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Aarynen M, 35J Abadal-Berini L, 623 Abe H, 1224 Aber VR, 635 Abernethy D, 103G Abinader EG, 968, 1139 Abraham AS, 177 Aburatani H, 60B Acampora D, 534 Aglira BA, 435 Akers MS, 923 Alberti E, 285 Alberts AW, lOJ, 16J Alboliras ET, 435 Alderman EL. 1093 Alegrja E, 1163 Alexander RW, 1268 al Fagih MR. 264 al Faraidi Y, 264 al Kasab S, 264 Allen HD, 824 Allfie A, 439 Alpert JS, 310 Alpert MA, 126 Altman DG, 755 al Zaibag M, 264 Ambos HD, 556 Ambrose J, 472 Ambrose JA, 660 Amsterdam EA, II, 241 Anderson AJ, 214 Anderson DW, 658,789 Anderson JL, ID, 620, 538 Anderson KM, 147 Anderson RA, 989 Anderson RH. 1136 And& L, 114G Andreotti F, 635 Andresen D, 968 Andrews J, 1142 Andrews ML, 679 Anselmo EG, 352 Arena VC, 1186 Armistead CW Jr, 419 Armstrong MA, 971 Armstrong PW, 1024, 1164 Armstrona RB. 9E Arnold LG., 327 Aronow WS, 336,644, 1124, 1295 Araue JM, 159 Arsenian MA, 989 Arvan S, 197, 1153 Ash KO, 703 Ashizawa A, 1224 Ashmeg A, 264 Atkins DL, 1197 Atkinson J, 276 Autran B, 1311 Avolio RM, 25K Ayers C, 1062 Badhwar K, 873,959 Bagger JP, 686 Ba;JX, 794 Bairn DS, 941 Baker MT, 209 Baker PB, 341 Balkin J, 841, 1153 Ball SP, 310 Ballester-Rod& M, 623 Bamberg W, 935 Ban T, 202 Banai S, 661 Banhardt U, 82E

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Bar FW, 140 Blr FWHM, 387 Barber G, 435 Barboriak JJ, 214 Barbour DJ, 1134 Bardy GH, 7 18 Barlow GK, 703 Barnhart JW, 52B Barrie M, 1142 Barry WH, 538 Bashore TM, 381 Bass AS, 37C Bass EB, 1186 Bassenge E, 40E Beard JT II, 486 Beaver TR, 165 Behar JV, 322,512 Behroz A, 337 Beinborn W, 935 Belhassen B, 835, 1152 Bellefleur J-P, 598 Bellinger RL, 1314 Bembom MCB, 977 Benditt DG, 901 Benhorin J, 679 Bennett D, 995 Bennett DH, 315 Benson DW Jr, 225,566 Benson LN, 431, 1089 Bentley MD, 59G Beppu S, 641 Bern&Roqueta L, 623 Berns E, 44D Bernstein AD, 71 Berre J, 419 Berry PH, 16J Betocchi S, 523 Betriu A, 1153 Beukema WP, 1146 Bhargava V, 131 Bierman FZ, 121 Bilheimer DW, 1J Billingham ME, 325 Binkley PF, 94, 341 Biro GP, 30C Bitar J, 1318 Black AJR, 809 Black WH, 1208 Blake J, 246 Blakley M, 1142 Blank F, 476 Block PC, 760 Blomqvist CG, 449 Bloom S, 658 Blount SG, 165 Bobbio M, 313,675,896 Boden WE, 1000 Bokelman DL, 16J Boleza E, 493 Bonchek LI. 1153 Bonnier HJRM, 2.5 Bonow RO. 988 Borer J, 179 Borer JS, 246, 257 Borggrefe M, 1292 Borow KM, 46C Borquaye S, 278 Bortolotti U, 1130, 1132 Bottner RK, 1038 Boucher CA. 799 Bourland M, ‘1299 Braat SH, 140 Brackett DJ, 1176 Brand DA, 534 Braun S, 551

