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Noninvasive diagnosis of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm. 372 Two dimensional echocardiographic recognition of the descending thoracic aorta, 232 Angina pectoris Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Assessment of medical therapy of angina pectoris (LE), 771 Clinical, hem~ynamic and metabolic responses during pacing in the supine and sitting postures in patients with angina pectoris. 249 Effect of coronary arterial bypass surgery on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized study, 1056 Effect of sublingual nitroglycerin on left ventricular function at rest and during spontaneous angina pectoris: assessment with a radionuclide approach, 1365 Effects of nifedipine after intravenous and intracoronary administration, 832 Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis: evaluation of angina1 symptoms with thallium-201 myocardial imaging, 1040 inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction in patients with coronary artery disease: a role for nifedipine? 793 Management of vasospastic angina at rest with continuous infusion of isosorbide dinitrate, 533 Mechanism of relief of angina after coronary bypass surgery, 202 Nifedipine in the treatment of Prinzmeiaf’s (variant) angina, 804 Nifedipine in variant angina and role of spasm in ischemic heart disease, 842 Nifedipine therapy for refractory coronary arterial spasm, 798 Nifedipine therapy for stable angina pectoris: preliminary results of effects on angina frequency and treadmill exercise response, 811 Propranolol in angina pectoris: duration of improved exercise tolerance and circulatory effects after acute oral administration, 118 Psychosocial status of patients randomly assigned to medical or surgical therapy for chronic stable angina, 546 Significance of spasm in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, 788 Unstable angina pectoris: a comparison of the costs of medical and surgical treatment, 112 Angiocardiography Assessment of early ventricular systole by first pass radionuclide angiography: useful method for detection of left ventricular dysfunction at rest in

Acebuiolol Effective treatment of supraveniricular arrhythmias with acebutolol, 521 Aciin Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 Adenosine iriphosphatase Functional significance of altered myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity in enlarged hearts, 947 ‘Adenosine iriphosphaie Oxygen deprivation and early myocardial contractile failure: a reassessment of the possible role of adenosine triphosphate, 1118 Aldosierone Renin, aidosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure. 1013 Alpha meihyldopa Effects of antihypertensive therapy on cardiovascular response to exercise, 325 American College of Cardiology Announcement of Affiliate in Training membership, 194. 400 Calendar of extramural programs, 192, 398, 583. 776, 1034A, 1221. 1417 Learning center: program calendar, 193, 399,584, 777, 10348, 1222, 1418 New college members, 396 President’s page: how to persuade the U.S. congress to appropriate more money for heart research, 395 President’s page: on mandatory and nonmanda~ory continuing medical education, 1415 President’s page: should we reduce cardiovascular training programs? 1219 President’s page: the ambience of Heart House, 774 Amyloidosis Increased right ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography in amyloid infiltrative cardiomyopathy, 1391 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Aneurysmeciomy Surgery for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 117 1 Aneurysms Bilateral cardiac myxomas and peripheral myxomas in a patient with recent myocardial infarction, 767 Dissecting aortic aneurysm involving a right-sided aortic arch, 381 Fever as a manifestation of dissecting aneurysm of aorta (LE), 581 Management of intractable ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardial infarction, 329 Massive coronary arterial aneurysm, 184

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patients with coronary artery disease, 459 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Effects of coronary bypass grafting on resting left ventricular contraction in patients studied 1 to 2 years after operation, 601 Hypertrophic nonobstructive ~rdiomyopathy with giant negative T waves (apical hypertrophy): ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients, 40 1 Jnnominate arterial arteriovenous fistula compli~ting retrograde brachial arterial catheterization, 566 Left bundle branch block: angiographic segmental wall motion abnormalities, 1046 Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transposition of the great arteries: an angiographic study of 74 cases, 88 Mechanism of relief of angina after coronary bypass surgery, 202 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes after exercise and coronary angiographic findings, 1068 Selective coronary arteriography in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, 1201 Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 17 1 Aniiarrhythmic therapy Clinical electrophysiologic effects of encainide. a newly developed antiarrhythmic agent, 526 Effective treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias with acebutotof. 521 junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: electrocardiography. electrophysiology and pharmacologic response, 298__ Polymorphous ventricular tachycardia: clinical features and treatment, 339 Suppression of ventricular arrhythmias with intravenous disopyramide and lidocaine: efficacy comparison in a randomized trial, 513 Antibiotic therapy Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations, 754 Anticoagulation Occult thyrotoxicosis: a correctable cause of “idiopathic” atrial fibrillation, 9 Antihypertensive therapy Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Collagen synthesis in development and reversal of cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 954

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Effects of antihypertensive therapy on cardiovascular response to exercise, 325 Systolic hypertension: hemodynamic mechanism and choice of antihypertensive treatment, 505 Aorta, descending Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arteriovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Aorta, thoracic Positive feedback sympathetic reflexes and hypertension, 860 Two dimensional echocardiographic recognition of the descending thoracic aorta, 232 Aortic arch Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101 Dissecting aortic aneurysm involving a right-sided aortic arch, 381 Aortic coarctation Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101 Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687 Aortic regurgitation An annotation on the pulse in aortic regurgitation: Thomas Cuming, 1822, 370 Hemodynamic evaluation of the Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis in the aortic position, 209 Left ventricular function at rest and during exercise after aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation, 1297 Serial noninvasive assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy and function after surgical correction of aortic regurgitation, 585 Aortic stenosis Changes in arterial pressure during left heart pullback in patients with aortic stenosis: a sign of severe aortic stenosis, 424 Computerized echocardiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular functicn in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Echocardiographic screening to assess the severity of congenital aortic valve stenosis in children, 82 Hemodynamic evaluation of the Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis in the aortic position, 209 Mechanism of nitroglycerin effect in valvular aortic stenosis, 1371 Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole. 1318 The metabolic demand and oxygen supply of the heart: physiologic and clinical considerations, 722 Aoexcardioaram Calibration of left ventricular apexcardiogram (LE), 1412 Arrhythmias Coexistence of ventricular parasystole and ventricular couplets: mechanism and clinical significance, 435 Effective treatment of supraventricular arrhythmias with acebutolol, 521 Effect of coronary arterial bypass surgery on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized study, 1056

Autonomic nervous system Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome neonate (LE), 576

Incidence, determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the atrioventricular node. evidence for retrograde atrioventricular nodal bypass tracts, 1089 lnteratrial conduction (activation) times, 442 Limitations of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in predicting coronary events after acute myocardial infarction, 1257 Suppression of ventricular arrhythmias with intravenous disopyramide and lidocaine: efficacy comparison in a randomized trial, 513 Surgery for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias. 1171 Arteries Innominate arterial arteriovenous fistula complicating retrograde brachial arterial catheterization, 566

Bacterial vegetations Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations, 754 Baroreceptors Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Beta adrenergic blockade Comparative effects of cardioselective versus noncardioselective beta blockade on subendocardial blood flow and contractile function in ischemic myocardium, 657 Beta adrenergic blocking agents Hemodynamic effects of intravenous metoprolol. 1195 Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Bevantolol Comparative effects of cardioselective versus noncardioselective beta blockade on subendocardial blood flow and contractile function in ischemic myocardium, 657 Birth Peripartum death in Eisenmenger’s syndrome (LE), 577 Blood flow Comparative effects of cardioselective versus noncardioselective beta blockade on subendocardial blood flow and contractile function in ischemic myocardium, 657 Effects of cardiac hypertrophy secondary to hypertension on the coronary circulation. 1023 Effects of exercise on blood flow in the hypertrophied heart, 1029 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747

Arteriography See Angiocardiography Asphyxia neonatorum Prenatal closure of the foramen ovale in complete transposition of great vessels, 563 Asystole Experimental studies on the pathogenesis of asystole after verapamil in the dog, 651 Atherosclerosis See also Coronary artery disease Atherosclerosis of the left main coronary artery: 5 year results of surgical treatment, 195 Athlete Noninvasive evaluation of the athletic heart: sprinters versus endurance runners, 24 Atria Two dimensional echocardiography in differentiating right atrial and tricuspid valve mass lesions, 1207 Atrial fibrillation Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Occult thyrotoxicosis: a correctable cause of “idiopathic” atrial fibrillation, 9 Atrial septal defects Absence of paradoxical pulse in patients with cardiac tamponade and atrial septal defects, 378 Atrioventricular node Incidence, determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the atrioventricular node. evidence for retrograde atrioventricular nodal bypass tracts, 1089 Atrioventricular valves Positional abnormalities of atrioventricular valves in transposition of the great arteries including double outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular valve straddling and malattachment, 1135 Straddling and overriding atrioventricular valves: morphology and classification, 1122 Atropine Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive cardiomyopathy. 7 14 Automaticity Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity, 1

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Blood pressure Changes in arterial pressure during left heart pullback in patients with aortic stenosis: a sign of severe aortic stenosis, 424 Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895 Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Hypovolemia and hypotension complicating management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, 1349 Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Is arterial pressure the sole factor responsible for hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy? 959 Noninvasive measurement of ventricular pressure throughout systole, 466 Books received Books received, 192 Bundle branch block Analysis of exercise-induced R wave amplitude changes in detection of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic men with left bundle branch block, 1247 Left bundle branch block: angiographic segmental wall motion abnormalities, 1046

