The American Journal of Cardiology 1993: Vol 71 Table of Contents

29 Pages·1993·10 MB·English

JANUARY 1, 1993, THROUGH JUNE 15, 1993
JANUARY 1, 1993, VOL. 71, NO. 33
ProgVnaluoe sof tDobiutacmin e
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
1 Peter K. Mazeika, Aleksander Nadazdin, and Celia M.
Patency of the Infarct-Related Artery and Left Oakley
Ventricular Function as the Major Determinants
of Survival After Q-Wave Acute Myocardial ap
Infarction Prognostic Value of Noninvasive Cardiac Tests
Marcello Galvani, Filippo Ottani, Donatella Ferrini, in the Assessment of Patients with Peripheral
Francesco Sorbello, and Franco Rusticali Vascular Disease
Edward L. Rose, Xiu J. Liu, Michael Henley, John D.
Lewis, Edward B. Raftery, and Avijit Lahiri, with the
technical assistance of Usha Raval
Comparison in Acute Myocardial Infarction of
Anisoylated Plasminogen Streptokinase
Activator Complex Versus Heparin Evaluated
by Simultaneous Thallium-201/Technetium-99m
T
Thomas Krause, Wolfgang Kasper, Thomas Meinertz,
Markus Schnitzler, Hanjorg Just, Carl Schiimichen, and
Ernst Moser
Density Lipoprotein
i4
Hanna Bloomfield Rubins, Sander J. Robins, Marika K.
Blood Viscosity During Thrombolytic Therapy Iwane, William E. Boden, Marshall B. Elam, Carol L.
with Anistreplase in Acute Myocardial Fye, David J. Gordon, Ernst J. Schaefer, Gordon
Infarction Schectman, and Janet T. Wittes, for the Department of
Johannes J. M. L. Hoffmann, Johannes J. R. M. Veterans Affairs HIT Study Group
Bonnier, Paul G. Melman, and Ingrid Bartholomeus
19
Effects of Late (1 to 30 Days) Reperfusion
After Acute Myocardial Infarction on the
53
SignakAveraged Electrocardiogram
Comparison of Effects of Propranolol Versus
Michael Ragosta, Peter J. Sabia, Sanjiv Kaul, John P.
Pindolol on Sinus Rate and Pacing Frequency
DiMarco, Ian J. Sarembock, and Eric R. Powers
in Sick Sinus
S. Adam Strickberger, R. David Fish, Gervasio A.
Lamas, Catherine Cantillon, Satinder Bhatia, Noreen
McGowan, Elliott M. Antman, and Peter L. Friedman
57
Harry L. Hertzeanu, Joseph Shemesh, Leon A. Aron,
Morphologic
Anabela L. Aron, Edna Peleg, Talma Rosenthal,
Ventricular Tachycardia Detected During Holter
Michael Motro, and Jan J. Kellermann
Monitoring Associated with Atherosclerotic
Coronary Artery Disease
Pablo Denes
63
Delayed Restoration of Atrial Function After
Conversion of Atrial Flutter by Pacing or
David D. McPherson, Maryl R. Johnson, Steven M.
Electrical Cardioversion
Collins, Robert A. Kieso, Melvin L. Marcus, and Luc Jordaens, Luc Missault, Eric Germonpré, Benedict
Richard E. Kerber Callens, Luc Adang, Johan Vandenbogaerde, and Denis
L. Clement
CONTENTS INDEX 1531
99
Use of Multiple Patches During Implantation of Effect of Exercise Training on Left Ventricular
Defibrillator Systems Performance in Older Women Free of
Jeffrey M. Baerman, Bradford P. Blakeman, Brian Cardiopulmonary Disease
Olshansky, Douglas E. Kopp, John G. Kall, and David Robert J. Spina, Takeshi Ogawa, Tom R. Miller, Wendy
J. Wilber M. Kohrt, and Ali A. Ehsani
72
impaired Immediate Vasoconstrictor
Responses in Patients with Recurrent Neurally
Mediated
James F. Sneddon, Peter J. Counihan, Yaver Bashir,
Guy A. Haywood, David E. Ward, and A. John Camm
77 Mark R. Zenger, Matthew Brenner, Malcolm Haruno,
A Population-Based Estimate of Candidacy Donald Mahon, and Archie F Wilson
Rates for the implantable Cardioverter-
Defibrillator
Thomas E. Kottke, Marshall S. Stanton, Kent R. Bailey, CARDIOVASCULAR PHARMACOLOGY
Wyatt W. Decker, and Stephen C. Hammill
110
No Adaptation to Digitaliasz Eavatluiatoedn b y
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION
Thomas A. Schmidt, Paul D. Allen, Wilson S. Colucci,
Hypertension James D. Marsh, and Keld Kjeldsen
Ralph B. D’ Agostino, William B. Kannel, Miganush N.
