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CONTENTS INDEX DECEMBER 18, 1990 THROUGH JUNE 15, 1991 DECEMBER 18, 1990, VOL. 66, NO. 21 ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES A SYMPOSIUM: az ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND VASCULAR PROTECTION Ventricular Tachycardia and Accelerated Ventricular Presenting in the First Month of Life George F. Van Hare and Paul Stanger JANUARY 1, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 1 AS Exercise Thallium-201 imaging in Complete Left CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Bundle Branch Block and the Prevalence of Septal Perfusion Defects i Besher Jazmati, Ara Sadaniantz, Susan P. Emaus, and Gary Predictors of Long-Term Cardiac Survival in Patients V. Heller with Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Percutaneous Transtuminal Angioplasty Michel Vandormael, Ubeydullah Deligonul, Sue Taussig, and Morton J. Kern David J. Callans and Francis E. Marchlinski 55 Therapy Duration of the QT Interval and Total and Bruce R. Brodie, Richard A. Weintraub, Thomas D. Stuckey, Cardiovascular Mortality in Healthy Persons (The E. Joseph LeBauer, Jeffrey D. Katz, Thomas A. Kelly, and Framingham Heart Study Experience) Charles J. Hansen Robert J. Goldberg, James Bengtson, Zuoyao Chen, Keaven M. Anderson, Emanuela Locati, and Daniel Levy i3 Severity of SingleCor-onaVry eArtserisal eStelnos is SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION and Duration of Angina as Determinants of Recruitable Collateral Vessels During Balloon Angioplasty 59 Occlusion Jan J. Piek, Jacques J. Koolen, Gerard Hoedemaker, George Cemparison of Lisinopril Versus Atenolol for Mild to K. David, Cees A. Visser, and Arend J. Dunning Moderate Essential D. Gareth Beevers, Roger A. Blackwood, Simon Garnham, Michael Watson, Abdul A. Mehrzad, Karim Admani, Jennifer E. Angell-James, Morgan Feely, Shubha Kumar, Murtaza H. Husaini, David Mannering, Carol Connett, and Christine Long in Metropolitan : Results from the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Registry (MiTI) CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Charles Maynard, Paul E. Litwin, Jenny S. Martin, Manuel Cerqueira, Peter J. Kudenchuk, Mary T. Ho, J. Ward Kennedy, Leonard A. Cobb, Sharon M. Schaeffer, Alfred P. Hemodynamic Effects of Renin Inhibition by Enalkiren Hallstrom, and W. Douglas Weaver in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Gerald W. Neuberg, Marrick L. Kukin, Joshua Penn, Norma 24 Medina, Madeline Yushak, and Milton Packer Late Results of 200 Repeat Coronary Artery Bypass 67 Hans A. Verheul, Adrian C. Moulijn, Sjoerd Hondema, Michiel Effects of Bucindolo! on Neurohormonal Activation in Schouwink, and Arend J. Dunning Congestive Heart Failure Eric J. Eichhorn, A. lain McGhie, John B. Bedotto, James R. 31 Corbett, Craig R. Malloy, Barbara A. Hatfield, David CardiRiosk vFacator sClucsteruing lanad Rartio of Deitchman, John E. Willard, and Paul A. Grayburn Total Cholesterol to High-DenLispoiprtotyei n Cholesterol inA ngiograDpochumiencteda lColronyar y Artery Disease VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Myron H. Luria, Jacob Erel, Dan Sapoznikov, and Mervyn S. 74 Effects of Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Fuminobu Ishikura, Seiki Nagata, Masashi Akaike, Jun Tamai, and Kunio Miyatake 79 Gregg W. Stone, Brian Griffin, Prediman K. Shah, Daniel S. Blood Rheology After Cardiac Valve Replacement with Berman, Robert J. Siegel, Stephen L. Cook, and Gerald Mechanical Prostheses or Maurer, with the technical assistance of David E. Brown and Renate Koppensteiner, Anton Moritz, Werner Schlick, Kenneth J. Resser Gabriele Fenzl, Susanne Roedler, and Herbert Ehringer 1474 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991 CONTENTS INDEX DECEMBER 18, 1990 THROUGH JUNE 15, 1991 DECEMBER 18, 1990, VOL. 66, NO. 21 ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES A SYMPOSIUM: az ATHEROSCLEROSIS AND VASCULAR PROTECTION Ventricular Tachycardia and Accelerated Ventricular Presenting in the First Month of Life George F. Van Hare and Paul Stanger JANUARY 1, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 1 AS Exercise Thallium-201 imaging in Complete Left CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Bundle Branch Block and the Prevalence of Septal Perfusion Defects i Besher Jazmati, Ara Sadaniantz, Susan P. Emaus, and Gary Predictors of Long-Term Cardiac Survival in Patients V. Heller with Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease Undergoing Percutaneous Transtuminal Angioplasty Michel Vandormael, Ubeydullah Deligonul, Sue Taussig, and Morton J. Kern David J. Callans and Francis E. Marchlinski 55 Therapy Duration of the QT Interval and Total and Bruce R. Brodie, Richard A. Weintraub, Thomas D. Stuckey, Cardiovascular Mortality in Healthy Persons (The E. Joseph LeBauer, Jeffrey D. Katz, Thomas A. Kelly, and Framingham Heart Study Experience) Charles J. Hansen Robert J. Goldberg, James Bengtson, Zuoyao Chen, Keaven M. Anderson, Emanuela Locati, and Daniel Levy i3 Severity of SingleCor-onaVry eArtserisal eStelnos is SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION and Duration of Angina as Determinants of Recruitable Collateral Vessels During Balloon Angioplasty 59 Occlusion Jan J. Piek, Jacques J. Koolen, Gerard Hoedemaker, George Cemparison of Lisinopril Versus Atenolol for Mild to K. David, Cees A. Visser, and Arend J. Dunning Moderate Essential D. Gareth Beevers, Roger A. Blackwood, Simon Garnham, Michael Watson, Abdul A. Mehrzad, Karim Admani, Jennifer E. Angell-James, Morgan Feely, Shubha Kumar, Murtaza H. Husaini, David Mannering, Carol Connett, and Christine Long in Metropolitan : Results from the Myocardial Infarction Triage and Intervention Registry (MiTI) CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Charles Maynard, Paul E. Litwin, Jenny S. Martin, Manuel Cerqueira, Peter J. Kudenchuk, Mary T. Ho, J. Ward Kennedy, Leonard A. Cobb, Sharon M. Schaeffer, Alfred P. Hemodynamic Effects of Renin Inhibition by Enalkiren Hallstrom, and W. Douglas Weaver in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Gerald W. Neuberg, Marrick L. Kukin, Joshua Penn, Norma 24 Medina, Madeline Yushak, and Milton Packer Late Results of 200 Repeat Coronary Artery Bypass 67 Hans A. Verheul, Adrian C. Moulijn, Sjoerd Hondema, Michiel Effects of Bucindolo! on Neurohormonal Activation in Schouwink, and Arend J. Dunning Congestive Heart Failure Eric J. Eichhorn, A. lain McGhie, John B. Bedotto, James R. 31 Corbett, Craig R. Malloy, Barbara A. Hatfield, David CardiRiosk vFacator sClucsteruing lanad Rartio of Deitchman, John E. Willard, and Paul A. Grayburn Total Cholesterol to High-DenLispoiprtotyei n Cholesterol inA ngiograDpochumiencteda lColronyar y Artery Disease VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Myron H. Luria, Jacob Erel, Dan Sapoznikov, and Mervyn S. 74 Effects of Percutaneous Transvenous Mitral Fuminobu Ishikura, Seiki Nagata, Masashi Akaike, Jun Tamai, and Kunio Miyatake 79 Gregg W. Stone, Brian Griffin, Prediman K. Shah, Daniel S. Blood Rheology After Cardiac Valve Replacement with Berman, Robert J. Siegel, Stephen L. Cook, and Gerald Mechanical Prostheses or Maurer, with the technical assistance of David E. Brown and Renate Koppensteiner, Anton Moritz, Werner Schlick, Kenneth J. Resser Gabriele Fenzl, Susanne Roedler, and Herbert Ehringer 1474 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991 CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE Effects ofK etamHiypnoxeia ,an d Some Good Cardiologic Books Published in 1990 Surgically William C. Roberts INSTRUTO CAUTTHOIRS OonN paSge 88 Robert R. Wolfe, James P. Loehr, Michael S. Schaffer, and James W. Wiggins, Jr. JANUARY 15, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 2 89 Compof Eaxercrise iStresss Toestinng w ith Monitoriinn tgh e The Unstable ST Segment Early After Thrombolysis for Detection of Myocardial Ischemia After Unstable Acute Infarction and Its Usefulness as a Marker of Pectoris Recurrent Ccronary Occlusion lan Wilcox, S. Ben Freedman, Jianan Li, Phillip J. Harris, and Ki-ik Kwon, S. Benedict Freedman, lan Wilcox, Kevin Allman, David T. Kelly Ann Madden, Grant S. Carter, and Phillip J. Harris 116 Circadian Variation in