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Calcification Coronary calcification in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 141 Submitral calcification or sclerosis in elderly patients: M mode and two dimensional echocardiography in “mitral anutus calcification”, 31 Calcium See also Symposium on Nifedipine and Calcium Flux inhibition in Treatment of Coronary Spasm and Myocardial lschemia Cellular calcium and cardiac cell death, 188 Q-aT, interval as a clinical indicator of hypercalcemia, 243 Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 Significance of complete left bundle branch block with left axis deviation, 239 Captopril Renin. aldosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Cardiac arrest Resting peripheral blood lactate elevation in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: correlation with hemodynamic. electrophysiologic and oxyhemoglobin dissociation indexes. 1276 Cardiac catheterization Changes in arterial pressure during leit heart pullback in patients with aortic stenosis: a sign of sev*re aortic stenosis, 424 lnnominate arterial arteriovenous fistula complicating retrograde brachial arterial catheterization, 566 Retrograde left ventricular catheterizatton in patients with a Bjork-Shiley valve prosthesis (LE), 578 Value and safety of cardiac catheterization during active infective endocarditis, 1306 Cardiac conduction Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity, 1 Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block, 638 Experimental studies on the pathogenesis of asystole after verapamil in the dog, 651 Fine structure of cells and their histologic organization within internodal pathways of the heart: clinical and electrocardiographic implications, 345 Fine structure of internodal pathways, 385 Histopathologic correlates of left posterior fascicular block, 1083 Incessant atrial tachycardia in childhood: association with rate-dependent conduction in an accessory atrioventricular pathway, 498

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Incessant atrioventricular tachycardia involving an accessory pathway: preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic studies and surgical correction, 428 Incidence, determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the atrioventricular node. evidence for retrograde atrioventricular nodal bypass tracts, 1089 lnteratrial conduction (activation) times, 442 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Left anterior fascicular block: electrocardiographic criteria for its recognition in the presence of inferior myocardial infarction, 645 Left bundle branch block: angiographic segmental wall motion abnormalities, 1046 Multiple reentrant tachycardias due to retrograde conduction of dual atrioventricular bundles with atrioventricular nodal-like properties, 162 Reciprocal tachycardias using accessory pathways with long conduction time, 1099 Significance of complete left bundle branch block with left axis deviation, 239 Straddling and overriding atrioventricular valves: morphology and classification, 1122 Cardiac conduction system Cardiac conduction system in hemochromatosis: clinical and pathologic features of six patients, 418 Clinical electrophysiologic effects of encainide, a newly developed antiarrhythmic agent, 526 Cardiac perforation intracardiac electrocardiography during permanent pacemaker implantation: predictors of cardiac perforation, 225 Cardiac receptors Cardiac receptors: normal and disturbed function, 873 Cardiac reflexes in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats, 884 Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895 Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Reflex control of the heart, 889 Cardiac tamponade Absence of paradoxical pulse in patients with cardiac tamponade and atrial septal defects, 378 Cardiac transplantation Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 171 Cardiokymography Assessment of the functional significance of coronary artery disease with atrial pacing and cardiokymography, 1283 Cardiomyopathy Echocardiogram in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (LE), 580 Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in children with congestive cardiomyopathy, 1332 Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive

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cardiomyopathy, 7 14 Exercise performance after septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 215 Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves (apical hypertrophy): ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients, 401 Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis: evaluation of angina1 symptoms with thallium-201 myocardial imaging, 1040 Increased right ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography in amyloid infiltrative cardiomyopathy, 1391 Mitral anular calcification and idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (LE), 579 Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 569 Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole, 1318 Carotid sinus Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895 Catecholamines Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Ceils Cardiac hypertrophy: its characteristics as a growth process, 941 ‘Cellular calcium and cardiac cell death, 188 Fine structure of cells and their histologic organization within internodal pathways of the heart: clinical and electrocardiographic implications, 345 Fine structure of internodal pathways, 385 Functional significance of altered myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity in enlarged hearts, 947 Morphometry of cardiac hypertrophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 919 Oxygen deprivation and early myocardial contractile failure: a reassessment of the possible role of adenosine triphosphate. 1115 Temporal relation between onset Of Celf anoxia and ischemic contractile failure, 741 Central nervous system Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Chemoreceptors Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex. 852 Chromatography Sensitivity and specificity of MB creatine kinase activity determined with column chromatography. 67 Serum myocardial creatine kinase (CK-MB) after coronary arterial bypass surgery, 679 Circulation Effects of cardiac hypertrophy secondary to hypertension on the coronary circulation, 1023

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Collagen Collagen synthesis in development and reversal of cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 954 Computers Assessment of drug intervention on the ischemic myocardium: serial imaging and measurement with computerized tomography, 46 Congenital heart defects Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101 Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687 Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arteriovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Dissecting aortic aneurysm involving a right-sided aortic arch, 381 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Echocardiographic findings in patients with left superior vena cava and dilated coronary sinus, 158 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Echocardiographic screening to assess the severity of congenital aortic valve stenosis in children, 82 Endocardial cushion defect associated with car triatriatum sinistrum or supravalve mitral ring, 1339 Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transposition of the great arteries: an angiographic study of 74 cases, 88 Peripartum death in Eisenmenger’s syndrome (LE), 577 Positional abnormalities of atrioventricular valves in transposition of the great arteries including double outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular valve straddling and malattachment. 1135 Prenatal closure of the foramen ovale in complete transposition of great vessels, 563 Prognosis for the newborn with transposition of the great arteries, 96 Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic detection of total anomalous pulmonary venous return: resolution of left atrial line, 1155 Quantitative analysis of postoperative changes in the pulmonary vasculature of patients with complete transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary hypertension, 284 Right and left ventricular function after the Mustard procedure in transposition of the great arteries, 276 Role of prostaglandin El infusion in the management of transposition of the great arteries, 691 Selective coronary arteriography in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, 120 1

Straddling and overriding atrioventricular valves: morphology and classification, 1122 Two dimensional echocardiographic characteristics of double outlet right ventricle, 1146 Use of prostaglandin E, in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum, 76 Variant of congenital aortic valve disease (LE). 578 Congestive heart failure Cardiocirculatory effects of afterload reduction with oral trimazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 126 Detection of left ventricular functional reserve by supine exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe, chronic heart failure, 1062 Development of pharmacodynamic tolerance to prazosin in congestive heart failure, 1178 Differences in hemodynamic effects of nitroprusside and prazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 310 Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in children with congestive cardiomyopathy, 1332 Influence of short-term oral hydralazine therapy on exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe chronic heart failure, 1183 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Marked early attenuation of hemodynamic effects of oral prazosin therapy in chronic congestive heart failure, 540 Renin, aldosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Role of vasoconstrictor mechanisms in the control of left ventricular performance of the normal and damaged heart, 1019 Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 171 Coronary arteries Coronary calcification in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 141 Massive coronary arterial aneurysm, 184 Myocardial bridging of coronary artery (LE), 391 Selective coronary arteriography in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, 1201 Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 17 1 Coronary arteries, collateral Effect of nifedipine on myocardial ischemia: analysis of collateral flow, pulsatile heat and regional muscle shortening, 817 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 Coronary artery disease Analysis of exercise-induced R wave amplitude changes in detection of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic men with left bundle branch block, 1247

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Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex. 852 Assessment of early ventricular systole by first pass radionuclide angiography: useful method for detection of left ventricular dysfunction at rest in patients with coronary artery disease, 459 Assessment of the functional significance of coronary artery disease with atrial pacing and cardiokymography, 1283 Atherosclerosis of the left main coronary artery: 5 year results of surgical treatment, 195 Coronary calcification in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 14 1 Correlation of thallium-201 scintigrams with coronary anatomy: factors affecting region by region sensitivity, 616 Effect of surgical versus medical therapy on return to work in patients with coronary artery disease, 105 Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block, 638 Familial occurrence of coronary heart disease: effect of age at diagnosis, 60 Improved survival beyond 5 years after coronary bypass surgery in patients with left main coronary artery disease, 612 Improvement of exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction with oral propranolol in patients with coronary heart disease, 3 18 Inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction in patients with coronary artery disease: a role for nifedipine? 793 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Left main trunk disease (LE), 1412 Long-term results of myocardial revascularization, 1290 Mechanism of relief of angina after coronary bypass surgery, 202 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747 Predictive accuracy of O-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18 Propranolol in angina pectoris: duration of improved exercise tolerance and circulatory effects after acute oral administration, 118 Quantitation of coronary arterial narrowing at necropsy in sudden coronary death, 39 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes after exercise and coronary angiographic findings, 1068 Reversal of exertional hypotension after coronary bypass grafting, 607 Right ventricular diastolic pressure in coronary artery disease, 1263 Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 17 1 The metabolic demand and oxygen supply