Stepanians, and LeiLanie C. D’ Agostino
115
Prognostic Signifof iSilcenat Mnyoccaredia l
ischemia in Patients >61 Years of Age With
Effects of Cardiac Transplantation on ExtraIntecrnarl oar Cnommiona Calrot id
Endothelium-Dependent Dilation of the
Peripheral Vasculature in Congestive Heart
Failure Wilbert S. Aronow, Chul Ahn, Myron R. Schoenfeld,
Spencer H. Kubo, Thomas S. Rector, Alan J. Bank, Anthony D. Mercando, and Stanley Epstein
Linda K. Tschumperlin, Leopoldo Raij, Nancy
Brunsvold, and Mark D. Kraemer 117
Ventricular Fibrillation Markers on Admission
to the Hospital for Acute Myocardial Infarction
Miquel Fiol, Jaume Marrugat, Antonio Bayés, Jaume
Bergada, and Josep Guindo
Atrioventricular Conduction in Children of
119
Women with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
Elevated Circulating Levels of Beta 2-
Monica Martin Goble, Macdonald Dick II, W. Joseph
Microgiobulin in Patients with idiopathic
McCune, Janet Ellsworth, Donita B. Sullivan, and
Dilated Cardiomyopathy
Aaron M. Stern
Giinter Klappacher, Gerald Mundigler, Angelika
Papousek, Richard Pacher, Wolfgang Woloszczuk,
Robert Ullrich, Peter Buxbaum, and Dietmar Glogar
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122 157
Electrocardiographic Features of Atrial Comparison of ThrombToherlapyy tfori Accu te
Tachycardias After Operation for Congenital Myocardial Infarction in Patients Aged <35 and
Heart Disease >55 Years
Gabriele I. Miiller, Barbara J. Deal, Janette F. Lalit Chouhan, Hajar A. Hajar, and Juan Carlos
Strasburger, and D. Woodrow Benson, Jr. Pomposiello
160
Relation of Apolipoprotein E Phenotype to
Myocardial infarction and Mortality from
Books Published in 1992 Artery Disease
William C. Roberts June E. Eichner, Lewis H. Kuller, Trevor J. Orchard,
Gregory A. Grandits, Lisa M. McCallum, Robert E.
Ferrell, and James D. Neaton
JANUARY 15, 1993, VOL. 71, NO. 2
166
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Value of Rest Thallium-201/Technetium-99m
Sestamibi Scans and Dobutamine
Echocardiography for Detecting Myocardial
peer of Treatment Strategy on Predischarge Viability
Exercise Test in the Thrombolysisi n Paolo Marzullo, Oberdan Parodi, Barbara Reisenhofer,
Myocardial infarction (TIMI) ll Trial Gianmario Sambuceti, Eugenio Picano, Alessandro
Bernard R. Chaitman, Robert P. McMahon, Michael Distante, Alessia Gimelli, and Antonio L’ Abbate
Terrin, Liwa T. Younis, Leslee J. Shaw, Donald A.
Weiner, Margaret M. Frederick, Genell L. Knatterud, 173
George Sopko, and Eugene Braunwald, for the TIMI UnrecLeoft gMainn Cioroznarey Adrte ry
Investigators Disease in Patients Undergoing Interventional
Procedures
139 James B. Hermiller, Christopher E. Buller, Alan N.
Transient Myocardial Ischemia After a First Tenaglia, Katherine B. Kisslo, Harry R. Phillips,
Acute Myocardial infarction and Its Relation to Thomas M. Bashore, Richard S. Stack, and Charles J.
Clinical Characteristics, Predischarge Exercise Davidson
Testing and Cardiac Events at One-Year Follow-
Hans Mickley, Peter Pless, Jens R. Nielsen, Jens Transient MyocaIrschdemiia aDulri ng
Berning, and Mogens Moller Nifedipine Therapy in Stable Angina Pectoris,
and Its Relation to Coronary Collateral Flow
145 and Compawrithi Msetooprnolo l
Continuously Updated 12-Lead ST-Segment Kenneth Egstrup and Poul Erik Andersen, Jr.