Pain Onset in Unstable Angina Interpreting Results of Exercise Studies After Acute Pectoris Myocardial Infarction Altered by Thrombolytic Solomon Behar, Henrietta Reicher-Reiss, Uri Goldbourt, ’ Coronary Angioplasty or Bypass Elieser Kaplinsky, and the Principal Investigators of SPRINT, Carl J. Lavie, Raymond J. Gibbons, Alan R. Zinsmeister, and Israel Bernard J. Gersh 93 121 Decrease of Right and Left Atrial Sizes After Direct- in-Hospital Symptoms of Psychological Stress as Current Electrical Cardioversion in Chronic Atrial Predictors of Long-Term Outcome After Acute Fibrillatioz: Infarction in Men Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Harry J. Crijns, Wiek H. Van Gilst, Nancy Frasure-Smith Hans P. M. Hamer, and Kong I. Lie 128 Effect of Nifedipine on Total Ischemic Activity and Cardiac Rhythm Precipitating Automatic implantable Circadian Distribution of Myocardial Ischemic Episodes Cardioverter-Defibrillator Discharge in Outpatients as in Angina Pectoris Detected from Transtelephonic Richard W. Nesto, Roland T. Phillips, Kevin G. Kett, Recordings Lawrence S. McAuliffe, Mark Roberts, and Patricia Hegarty Jonathan S. Steinberg and John S. Sugalski 133 Early Assessment of Coronary Artery Bynass Graft Angelo S. Bongo, Leonardo Bolognese, Gianni Sarasso, Daniel W. Jones and Charles D. Sands Carmelo Cernigliaro, Donatella Aralda, Antonietta Carfora, Cristina Piccinino, Andrea Campi, Lidia Rossi, and Paolo Rossi Velocity Gradients Across Normal Cardiac Valves Kenneth B. Gossler and Stanley J. Goldberg 101 137 Physiologic Neuroendocrine Arousal by Mental Reversion of Recent-Onset Atrial Fibrillation to Sinus Arithmetic Stress Test in Healthy Rhythm by Intravenous Flecainide Kazunori Ushiyama, Takeshi Ogawa, Masanori Ishii, Ryuichi Karl D. Donovan, Geoffrey J. Dobb, Leigh J. Coombs, Kok- Ajisaka, Yasuro Sugishita, and Iwao Ito Yeng Lee, John W. Weekes, Challon J. Murdock, and Geoffrey M. Clarke CASE REPORT 142 104 Ablation of the AtrioventrJiuncctuioln awrit h Dynamic Coronary Ostial Obstruction Due to Papillary RadiofEnrergey Uqsinug ae Nenw Eclecytro de Fibroelastoma Leading to Myocardial Ischemia and Infarction Jonathan J. Langberg, Michael Chin, David J. Schamp, Douglas H. Israel, Warren Sherman, John A. Ambrose, Samin Michael A. Lee, Jeffrey Goldberger, David N. Pederson, Sharma, Noam Harpaz, and Michael Robbins Michael Oeff, Michael D. Lesh, Jerry C. Griffin, and Melvin M. Scheinman CONTENTS INDEX 1475 148 Relative Importance of Activation Sequence Compared to Atrioventricular Synchrony in Left Ventricular Function Marten Rosenavist, Karl lsaaz, Elias H. Botvinick, Michael W. Significance of Minimal Preexcitation in Wolff- Dae, James Cockrell, Joseph A. Abbott, Nelson B. Schiller, Parkinson-White Syndrome and Jerry C. Griffin Wee Siong Teo, George J. Klein, Raymond Yee, James W. Leitch, and Challon J. Murdock SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION 157 Effects of Doxazosin on Blood Pressure, Renin- Angiotensin-Aldosterone and Urinary Kallikrein yncope Mar.a Ch. Oliveros-Palacios, Nereyda Godoy-Godoy, and Hugh Calkins, Alan Kadish, Joao Sousa, Shimon Rosenheck, José A. Colina-Chourio and Fred Morady VALVULAR HEART DISEASE 209 162 Frequency of Valvular Regurgitation by Color Doppler Effect of Mitral Regurgitation and Volume Loading on Echocardiography in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Pressure Half-Time Before and After Balloon Katsuaki Enomoto, Yoshikazu Kaji, Takehito Mayumi, Yasuo Valvotomy in Mitral Stenosis Tsuda, Shozo Kanaya, Kohei Nagasawa, Takehiko Fujino, and Thomas Wisenbaugh, Martin Berk, Rafique Essop, Shirley Yoshiyuki Niho Middlemost, and Pinhas Sareli 213 TARDIOMYOPATHY Hemodynamic Study During Upright Isotonic Exercise Before and Six Months After Dynamic 169 Cardiomyoplasty for idiopathic Dilated Sudden Death During Empiric Amiodarone Therapy in or Chagas’ Disease $s Edimar Alcides Bocchi, Luiz Felipe Moreira, Giovanni Bellotti, Lameh Fananapazir, Martin B. Leon, Robert O. Bonow, Antonio C.P. Barreto, Luiz G.S. Azul, Noedir Stolf, Adib Cynthia M. Tracy, Richard O. Cannon Ill, and Stephen E. Jatene, and Fulvio Pileggi