Sommario

• • ·Is an adenosine challenge a useful test for diagnosing sick sinus syndrome?

    Pagina :377-380

    Robert A. Sorrentino

    
• • ·Factors relating to left atrial enlargement in atrial fibrillation: “Chicken or the egg” hypothesis

    Pagina :381-383

    Maran Thamilarasan, Allan L. Klein

    
• • ·Cardiac risk: Theme con variations

    Pagina :384-385

    Stefan N. Willich

    
• • ·Does depression predict more symptoms or more disease?

    Pagina :386-387

    David S. Sheps, David Sheffield, Robert M. Carney

    
• • ·Sotalol: An important new antiarrhythmic

    Pagina :388-409

    Jeffrey L. Anderson, Eric N. Prystowsky

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• • ·Characteristic cardiovascular manifestation in homozygous and heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :410-418

    Akito Kawaguchi, Kunio Miyatake, Chikao Yutani, Shintarou Beppu, Motoo Tsushima, Taku Yamamura, Akira Yamamoto

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• • ·Influence of gravity on pulmonary venous flow velocity patterns: Analysis of left and right pulmonary venous flow velocities in left and right decubitus positions

    Pagina :419-426

    Chisato Izumi, Kanji Iga, Yoshihiro Himura, Hiromitsu Gen, Takashi Konishi

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• • ·Latent left ventricular dysfunction in patients with mitral regurgitation: Feasibility of measuring diminished contractile reserve from a simplified model of noninvasively derived left ventricular pressure-volume loops

    Pagina :427-434

    Dominic Y. Leung, Guy Armstrong, Brian P. Griffin, James D. Thomas, Thomas H. Marwick

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• • ·Use of intravenous adenosine as a noninvasive diagnostic test for sick sinus syndrome

    Pagina :435-438

    Dak Burnett, Freddie Abi-Samra, James L. Vacek

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• • ·A comparison of 50-J versus 100-J shocks for direct-current cardioversion of atrial flutter

    Pagina :439-442

    Sergio L. Pinski, Elena B. Sgarbossa, Elizabeth Ching, Richard G. Trohman

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• • ·Prognostic significance of double product and inadequate double product response to maximal symptom-limited exercise stress testing after myocardial infarction in 6296 patients treated with thrombolytic agents

    Pagina :443-452

    Massimo Villella, Alessandro Villella, Simona Barlera, Maria Grazia Franzosi, Aldo P. Maggioni, On behalf of the GISSI-2 Investigators*

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• • ·Association of depressive symptoms with reduced baroreflex cardiac control in coronary artery disease

    Pagina :453-457

    Lana L. Watkins, Paul Grossman

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• • ·Comparative efficacy and tolerability of low-dose pravastatin versus lovastatin in patients with hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :458-462

    William E. Strauss, Diane Lapsley, J.Michael Gaziano

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• • ·Microbubbles associated with mechanical heart valves: Their relation with serum lactic dehydrogenase levels

    Pagina :463-468

    Murat Gencbay, Muzaffer Degertekin, Yelda Basaran, Bengi Yaymaci, Akin Izgi, Ismet Dindar, Fikret Turan

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• • ·Prognosis of patients with vascular disease after clinical evaluation and dobutamine stress echocardiography

    Pagina :469-475

    Raj S. Ballal, Samir Kapadia, Maria-Anna Secknus, David Rubin, Kristopher Arheart, Thomas H. Marwick

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• • ·Angle dependence of intravascular ultrasound imaging and its feasibility in tissue characterization of human atherosclerotic tissue

    Pagina :476-481

    Takafumi Hiro, Cyril Y. Leung, Houshang Karimi, Ali R. Farvid, Jonathan M. Tobis

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• • ·Calcified plaque cross-sectional area in human arteries: Correlation between intravascular ultrasound and undecalcified histology

    Pagina :482-488

    Heikki Kostamaa, Janis Donovan, Shunji Kasaoka, Jonathan Tobis, Lorraine Fitzpatrick

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• • ·Early low-dose dobutamine echocardiography predicts late functional recovery after thrombolyzed acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :489-493

    Bassem A. Samad, Mats Frick, Jonas Höjer, Mats Jensen Urstad

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• • ·Left atrial diameter in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: An echocardiographic study

    Pagina :494-499

    Howard C. Dittrich, Lesly A. Pearce, Richard W. Asinger, Ruth McBride, Richard Webel, Miguel Zabalgoitia, Gregory D. Pennock, Robert E. Safford, Robert M. Rothbart, Jonathan L. Halperin, Robert G. Hart

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• • ·ST-segment elevation during dobutamine stress testing predicts functional recovery after acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :500-511

    Luc A. Piérard, Patrizio Lancellotti, Henri E. Kulbertus

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• • ·Weekly and seasonal variation in the incidence of cardiac arrests

    Pagina :512-515

    Monika Peckova, Carol E. Fahrenbruch, Leonard A. Cobb, Alfred P. Hallstrom

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• • ·Human immunodeficiency virus–associated pericardial effusion: Report of 40 cases and review of the literature

    Pagina :516-521

    Yiping Chen, Debra Brennessel, Joseph Walters, Marc Johnson, Fred Rosner, Mohummad Raza

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• • ·Value of ST-segment elevation pattern in predicting infarct size and left ventricular function at discharge in patients with reperfused acute anterior myocardial infarction

    Pagina :522-527

    Masami Kosuge, Kazuo Kimura, Toshiyuki Ishikawa, Naomitsu Kuji, Osamu Tochikubo, Mitsugi Sugiyama, Masao Ishii

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• • ·Extracardiac contributions to chest pain perception in patients 6 months after acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :528-534

    K.H. Ladwig, G. Röll, G. Breithardt, M. Borggrefe

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• • ·Hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Duration of survival without surgical intervention

    Pagina :535-542

    Kenji Hoshino, Kiyoshi Ogawa, Takashi Hishitani, Reiko Kitazawa, Ritei Uehara

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• • ·Effects of short-acting and long-acting loop diuretics on heart rate variability in patients with chronic compensated congestive heart failure

    Pagina :543-548

    Hirofumi Tomiyama, Tsuyoshi Nakayama, Gohki Watanabe, Koichiro Shiojima, Yoshihiro Sakuma, Akira Yamamoto, Yasushi Imai, Hideo Yoshida, Nobutaka Doba

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• • ·Endothelin and von Willebrand factor as parameters of endothelial function in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy: Different stimuli for release before and after heart transplantation?

    Pagina :549-554

    Søren Galatius, Henrik Wroblewski, Vibeke B. Sørensen, Peter Bie, Hans-Henrik Parving, Jens Kastrup

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• • ·Highlights from the 71st American Heart Association Scientific Sessions: November 8 to 11, 1998

    Pagina :555-574

    John H. Alexander, David F. Kong, Warren J. Cantor

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• • ·Nitrate-stimulated tilt test

    Pagina :575

    Arnaud JJ. Aerts, Paul Dendale

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• • ·Reply

    Pagina :575-576

    Attilio Del Rosso, Angelo Bartoletti, Ospedale S. Pietro Igneo

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