Recovery Analysis for Myocardial Infarct
Artery Patency Assessment and Its Correlation 184
with Multiple Simultaneous Early Angiographic Compof aTwo rMecihaniscal oUltnraso und
Observations Devices With and Without Echogenic Contrast
Mitchell W. Krucoff, Martha A. Croll, James E. Pope, Dye
Karen S. Pieper, Prapti M. Kanani, Christopher B. Karl M. Schmid, Jiirgen Mewald, Wolfram Voelker,
Granger, Rolf F. Veldkamp, Beverly L. Wagner, Sharon Hans-Jorg Paul, Manfred Wehrmann, Burkhart
T. Sawchak, and Robert M. Califf Biiltmann, and Karl R. Karsch
ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION
DISTURBANCES
192
Solomon Behar, Henrietta Reicher-Reiss, Michael Left Atrial Appendage Flow Velocity
Shechter, Babeth Rabinowitz, Elieser Kaplinsky, Assessment Using Transesophageal
Edward Abinader, Jacob Agmon, Yaacov Friedman, in Nonrheumatic Atrial
Jacob Barzilai, Nissim Kauli, Yehezkiel Kishon, Fibrillation and Systemic Embolism
Abraham Palant, Benyamin Peled, Leonardo Reisin, Patrick M. J. Verhorst, Otto Kamp, Cees A. Visser, and
Zwi Schlesinger, Izhar Zahavi, Monty Zion, and Uri Freek W. A. Verheugt
Goldbourt, for the SPRINT Study Group
CONTENTS INDEX 1533
197 MISCELLANEOUS
Compof aBiphrasiic asnd Moononphas ic
Shocks for DefibrillaUtsiinogn a 237
Nonthoracotomy System Effects of Successful Cardiac Transplantation
D. George Wyse, Katherine M. Kavanagh, Anne M. on Plasma Endothelin
Gillis, L. Brent Mitchell, Henry J. Duff, Robert S. Garrie J. Haas, Margaret Wooding-Scott, Philip F.
Sheldon, Teresa M. Kieser, Andrew Maitland, Patricia Binkley, P. David Myerowitz, Robert Kelley, and Robert
Flanagan, John Rothschild, and Rahul Mehra J. Cody
241
Effects of Intravenous Milrinone on Left Gender Independence of
Ventricular Function in Ischemic and Idiopathic Electrocardiographic
Dilated Perioperative Cardiac Risk
Stephen J. D. Brecker, Han B. Xiao, Mouanodji Lee A. Fleisher, Stanley H. Rosenbaum, Ann H.
Mbaissouroum, and Derek G. Gibson Nelson, and Lynda E. Rosenfeld
242
Acute Pulmonary Edema After Tityus
Serrulatus Scorpion Sting in Children
210 Carlos Faria Santos Amaral, Nilton Alves de Rezende,
Compaof rTrainstshoraocicn a nd and Lineu Freire-Maia
for
Detection of Abnormaofl Pirostthietiec san d 245
BioprValovess int thhe Mietratl aind cAort ic Effects of Coronary Angioplasty Using
Positions Progressive Dilation on Ostial Stenosis of the
Wemer G. Daniel, Andreas Miigge, Jochen Grote, Dirk Left Anterior Descending
Hausmann, Peter Nikutta, Joachim Laas, Paul R. Renee Brown, Gurpreet Kochar, Alan R. Maniet, and
Lichtlen, and Randolph P. Martin Vidya S. Banka
217 248
Color Doppler Echocardiographic Determination Effects of Adenosine on Atrial Repolarization
of Mitral Flow from the Proximal in the Transplanted Human Heart
Velocity Profile of the Flow Convergence Sean O’Nunain, Stephen Jennison, Yaver Bashir,
Clifford Garratt, William McKenna, and A. John Camm
Martin Giesler, Georg Grossmann, Arnold Schmidt,
Matthias Kochs, Joachim Langhans, Martin Stauch, and 251
Vinzenz Hombach Atrial Flutter Causes Pseudo Late Potentials
on Signal-Averaged
Kostas A. Gatzoulis, Lee A. Biblo, Albert L. Waldo,
for Determination of Normal and Mark D. Carlson
and Abnormal Function in Mechanical Heart
Valves 254
Werner Vogel, Hans Peter Stoll, Wolfgang Bay, Gerd Signal-Averaged Electrocardiography in
Frohlig, and Hermann Schieffer Asymptomatic Alcoholics
Pekka Koskinen and Markku Kupari
Balloon Mitral Commissuroint Poatmieynt s READERS’ COMMENTS
Ag>e70 dYea rs
Claude Le Feuvre, Raoul Bonan, Marie-Laure Lachurie, 256
Yves Leclerc, Robert Petitclerc, Ihor Dyrda, and
Balloon Angioof pAorltica Rescoatrctyati on
Jacques Crépeau P. Syamasundar Rao
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281
Effectiveness of Vasoconstriction After Q-Wave
Acute Infarction
Joseph G. Motwani, Michael K. Fenwick, Howard M.