Epstein 175 215 Value of Electrophysiologic Studies in Hypertrophic Prognosis of Nonobstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Treated with Amiodarone Lameh Fananapazir and Stephen E. Epstein Leon A. Aron, Harry L. Hertzeanu, Enrique Z. Fisman, Ilan S. Nosrati, and Jan J. Kellermann 183 Rarity of Preclinical Alcoholic Cardiomyopathy in 217 Chronic Alcoholics <40 Years of Age Manuel D. Cerqueira, George D. Harp, James L. Ritchie, Left Ventricular Function in Patients >20 Years of Age John R. Stratton, and R. Dale Walker with Ebstein’s Anomaly of the Tricuspid Valve Anita Saxena, Lance V. Fong, Maria Tristam, Duncan M. Ackery, and Barry R. Keeton 188 Prognostic Value of Thallium-201 Perfusion Defects in Dilated Cardiomyopathy 219 Yoshinori L. Doi, Taishiro Chikamori, Jun Takata, Yoshihiro ST-Segment Depression After Cardiac Transplantation Yonezawa, Jan D. Poloniecki, Toshio Ozawa, and William J. and Its Usefulness as an Indicator of Acute Rejection McKenna Bernd Heubiein, Jorg Winter, Josef Kemnitz, Thorsten Wahlers, and Axel Haverich CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 194 222 Usefulness of Color-Flow Doppler in Diagnosing and in Usefulness of Systolic Excursion of the Mitral Anulus DiffeSurpraecrisntalt Veintriacultar iSeptnal gDef ect as an Index of Left Ventricular Systolic Function from Right Ramdas G. Pai, Monty M. Bodenheimer, Sudha M. Pai, Achi Ludomirsky, Lloyd Tani, Daniel J. Murphy, and James C. Jerome H. Koss, and Richard D. Adamick Huhta INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 212 MISCELLANEOUS 199 Accuracy of Assessment of Cardiac Vagal Tone by JANUARY 25, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 3 Heart Rate Variability in Normal Subjects Junichiro Hayano, Yusaku Sakakibara, Akira Yamada, Masami Yamada, Seiji Mukai, Takao Fujinami, Kiyoko A SYMPOSIUM: Yokoyama, Yosaku Watanabe, and Kazuyuki Takata ADJUNCTIVE THERAPIES IN THROMBOLYSIS 1476 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991 FEBRUARY 1, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 4 269 Reference Values and Reproduciboifl Dioptpyle r Echocairn tdhe iAssoessgmenrt oaf tphe hTricyusp id CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Valve and Right Ventricular Diastolic Function in nal Subjects 225 Maurice P. Pye, Stuart D. Pringle, and Stuart M. Cobbe Complete Atrioventricular Block Inferior Wall Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with CARDIOMYOPATHY Reperfusion Therapy Peter Clemmensen, Eric R. Bates, Robert M. Califf, Mark A. 274 Hiatky, Lynne Aronson, Barry S. George, Kerry L. Lee, Dean Left Ventricular Size, Mass and Function in Relation to J. Kereiakes, Gerald Gacioch, Eric Berrios, Eric J. Topol, and the Duration and Quantity of Heavy Drinking in the TAMI Study Group Alcoholics Markku Kupari, Pekka Koskinen, and Antti Suokas 231 Prognostic Importance of Delayed Q-Wave Evolution 3 to 24 Hours After Initiation of Thrombolytic Therapy for Acute Infarction Mark J. Eisenberg, Gabriel |. Barbash, Hanoch Hod, Arie Roth, Amir Shachar, Lea Zolti, Babeth Rabinowitz, Elieser Lameh Fananapazir and Stephen E. Epstein Kaplinsky, Shlomo Laniado, and Michaela Modan CONGENHEAIRTT DAISELAS E 236 Regional Cardiac Adrenergic Function Using 1-123 Meta-lodobenzyliguanidine Tomographic Imaging After 288 Acute Myocardial Infarction Uses and Limitaoft Trianosthnorsaci c A. lain McGhie, James R. Corbett, Marvin S. Akers, Padmakur Kulkarni, Michael N. Sills, Mark Kremers, L. Maximilian Buja, Marc Durant-Reville, Robert W. Parkey, and Rajendra H. Mehta, Frederick Helmcke, Navin C. Nanda, Luiz James T. Willerson Pinheiro, Tandaw E. Samdarshi, and Vinod K. Shah 243 insensitivity of Noninvasive Tests to Detect Coronary Artery Vasculopathy After Heart Transplant Frank W. Smart, Christie M. Ballantyne, Beth Cocanougher, John A. Farmer, Michael E. Sekela, George P. Noon, and James B. Young 248 Hypertrophy Comparative Effects of Overweight on Cardiovascular Wilbert S. Aronow, Chul Ahn, Itzhak Kronzon, and Mordecai Risk in Younger Versus Older Men Koenigsberg Brent M. Egan, David R. Bassett, and Waiter D. Block 253 immediate and Short-Term