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Braunwald E, 179, 860 Breisblatt WM, 1005 Brickman AE, 476 Brigden GS, 239 Bristow JD, 606 Brockway B, 493 Brodde O-E, 24C Brooks NH, 315 Brown M, 832 Brown RT, 1310 Brugada P, lOD, 387,454 Brunner H, 63E Brusca A, 675 Bruschke AVG, 142 Brush JE Jr, 534 Brymer JF, 358 Bubien RS, 741 Buchbinder NA, 270 Buckey JC, 449 Buller NP, 3lA, 49E Burkart F, 99E Burns MJ, 1005 Bush D, 1202 Butman S, 472 Buxton AE, 528 Byers SL, 1180 Byrd BF Ill, 486 Byrne A, 962 Cabin HS, 534 Cain ME, 556 Calabresi L, 738 Cali G, 1 Camerini F, 285 Camm AJ, 906, 1319 Camm J, 995 Campanile G, 147 Campbell CA, 513 Campese VM, 85G Cannom DS, 83 Cannon RO Ill, 306 Cannon SR, 113 Cantin B, 892 Cantraine F, 419 Capone RJ, 1000 Caralis DG. 474 Caralps-Riera JM, 623 Caramel0 C,‘47G Cardo M, 159 Carew TE, 6B Carleen E, 192 Carleen ED, 679 Carlier E, 419 Carlson LA, 378 Carney RM, 714 Car0 R, 493 Carpenter J, 94 Carrio-Gasset I, 623 Carroll JD, 46C Carruthers SG, 562 Caruana MP, 239, 755 Casale PN, 799 Cashman PMM, 755 Castellanos A, 653, 833 Castellb R, 1103 Cauchemez B, 220 Cavallaro C, 229 Cercek B, 20 Chaitman BR. 1155, 1180 Chambers J, 873 Chan K-L, 1142 Chance B. 1234 Chandraratna PAN, 882 Chaney RH, 1058 Charbonnier F, 1048

Charru A, 1072 Chassat C, 723 Chatellier G, 1072 Chatterjee K, 46A, 57C, 1228 Chavez AM, 253 Cheitlin M, 606 Chen Y, 399 Cheng TO, 512, 660 Cheng WD, 528 Cherchi A, 827 Chiariello M, 523 Child JS, 512 Chin AJ, 435 Chin B, 1068 Chino M, 484 Chisholm RJ, 1024, 1164 Chisolm GM Ill, 208 Chouty F, 35D, 220 Christiansen JC, 147 Christlieb AR, 665 Ciavolella M, 312 Cigalotto A, 285 Cleland JGF, 55A Clements SD, 234 Cobb FR, 100 Cobbs BW Jr, 363 Cody R, 136 Cohen A, 399 Cohen Al, 276 Cohen EJ, 971 Cohen I, 896 Cohen M, 646 Cohn JN, lA, 25A Colan S, 1256 Colan SD, 778 Colardyn FA, 68C Condorelli G, 745 Condorelli M, 745 Conway MA, 53E Coombs B, 172 Cooper B, 843 Coplan NL, 334 Coppola E, 670 Coiliett JR; 923 Cornoni-Huntley J, 59 Corrao JM, 316 Cortellessa MC, 670 Corvol P, 1072 Cosgrove DM Ill, 253 Cosio FG. 821 Coughlin BJ, 25K Coumel P, 350,220 Coussaert E, 419 Crawford MH, 113, 372 Crevasse L, 221 Cribier A, 598 Crijns HJ, 1303 Cripps T, 995 Cunningham M, 377 Cunnion RE, 789 d’ Agay MF, 13 11 Dagenais GR, 892 Dalen JE, 179 Daly PA, 1228 Dana T-Y. 439 Da&l WG, 639, 837 Daniels SR, 785 Dansby C, 150 Dargie HJ, 55A Davidson R, 1062 Davies GJ, 635 Davis D, 2E Davis VG, 860 DeBakey L, 458