McAlpine, Norman Kennedy, and Allan D. Struthers
287
Richard B. Neches and Andrew M. Goldfarb Physiologic Responses to Weight Lifting in
Patients with Artery Disease
JANUARY 21, 1993, VOL 71, NO. 3 Joseph F. Featherstone, Robert G. Holly, and Ezra A.
Amsterdam
THERAPY IN CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
FEB1R, 19U93, AVOLR. 71Y, NO . 4
Angioplasty
Harvey S. Hecht, Larry DeBord, Richard Shaw, Robert
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Dunlap, Colman Ryan, Simon H. Stertzer, and Richard
K. Myler
259
Reducing Lengths of Stay for Patients
ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION
DISTURBANCES
Scott Weingarten, Lynne Agocs, Nancy Tankel, Alex
Sheng, and A. Gray Ellrodt
297
A Shared Pathway in Atrioventricular Nodal
Psychosocial Predictors of Mortality in the Reentrant Tachycardia and Atrial Flutter:
Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Triak1
(CAST-1) Alberto Interian, Jr., Marilyn M. Cox, Raul A. Jimenez,
Larry Gorkin, Eleanor B. Schron, Maria Mori Brooks, Aurelio Duran, Ester Levin, Orlando Garcia, Deborah
Ingela Wiklund, Joy Kellen, Joel Verter, James A. K. Cooper, Agustin Castellanos, and Robert J.
Schoenberger, Yudi Pawitan, Mary Morris, and Sally Myerburg
Shumaker, for the CAST Investigators
304
Immediate Reproducibility of the Tilt-Table Test
A Community-Wide Perspective of Gender in Adults with Unexplained Syncope
Differences and Temporal Trends in the Use of Michael de Buitleir, E.W ayne Grogan, Jr., Mark F.
Diagnostic and Revascularization Procedures Picone, and John A. Casteen
Infarction
David E. Chiriboga, Jorge Yarzebski, Robert J.
SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION
Goldberg, Zuoyao Chen, Jerry Gurwitz, Joel M. Gore,
Joseph S. Alpert, and James E. Dalen
308
Congestive Heart Failure from Left Ventricular
274
Diastolic Dysfunction in Systemic
Comparison of Results of Intravenous Infusion
of AnistVersrus eStrpeptolkinaase sine Acu te
ial Infarcti Miguel Iriarte, Nekane Murga, Domingo Sagastagoitia,
Enrique Molinero, Miren Morillas, Alberto Salcedo,
Pierre Vogt, Patrick Monnier, Marie-D. Schaller, Jean-J.
Pedro Estella, and Jon Etxebesie
Goy, Philippe Beuret, Axel Essinger, Fédor Bachmann,
Jacques Hauert, Claude Perret, Ulrich Sigwart, and
Lukas Kappenberger
CONTENTS INDEX 1535
a4
improved identification of Late Potentials by
313 pete ana of the Number of Analyzed
Effects on Left Ventricular Function of Pindolol Segments of the Spectral Temporal Mapping of
Added to Veraipn aHypmeritrolphi c the Electrocardiogram
Piotr Kulakowski, Marek Malik, Yaver Bashir, Spencer
Pawel Petkow Dimitrow and Jacek Stefan Dubiel Heald, Thomas Farrell, and A. John Camm
346
immediate Normalization of Profound Sinus
Node Dysfunction by Aminophyiline After
Cardiac Transplantation
Gottfried Heinz, Christoph Kratochwill, Peter Buxbaum,
Giinther Laufer, Gerhard Kreiner, Peter Siostrzonek,
Slobodan Gasic, Kurt Derfler, and Heinz Géssinger
Guy Vaksmann, Maryam El Kohen, Dominique
349
Lacroix, Salem Kacet, Georges-Marie Breviére,
Optimal Defibrillator Patch Configurations
Christian Rey, and Claude Dupuis
Include the Right Side of the Heart and Left
Ventricle
322
Mark Tedder, J. Marcus Wharton, Mark P. Anstadt,
Rapidity of of Aortic Stenosis in
Amiran Sh. Revishvili, Sanjay S. Hegde, and James E.
