional function at the expense of metabolism in hibernating myocardium

    Pagina :542-549

    Ciro Indolfi, Federico Piscione, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Mariella Prastaro, Emilio Di Lorenzo, Luigi Saccà, Marco Salvatore, Mario Condorelli, Massimo Chiariello

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• • ·Detection of coronary calcification with electron-beam computed tomography: Evaluation of interexamination reproducibility and comparison of three image-acquisition protocols

    Pagina :550-558

    Shaojun Wang, Robert C. Detrano, Angelo Secci, Weiyi Tang, Terence M. Doherty, Gail Puentes, Nathan Wong, Bruce H. Brundage

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• • ·Cardiac complications in noncardiac surgery: Relative value of resting two-dimensional echocardiography and dipyridamole thallium imaging

    Pagina :559-566

    Michael C. Kontos, Lisa K. Brath, Kwame O. Akosah, Pramrod K. Mohanty

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• • ·Safety and feasibility of continuous monitoring of coronary flow velocity in acute myocardial infarction by Doppler guide wire

    Pagina :567-571

    Masato Nakamura, Taro Tsunoda, Tetsuzo Wakatsuki, Katsuto Ui, Toshiyuki Degawa, So Yabuki, Tetsu Yamaguchi

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• • ·Current incidence and determinants of perioperative myocardial infarction in coronary artery surgery

    Pagina :572-578

    Sally C. Greaves, John D. Rutherford, Sary F. Aranki, Lawrence H. Cohn, Greg S. Couper, David H. Adams, Robert J. Rizzo, John J. Collins, Elliott M. Antman

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• • ·Circadian, day-of-week, and seasonal variability in myocardial infarction: Comparison between working and retired patients

    Pagina :579-585

    Christoph Spielberg, Dirk Falkenhahn, Stefan N. Willich, Karl Wegscheider, Heinz Völler

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• • ·Heart rate variability during the first 24 hours of successfully reperfused acute myocardial infarction: Paradoxic decrease after reperfusion

    Pagina :586-592

    Simon Chakko, Aland Fernandez, Rafael Sequeira, Kenneth M. Kessler, Robert J. Myerburg

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• • ·Influence of intrinsic limb vasodilator capacity on exercise tolerance in patients with recent myocardial infarction

    Pagina :593-598

    Toshihiko Hattori, Tsutomu Sumimoto, Fumio Yuasa, Mutsuhito Kaida, Toshimitsu Jikuhara, Makoto Hikosaka, Tetsuro Sugiura, Toshiji Iwasaka

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• • ·First experience with a new nonthoracotomy defibrillation lead system

    Pagina :599-607

    Hans-Joachim Trappe, Petra Pfitzner, Paul Wenzlaff, Eric Fain, Hans-Gerd Fieguth

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• • ·Comparative study of the efficacy of metoprolol and verapamil in patients with syncope and positive head-up tilt test response

    Pagina :608-611

    D.K. Jhamb, Balbir Singh, B. Sharda, Upendra Kaul, Punit Goel, Kewal K. Talwar, Harbans S. Wasir

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• • ·Radiofrequency ablation therapy of the posteroseptal accessory pathway

    Pagina :612-620

    Ming-Shien Wen, San-Jou Yeh, Chun-Chieh Wang, Anthony King, Fun-Chung Lin, Delon Wu

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• • ·Vascular hypertrophy is an early finding in essential hypertension and is related to arterial pressure waveform contour

    Pagina :621-627

    Frank D. Tice, James W. Peterson, David A. Orsinelli, Philip F. Binkley, Robert J. Cody, Robert Guthrie, Anthony C. Pearson

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• • ·Severely symptomatic mitral stenosis with a low gradient: A case for low-technology medicine

    Pagina :628-632

    Barry K. Rayburn, Nicholas J. Fortuin

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• • ·Determination of mitral valve area in patients with mitral stenosis by the flow-convergence—region method during changing hemodynamic conditions

    Pagina :633-641

    You-Bin Deng, Masayuki Matsumoto, Junichi Munehira

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• • ·Cardiac dysfunction with Becker muscular dystrophy

    Pagina :642-647

    Miho Saito, Hisaomi Kawai, Masashi Akaike, Katsuhito Adachi, Yoshihito Nishida, Shiro Saito

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• • ·Myocardial wall velocity assessment by pulsed Doppler tissue imaging: Characteristic findings in normal subjects

    Pagina :648-656

    Mario J. Garcia, Leonardo Rodriguez, Miguel Ares, Brian P. Griffin, Allan L. Klein, William J. Stewart, James D. Thomas

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• • ·Medium-term results of experimental stent implantation into the ductus arteriosus

    Pagina :657-663

    Eric Rosenthal, Shakeel A. Qureshi, A.Hussein Tabatabaie, Deo Persaud, Ashok P. Kakadekar, Edwrd J. Baker, Michael Tynan

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• • ·Significance of magnesium in congestive heart failure

    Pagina :664-671

    Summer Douban, Michael A. Brodsky, David D. Whang, Robert Whang

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• • ·Four-dimensional echocardiography: Methods and clinical application

    Pagina :672-684

    Xin-Fang Wang, Zhi-An Li, Tung O. Cheng, Ming-Xing Xie, Gang Hu, You-Bin Deng, Li Liu, Qing Lu

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• • ·Infected sternal fracture hematoma after cardiopulmonary resuscitation initially seen as pericarditis

    Pagina :685-686

    Xander H.T. Wehrens, Pieter A. Doevendans, Jan Melle van Dantzig, Gabriel Snoep, Hein J. Wellens

    
• • ·Intravascular ultrasound identification of calcified intraluminal lesions misdiagnosed as thrombi by coronary angiography

    Pagina :687-689

    Gaston R. Duissailant, Gary S. Mintz, Augusto D Pichard, Kenneth M. Kent, Lowell F. Salter, Jeffrey J. Popma, Jennifer Griffin, martin B. Leon

    
• • ·Diagnosis of mitral valve aneurysms by transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :689-691

    Ariel Roguin, Diana Rinkevich, Simcha Milo, Shimin A. Reisner

    
• • ·Erythromycin-induced polymorphous ventricular tachycardia with normal QT interval

    Pagina :691-694

    Sudhakara B. Chennareddy, Mohamed Siddique, Muhammad Y. Karim, Vijay Kudesia

    
• • ·Structural and functional characterization of an intermediate stenosis with intracoronary ultrasound and Doppler: A case of “reverse Glagovian modeling”

    Pagina :694-696

    Clemens von Birgelen, Carlo Di Mario, Patrick W. Serruys

    
• • ·Spontaneous coronary artery dissection in a young man with inferior wall myocardial infarction

    Pagina :696-698

    Chetan Shah, Dhiraj Narula, Hema Kulkarni, Bharat Dalvi

    
• • ·Atrial natriuretic peptide release during myocardial ischemia induced by percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

    Pagina :698-699

    Antonio Nigri, Gennaro Sardella, Carlo Tosti-Croce, Eugenio Martuscelli, Francesco Pizzuto, Cesare Greco, Andrea Berni

    
• • ·Monophasic action potential recordings during T-wave alternans in congenital long QT syndrome

    Pagina :699-701

    Wataru Shimizu, Katsuhiko Yamada, Yoshio Arakaki, Tetsuro Kamiya, Katsuro Shimomura

    
• • ·What we we learned from in vitro intravascular ultrasound?

    Pagina :702-710

    Elma J. Gussenhoven, Aad van der Lugt, Anton F.W. van der Steen, Kees M. Ligtvoet

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