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added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Digoxin Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Pharmacokinetics of digoxin in patients with acute myocardial infarction, 1190 Disopyramide Disopyramide-induced syncope (LE). 391 Suppression of ventricular arrhythmias with intravenous disopyramide and lidocaine: efficacy comparison in a randomized trial, 513 Doppler ultrasound Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic detection of total anomalous pulmonary venous return: resolution of left atrial line, 1155 Double outlet right ventricle Positional abnormalities of atrioventricular valves in transposition of the great arteries including double outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular valve straddling and malattachment, 1135 Two dimensional echocardiographic characteristics of double outlet right ventricle, 1146

of the heart: physiologic and clinical considerations, 722 Unreliability of exercise-induced R wave changes as indexes of coronary artery disease, 124 1 Unstable angina pectoris: a comparison of the costs of medical and surgical treatment, 112 Coronary artery, left main Atherosclerosis of the left main coronary artery: 5 year results of surgical treatment, 195 Improved survival beyond 5 years after coronary bypass surgery in patients with left main coronary artery disease, 612 Left main trunk disease (LE), 1412 Coronary sinus Echocardiographic findings in patients with left superior vena cava and dilated coronary sinus, 158 Coronary spasm Coronary spasm, 839 Inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction in patients with coronary artery disease: a role for nifedipine? 793 Nifedipine in the treatment of Prinzmetal’s (variant) angina, 804 Nifedipine therapy for refractory coronary arterial spasm, 798 Significance of spasm in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, 788 Types of spasm and their diagnosis, 841 Cor triatrialum Endocardial cushion defect associated with car triatriatum sinistrum or supravalve mitral ring, 1339 Cost analyses Unstable angina pectoris: a comparison of the costs of medical and surgical treatment, 112 Creaiine kinase Sensitivity and specificity of MB creatine kinase activity determined with column chromatography, 67 Serum myocardial creatine kinase (CK-MB) after coronary arterial bypass surgery, 679 Cyanosis Acquired cyanotic heart disease secondary to traumatic tricuspid regurgitation, 1401 Cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783

Echocardiography Cardiac load and function in hypertension, 1007 Computerized echocardiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arteriovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Echocardiogram in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (LE), 580 Echocardiographic analysis of interatrial septal motion, 472 Echocardiographic assessment of the adequacy of pulmonary arterial banding, 487 Echocardiographic dimensions in borderline and sustained hypertension, 930 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in children with congestive cardiomyopathy, 1332 Echocardiographic findings in patients with left superior vena cava and dilated coronary sinus, 158 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Echocardiographic screening to assess the severity of congenital aortic valve stenosis in children, 82 Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, 714 Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T

Death, sudden Effect of coronary arterial bypass surgery on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized study, 1056 Limitations of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in predicting coronary events after acute myocardial infarction, 1257 Quantitation of coronary arterial narrowing at necropsy in sudden coronary death, 39 Digitalis Electrophysiologic effect of digitalis on sinoatrial nodal function in children, 1344 Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an

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waves (apical hypertrophy): ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients, 40 1 Increased right ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography in amyloid infiltrative cardiomyopathy, 1391 Left ventricular mass and wall thickness in hypertension, 936 Massive coronary arterial aneurysm, 184 M mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic features of flail posterior mitral leaflets, 1383 M mode echocardiogram and abnormal structures behind the left atrium (LE). 575 Noninvasive diagnosis of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, 372 Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic detection of total anomalous pulmonary venous return: resolution of left atrial line, 1155 Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations, 754 Serial noninvasive assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy and function after surgical correction of aortic regurgitation, 585 Submitral calcification or sclerosis in elderly patients: M mode and two dimensional echocardiography in “mitral anulus calcification”, 31 Two dimensional echocardiographic recognition of the descending thoracic aorta, 232 Two dimensional echocardiographic quantification of infarct size alteration by pharmacologic agents, 257 Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of patients with mitral insufficiency, 670 Two dimensional echocardiographic characteristics of double outlet right ventricle, 1146 Two dimensional echocardiography in differentiating right atrial and tricuspid valve mass lesions, 1207 Edema, pulmonary Hypovolemia and hypotension complicating management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, 1349 Pulmonary edema associated with low left ventricular filling pressures, 1410 Eisenmenger’s syndrome Peripartum death in Eisenmenger’s syndrome (LE), 577 Ejection fraction Assessment of early ventricular systole by first pass radionuclide angiography: useful method for detection of left ventricular dysfunction at rest in patients with coronary artery disease, 459 Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447 Electrocardiography Blood pressure, heart rate, pressure-rate product and electrocardiographic changes in healthy children during treadmill exercise, 697 Cardiac conduction system in hemochromatosis: clinical and pathologic features of six patients, 418 Coexistence of ventricular parasystole and ventricular couplets: mechanism and clinical significance, 435 Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block, 638

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Fine structure of cells and their histologic organization within internodal pathways of the heart: clinical and electrocardiographic implications, 345 Glucose-insulin-potassium and epicardial Q wave formation (LE), 582 Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves (apical hypertrophy): ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients, 401 lnteratrial conduction (activation) times, 442 Intracardiac electrocardiography during permanent pacemaker implantation: predictors of cardiac perforation, 225 Junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: electrocardiography, eiectrophysiology and pharmacologic response, 298 Left anterior fascicular block: electrocardiographic criteria for its recognition in the presence of inferior myocardial infarction, 645 Management of vasospastic angina at rest with continues infusion of isosorbide dinitrate, 533 Mechanism of persistent S-T segment elevation after anterior myocardial infarction, 1269 Polymorphous ventricular tachycardia: clinical features and treatment, 339 Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18 Q-aT, interval as a clinical indicator of hypercalcemia, 243 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes afler exercise and coronary angiographic findings, 1068 R on T or R on P phenomenon? relation to the genesis of ventricular tachycardia, 632 Significance of complete left bundle branch block with left axis deviation, 239 Surgery for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 117 1 Electrocardiography, ambulatory Limitations of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in predicting coronary events after acute myocardial infarction, 1257 Electrocardiography, exercise Analysis of exercise-induced R wave amplitude changes in detection of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic men with left bundle branch block, 1247 Electrocardiographic mapping after exercise for evaluation of coronary bypass graft surgery, 125 1 Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program, 1230 Unreliability of exercise-induced R wave changes as indexes of coronary artery disease, f24 7 Electrophysiologic studies Atrial effective refractory period after mustard operation (LE), 393 Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity, 1 Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder

associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 Clinical electrophysiologic effects of encainide, a newly developed antiarrhythmic agent, 526 Electrophysioiog~c effect of digitalis on sinoatrial nodal function in children, 1344 Experimental studies on the pathogenesis of asystole after verapamil in the dog, 651 Incessant atrial tachycardia in childhood: association with rate-dependent conduction in an accessory atrioventricular pathway, 498 Incessant atrioventricular tachycardia involving an accessory pathway: preoperative and intraoperative electrophysioiogic studies and surgical correction, 428 Incidence, determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the atrioventricular node. evidence for retrograde atrioventricular nodal bypass tracts, 1089 Junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: electrocardiography, electrophysiology and pharmacologic response, 298 Mechanism of ventricular fibrillation in man, 623 Multiple reentrant tachycardias due to retrograde conduction of dual atrioventricular bundles with atrioventricular nodal-like properties, 162 Reciprocal tachycardias using accessory pathways with long conduction time, 1099 Resting peripheral blood lactate elevation in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: correlation with hemodynamic. electrophysiologic and oxyhemoglobin dissociation indexes, 1276 Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric jnduction of chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 705 Embryology Cardiac hypertrophy: its characteristics as a growth process, 941 Selective coronary arteriography in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, 120 1 Encalnide Clinical electrophysiologic effects of encainide, a newly developed antiarrhythmic agent, 526 Endocardial cushion defect Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Endocardial cushion defect associated with car triatriatum sinistrum or supravalve mitral ring, 1339 Endocarditis Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 569 Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations, 754 Value and safety of cardiac catheterization during active infective endocarditis, 1306 Enzyme inhibitors Renin, aldosterone and cardiac

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decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Role of vasoconstrictor mechanisms in the control of left ventricular performance of the normal and damaged heart, 1019 Exercise Effects of exercise on blood flow in the hypertrophied heart, 1029 Exercise testing Acute effects of oral propranofol on hem~ynamic responses to upright exercise, 132 Analysis of exercise-induced R wave amplitude changes in detection of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic men with left bundle branch block, 1247 Blood pressure, heart rate, pressure-rate product and electrocardiographic changes in healthy children during treadmill exercise, 697 Detection of left ventricular functional reserve by supine exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe, chronic heart failure, 1062 Effect of coronary arterial bypass surgery on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized study, 1056 Effects of antihypertensive therapy on cardiovascular response to exercise, 325 Electrocardiographic mapping after exercise for evaluation of coronary bypass graft surgery, 1251 Exercise performance after septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2 15 Hemodynamic response to exercise after propranolol in patients with mitral stenosis, 1076 Improvement of exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction with oral propranolol in patients with coronary heart disease, 318 Influence of short-term oral hydralazine therapy on exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe chronic heart failure, 1183 Left ventricular function at rest and during exercise after aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation, 1297 Nifedipine therapy for stable angina pectoris: preliminary results of effects on angina frequency and treadmill exercise response, 811 Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18 Propranolol in angina pectoris: duration of improved exercise tolerance and circulatory effects after acute oral administration, 118 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes after exercise and coronary angiographic findings, 1068 Reversal of exertional hypotension after coronary bypass grafting, 607 Unreliability of exercise-induced R wave changes as indexes of coronary artery disease, 1241

