International Journal of Cardiology 90 (2003) 347–349 www.elsevier.com / locate / ijcard
Volume contents Volume 90 (2003)
REVIEW ARTICLES New aspects for the role of physical training in the management of patients with chronic heart failure, S. Adamopoulos, J.T. Parissis, D.Th. Kremastinos (Greece) Secondary prevention in coronary heart disease patients with low HDL: which options do we have?, A.H. Liem, J.W. Jukema, D.J. van Veldhuisen (The Netherlands)
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES Prognostic importance of the quantification of myocardial viability in revascularized patients with coronary artery disease and moderate-to-severe left ˇ ´ J. Cerny, ´ L. ventricular dysfunction, J. Meluzın, ˇˇ ˇ ´ ´ R. Groch, M. Frelich, F. Stetka, L. Spinarova, Panovsky´ (Czech Republic) Editorial comment: Defining the threshold of myocardial viability by dobutamine echocardiography, P.A. Grayburn (USA) Accuracy of European diagnostic criteria for familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a genotyped population, P. Charron, J.F. Forissier, M.E. Amara, O. Dubourg, M. Desnos, J.-B. Bouhour, R. Isnard, A. ´ ¨ Hagege, A. Benaıche, P. Richard, K. Schwartz, M. Komajda (France) Editorial comment: Accuracy of the diagnostic criteria for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a major clinical need unmet by current tools, E. Arbustini, L. Tavazzi (Italy) Sudden cardiac death: a 2400-year-old diagnosis?, S. Mirchandani, C.K.L. Phoon (USA) Assessment of myocardial perfusion in patients with coronary artery disease. Comparison of myocardial 99m contrast echocardiography and Tc MIBI single photon emission computed tomography, M. Olszowska, M. Kostkiewicz, W. Tracz, T. Przewl«ocki (Poland) Poor agreement between dipyridamole-stress tech netium-99m-tetrofosmin myocardial perfusion single photon emission computed tomography and twodimensional echocardiography in Kawasaki disease, Y.C. Fu, F.Y. Liu, S.C. Tsai, B. Hwang, C.S. Chi (Taiwan) doi:10.1016 / S0167-5273( 03 )00232-8
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The effect of statin therapy on ventricular late potentials in acute myocardial infarction, M. Kayikcioglu, L. Can, H. Evrengul, S. Payzin, H. Kultursay (Turkey) Forty-years (1961–2001) of all-cause and coronary heart disease mortality and its determinants: the Corfu cohort from the Seven Countries Study, D.B. Panagiotakos, C. Chrysohoou, C. Pitsavos, A. Menotti, A. Dontas, J. Skoumas, C. Stefanadis, P. Toutouzas (Greece, Italy) Tissue Doppler analysis is hindered in abnormal wall ¨ motion and changes in afterload, S. Muller, T. Bartel, J. Koopman, N.G. Pandian, R. Erbel, O. Pachinger (Austria, Germany, The Netherlands, USA) Effects of external periodic perturbations on short-term heart rate variability in healthy subjects and ischemic heart disease patients, N. Igosheva, V. Gridnev, E. Kotelnikova, P. Dovgalevsky (Russia) Studies on apoptosis and fibrosis in skeletal musculature: a comparison of heart failure patients with and without cardiac cachexia, G.S. Filippatos, C. Kanatselos, D.D. Manolatos, B. Vougas, A. Sideris, D. Kardara, S.D. Anker, F. Kardaras, B. Uhal (Greece, Germany, UK, USA)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Cardiac biomarkers after internal cardioversion for atrial fibrillation: detection of myocardial injury, B. Gorenek, G. Kudaiberdieva, O. Goktekin, Y. C ¸ avusoglu, A. Birdane, M. Alkan, A. Unalir, N. Ata, B. Timuralp (Turkey) Acute ST segment elevation myocardial infarction from myocardial bridging of left anterior descending coronary artery, R.M. Gowda, I.A. Khan, A.W. Ansari, R.A. Cohen (USA) Pulmonary hypertension manifesting a decade later in a patient with extrahepatic portal hypertension and splenic arterial aneurysms, S. Harikrishnan, T. Titus, J.M. Tharokan (India)