Patients with Congenital Bicuspid Aortic
Lowe
Valves
Shintaro Beppu, Shin Suzuki, Hisao Matsuda, Fumio
350
Ohmori, Seiki Nagata, and Kunio Miyatake
pe sono f Systemic Arterial Blood Pressure
Factors on the Brachial
tutuny Peteattir index in Mild to Moderate
Essential Hypertension
328 Daniel A. Duprez, Marc L. De Buyzere, Tine
ComplAsisocciataed twitih Poercnutasneo us De Backer, Jean M. Kaufman, Marie J. Van Hoecke,
Placement and Use of IntraaorBtaliloco n Alex Vermeulen, and Denis L. Cernent
Helene Eltchaninoff, Alexios P. Dimas, and Patrick L. 353
Whitlow Initial Outcome of Percutaneous Balloon
Valvuloplasty in Rheumatic Tricuspid Valve
333 Stenosis
Persistence of Coronary Vasodilator Luis Calvo Orbe, Nicolas Sobrino, Ramon Arcas,
After Cardiac T Rafael Peinado, Araceli Frutos, Jose Rico Blazquez,
Martha J. Senneff, Judy Hartman, Burton E. Sobel, Isabel Maté, and Jose Antonio Sobrino
Edward M. Geitman, and Steven R. Bergmann
355
Element Structure in Stenotic Mitral Valves
Iiker Durak, Omer Akyol, Mehmet Ugur Es, Orhan
Canbolat, and Mustafa Akpoyraz
339
Criteria for Adoption in Practice of Medical 355
Practice Guidelines Are Hepatic Pulsations in Dilated
HarP.r Seylk er
Cardiomyopathy with Heart Failure Due to
Tricuspid Regurgitation?
Zion Sasson and Milan K. Gupta
358
A42
initial Experience and Potential Applications of
Safety and Efficacy of Pentoxifylline in Stable
Multiplane T
Angina Pectoris
Werner G. Daniel, Alan S. Pearlman, Dirk Hausmann,
William E. Strauss and Alfred FE. Parisi
Klaus Bargheer, Andreas Miigge, Barbara Nonnast-
Daniel, and Paul R. Lichtlen
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361 382
Effects of Nitroglycerin on Platelet Results of Percutaneous Transluminal
Aggregation Beyond the Effects of Coronary Angioplasty of Either the Left
Acetyisalicylic Acid in Healthy Subjects Anterior Descending or Left Circumfiex
Karl-Erik Karlberg, Johan Ahiner, Peter Henriksson, Coronary Artery in Patients with Chronic Total
Kristina Torfgard, and Christer Sylvén Occlusion of the Right Coronary Artery
Philippe Buffet, Nicolas Danchin, Marie-O. Marc, Luc
Feldmann, Yves Juilliere, Joseph Anconina, Christine
Manaof Rgesteenosims Wiethin nthet Paim az- Selton-Suty, Pierre-Y. Marie, and Francois Cherrier
Schatz Coronary Stent (The U.S. Multicenter
Experience )
Donald S. Baim, Marc J. Levine, Martin B. Leon, Sally
Levine, Steven G. Ellis, and Richard A. Schatz, for the
U.S. Palmaz-Schatz Stent Investigators
367 John M. Kalbfleisch, Peter B. Kurnik, Udho Thadani,
Usefuof lTrannseesosphasgea l Marcus A. DeWood, Richard Kent, Raymond D.
Echocardiino tghe rDiaagpnoshisy of Magorien, Abnash C. Jain, Leo J. Spaccavento, D.
Ventricular Septal Rupture Secondary to Acute Lynn Morris, George J. Taylor, James M. Perry,
Myocardial Infarction Michael A. Kutcher, H. Joel Gorfinkel, and Judith K.