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Exercise training Exercise training soon after myocardial infarction, 1223 Noninvasive evaluation of the athletic heart: sprinters versus endurance runners, 24 Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program, 1230

Familial disease Familial occurrence of coronary heart disease: effect of age at diagnosis, 60 Fascicular block Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block. 638 Histopathologic correlates of left posterior fascicular block, 1083 Left anterior fascicular block: electrocardiographic criteria for its recognition in the presence of inferior myocardial infarction, 645 Fever Fever as a manifestation of dissecting aneurysm of aorta (LE), 58 1 Fistulas Innominate arterial arteriovenous fistula complicating retrograde brachial arterial catheterization, 566 Fluoroscopy Coronary calcification in the diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 141 Framingham study Prognosis after initial myocardial infarction: the Framingham study, 53

Glucose-insulin-potassium Glucose-insulin-potassium and epicardial 0 wave formation (LE), 582 Grafts Atherosclerosis of the left main coronary artery: 5 year results of surgical treatment, 195

Heart, athletic Noninvasive evaluation of the athletic heart: sprinters versus endurance runners, 24 Heart block Experimental studies on the pathogenesis of asystole after verapamil in the dog, 651 Heart, denervated Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Heart rate Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447 Heart size Noninvasive evaluation of the athletic heart: sprinters versus endurance runners, 24 Heart transplantation Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447

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Hemiblock Significance of complete left bundle branch block with left axis deviation, 239 Hemochromatosis Cardiac conduction system in he~chromatosis: clinical and pathologic features of six patients, 418 Hemodynamics Abbreviation of systolic time intervals in acute mitral regurgitation: effect of prosthetic mitral valve replacement, 595 Acute effects of oral propranolol on hemodynamic responses to upright exercise, 132 Alterations of cardiac performance in rats with established spontaneous hypertension, 994 Blood pressure, heart rate, pressure-rate product and electrocardiographic changes in healthy children during treadmill exercise, 697 Cardiac hypertrophy: its characteristics as a growth process, 94 1 Cardiac load and function in hype~ension, 1007 Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Cardiocirculatory effects of afterload reduction with oral trimazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 126 Changes in arterial pressure,during left heart pullback in patients with aortic stenosis: a sign of severe aortic stenosis, 424 Clinical, hemodynamic and metabolic responses during pacing in the supine and sitting postures in patients with angina pectoris, 249 Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Detection of left ventricular functional reserve by supine exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe, chronic heart failure, 1062 Development of pharmacodynamic tolerance to prazosin in congestive heart failure, 1178 Differences in hemodynamic effects of nitroprusside and prazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 310 Echocardiographic analysis of interatrial septal motion, 472 Effect of sublingual nitr~lycerin on left ventricular function at rest and during spontaneous angina pectoris: assessment with a radionuclide approach, 1365 Effects of nifedipine after intravenous and intracoronary administration, 832 Exercise performance after septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2 15 Hemodynamic consequences of left ventricular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 986 liemodynamic effects of intravenous metoprolof, 1195 Hemodynamic evaluation of the Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis in the aortic position, 209 Hemodynamic response to exercise after propranolol in patients with mitral stenosis, 1076

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Hydralazine in the management of left ventricular failure, 303 Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Improvement of exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction with oral propranolol in patients with coronary heart disease, 3 18 Increased systemic vascular resistance in neonates with pulmonary hypertension, 1159 Influence of short-term oral hydralazine therapy on exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe chronic heart failure, 1183 Marked early attenuation of hemodynamic effects of oral prazosin therapy in chronic congestive heart failure, 540 Mechanism of nitroglycerin effect in valvular aortic stenosis, 1371 Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole, 13 18 Myocardial oxygen consumption in chronic heart disease: role of wall stress, hypertrophy and coronary reserve, 730 Noninvasive measurement of ventricular pressure throughout systole, 466 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Propranolol in angina pectoris: duration of improved exercise tolerance and circulatory effects after acute oral administration, 118 Pulmonary edema associated with low left ventricular filling pressures, 1410 Renin, aldosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Right ventricular diastolic pressure in coronary artery disease, 1263 Systolic hypertension: hemodynamic mechanism and choice of antihypertensive treatment, 505 Ventricular function and coronary hem~ynamics in hypertensive heart disease. 999 Histologic studies Fine structure of ceils and their histologic organization within internodal pathways of the heart: clinical and electrocardiographic implications, 345 Histopathol~ic studies Histopathologic correlates of left posterior fascicular block, 1083 History of cardiology An annotation on the pulse in aortic regurgitation: Thomas Cuming. 1822, 370 Hydralazine Hydralazine in the management of left ventricular failure, 303 Influence of short-term oral hydralazine therapy on exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe chronic heart failure, 1183 Hydrochlorothiazide Effects of antihypertensive therapy on cardiovascular response to exercise, 325 6Hydroxydopamine Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic

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treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Hypercalcemia Cl-aT, interval as a clinical indicator of hypercalcemta. 243 Hyperllpldemia Familial occurrence of coronary heart disease: effect of age at diagnosis, 60 Hypertension Alterations of cardiac performance in rats with established spontaneous hypertension, 994 Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex, 852 Cardiac hypertrophy in early hypertension, 964 Cardiac load and function in hypertension, 1007 Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Cardiac receptors: normal and disturbed function, 873 Cardiac reflexes in normotensive and spontaneousty hypertensive rats, 884 Collagen synthesis in development and reversal of cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 954 Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895 Echo~rdiographic dimensions in borderline and sustained hypertension, 930 Effects of cardiac hypertrophy secondary to hypertension on the coronary circulation. 1023 Familial occurrence of coronary heart disease: effect of age at diagnosis, 60 Hemodynamic consequences of left ventricular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 986 Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Introduction: recent perspectives on hypertension and the heart, 645 Is arterial pressure the sole factor responsible for hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy? 959 Left ventricular mass and wall thickness in hypertension, 936 Overview of cardiovascular reflexes in hypertension, 912 Positive feedback sympathetic reflexes and hypertension, 860 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension. 866 Reflex control of the heart, 889 Systolic hypertension: hem~ynamic mechanism and choice of antihypertensive treatment, 505 Ventricular function and coronary hemodynamics in hypertensive heart disease, 999 Volume studies in men with mild to moderate hypertension, 1163 Hypertenslon, pulmonary Increased systemic vascular resistance in neonates with pulmonary hypertension, 1159

Performance of the faking and nonfailing right ventricle of patients with pulmonary hypertension, 1050 Quantitative analysis of postoperative changes in the pulmonary vasculature of patients with compfete transposition of the great arteries and pufmonary hypertension, 284 Right ventricular diastolic pressure in coronary artery disease, 1263 Hypertension, renal Morphometry of cardiac hypertrophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 919 Hypertrophy See also Ventricular Hypertrophy Cardiac hypertrophy in early hypertension, 964 Cardiac hype~ophy: its characteristics as a growth process, 941 Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Collagen synthesis in development and reversal of cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 954 Computerized echocerdiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Echocardiogram in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (LE), 580 Echocardiographic dimensions in borderline and sustained hypertension, 930 Effects of cardiac hypertrophy secondary to hypertension on the coronary circulation, 1023 Effects of exercise on blood flow in the hypertrophied heart, 1029 Functional significance of altered myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity in enlarged hearts, 947 Hemodynamic consequences of left ventricular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 986 Hypertrophic nonobstructive cardiomyopathy with giant negative T waves (apical hypertrophy): ventriculographic and echocardiographic features in 30 patients, 401 Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis: evaluation of angina1 symptoms with thallium-201 myocardial imaging, 1040 Introduction: recent perspectives on hypertension and the heart, 845 Is arterial pressure the sole factor responsible for hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy? 959 Left ventricular mass and wall thickness in hypertension, 936 Mitral anular calcification and idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (f-E), 579 Morphometry of cardiac hypertrophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 9 19 Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 569 Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole, 1318 Ventricular function and coronary hemodynamics in hypertensive heart disease, 999