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Platelet aggregation in left ventricular thrombus formation after acute anterior myocardial infarction: mean platelet volume, M.B. Yilmaz, O. Ozeke, Y. Akin, U. Guray, S.F. Biyikoglu, H.L. Kisacik, S. Korkmaz (Turkey) A case of cor triatriatum diagnosed during pregnancy, C.G. Sajeev, T.N.S. Roy, M.N. Krishnan, K. Venugopal (India) Guillain–Barre´ syndrome after myocardial infarction, E. Ng, P.J. Stafford (UK)
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REVIEW ARTICLE Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors: are they involved in atherosclerosis progression?, P. Puddu, G.M. Puddu, A. Muscari (Italy)
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ORIGINAL ARTICLES An open label crossover trial of effects of metronidazol on hyperlipidaemia, K. Shamkhani, M. Azarpira, M.H. Akbar (Iran) Editorial comment: Imidazole derivatives as cholesterol-lowering agents, A.S. Wierzbicki (UK) Spontaneous echo contrast in the descending aorta in patients without aortic dissection: associated clinical and echocardiographic characteristics, C. Kaymaz, ¨ ¨ N. Ozdemir, C. Kırma, M. Ozkan (Turkey) Hemodynamic effects of sildenafil in patients with stable ischemic heart disease, W.C. Manfroi, P.R.A. Caramori, A.J. Zago, R. Melchior, V. Zen, M. Accordi, D. Gutierres, C. Noer (Brazil) Cardiac changes in subclinical and overt hyperthyroid women: retrospective study, M. Donatelli, P. Assennato, V. Abbadi, M.L. Bucalo, V. Compagno, S. Lo Vecchio, L. Messina, V. Russo, A. Schembri, V. Torregrossa, G. Licata (Italy) Predictive value of myocardial tomoscintigraphy in asymptomatic diabetic patients after percutaneous coronary intervention, I. L’Huillier, Y. Cottin, C. Touzery, M. Zeller, J.-C. Beel, M. Fraison, B. Verges, P. Louis, F. Brunotte, J.E. Wolf (France) Hepatitis A IgG seropositivity and coronary atherosclerosis assessed by angiography, J. Auer, M. Leitinger, R. Berent, W. Prammer, T. Weber, E. Lassnig, B. Eber (Austria) Fluvastatin attenuates nitrate tolerance in patients with ischemic heart disease complicating hypercholesterolemia, T. Inoue, K. Takayanagi, T. Hayashi, S. Morooka (Japan) Acute myocardial infarction: differing preinfarction and clinical features according to infarct site and ˇ ´ D. Miric, ´ I. Jukic´ (Croatia) gender, V. Culic, The relationship between age and production of tumour necrosis factor-a in healthy volunteers and patients with chronic heart failure, S. von Haehling, S. Genth-Zotz, R. Sharma, A.P. Bolger, W. Doehner, P.J. Barnes, A.J.S. Coats, S.D. Anker (UK, Germany)
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Risk factors for cardiovascular disease in a Brazilian population-based cohort study, R.S. Moraes, F.D. Fuchs, L. Beltrami Moreira, M. Wiehe, G. Martins Pereira, S. Costa Fuchs (Brazil) Arrhythmias during acute and chronic exercise in chronic heart failure, R. Belardinelli (Italy) Silent myocardial ischemia in diabetic and nondiabetic patients with coronary artery disease, C. Falcone, L. Nespoli, D. Geroldi, C. Gazzaruso, M.P. Buzzi, C. Auguadro, L. Tavazzi, P.J. Schwartz (Italy) Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors achieve prolonged transgene expression in mouse myocardium and arteries in vivo: a comparative study with ¨ adenovirus vectors, G. Vassalli, H. Bueler, J. Dudler, L.K. von Segesser, L. Kappenberger (Switzerland) Indium-111 monoclonal antimyosin cardiac scintigraphy in suspected acute myocarditis: evolution and diagnostic impact, Z.J. Margari, M.I. AnastasiouNana, J. Terrovitis, S. Toumanidis, E.V. Agapitos, J.P. Lekakis, J.N. Nanas (Greece) Reciprocal activation of leukocyte–endothelial adhesion molecules in acute coronary syndromes, Ross T. Murphy, J.B. Foley, P. Crean, M.J. Walsh (Ireland) Comparison between warm blood and crystalloid cardioplegia during open heart surgery, R. Ferreira, C. Fraga, F. Carrasquedo, H. Hourquebie, D. Grana, J. Milei (Argentina) Increased soluble platelet / endothelial cell adhesion molecule-1 in the early stages of acute coronary syndromes, T. Soeki, Y. Tamura, H. Shinohara, K. Sakabe, Y. Onose, N. Fukuda (Japan) Variation of the platelet glycoprotein IIIa PI A1 /A2 allele frequencies in the three ethnic groups of Singapore, J. Lim, S. Lal, K.C. Ng, K.-S. Ng, N. Saha, C.-K. Heng (Singapore) Non-invasive evaluation of coronary artery bypass grafts using multi-slice computed tomography: initial clinical experience, C. Burgstahler, A. Kuettner, A.F. Kopp, C. Herdeg, J. Martensen, C.D. Claussen, S. Schroeder (Germany) The predictive power of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol for coronary calcification, M.A. Allison, M. Wright, J. Tiefenbrun (USA) Negative stress echocardiographic study predicts excellent long-term prognosis in patients with erectile dysfunction, M. Kamalesh, A. Ariana, R. Matorin, S. Sawada (USA) Chlamydia pneumoniae in the atherosclerotic plaques of patients with unstable angina undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting: does it have prognostic ´ implications?, J. Zamorano, J. Garcıa-Tejada, A. ˜´ ´ Suarez, E. Culebras, J. Castanon, R. Moreno, F. ´ Reguillo, M. Gil, J. Picazo, L. Sanchez-Harguindey (Spain)
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Anaemia is an independent predictor of poor outcome in patients with chronic heart failure, J. Szachniewicz, J. Petruk-Kowalczyk, J. Majda, A. Kaczmarek, K. Reczuch, P.R. Kalra, M.F. Piepoli, S.D. Anker, W. Banasiak, P. Ponikowski (Poland, UK, Germany) Coronary artery bypass surgery in patients with severe left ventricular dysfunction, C. Selim Isbir, T. Yildirim, S. Akgun, A. Civelek, N. Aksoy, M. Oz, S. Arsan (Turkey) A comparative study of the in vitro antioxidant activity ˜ of statins, F. Franzoni, A. Quinones-Galvan, F. Regoli, E. Ferrannini, F. Galetta (Italy)
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CASE REPORT Massive chronic atrial thrombosis, M.A. Losi, P. Golino, S. Betocchi, M. Ragni, M. Aversa, M. Chiariello (Italy)
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Large atherosclerotic plaque of the abdominal aorta denying vascular access during cardiac catheterization, B. Sievers, R. Kickuth, B. Brandts, R.H. Mohiaddin, H.-J. Trappe (Germany, UK)
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Acute myocardial infarction with normal coronary arteries associated with iatrogenic hyperthyroidism, R.M. Gowda, I.A. Khan, G. Soodini, B.C. Vasavada, T.J. Sacchi (USA) ´ F. Marın, ´ V. Heart valve disease in acromegaly, E. Paya, ´ J.G. Martınez, ´ Climent, A.M. Pico, F. Sogorb (Spain) Cardiogenic shock due to myocardial infarction caused by coronary vasospasm associated with hyperthyroidism, E. Lassnig, R. Berent, J. Auer, B. Eber (Austria) Maternally inherited unbalanced translocation of chromosome 22 in a 5-day-old neonate with persistent fifth aortic arch and tetralogy of Fallot, M.-L. Lee, L.-Y. Tsao, B.-T. Wang, M.-H. Lee, I.-S. Chiu (Taiwan) Pedal Tc-99m phytate lymphoscintigraphy in primary chylopericardium, Fu-Chung Chen, Jin-Long Huang, Wan-Yu Lin, Chih-Tai Ting (Taiwan) A case of pseudocyanotic coloring of skin after prolonged use of amiodarone, M.A. Ioannides, J.A. Moutiris, C. Zambartas (Cyprus) Volume Contents Author Index Subject Index
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