De Bart ACW, 635 De Geest H, 117 Deaoulet P, 1072 Dehmer GJ, 1298 de Klerk NH. 962 De Leonardis V, 590 Delia E, 1085 Deligonul U, 474 De Luca N, 745 De Marco T, 46A, 57C, 1228 Demeter RJ, 413 DeMots H, 172 Deorsola A, 313, 675 DePuey EG, 234 DeQuattro V, 751 Desnoyers MR, 1078 de Swart H, 387 Dethy M, 723 Devereux RB, 246, 257, 1297 Diamond GA, 175, 313, 675, 806,896, 1113, 1152 Diethelm AG, 490 Dietz R, 764 DiPette D, 1062 DiPette DJ, 103G, 109G Distante A, 67, 694 Dittrich H, 1 Diver DJ, 1309 Doherty NS, 778 Dolan LM, 785 Donato A, 655 Donnelly CM, 121 Donnerstein RL, 155 D’Onofrio A, 229 Dorosti K, 873, 959 Dotevall A, 114G Dougherty AH, 44D Douglas JR, 3OC Douglas JS Jr, 809 Dove JT, 1299 Drash AL, 27B Dreas L, 285 Dressler FA, 1144 Drexler H, lE, 82E Driscoll DJ, 617 Dubuc M, 403 Duff HJ, 736 Dumesnil JG, 892, 1151 Dunnigan A, 225,566 Duran AC, 159 Dwyer E, 1085 Dyck JD, 1089 Dzau VJ, 30G, 76E Edwards JE, 292 Edwards WD, 424 Effron MB, 1202 Eggertsen R, 114G Eguchi Y, 917 Ehmke H, 68E Eichhorn EJ, 945 Eigler N, 270 Eliot RS, 25G Ellis SG, 363, 368 Elson JJ, 1186 Emmot WW, 83C Emond LH, 945 Enas NH, 175 Ensing GJ, 617 Epstein AE, 490, 741 Epstein S, 1124, 1295 Erikson U, 378, 448 Erlebacher JA, 257 Erney TP, 15E Ernst SMPG, 142 Esteves CA, 977 Etienne F, 336, 644

Evans J, 1311 Evans RR, 109G Ewing L, 41D, 818 Ewy GA, 472 Eyman RK, 1058

Garan H, 39H, 83, 186 Garavaglia GE, 594, 912, 1053 Garb JL, 476 Gardin JM, 439 Garg A, 44J Garrison JC, 36G Fabregas R, 821 Gaspardone A, 3 12 Fagbemi 0, 18C Gavish A, 661 Farquhar JW, 51 Geibel A, 337 Farugui A, 1153 Gerber LI, 1241 Fauci AS, 789 Gerson RJ, 16J Feldman RL, 172,698 Gersony WM, 121 Fellows KE, 327, 1310 Gertz SD, 173 Ferenchick GS, 164 Gessa G, 827 Ferguson DW, 1048 Gettes LS, 814 Ferraro N, 1234 Ghali J, 46C Gheorghiade M, 358 Fetter J, 901 Fields CD, 1078 Gianelly RE, 476 Fiksen-Olsen MJ, 59G Gibbons GH, 30G Gibson RS, 1000 Finkel MS, 1281 Gill CC, 253 Finkelstein D, 83 Gillette PC, 41D, 818 Finnie KJ, 1011 Giloin E, 1 Fischell TA, 1093 Ginsburg R, 1093 Fischer TA, 764 Gioffre P, 312 Fisher J, 246 Giustino G, 523 Fisher LD, 1155 Glasser SP, 518 Fisher M, 1062 Gleim GW, 173, 334 Fitchett DH, 829 Glicksman FL, 833 Fitzpatrick PG, 538 Gluck A, 551 Fixler DE, 343 Gold HK, 186 Fleming T, 472 Goldberg LI, 37C Fletcher BJ, 478 Goldberg RB, 578 Fletcher GF, 478 Goldberg RJ, 179 Fletcher RD, 276, 399 Goldhammer E, 1139 Flores B, 393 Golding LR, 253 Fogoros RN, 1186 Goldman L, 534 Folland ED, 113 Goldstein S, 1318 Fong LV, 1136 Goldstein SA, 590, 1043 Fontes VF, 977 Gollub SB, 83C Foran RB, 1256 Gonasun LM, 1068 Forbes C, 829 Gordon S, 1152 Forman S, 179 Gore JM, 179,310 Fortmann SP, 89 Gorgels APM, 140 Foster JR, 814 Gorin I, 1311 Foulds R, 53C Gorlin R, 472 Foulds RA, 41C Gorman L, 368 Frais MA, 73C Goto K, 887 Franceschini 0, 73B Gottdiener J, 399 Francis GS, 9A Gottlich CM, 843 Franc0 I, 873, 959 Gottlieb CD, 393 Fredell PA, 62D Frederiksen JW, 964 Gottlieb S. 661 Freedland KE, 714 Goy J-J, 38D Graboys TB, II, 181, 1146 Freedman DS, 2 14 Freedom RM, 431, 957, 1089 Graybar G, 490 Greco R, 229 Freeman MR, 1024, 1164 Green HL, 718 Frenneaux M, 832 Greenberg BH, 606 Freye CJ, 322 Frohlich ED, lG, 79G, 912, 1053 Greppi B, 257 Griffith BP, 1140 Fromer M, 403 Grines CL, 352 Fudo T, 202 Fujii T, 576 Grollier G, 173 Grossbard CL, 181 Fukazawa C, 60B Funahashi T, 66B Grossman E, 594 Gruchow HW. 214 Furberg CD, 41A Grundy SM;44J Fuster M, 821 Guerra F, 1130, 1132 Fuster V, 646 Fyhrquist F, 20A Guerraty AJ, 829 Guertler-Krawczynska E, 234 Gabliani GI, 474 Guiney TIE, 799 Gaffney JW, 121 Guiraudon CM, 733 Galasso D, 71 Guiraudon GM, 733 Galbraith TA, 341 Gundry SR, 8 11 Gallivan MVE, 1144 Guthrie G, 1062 Gallucci V, 1130, 1132 Guthrie GP Jr, 41G Ganz W, 20 Gwynne JT, 488 Gao SZ, 876