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Hypotenslon Reversal of exertional hypotension after coronary bypass grafting, 607

ldfopathlc hypertrophlc subaoratlc stenosis See cardiomyopathy and Hypertrophy Imaging, cardiac blood pool Noninvasive diagnosis of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, 372 Infants Clinical manif~tat~ons of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687 Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arteriovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Increased systemic vascular resistance in neonates with pulmonary hypertension, 1159 M mode echocardiogram and abnormaf structures behind the left atrium (LE), 575 Prenatal closure of the toramen ovale in complete transposition of great vessels, 563 Prognosis for the newborn with transposition of the great arteries, 96 Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic detection of total anomalous pulmonary venous return: resolution of left atrial line, 1155 Rofe of prostaglandin Et infusion in the management of transposition of the great arteries, 691 Use of prostaglandin El in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum, 76 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in neonate (LE), 576 Infection Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 569 Value and safety of cardiac catheterization during active infective endocarditis, 1306 lnteratrial septum Echocardiographic analysis of interatrial septal motion, 472 &hernia Abn~mal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Assessment of drug intervention on the ischemic myocardium: serial imaging and measurement with computerized tomography, 46 Assessment of the functional significance of coronary artery disease with atria1 pacing and cardiokymography, 1283 Cellular calcium and cardiac cell death, 188 Comparative effects of cardioselective versus noncardioselective beta

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blockade on subendocardial blood flow and contractile function in ischemic myocardium, 657 Effect of nifedipine on myocardial ischemia: analysis of collateral flow, pulsatile heat and regional muscle shortening, 8 17 Epicardial ischemia as delineated with epicardial S-T segment mapping and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography, 263 Hypovolemia and hypotension complicating management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, 1349 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Management of vasospastic angina at rest with continuous infusion of isosorbide dinitrate, 533 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747 Nifedipine: a myocardial protective agent, 825 Nifedipine in variant angina and role of spasm in ischemic heart disease, 842 Nifedipine to preserve function during ischemia, 842 Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program, 1230 Right ventricular diastolic pressure in coronary artery disease, 1263 Significance of spasm in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, 788 Temporal relation between onset of cell anoxia and ischemic contractile failure, 741 lsoproierenol Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric induction of chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 705 lsosorbide dinitrate Management of vasospastic angina at rest with continuous infusion of isosorbide dinitrate, 533 Sublingual isosorbide dinitrate for treatment of acute pulmonary edema (LE), 392

Kearns-Sayre syndrome Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 Kidney Atrial reflexes and renal function, 879

Lactate Resting peripheral blood lactate elevation in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: correlation with hemodynamic, electrophysiologic and oxyhemoglobin dissociation indexes, 1276

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Left axis deviation Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block, 638 Significance of complete left bundle branch block with left axis deviation, 239 Letters to the Editor Assessment of medical therapy of angina pectoris. 771 Atrial effective refractory period after mustard operation, 393 Calibration of left ventricular apexcardiogram, 1412 Disopyramide-induced syncope, 391 Echocardiogram in idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 580 Fever as a manifestation of dissecting aneurysm of aorta, 58 1 Glucose-insulin-potassium and epicardial Q wave formation, 582 Identification of high risk subsets of acute myocardial infarction, 390 Left main trunk disease, 1412 Lidocaine and infarction, 772 Mitral anular calcification and idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 579 M mode echocardiogram and abnormal structures behind the left atrium, 575 Myocardial bridging of coronary artery, 391 Oral vasodilator therapy, 1413 Pacemaker syndrome, 77 1 Peripartum death in Eisenmenger’s syndrome, 577 Retrograde left ventricular catheterization in patients with a Bjork-Shiley valve prosthesis, 578 Sublingual isosorbide dinitrate for treatment of acute pulmonary edema, 392 Value of coronary bypass surgery: controversies in cardiology, 387 Variant of congenital aortic valve disease, 578 Vitamin therapy for infarction, 581 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in neonate, 576 Lidocaine Lidocaine and infarction (LE), 772 Suppression of ventricular arrhythmias with intravenous disopyramide and lidocaine: efficacy comparison in a randomized trial, 513

Mapping, electrocardiographic Electrocardiographic mapping after exercise for evaluation of coronary bypass graft surgery, 1251 Mechanism of persistent S-T segment elevation after anterior myocardial infarction, 1269 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes after exercise and coronary angiographic findings, 1068 Mapping, epicardial Epicardial activation in human left anterior fascicular block, 638 Epicardial ischemia as delineated with epicardial S-T segment mapping and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography, 263 Incessant atrioventricular tachycardia involving an accessory pathway: preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic studies and surgical correction, 428

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Medical writing Vexatious expressions in current medical writing, 1217 Metabolism See also Seminar on Myocardial Oxygen Utilization Clinical, hemodynamic and metabolic responses during pacing in the supine and sitting postures in patients with angina pectoris, 249 Effects of nifedipine after intravenous and intracoronary administration, 832 Resting peripheral blood lactate elevation in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: correlation with hemodynamic, electrophysiologic and oxyhemoglobin dissociation indexes, 1276 Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 Metoprolol Hemodynamic effects of intravenous metoprolol, 1195 Mitral anulus Submitral calcification or sclerosis in elderly patients: M mode and two dimensional echocardiography in “mitral anulus calcification”, 31 Mitral commissurotomy Indications for surgical replacement of the mitral valve, 148 Mitral insufficiency Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of patients with mitral insufficiency, 670 Mitral regurgitation Abbreviation of systolic time intervals in acute mitral regurgitation: effect of prosthetic mitral valve replacement, 595 Indications for surgical replacement of the mitral valve, 148 Mitral stenosis Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Endocardial cushion defect associated with car triatriatum sinistrum or supravalve mitral ring, 1339 Hemodynamic response to exercise after propranolol in patients with mitral stenosis, 1076 Indications for surgical replacement of the mitral valve, 148 Mitral valve disease Mitral anular calcification and idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis (LE), 579 Mitral valve leaflets M mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic features of flail posterior mitral leaflets, 1383 Mitral valve prolapse Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of patients with mitral insufficiency, 670 Morphometry Morphometry of cardiac hypertrophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 919 Muscle, smooth Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 Myectomy Exercise performance after septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2 15

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Myocardial contractility Comparative effects of cardioselective versus noncardioselective beta blockade on subendocardial blood flow and contractile function in ischemic myocardium, 657 Effect of nifedipine on myocardial ischemia: analysis of collateral flow, pulsatile heat and regional muscle shortening, 8 17 Effects of nifedipine after intravenous and intracoronary administration, 832 Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole. 1318 Oxygen deprivation and early myocardial contractile failure: a reassessment of the possible role of adenosine triphosphate, 1115 Performance of the failing and nonfailing right ventricle of patients with pulmonary hypertension, 1050 Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 The metabolic demand and oxygen supply of the heart: physiologic and clinical considerations, 722 Myocardial infarction Bilateral cardiac myxomas and peripheral myxomas in a patient with recent myocardial infarction, 767 Left anterior fascicular block: electrocardiographic criteria for its recognition in the presence of inferior myocardial infarction, 645 Lidocaine and infarction (LE), 772 Long-term results of myocardial revascularization. 1290 Management of intractable ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardiai infarction, 329 Mechanism of persistent S-T segment elevation after anterior myocardial infarction, 1269 Mechanism of relief of angina after coronary bypass surgery, 202 Nifedipine: a myocardial protective agent, 825 Sensitivity and specificity of MB creatine kinase activity determined with column chromatography, 67 Vitamin therapy for infarction (LE), 581 Myocardial infarction, acute Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Doughnut pattern of technetium-99m pyrophosphate myocardial uptake in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a sign of poor long-term prognosis, 13 Emergency revascularization for acute myocardial infarction: an unproved experimental approach, 1407 Exercise training soon after myocardial infarction. 1223 Identification of high risk subsets of acute myocardial infarction (LE), 390 Limitations of 24 hour ambulatory electrocardiographic recording in predicting coronary events after acute myocardial infarction, 1257 Medical and surgical management of myocardial infarction, 1356 Pharmacokinetics of digoxin in patients with acute myocardial infarction, 1190

Prognosis after initial myocardial infarction: the Framingham study, 53 Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program, 1230 Quantification of thallium-201 scintigrams in acute myocardial infarction, 664 Serum myocardial creatine kinase (CK-MB) after coronary arterial bypass surgery, 679 Significance of spasm in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, 788 Small vessel disease of the heart resulting in myocardial necrosis and death despite angiographically normal coronary arteries, 17 1 Myocardial infarct size Two dimensional echocardiographic quantification of infarct size afteration by pharmacologic agents, 257 Myocardial revascularization See also Surgery, aortocoronary bypass Emergency revascularization for acute myocardial infarction: an unproved experimental approach, 1407 Long-term results of myocardial revascularization, 1290 Medical and surgical management of myocardial infarction, 1356 Myocardium See Seminar on Myocardial Oxygen Utilization Myosin Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 .Myotomy Exercise performance afler septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 2 15 Myxomas Bilateral cardiac myxomas and peripheral myxomas in a patient with recent myocardial infarction, 767

Nerve growth factor antiserum Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Neuromuscular disorders Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy). 1396 Nicolinamide adenine dinucleotide fluorescence photography Epicardial ischemia as delineated with epicardial S-T segment mapping and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography, 263 Nifedipine See Symposium on Nifedipine and Calcium Flux Inhibition in Treatment of Coronary Spasm Nitroglycerin Effect of sublingual nitroglycerin on left ventricular function at rest and during spontaneous angina pectoris: assessment with a radionuclide approach, 1365