Results of a 1988-1989 Coronary Angioplasty Registry Francis Stammen, Jan Piessens, Matty Vrolix, James J. Glazier, Hilaire De Geest, and Jos L. Willems CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE Subjects Marieke Dekker Schoen, Robert B. Parker, Timothy J. Hoon, Robert J. Hariman, Jerry L. Bauman, and Karen J. Beckman Sustained Reduction in Valvular Regurgitation and Atrial Volumes with Tailored Vasodilator Therapy in Advanced Congestive Heart Failure Secondary to Ditated (Ischemic or Idiopathic) Cardiomyopathy 305 Michele A. Hamilton, Lynne W. Stevenson, John S. Child, Patterns of ST-Segment Change During Acute No-Flow Jaime D. Moriguchi, Julie Walden, and Mary Woo Ischemia Produced by Balloon Occlusion During Angioplasty of the Left Anterior Descending VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Avanindra Jain and Leonard S. Gettes 264 Frequency and Severity of Mitral Regurgitation One Year After Balloon Mitral V: Ju-Pin Pan, Shoa-Lin Lin, Jorge Uy Go, Tsui-Leih Hsu, Chung- Yin Chen, Shih-Pu Wang, Benjamin N. Chiang, and Mau-Song Chang Vicens Mart CONTENTS INDEX 2477 Correlation of the Physiologic Parameters of a Continuous Ramp Versus an incremental James Exercise Protocol in Normal Children Carol S. Tanner, Charles T. Heise, and Gerald Barber 313 Risk of Dysphagia After Transesophageal Anthony G. Messina, Mary Paranicas, Steven Fiamengo, Fun- Sun Yao, Karl Krieger, O. Wayne Isom, and Richard B. Septal Aneurysm Devereux Cause of Stroke in Patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse 314 importance of Technical Variables for Quantitative Interaction Between Amiodarone and Phenytoin Helmut Baumgartner, Heinrich Schima, and Peter Kihn CASE REPORTS The Sleep Electrocardiato gExrtaremme 317 Right Ventricular Diastolic Function in Children in the Heart Steven V. Manoukian and Nanette K. Wenger Sudden Death Associated with Exercise: The Risk- 318 Benefit Issue Reversible “Cardiomyopathy” After Accidental Adrenaline Overdose SubAngalysris oof Cluinicapl Tr ials Alistair |. Fyfe, Paul A. Daly, Paul Dorian, and Judith Tough 319 332 Persistent Left Fifth Aortic Arch with Complex Pharmacologic Management of Ventricular Coarctation Arrhythmias Candace L. Gibbin, Frank M. Midgley, Barry M. Potter, and Gerard R. Martin Bird Brains 321 Tricuspid Valve Honk Due to Pulmonary Hypertension 333 to Left Atrial Myxoma Michael P. Cecil and Mark E. Silverman Therapeutic Equivalency of Procainamide—A Correction READERS’ COMMENTS Treatment Algorithms for Patients with Ventricular Arrhythmias 322 Atrial Natriuretic Peptide and Chronic Constrictive PericaHreadrt iDiaselas e 334 Preoperative imaging of the Internal Thoracic Artery Ejection Fraction and Induced Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia AntiaDrrugsr anhd Cyarditac hDeamth Eind cPoi nts Correction 323 QuadricAuorstipc iVadlv e INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHOonR pSag e 316 324 EndomyBioopscy ian Crarddiaci Traanslpla nt Recipients Using the Femoral Venous Approach FEBRUARY 15, 1991, VOL. 67, NO.5 Vasomotor Properties of internal Mammary Arteries, Saphenous Vein Bypass Grafts and Native Coronary CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 335 ElectrocarSubdseit oAnaglyrsisa opf hDiliticaze m Adminoni Losng-tTerrm Oautctomei Afotern Ac ute Myocardial Infarction William E. Boden, Ronald J. Krone, Robert E. Kleiger, David Oakes, Henry Greenberg, Edward J. Dwyer, Jr., J. Philip Miller, Jonathan Abrams, James Coromilas, Robert Goidstein, Arthur J. Moss, and the Multicenter Diltiazem Post-Infarction Trial Research Group 1478 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991 Type inog Mikael Deliborg, Martin Riha, and Karl Swedberg 350 Exercise Echocardiography and Technetium-99m MIBI Joshua M. Hare, Kenneth L. Baughman, David A. Kass, Emission Computed Tomography in the Steven N. Goodman, and Paul W. Ladenson Detection of Artery Disease VALVHUEARLT ADISREAS E Massimo M. A. Pozzoli, Paolo M. Fioretti, Alessandro Salustri, Ambroos E. M. Reijs, and Jos R. T. C. Roelandt 398 Beneficial Effect of Atrial Pacing in Severe Acute impaired Left Ventricular Filling and Regional