Raj S. Ballal, Rajat S. Sanyal, Navin C. Nanda, and LittleJohn for the Burroughs Wellcome Study Group
Edward F. Mahan III
393
371 Design and Baseline Results of the
Sinus Node DeceleDurringa Etxericiose nas a Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study of
Marker of Significant Narrowing of the Right Patients with Stable Angina and/or Previous
Coronary Artery Myocardial Infarction
Todd D. Miller, Raymond J. Gibbons, Ray W. Squires, The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group
Thomas G. Allison, and Gerald T. Gau
401
READERS’ COMMENTS
Detection of Viable Tissue in Healed infarcted
Myocardium by Dipyridamole—Thallium-201
374
Prospects for Prevention of Sudden Coronary
John Lekakis, Nikos Vassilopoulos, John Germanidis,
Death
Athan Theodorakos, John Nanas, Panos Kostamis, and
Mudr Z. Fejfar and M. Vrana
Spyridon Moulopoulos
375
Effect of Coronary Stenosis Severity on
Variability of Quantitative Angiography ARRHYTHMIAS AND CONDUCTION
Daniel M. Lane DISTURBANCES
405
FEBRUARY 15, 1993, VOL. 71, NO. 5 Comparison of the Electrophysiologic Effects
of Oral Sustained-Release and intravenous
CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE Verapamil in Patients with Paroxysmal
icular Ti
377 Wen-Ter Lai, Wen-Chol Voon, Hsiuh-Wei Yen, Jyh-
Primary Coronary Angioplasty for Acute Shyan Chang, Sheng-Hsiung Sheu, Yeo-Shin Hwang,
Myocardial infarction with Contraindication to and Hui-Fen Chiu
Thrombolysis
Dominique Himbert, Jean-Michel Juliard, P. Gabriel
Steg, Georges Badaoui, Serge Baleynaud, Dominique
Le Guludec, Marie-Claude Aumont, and René Gourgon
CONTENTS INDEX 1537
a4
Screening for Latent Coronary Artery Disease
by FluorDetoectsionc ofo Caplciuim icn t he
Comparison of Left Ventricular Function in Coronary Arteries
Insulin- and Non-insulin-Dependent Diabetes Robert D. Rifkin and Barry F. Uretsky
Mellitus
Sergio Ferraro, Pasquale Perrone-Filardi, Giovanni
Maddalena, Alfonso Desiderio, Enrico Gravina, 436
Salvatore Turco, and Massimo Chiariello Rotational Coronary Atherectomy of Ostial
Stenoses
METHODS
Jeffrey J. Popma, Walter C. Brogan II, Augusto D.
Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, Gary S.
415
Mintz, and Martin B. Leon
Is Atrial Pacing Needed for Determinatioonf
Coronary Flow Reserve by Parametric
imaging?
Giuseppe Vassalli, Otto M. Hess, Otto N. Krogmann,
Erwin Oechslin, Joerg Grimm, Zhihua Jiang, and Hans
P. Krayenbuehl
Steven P. Friedrich, Stacy F Davis, Richard E. Kuntz,
Joseph P. Carrozza, Jr., and Donald S. Baim
2
Differences in Norepinephrine Levels in
Different Vascular Beds in Congestive Heart
Failure
Eric J. Eichhorn, Barbara A. Hatfield, and Lucille
Marcoux
Charles R. Lambert, Timothy Grady, Wail Hashimi,
Mike Blakely, and Hercules Panayioutou
EDITORIALS
424
Strokes, Statistics and Sophistry in Trials of Sharon B. Willoughby, David Vlahov, and Ahvie
Thrombolysis for Acute Infarction Herskowitz
Burton E. Sobel and Désiré Collen
448
Endothelin-1 in Primary Pulmonary
jon and the
428 Patrice Cacoub, Richard Dorent, Geneviéve Maistre,
Comparison of Thrombolysis in Patrick Nataf, Alain Carayon, Jean Charles Piette,
Infarction Perfusion Grades 2 and 3 After Pierre Godeau, Christian Cabrol, and Iradj Gandjbakhch
Anterior Wall infarction
Masaharu Ishihara, Hikaru Sato, Hironobu Tateishi,
Takuji Kawagoe, Yuji Muraoka, and Mitsuisa
Yoshimura
is the Power Spectrum of the QRS Complex
Related to a Fractal His-Purkinje System?