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Mechanism of nitroglycerin effect in valvular aortic stenosis, 1371 Two dimensional echocardiographic quantification of infarct size alteration by pharmacologic agents, 257 Nitroprusside Differences in hemodynamic effects of nitroprusside and prazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 310 Systolic hypertension: hemodynamic mechanism and choice of antihypertensive treatment, 505 Normal values Blood pressure, heart rate, pressure-rate product and electrocardiographic changes in healthy children during treadmill exercise, 697 Computerized echocardiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Left ventricular end-systolic pressure-dimension and stress-length relations in normal human subjects, 1311 Nuclear medicine Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Assessment of early ventricular systole by first pass radionuclide angiography: useful method for detection of left ventricular dysfunction at rest in patients with coronary artery disease, 459 Correlation of thallium-201 scintigrams with coronary anatomy: factors affecting region by region sensitivity, 616 Effect of sublingual nitroglycerin on left ventricular function at rest and during spontaneous angina pectoris: assessment with a radionuclide approach, 1365 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 Noninvasive diagnosis of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, 372 Noninvasive measurement of ventricular pressure throughout systole, 466 Quantification of thallium-201 scintigrams in acute myocardial infarction, 664

Ophthalmoplegia Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 Oxygen See also Seminar on Myocardial Oxygen Utilization Oxygen deprivation and early myocardial contractile failure: a reassessment of the possible role of adenosine triphosphate, 1115 Oxyhemoglobin dissociation Resting peripheral blood lactate elevation in survivors of prehospital cardiac arrest: correlation with hemodynamic, electrophysiologic and oxyhemoglobin dissociation indexes, 1276

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Pacemakers Cardiac conduct/on in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a heuiomuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalinoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 Intracardiac electrocardiography during permanent pacemaker implantation: predictors of cardiac perforation, 225 Septicemia in patients with an endocardial:pacemaker. 221 Pacemaker syndrome Pacemaker syndrome (LE), 77 1 Pacing, airial Assessment of the functional significance of coronary artery disease with atrial pacing an,d cardiokymography, 1283 Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity. 1 Clinical, tiemodynamic and metabolic responses during pacing in the supine and sitting postures in patients with angina pectoris. 249 Multiple reentrant tachycardias due to retrograde conduction of dual atrioventricular bundles with atriovehtricular nodal-like properties, 162 Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric inductibn bf chronic recurrent ventricular iachycardia, 705 Pacing, endocardial Septicemia In patients with an endocardial pacemaker, 221 Pacing, ventricular Mechariism of ventricular fibrillation in man, 623 Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric induction of chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 705 Parasympathetic nervous system Integration of reflex responses in the control df blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 fiattih aortoplasty Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687 Pathologic studies Cardiac conduction system in hemochromatosis: clinical and pathologic features of six patients, 418 lschemic heart disease secondary to amyloidosis of intramyocardial arteries, 413 Massive coronary arterial aneurysm, 184 Prenatal closure of the foramen ovale in complete transposition of great vessels, 563 Quantitation of coronary arterial narrowing at necropsy in sudden coronary death, 39 Pediatric cardiology Blood pressure, heart rate, pressure-rate product and electrocardiographic changes in healthy children during treadmill exercise, 697 Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Computerized echocardiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101

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Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687 Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arteriovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Echocardiogiaphic assessment of the adequacy of pulmonary arterial banding, 487 Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in children with congestive cardiomyopathy, 1332 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transpbsition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis as
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Use of prostaglandin El in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum, 76 Variant of congenital aortic valve disease (LE), 578 Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in neonate (LE), 576 Pericardiocentesls The risk of pericardiocentesis, 1110 Pericardltis Constrictive pericarditis after myocardial revascularization, 177 Pharmacokinetics Pharmacokinetics of digoxin in patients with acute myocardial infarction, 1190 Phenylephriiie Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, 7 14 Two dimensional echocardiographic quantification of infarct size alteration by pharmacologic agents, 257 Plasma volume Hypovolemia and hypotension complicating management of acute cardiogenic pulmonary edema, 1349 Volumb studies in men with mild to moderate hypertension, 1163 Postpericardiotomy syndrome Constrictive pericarditis after myocardial revascularization, 177 Posture Acute effects of oral propranolol on hemodynamic responses to upright exercise, 132 Clinical, hemodynamic and metabolic responses during pacing in the supine and sitting postures in patients with angina pectoris. 249 Povidone-iodine solution Constrictive pericarditis after myocardial revascularization, 177 Prazosin Development of pharmacodynamic tolerance to prazosin in congestive heart failure, 1178 Differences in hemodynamic effects of nitroprusside and prazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 310 Marked early attenuation of hemodynamic effects of oral prazosin therapy in chronic congestive heart failure, 540 Prognosis Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program, 1230 Propranolol Acute effects of oral propranolol on hemodynamic responses to upright exercise, 132 Hemodynamic response to exercise after propranolol in patients with mitral stenosis, 1076 Improvement of exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction with oral propranolol in patients with coronary heart disease, 318 Propranolol in angina pectoris: duration of improved exercise tolerance and circulatory effects after acute oral administration, 118 Systolic hypertension: hemodynamic mechanism and choice of antihypertensive treatment, 505 Prostaglandin El Role of prostaglandin El infusion in the

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management of transposition of the great arteries, 69 1 Use of prostaglandin El in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum, 76 Psychologic studies Psychosocial status of patients randomly assigned to medical or surgical therapy for chronic stable angina, 546 Pulmonary arterial banding Echocardiographic assessment of the adequacy of pulmonary arterial banding, 487 Pulmonary edema Sublingual isosorbide dinitrate for treatment of acute pulmonary edema (LE), 392 Pulmonary vascular disease Quantitative analysis of postoperative changes in the pulmonary vasculature of patients with complete transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary hypertension, 284 Pulse An annotation on the pulse in aortic regurgitation: Thomas Cuming, 1822, 370 Pulse, paradoxical Absence of paradoxical pulse in patients with cardiac tamponade and atrial septal defects, 378

Q-aT, interval Q-aT, interval as a clinical indicator of hypercalcemia, 243 Q-Tc interval Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18 Quinidine Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, 7 14 Q-X/O-T ratio Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18

Radiology Dilatation of the descending aorta: a radiologic and echocardiographic diagnostic sign in arter~ovenous malformations in neonates and young infants, 493 Reentry Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity, 1 Multiple reentrant tachycardias due to retrograde conduction of dual atrioventricular bundles with atrioventricular nodal-like properties, 162 Reflexes Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex, 852 Atrial reflexes and renal function, 879 Cardiac reflexes in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats, 884 Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895

Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Overview of cardiovascular reflexes in hypertension, 9 12 Positive feedback sympathetic reflexes and hypertension, 860 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Reflex control of the heart, 889 Rehabilitation Exercise training soon after myocardial infarction, 1223 Prognostic indexes for patients with ischemic heart disease enrolled in an exercise-centered rehabilitation program. 1230 Renal arteries Morphometry of cardiac hyper~ophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 9 19 Renin Renin, aldosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Volume studies in men with mild to moderate hypertension, 1163 Renin-angiotensin system Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympat~lytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Retinopathy Cardiac conduction in the Kearns-Sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), 1396 R on P phenomenon R on T or R on P phenomenon? relation to the genesis of ventricular tachycardia, 632 R on 1 phenomenon R on T or R on P phenomenon? relation to the genesis of ventricular tachycardia, 632 Running Noninvasive evaluation of the athletic heart: sprinters versus endurance runners, 24 R wave Analysis of exercise-induced R wave amplitude changes in detection of coronary artery disease in asymptomatic men with left bundle branch block, 1247 Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing, 18 Unreliability of exercise-induced R wave changes as indexes of coronary artery disease, 1241

patients with acute myocardial infarction: a sign of poor long-term prognosis, 13 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 Quantification of thallium-201 scintigrams in acute myocardial infarction, 664 Sclerosis Submitral calcification or sclerosis in elderly patients: M mode and two dimensional echocardiography in “mitral anulus calcification”, 31 Seminar on Myocardial Oxygen Utilization Introduction: physiologic and clinical correlates, 7 19 Myocardial oxygen consumption in chronic heart disease: role of wall stress, hypertrophy and coronary reserve, 730 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747 Temporal relation between onset of cell anoxia and ischemic contractile failure, 741 The metabolic demand and oxygen supply of the heart: physiologic and clinical considerations, 722 Septicemia Septicemia in patients with an endocardial pacemaker, 221 Sinoatrial node Electrophysiologi~ effect of digitalis on sinoatrial nodal function in children, 1344 Sociologic studies Psychosocial status of patients randomly assigned to medical or surgical therapy for chronic stable angina, 546 Stimulation, cardiac Incidence, determinants and significance of fixed retrograde conduction in the region of the atrioventricular node. evidence for retrograde atrioventricular nodal bypass tracts, 1089 Left ventricular end-systolic pressure-dimension and stress-length relations in normal human subjects, 1311 Stress development Myocardial contractile function in aortic stenosis as determined from the rate of stress development during isovolumic systole. 1316 Stress testing See Exercise testing S-T segment Epicardial ischemia as delineated with epicardial S-T segment mapping and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) fluorescence photography, 263 Mechanism of persistent S-T segment elevation after anterior myocardial infarction. 1269 Predictive accuracy of Q-X/Q-T ratio, Q-Tc interval, S-T depression and R wave amplitude during stress testing. 18 Relation between the precordial projection of S-T segment changes after exercise and coronary angi~raphic findings, 1068 Subclavian arteries Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101 Dissecting aortic aneurysm involving a right-sided aortic arch, 381 Subclavian steal syndrome Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101