Diastolic Aortic Regurgaindt Roalet oif Mo-Mnod e Echocairn Ddeteirmioningg trhe aOptpimahl Pyaci ng Myocardial Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Stephen L. Bacharach, Vasken Theo E. Meyer, Pinhas Sareli, Richard H. Marcus, Jai Patel, Dilsizian, and Robert O. Bonow and Martin R. Berk CARDIOMYOPATHY 404 Simultaneous Occurrence of Mitral Vaive Prolapse and H. W. Thijs Plokker, B. Hannie Meester, and Patrick W. Systolic Anterior Motion in Hypertrophic Serruys Cardiomyopathy Julio A. Panza and Barry J. Maron 367 Predictors of Cardiac Survival After Percutaneous 411 Comparison of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction by Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Radionuclide Harvey Serota, Ubevdullah Deligonul, Woo-Hyeong Lee, Vv in Dilated Frank Aguirre, Morton J. Kern, Sue A. Taussig, and Michel Carlo Gaudio, Gaetano Tanzilli, Pietro Mazzarotto, Mario G. Vandormael Motolese, Francesco Romeo, Benedetto Marino, and Attilio 373 Effects of Diltiazem on Complications and Restenosis After James H. O'Keefe, Jr., Lee V. Giorgi, Geoffrey O. Hartzler, Thomas H. Good, Robert W. Ligon, Deborah L. Webb, and Ben D. McCallister ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES and Pindolol) Kathy D. Scruggs, Nicholaus B. Martin, Craig E. Broeder, 377 Zandrie Hofman, Evan L. Thomas, Kathleen C. Wambsgans, Atrial Natriuretic Peptide Response to Cardioversion of and Jack H. Wilmore Atrial Flutter and Fibrillation and Role of Associated Heart Failure Sakti Mookherjee, Gunnar Anderson, Jr., Harold Smulyan, and Suman Vardan Therapeutic Cardiac Ultrasound 381 Richard S. Meltzer, Karl Q. Schwarz, Jack G. Mottley, and Sudden Cardiac Death While Wearing a Holter Monitor Eric C. Everbach Klaus V. Olshausen, Thomas Witt, Tiberius Pop, Norbert Treese, Klaus-Peter Bethge, and JOrgen Meyer 387 Late Results of the Left Subcostal Approach for Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator BetLawte ePoteentianls and implantation DeterLmefti Vnentericdula r Padraig G. O'Neill, Gerald M. Lawrie, Raj R. Kaushik, Lynette Subjects F. Harvill, and Antonio Pacifico Angelo A. Raineri, Marcello Traina, Renzo M. R. Lombardo, and Antonino Rotolo CONTENTS INDEX 1479 427 454 Epinephrine Versus Norepinephrine in Prehospital Effect of Left Ventricular Aneurysm on Risk of Sudden Ventricular Fibrillation and Nonsudden Cardiac Death Karl H. Lindner, Friedrich W. Ahnefeld, and Adolf Grinert Constantine A. Hassapoyannes, Leslie M. Stuck, Carlton A. Hornung, Michael C. Berbin, and Nancy C. Flowers 428 Transcatheter Laser-Assisted Balloon Pulmonary Valve Dilation in Pulmonic Vaive Atresia AngiMoorphoglogyr ina Unstpableh Angiina cand its Shakeel A. Qureshi, Eric Rosenthal, Michael Tynan, Rui Relation to Transient Myocardial Ischemia and Hospital Anjos, and Edward J. Baker Raffaele Bugie dini, Andrea Pozzati, Alberico Borghi, Gian 431 Luigi Morgagni, Filippo Ottani, Antongiulio Muzi, and Paolo Atherectomy of Right Ostial Stenoses: Initial Puddu and Long-Term Results, Technical Features and Histologic Findings 465 Jeffrey J. Popma, Ronald J. L. Dick, Christian C. Anginal Symptoms Without Ischemic Haudenschild, Eric J. Topol, and Stephen G. Ellis Electrocardiographic Changes During Ambulatory Monitoring in Men With Coronary Artery Disease 435 Dirk Hausmann, Peter Nikutta, Werner G. Daniel, Paul insights into the Mechanism of Luminal Improvement Wenzlaff, and Paul R. Lichtlen After Directional Coronary A William F. Penny, Dwayne A. Schmidt, Robert D. Safian, 470 Raymond E. Erny, and Donald S. Baim Dependence of Doppler Echocardiographic Transmitral Early Peak Velocity on Left Ventricular Systolic 437 Function in Coronary Artery Disease Acute Complications Associated with New-Onset Atrial Shinji Miki, Tomoyuki Murakami, Tomoyuki lwase, Tetsuya Fibrillation Tomita, Yukisono Suzuki, and Chuichi Kawai Harold Z. Friedman, Scot F. Goldberg, John D. Bonema, David R. Cragg, and Andrew M. Hauser 479 Relation of Serum Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels to Presence and Severity of Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease Philip A. Romm, Curtis E. Green, Kathleen