Haass M, 764 Habbab MA, 822 Hackett DR, 635 Hackworthy RA, 538 Hadden W, 59 Haisty WK, 982 Halim M, 264, 822 Hamlin NJ, 164 Hammermeister KE, 108, 113 Hammill 8, 41D Hansen CL, 923 Hanson W, 824 Hara H, 316 Hardesty RL, 1140 Hargrove WC Ill, 393 Hartman E, 1218 Hartz RS, 964 Harvey JR, 941 Hasenfuss G, 104E Hashimoto T, 202 Haskell WL, 51, 89 Hassanein K, 83C Hayano M, 9 17 Haynes SG, 59 Heber ME, 239 Heger JJ, 1126 Heise CT, 6 17 Heiss WH, 104E Held AC, 310, 488 Hellestrand KJ, 16D Helton JG, 435 Helve E, 35J Henderson M, 1248 Hendricks D, 778 Heng MK, 794 Henning H, 1 Henningsen P, 686 Henry WL, 439 Herbst CP, 1176 Hernandez PH, 751 Herrold EM, 246 Herron JM, 109G Higano ST, 1151 Higglnbotham MB, 100 Higgins CB, 7K Hill NE, 209 Hill TC, 945 Hillis LD, 330, 843 Hilty MR, 20E Hinohara T, 322 Hirata Y, 56, 576 Hiroi M, 82E Hlatky MA, 175 Hochart P, 892 Hochreiter C. 257 Hod H, 20 Hoff PI, 585 Hoffmann HJML, 25 Hoqlund P, 114G Hoit BD, 131 Hollenberg NK, 72E Hollman J, 873, 959 Holme I, 37B Holubarsch C. 104E Hopkins PN, 703 Horacek MB. 1285 Horio Y, 887 Horowitz LN, 461, 482, 1292 Hoshida S, 868 Hougen T, 1078 Howanitz EP, 341 Howe CM, 322,512 Hoyne WP, 964 Hugenholtz PG, 1C Huikuri HV, 833 Hunt S, 876 Hunt SC, 703