Scintigraphy Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Correlation of thallium-201 scintigrams with coronary anatomy: factors affecting region by region sensitivity, 616 Doughnut pattern of technetium-99m pyrophosphate myocardial uptake in

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Surgery Exercise performance after septal myotomy and myectomy in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 215 Incessant atrioventricular tachycardia involving an accessory pathway: preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic studies and surgical correction, 428 Management of intractable ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardial infarction, 329 Surgery for life-threatening ventricular tachyarrhythmias. 1171 Trends in cardiovascular surgery (1961 to 1977): review of the New York City and State experience, 555 Unstable angina pectoris: a comparison of the costs of medical and surgical treatment, 112 Surgery, aorlocoronary bypass Atherosclerosis of the left main coronary artery: 5 year results of surgical treatment, 195 Constrictive pericarditis after myocardial revascularization. 177 Effect of coronary arterial bypass surgery on exercise-induced ventricular arrhythmias. long-term follow-up of a prospective randomized study, 1056 Effect of surgical versus medical therapy on return to work in patients with coronary artery disease, 105 Effects of coronary bypass grafting on resting left ventricular contraction in patients studied 1 to 2 years after operation, 601 Electrocardiographic mapping after exercise for evaluation of coronary bypass graft surgery, 125 1 Emergency revascularization for acute myocardial infarction: an unproved experimental approach, 1407 Improved survival beyond 5 years after coronary bypass surgery in patients with left main coronary artery disease, 612 Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447 Long-term results of myocardial revascularization, 1290 Mechanism of relief of angina after coronary bypass surgery, 202 Medical and surgical management of myocarctial infarction, 1356 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Psychosocial status of patients randomly assigned to medical or surgical therapy for chronic stable angina, 546 Reversal of exertional hypotension after coronary bypass grafting, 607 Serum myocardial creatine kinase (CK-MB) after coronary arterial bypass surgery, 679 Value of coronary bypass surgery: controversies in cardiology (LE), 387 Surgery, pediatric Atrial effective refractory period after mustard operation (LE). 393 Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Critical aortic coarctation: patch aortoplasty in infants less than age 3 months, 687

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Echocardiographic assessment of the adequacy of pulmonary arterial banding, 487 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Prognosis for the newborn with transposition of the great arteries, 96 Quantitative analysis of postoperative changes in the pulmonary vasculature of patients with complete transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary hypertension, 284 Right and left ventricular function after the Mustard procedure in transposition of the great arteries, 276 Surgery, valve Abbreviation of systoltc time intervals in acute mitral regurgitation: effect of prosthetic mitral valve replacement, 595 Acquired cyanotic heart disease secondary to traumatic tricuspid regurgitation, 1401 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Indications for surgical replacement of the mitral valve, 148 Left ventricular function at rest and during exercise after aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation, 1297 Serial noninvasive assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy and function after surgical correction of aortic regurgitation, 585 Straddling and overriding atrioventricular valves: morphology and classification, 1122 Two dimensional echocardiographic evaluation of patients with mitral insufficiency, 670 Sympatheciomy Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Sympathetic nervous system Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Echocardiographic dimensions in borderline and sustained hypertension, 930 Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Positive feedback sympathetic reflexes and hypertension, 860 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Reflex control of the heart, 889 Symposium on Nifedipine and Calcium Flux Inhibition in Treatment of Coronary Spasm and Myocardial lschemia Coronary spasm, 839 Effect of nifedipine on myocardial ischemia: analysis of collateral flow, pulsatile heat and regional muscle shortening, 817 Effects of nifedipine after intravenous and intracoronary administration, 832 Future clinical role of nifedipine, 839 Inappropriate coronary vasoconstriction in patients with coronary artery disease: a role for nifedipine? 793

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Introduction. 780 Nifedipine: a myocardial protective agent, 825 Nifedipine in the treatment of prinzmetal’s (variant) angina, 804 Nifedipine in variant angina and role of spasm in ischemic heart disease, 842 Nifedipine therapy for refractory coronary arterial spasm, 798 Nifedipine therapy for stable angina pectoris: preliminary results of effects on angina frequency and treadmill exercise response, 8 11 Nifedipine to preserve function during ischemia, 842 Preface, 779 Role of calcium and cyclic adenosine 3’:5’ monophosphate in regulating smooth muscle contraction, 783 Significance of spasm in the pathogenesis of ischemic heart disease, 788 Types of spasm and their diagnosis, 841 Symposium on the Heart and Hypertension Alterations of cardiac performance in rats with established spontaneous hypertension, 994 Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex. 852 Atrial reflexes and renal function, 879 Cardiac hypertrophy in early hypertension, 964 Cardiac hypertrophy: its characteristics as a growth process, 941 Cardiac load and function in hypertension, 1007 Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Cardiac receptors: normal and disturbed function, 873 Cardiac reflexes in normotensive and spontaneously hypertensive rats, 884 Collagen synthesis in development and reversal of cardiac hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 954 Control of blood pressure by carotid sinus baroreceptors in human beings, 895 Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Echocardiographic dimensions in borderline and sustained hypertension, 930 Effects of cardiac hypertrophy secondary to hypertension on the coronary circulation, 1023 Effects of exercise on blood flow in the hypertrophied heart, 1029 Functional significance of altered myosin adenosine triphosphatase activity in enlarged hearts, 947 Hemodynamic consequences of left ventricular hypertrophy in spontaneously hypertensive rats, 986 Hypertrophy in the denervated heart: a comparison of central sympatholytic treatment with 6-hydroxydopamine and peripheral sympathectomy with nerve growth factor antiserum, 970 Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Introduction: recent perspectives on hypertension and the heart, 845 Is arterial pressure the sole factor responsible for hypertensive cardiac hypertrophy? 959 Left ventricular mass and wall thickness in hypertension, 936

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Morphometry of cardiac hypertrophy induced by experimental renal hypertension, 9 19 Overview of cardiovascular reflexes in hypertension, 9 12 Positive feedback sympathetic reflexes and hypertension, 860 Possible role of cardioaortic reflexes in postcoronary bypass hypertension, 866 Reflex control of the heart, 869 Renin, aldosterone and cardiac decompensation: studies with an oral converting enzyme inhibitor in heart failure, 1013 Role of vasoconstrictor mechanisms in the control of left ventricular performance of the normal and damaged heart, 1019 Ventricular function and coronary hemodynamics in hypertensive heart disease, 999 Syncope Disopyramide-induced syncope (LE), 391 Systolic time intervals Abbreviation of systolic time intervals in acute mitral regurgitation effect of prosthetic mitral valve replacement, 595 Echocardiographic assessment of the adequacy of pulmonary arterial banding, 487 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270

Tachycardia How should refractory ventricular tachycardia be treated? 12 13 Incessant atrial tachycardia in childhood: association with rate-dependent conduction in an accessory atrioventricular pathway, 498 Incessant atrioventricular tachycardia involving an accessory pathway: preoperative and intraoperative electrophysiologic studies and surgical correction, 428 Junctional ectopic tachycardia in children: electrocardiography, electrophysiology and pharmacologic response, 298 Multiple reentrant tachycardias due to retrograde conduction of dual atrioventricular bundles with atrioventricular nodal-like properties, 162 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747 Reciprocal tachycardias using accessory pathways with long conduction time, 1099 R on T or R on P phenomenon? relation to the genesis of ventricular tachycardia, 632 Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric induction of chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 705 Technetium-99m pyrophosphate Abnormal technetium-99m pyrophosphate images in unstable angina: ischemia versus infarction? 1035 Doughnut pattern of technetium-99m pyrophosphate myocardial uptake in patients with acute myocardial infarction: a sign of poor long-term prognosis, 13