Reagan, and Charles E. Rackley Vishwa Dev and Savitri Shrivastava 484 Edge Detection Versus Densitometry for Assessing CASE REPORT Bradley H. Strauss, Yves Juilliere, Benno J. Rensing, Johan 445 H. C. Reiber, and Patrick W. Serruys Biologic Intoxication Due to Digitalis: Like Substance After of Cooked Toad Soup 491 Ming-Shyan Chern, Ching-Ying Ray, and Delon Wu Frequency of Success and Complications of Coronary Angioplasty of a Stenosis at the Ostium of a Branch FRTOHE MEDIT OR Vessel David W. Mathias, Jodi Fishman Mooney, Helmut W. Lange, irvin F. Goldenberg, Fredarick L. Gobel, and Michael R. Mooney “Anything To Be Done Right Has Got To Be Done By People That Make Their Living At It” 496 William C. Roberts Pericardial Effusion After Intravenous Recombinant Tissue-Type Plasminogen Activator for Acute INSTRTUO CAUTTHORIS Oon NpagSe 4 34 Myocardial Infarction Robert N. Belkin, Daniel B. Mark, Lynn Aronson, Hanna Szwed, Robert M. Califf, and Joseph Kisslo MARCH 1, 1991, VOL. 67, NO.6 501 CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE of the Efficacy of Questran Light, a New Cholestyramine aay Expanded Clinical Evaiuation of Lovastatin (EXCEL) William Insull, Jr., Norman R. Marquis, and Michael C. Study Results ll. Assessment of the Human Lens After Tsianco 48 Weeks of Treatment with Lovastatin Alan M. Laties, Charles L. Shear, Erik A. Lippa, A. Lawrence Gould, Hugh R. Taylor, Dennis P. Hurley, Wendy P. Stephenson, Edwin U. Keates, Mary Ann Tupy-Visich, and Athanassios N. Chremos 1480 =T HE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991 ARRHAYND TCONDHUCTIMON IDISATURBSANC ES 537 Influence of Gender on inducibility of Ventricular Arrhythmias in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest with Disease Characof tAcceessroryi Pasthwtaysi Ecxhibsiti ng Paul T. Vaitkus, K. Elizabeth Kindwall, John M. Miller, Francis Decremental Conduction E. Marchlinski, Alfred E. Buxton, and Mark E. Josephson Challon J. Murdock, James W. Leitch, Wee Siong Teo, Arjun D. Sharma, Raymond Yee, and George J. Klein 541 Frequency of Late Potentials in Systemic Sclerosis Debra K. Moser, William G. Stevenson, Mary A. Woo, Steven Usefuiness of d, | Sctalol for Suppression of Chronic R. Weiner, Philip J. Clements, Sharon M. Suzuki, Connie L. Ventricular Wright, John S. Child, Janine Krivokapich, and Antoine Maria |. Anastasiou-Nana, Edward M. Gilbert, Ronald H. Alhajje Miller, Steven Singh, Roger A. Freedman, Deborah L. Keefe, Sanjeev Saksena, Daniel J. MacNeil, and Jeffrey L. Anderson 544 Effect of Balloon Aortic Valvuloplasty on Doppler VALVULAR HEART DISEASE Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling Warren J. Manning, Marilyn F. Riley, and Patricia C. Come 547 A Doppler Echocardiographic Examination of the Ring After Mitral Vaive Repair for Mitral — Aortic Valve and Left Ventricular Outflow Brigitte Unger-Graeber, Richard T. Lee, Martin St. John ract Sutton, Maureen Plappert, John J. Collins, and Lawrence H. William R. Davidson, Jr., Michael J. Pasquale, and Claude Cohn Fanelli MISCELLANEOUS 550 Influence of Sympathetic Stimulation and Preoperative Angiegraphy of the Internal Mammary » Withdrawal on Doppler Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling Wing-Hing Chow and Tsun-Cheng Chow Velocities in Young Normal Karl-Arne Johannessen, Manuel Cerqueira, Richard C. Veith, A Grizzly Paradox and John R. Stratton W.B. Firor Trifluoperazine and Spontaneous Contrast Cheryl Mahony, Kevin L. Sublett, and Michael R. Harrison 527 Effects of Aminophylline on Atrioventricular Conduction in Patients with Late Atrioventricular Block During Inferior Wall Acute Myocardial Infarction Boris Strasberg, Rony Bassevich, Aviv Mager, Jairo Kusniec, Compoaf trhe iFours Moajonr U SA Alex Sagie, and Samuel Sclarovsky Journals in 1990: A Look at 51 Kilograms William C. Roberts INSTRUTO CAUTTHORIS Oon NpagSe 5 40 Vivian B. Fernandes, S. Ben Freedman, Kevin C. Allman, George J. Bautovich, Brian F. Hutton, Andrew F. McLaughlin, Eleanor K. Whitehead, David T. Kelly, Phillip J. Harris, D Phil, and John G. Morris MARCH 15, 1991, VOL. 67, NO. 7 533 Prognostic Significance of Hydropericardia