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AUTHOR INDEX lannarelli M, 670 ldris M, 264 lida T, 576 lizuka M, 56 llvento JP, 83 lmamura Y, 917 lndolfi C, 523 Ino T. 431 lshii K, 138 lshii M, 56 lsner JM, 493, 1078 lsshiki T, 79G ltakura l-f, 60B Ito K, 576 lvey TD, 718 lwata S, 1224 lzzo NJ Jr, 36G Jaattela A, 35J Jablonsky G, 10 11 Jackson K, 803 Jackson NC, 73C Jackson RL, 778 Jain A, 614 Jain R, 543 Jakubowski AT, 270 Janicki JS, 35A Janier M, 1311 Jansen DE, 923 Jarboe JM, 809 Jaski BE, 63C Jason M, 246 Jawad I, 444 Jessup M, 1307 Jeunemaitre X, 1072 Johansson J, 37B Johnson DE, 83C Johnson G, 718 Johnson RM, 36G Jolivette DM, 62D Jones MG, 322 Jones PE, 315 Jordan LJ, 841 Jorde LB, 708 Jorfeldt LS, 25E Josephson ME, 528 Judy WV, 413 Julien J. 1072 Juni JE,.352 Just H, IE, 2E, 82E, 104E, 337, 347 Kaarsalo E, 35J Kadish AH, 580 Kahn RJ, 419 Kaijser L, 378 Kalan JM, 36, 144, 152, 988, 1144 Kalkunte JR, 170 Kaltenbach M, 935 Kamada T, 868 Kambara H, 202 Kan JS, 327 Kander NH, 368 Kangawa K, 56 Kannel WB, 1109 Kapoor WN, 1186 Kappenberger L, 38D Karakawa S, 576 Karhade V, 319 Karliner JS, 1129 Karlsson J, 108E Kasab SA, 822 Kaski JC, 832 Kasper W, 337,347 Katz AM, 3A Katz J, 30 1, 330

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Katz S, 36E Kaufman MP, 58E Kaufmann U, 38D Kavadias M, 1285 Kawai C, 138,202 Kawanishi DT, 882 Kay ON, 490,741 Keane JF, 327, 1256 Kehoe RF, 1213 Keiser HR. 1281 Keiter-Marek J, 824 Keller J, 59 Kelly DL, 126 Kelly PA, 83 Kenien GG, 665 Kenigsberg K, 170 Kent KK, 1038 Kent KM, 152 Keon WJ, 30C Kerber RE, 333, 1048 Keren A, 661 Keren G, 551 Kern MJ, 474 Kerr CR, 480, 1192 Khaja F, 358 Khan MI, 635 Khurana TR, 3 19 Kim SG, 71 Kim SS, 23D, 29D Kimball B, 1248 Kimura K, 1147 Kimura S, 751 King SB Ill, 2K, 363, 809 Kinney EL, 1311 Kinoshita S, 1147 Kiowski W, 99E Kirchheim H, 68E Kirkendall W, 1068 Kirklin JK, 490 Kirlin PC, 150, 164 Kirshenbaum J, 1266 Kisslo KB, 381 Kita T, 13B Kitabatake A, 868 Kitzis M, 1311 Kjekshus J, lA, 60A, 67A Klatsky AL, 971 Kleiger RE, 714, 1000 Kleiman RB, 528 Klein GJ, 733 Klein LS, 1126 Klein LW. 482 Klein MD; 24H Kligfield P, 257, 1043 Klomps HC, 25 Kloner RA, 513 Klbpper JW, 837 Kloss MW, 16J Kluft G, 635 Knatterud G, 179, 1151 Kodama T, 60B Koenigsberg M, 1124 Kohman LJ, 973 Kohmoto 0, 56 Koito H, 316, 985 Kojima S, 576 Kollath J, 935 Konina R. 598. 1241 Konishi G, 1147 Konishi J, 202 Kormos R, 1140 Kornbrust DJ, 16J Kornreich F, 1285 Korsmeyer C, 1299 Kosinski EJ, 945 Kostis JB, 1171 Kostuk WJ, 1011