Ronald D. Berger, David S. Rosenbaum, and Richard J. Major Douglas G. Ebersole, Lieutenant Colonel James
Cohen Heironimus, Lieutenant Colonel M. O. Toney, and
Colonel Jerome Billingsley
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The Onset of SymptoAtmriaal Ftibriillcati on
and Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia
is Characbyt Deiffrereint zCiercaddi an Systolic Dysfunction
Rhythms Shih-Ann Chen, Chin-Juey Yang, Chern-En Chiang,
Carlo Rostagno, Tamara Taddei, Barbara Paladini, Chuen-Wang Chiou, Chen-Chuen Cheng, Chih-Ping
Pietro Amedeo Modesti, Paolo Utari, and Giovanni Hsia, Wing-Ping Tsang, Der-Chih Wang, Chih-Tai
Bertini Ting, Shih-Pu Wang, Benjamin N. Chiang, and Mau-
Song Chang
MorpPathternos iln Paotiengts iUndecrgo ing 473
ReopAfteer rRepaair otf Rhieumaoticn Mit ral Evaluation of Possible Long-Term Adverse
Conseof qRaduiofreequnencyc Aeblatsion of
Edward Turner, Thomas Wisenbaugh, Vania Sinovich, Accessory Pathways
Stephanus Cronje, and Pinhas Sareli S. Adam Strickberger, Kaoru Okishige, Michael
Meyerovitz, Julie Shea, and Peter L. Friedman
Prevalence of Mitral Valve Prolapse in Morbid 475
Obesity
Martin A. Alpert, Boyd E. Terry, Diana L. Kelly, Clara
V. Massey, and Vaskar Mukerji
Stefan H. Hohnloser, Markus Zabel, Hanjoerg Just, and
Ernst A. Raeder
CASE REPORTS
Gerd Hausdorf, Martin Schneider, Karl R. Schirmer,
1
Ingram Schulze-Neick, and Peter E. Lange
479
Prolonged Survival (74 Years) in Unoperated
Tetralogy of Fallot with Associated Mitral Valve
Accurate Deteocf tEleivatoed nLe ft
Prolapse
Ventricular Filling Pressure by a Simplified
Daniel J. Fernicola, Victor R. Boodhoo, and William C.
Bedside Application of the Valsalva Maneuver
Roberts
David E. Schmidt and Prediman K. Shah
483
Combined Treatment of Mitral Regurgitation
and Atrial Fibrillation with Valvuloplasty and
the Maze Procedure
Patrick M. McCarthy, Delos M. Cosgrove III, Lon W.
Akira Masui, Hisako Tsuji, Koji Tamura, Tetsuro
Castle, Richard D. White, and Allan L. Klein
Sugiura, Yumie Matsui, Toshiji Iwasaka, and Mitsuo
Inada
486
Amounts of Coronary Arterial Luminal
467
Narrowing and Composition of the Material
Alcoholic Beverage Choice and Risk of
Causing the Narrowing in Buerger’s Disease
Coronary Artery Disease Mortality: Do Red
Gisela C. Mautner, Susanne L. Mautner, Fengru Lin,
Wine Drinkers Fare Best?
Gary M. Roggin, and William C. Roberts
Arthur L. Klatsky and Mary Anne Armstrong
490
Granular Cell Tumor of the Sinus Node
On the Value of the Activated Clotting Time
Jining Wang, Amy H. Kragel, Edward R. Friedlander,
for MoniHetparion Trheriapy ning Acu te
and Jackie T. Cheng
b)
Giovanni Melandri, Angelo Branzi, Anna Maria Traini,
Franco Semprini, Vittorio Cervi, and Bruno Magnani
CONTENTS INDEX 1539
READERS’ COMMENTS Some Consideonr Raevetrsiibloe nDilsat ed
Cardiomyopathy Due to Thyrotoxicosis
493 J. A. Ortiz De Murua, F. J. Del Caiiizo, F Del Campo,
Anterior-inferior Myocardial infarction and M. C. Avila
David H. Spodick
Reversible Cardiomyopathy Due to
Contusion During Boxing Thyrotoxicosis
Jean-Pierre Cousteau Régis N. Sachs and Paul Valensi
Antihypertensives and Glucose Intolerance Death in Opera and Hereditary Prolongation of
Bassem Ibrahim the QT Interval
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