and Pericardial Friction Rub in Q-Wave Acute Myocardial 555 Infarction Early Beneficial Effect of Streptokinase on Left Tetsuro Sugiuri, Toshiji lwasaka, Nobuyuki Takahashi, Fumio Ventricular Function in Acute Infarction Yuasa, Hisako Tsuji, Tadashi Hasegawa, Masahide Matsutani, Florence H. Sheehan, Claude Thery, Philippe Durand, Michel and Mitsuo Inada E. Bertrand, and Edward L. Bolson 535 559 impaired Hepatic Function Tests After Thrombolysis Effects of Nisoldipine on Myocardial Ischemia During for Acute Myocardial Infarction Exercise and During Daily Dov Freimark, Ron Leor, Hanoch Hod, Dan Elian, Elieser Dan Tzivoni, Shmuel Banai, Shulamit Botvin, Avraham Kaplinsky, and Babeth Rabinowitz Zilberman, Teddy A. Weiss, Alex Gavish, Aharon Medina, Jesaia Benhorin, Shlomo Rogel, Avraham Caspi, and Shlomo Stern CONTENTS INDEX 1481 616 Usefulness of Blood Lactate as a Predictor of Shock Clinical and Follow-Up Development in Infarction Zarko Mavrié, Luka Zaputovié, Davorka Zagar, Ante Matana, and Davor Smokvina Annette Geibel, Wolfgang Kasper, Nikolaus Reifart, Thomas Faber, and Hanjérg Just Long-Term Follow-Up of the First 56 Patients Treated MISCELLANEOUS with Intracoronary Self-Expanding Stents (The Lausanne Experience) 622 Jean-Jacques Goy, Ulrich Sigwart, Pierre Vogt, Jean- Effect of Heart Rate on Left Ventricular Diastolic Christophe Stauffer, Urs Kaufmann, Philippe Urban, and Transmitrai Flow Velocity Patterns Assessed by Lukas Kappenberger aphy in Normal Michael R. Harrison, G. Dennis Clifton, Andrew T. Pennell, 573 and Anthony N. DeMaria, with the technical assistance of Capabilities of Supine Exercise Electrocardiography Annette Cater Versus Exercise Radionuclide Angiography in Predicting Events 628 Robert D. Simari, Todd D. Miller, Alan R. Zinsmeister, and Effects of the Immunosuppressant Cyclosporine on the Raymond J. Gibbons Circulation of Heart Transplant Ri John P. Scott, Tim W. Higenbottam, John A. Hutter, Stephen ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES Large, and John Wallwork 578 633 Cardiac Arrest in Seattle: Conventional Versus Effects of Exercise Training on Amiodarone Drug Evaluation (The CASCADE Study) Function in Men and Women >60 Years of Age The CASCADE Investigators James A. Blumenthal, Charles F. Emery, David J. Madden, R. Edward Coleman, Margaret W. Riddle, Susan Schniebolk, SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION Frederick R. Cobb, Martin J. Sullivan, and Michael B. Higginbotham Relation of Cardiac Output at Rest and During Exercise a to Age in Essential Robert Fagard and Jan Staessen 641 A Plea for Two Actions That Need to be Taken Norman M. Kaplan Comparison of the Effects of Guanadrel Sulfate and Hypertension 643 Linda L. Darga, Mark J. Hakim, Charles P. Lucas, and Barry Is ST Elevation the Only A. Franklin Response of the Ischemic Right Ventricle? David W. Krueger, Douglass A. Morrison, J. Kern Buckner, Kathleen Kelley, and JoAnn Lindenfeld in Patients With and Without Increased Left Ventricular Mass Warren M. Breisblatt, Cynthia J. Wolf, Beverly McElhinny, Psychological Measures Rosemarie Salerni, and Vivienne E. Smith James H. McCroskery, Robert E. Schell, Robert P. Sprafkin, Larry J. Lantinga, Robert A. Warner, and Norma Hill CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE 647 Lidocaine Toxicity After Subcutaneous Infiltration in Abnormal Baroreflex Controi of Heart Rate in Children Undergoing Cardiac Decompensated Congestive Heart Failure and Reversal John M. Palmisano, Jon N. Meliones, Dennis C. Crowley, After Compensation Jean M. Martin, Kim H. Truman, Brad A. Krauzowicz, and José A. Marin-Neto, Antonio O. Pintya, Lourenco Gallo, Jr., Albert P. Rocchini and Benedito C. Maciel 648 VALVULAR HEART DISEASE indexing Repetitive to Single Ventricular Premature Complexes: A New Concept in Acute Drug Testing Kenneth M. Kessler, Agustin Castellanos, and Robert J. Myerburg Sharon C. Reimold, Ajit P. Yoganathan, H-W Sung, Lawrence H. Cohn, Martin G. St. John Sutton, and Richard T. Lee Seshadri Balaji, Michael Burch, and lan D. Sullivan 1482 THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY VOLUME 67 JUNE 15, 1991