Thallium-201 Correlation of thallium-201 scintigrams with coronary anatomy: factors affecting region by region sensitivity, 616 Idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis: evaluation of angina1 symptoms with thallium-201 myocardial imaging, 1040 Influence of coronary collateral vessels on the results of thallium-201 myocardial stress imaging, 452 Quantification of thallium-201 scintigrams in acute myocardiai infarction, 664 Thyrotoricosis Occult thyrotoxicosis: a correctable cause of “idiopathic” atrial fibrillation, 9 Thyrotropin-releasing hormone Occult thyrotoxicosis: a correctable cause of “idiopathic” atrial fibrillation, 9 Timolol Inefficacy of digitalis in the control of heart rate in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation: beneficial effect of an added beta adrenergic blocking agent, 1378 Tomography Assessment of drug intervention on the ischemic myocardium: serial imaging and measurement with computerized tomography, 46 Total anomalous pulmonary venous return Pulsed Doppler echocardiographic detection of total anomalous pulmonary venous return: resolution of left atrial line, 1155 Transposition of great arteries Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transposition of the great arteries: an angiographic study of 74 cases, 88 Positional abnormalities of atrioventricular valves in transposition of the great arteries including double outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular valve straddling and malattachment, 1135 Prenatal closure of the foramen ovale in complete transposition of great vessels, 563 Prognosis for the newborn with transposition of the great arteries, 96 Quantitative analysis of postoperative changes in the pulmoflary vasculature of patients with complete transposition of the great arteries and pulmonary hypertension, 284 Right and left ventricular function after the Mustard procedure in transposition of the great arteries, 276 Role of prostaglandin El infusion in the management of transposition of the great arteries, 691 Selective coronary arteriography in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries, 1201 Use of prostaglandin E, in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries and intact ventricular septum, 76

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Trauma Mural vegetations at the site of endocardial trauma in infective endocarditis complicating idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis, 569 Tricuspid regurgitation Acquired cyanotic heart disease secondary to traumatic tricuspid regurgitation, 1401 Tricuspid stenosis Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Tricuspid valve Two dimensional echocardiography in differentiating right atrial and tricuspid valve mass lesions, 1207 Trimazosin Cardiocirculatory effects of afterload reduction with oral trimazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 126 Tumors Two dimensional echocardiography in differentiating right atrial and tricuspid valve mass lesions, 1207

Ultrastructural studies Fine structure of cells and their histologic organization within internodai pathways of the heart: clinical and electrocardiographic implications, 345 Fine structure of internodal pathways, 365 Structural changes in a porcine xenograft after implantation for 105 months, 761

Vagus nerve Anatomic and physiologic considerations of a cardiogenic hypertensive chemoreflex, 852 Coronary pressor reflexes, 849 Valve disease Acquired cyanotic heart disease secondary to traumatic tricuspid regurgitation, 1401 Echocardiographic recognition of atrioventricular valve stenosis associated with endocardial cushion defect: pathologic and surgical correlates, 1326 Endocardial cushion defect associated with car triatriatum sinistrum or supravalve mitral ring, 1339 Left ventricular function at rest and during exercise after aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation, 1297 Mechanism of nitroglycerin effect in valvular aortic stenosis, 1371 M mode and cross-sectional echocardiographic features of flail posterior mitral leaflets, 1383 Serial echocardiographic appearance of healing bacterial vegetations, 754 Submitral calcification or sclerosis in elderly patients: M mode and two dimensional echocardiography in “mitral anulus calcification”, 31 Variant of congenital aortic valve disease (LE). 578 Valve prostheses Hemodynamic evaluation of the Carpentier-Edwards bioprosthesis in the aortic position, 209

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Cardiac pumping ability in rats with experimental renal and genetic hypertension, 979 Computerized echocardiographic analysis to detect abnormal systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in children with aortic stenosis, 478 Detection of left ventricular functional reserve by supine exercise hemodynamics in patients with severe, chronic heart failure, 1062 Echocardiographic evaluation of right ventricular function in complete transposition of the great arteries: angiographic correlates, 270 Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular function in children with congestive cardiomyopathy, 1332 Effect of sublingual nitroglycerin on left ventricular function at rest and during spontaneous angina pectoris: assessment with a radionuclide approach, 1365 Effects of oral quinidine on left ventricular performance in normal subjects and patients with congestive cardiomyopathy, 714 Hemodynamic effects of intravenous metoprolol, 1195 Hydralazine in the ~na~ment of left ventricular failure, 303 Improvement of exercise-induced left ventricular dysfunction with oral propranolol in patients with coronary heart disease, 3 18 Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447 Left ventricular function at rest and during exercise after aortic valve replacement in patients with aortic regurgitation, 1297 Performance of the failing and nonfailing right ventricle of patients with pulmonary hypertension, 1050 Pharmacokinetics of digoxin in patients with acute myocardiai infarction, 1190 Right and left ventricular function after the mustard procedure in transposition of the great arteries, 276 Role of vasoconstrictor mechanisms in the control of left ventricular performance of the normal and damaged heart, 10 19 Serial noninvasive assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy and function after surgical correction of aortic regurgitation, 585 Temporal relation between onset of cell anoxia and ischemic contractile failure, 741 The metabolic demand and oxygen supply of the heart: physiologic and clinical considerations, 722 Ventricular function and coronary hemodynamics in hypertensive heart disease, 999 Ventricular hypertrophy

Indications for surgical replacement of the mitral valve, 148 Retrograde left ventricular catheterization in patients with a Bjork-Shiley valve prosthesis (LE), 578 Structural changes in a porcine xenograft after implantation for 105 months, 761 Vascular resistance Integration of reflex responses in the control of blood pressure and vascular resistance, 903 Vasoeonstrictors Role of vasoconstrictor mechanisms in the control of left ventricular performance of the normal and damaged heart, jOI Vasodilators Cardiocirculatory effects of afterioad reduction with oral trimazosin in severe chronic congestive heart failure, 126 Hydralazine in the management of left ventricular failure, 303 Marked early attenuation of hemodynamic effects of oral prazosin therapy in chronic congestive heart failure, 540 Oral Vasodilator therapy (LE), 1413 Venae cavae Echocardiographic findings in patients with left superior vena cava and dilated coronary sinus, 158 Ventricle, right Performance of the failing and nonfailing right ventricle of patients with pulmonary hypertension, 1050 Right ventricular diastolic pressure in coronary artery disease, 1263 Ventricular arrhythmias See also specific type Management of intractable ventricular tachyarrhythmias after myocardial infarction, 329 Use of isoproterenol as an aid to electric induction of chronic recurrent ventricular tachycardia, 705 Ventricular contractility Effects of coronary bypass grafting on resting left ventricular contraction in patients studied 1 to 2 years after operation. 601 Ventricular couplets Coexistence of ventricular parasystole and ventricular couplets: mechanism and clinical significance, 435 Ventricular dimensions Increased right ventricular wall thickness on echocardiography in amyloid infiltrative cardiomyopathy, 1391 Left ventricular end-systolic pressure-dimension and stress-length relations in normal human subjects. 1311 Left ventricular mass and wall thickness in hype~ension, 936 Ventrtcular fibriilatlon Mechanism of ventricular fibrillation in man, 623 Ventricular function Acute effects of oral propranolol on hemodynamic responses to upright exercise, 132 Alterations of cardiac performance in rats with established spontaneous hypertension, 994 Assessment of early ventricular systole by first pass radionuclide angiography: useful method for detection of left ventricular dysfunction at rest in patients with coronary artery disease, 459 Cardiac load and function in hypertension, 1007 1436

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See also Hypertrophy Myocardial oxygen consumption in chronic heart disease: role of wall stress, hypertrophy and coronary reserve, 730 Myocardial oxygen supply in left ventricular hypertrophy and coronary heart disease, 747 Serial noninvasive assessment of left ventricular hypertrophy and function after surgical correction of aortic regurgitation, 58.5

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Ventricular outflow tract Clinical manifestations of dynamic left ventricular outflow tract stenosis in infants with d-transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum, 290 Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transposition of the great arteries: an angiographic study of 74 cases, 88 Ventricular parasystole Coexistence of ventricular parasystole and ventricular couplets: mechanism and clinical significance, 435 Ventricular pressures Left ventricular end-systolic pressure-dimension and stress-length relations in normal human subjects, 1311 Noninvasive measurement of ventricular pressure throughout systole, 466 Pulmonary edema associated with low left ventricular filling pressures, 1410 Ventricular pseudoaneurysm Noninvasive diagnosis of left ventricular pseudoaneurysm, 372 Ventricular septal defect Congenital bilateral subclavian steal, 101 Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction in transposition of the great arteries: an angiographi~ study of 74 cases, 88 Ventricular tachycardia Atrial induction of ventricular tachycardia: reentry versus triggered automaticity, 1 Polymorphous ventricular tachycardia: clinical features and treatment, 339 R on T or R on P phenomenon? relation to the genesis of ventricular tachycardia, 632 Ventricular volumes Influence of heart rate on left ventricular ejection fraction in human beings, 447 Mechanism of nitroglycerin effect in valvular aortic stenosis, 137 1 Noninvasive measurement of ventricular pressure throughout systote, 466 Right and left ventricular function after the mustard procedure in transposition of the great arteries, 276 Ventricular wail motion Assessment of the functional significance of coronary artery disease with atrial pacing and cardiokymography. 1283 Left bundle branch block: angiographic segmental wall motion abnormalities, 1046 Ventricular wall stress Myocardial oxygen consumption in chronic heart disease: role of wall stress, hypertrophy and coronary reserve, 730 Verapamil Experimental studies on the pathogenesis of asystole after verapamil in the dog, 651

Vitamins Vitamin therapy for infarction (LE), 581

Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome in neonate (LE), 576 Work Effect of surgical versus medical therapy on return to work in patients with coronary artery disease, 105