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Kotchen TA, 41G Kou WH, 580 Kragel AH, 77 1, 1263 Kramer-Fox R, 257 Kratz C, 1256 Kreis A, 493 Kremastinos D, 1152 Kremers MS, 1208 Krishnamurthy GT, 606 Krishnaswami V, 172, 1098 Krivokapich J, 512 Krolewski AS, 665 Kromer EP, 161 Krucoff MW, 1038 Ku G, 778 Kubler W, 764 Kuchar DL, 39H Kuida H, 703 Kuikka JT, 1273 Kulkarni PV, 923 Kume N, 13B Kumon K, 641 Kuo LC, 968, 1139 Kuramochi M, 576, 1224 Kurgan A, 173 Kus T, 403 Kushner JA, 580 Kutayli F, 979 Kuzuya T, 868 Kwasman M, 57C Kyriakides 2, 1152 Laakso M, 1273 L’Abbate A, 67, 694 Labovitz AJ, 1180 LaCroix AZ, 59 Lahera V, 590 Lahiri A, 239, 755 Lai L, 827 Laird.C, 150 Lakier J, 1318 Lamas GA, 3 1 Landgraf H, 935 Lane HC, 789 Lang RE, 764 Lang RM, 46C Lange RA, 330 Laniado S, 551, 835 Lansimies E, 1273 Lantinga LJ, 209 Lanza GA, 670 Laragh JH, 246 Laramee P, 20 Lasry JE, 512 Lassvik C, 378 Lattanzi F, 67, 694 Lau C-P, 906 Lau D, 57C Lavine SJ, 444,488, 1098 Lazarus M, 439 Lear JL, 543 Lebeis MP, 665 LeBlanc RA, 403 Leclercq JF, 220 Lee DD-P, 75 1 Lee KL, 3D, 1038 Lee L, 982 Lee NH, 336,644 Lee P-K, 480 Lee RH. 1176 Lee TC; 1093 Leehev DJ, 1218 Leenhardt A, 220 Leggett SI, 322, 512 Lehmann MH. 803 Lehtonen A, 35J Leiboff RH, 658

Leier CV, 86E, 94 Leinbach RC, 186 LeJemtel TH, 36E Leland OS, 945 Lembo G, 745 Leon MB, 152 Letac B, 598, 1241 Levine MJ, 1309 Levine PA, 24H Levinson N, 1098 Lew D, 147 Levy R, 1153 Levy WS, 658 Lew AS, 20 Lewis AB, 649 Lewis BS, 20 Lewis SM, 665, 945 Li DL, 528 Lichtlen PR. 639, 837 Lie KI, 1303 Lieberman I, 278 Lieberman S, 1068 Liem LB, 78, 611 Liermann D, 935 Liew C-C, 20G Lima S, 1202 Limas C, 816 Limas CJ, 816 Lin S-L, 882 Lindsay BD, 556 Lindsay J Jr, 590, 1043 Lipkin DP, 49E Littman WJ, 1033 Litvack F, 270 Llorente C, 821 LoCicero J Ill, 964 Lock JE, 292,327 Loeb AL, 36G Loop FD, 253 Loscalzo J, 377, 1268 Lown 8, 181 Lubsen J, 73A Lucas AR, 1078 Lucas RV Jr, 292 Lucente M, 670 Lurie PR, 468 Lytle BW, 253 Macchi G, 53C MacDonald JS, 16J Madans JH, 59 Maggio C, 313 Magni A, 1130 Maarina J, 892 Magrini F, 53C Mahony L, 343 Malbecq W, 35J Mancini DM, 1234 Manley JC, 214 Mann DE, 408 Mann JM, 8, 152,847 Manoach M, 170 Manvari DE, 736 Manzoli U, 670 Marantz TM, 476 Marche C, 1311 Marchlinski FE, 393, 528 Marin J, 794 Marino B, 1256 Marshall A, 478 Marshall T, 1011 Martin GR. 929 Martinez-Car0 D, 1103 Marwick TH, 171 Marx GR, 155, 824 Maseri A, 635, 832 Masini M, 67, 694

Mason J, 472 Massie 0, 53E Massie BM, 606 Masuyama T, 1093 Mathien GM, 15E Matsumoto A, 60B Matsuo H, 56 Matsuo S, 917 Matsuoka H, 56 Matsuyama K, 727, 887 Matsuzawa Y, 66B Mattioni TA, 1213 Mayer JE Jr, 1256 Mazzucco A, 1130, 1132 McBride W, 330 McCabe CH, 1155 McCarthy EA, 3D McComb JM, 83, 186 McCroskery JH, 209 McElroy PA, 35A McFadden RB, 25K McIntosh CL, 988 McKay CR, 882 McKay RG, 941, 1309 McKenna E, 3G McKay RC, 1140 McLain JR, 1005 McLaughlin PR, 1089 McNamara RF, 192 McNulty A, 1297 McNutt RA, 164 Meinertz T, 82E, 337, 347 Meissner MD, 1307 Meister SG, 660 Meltzer RS, 157 Menard J, 1072 Mendez A, 578 Mendoza IJ, 653 Menlove RL, 538 Mercier L-A, 723 Mercuro G, 827 Merino A, 1103 Messerli FH. 594, 912, 1053 Meyer RA, 785 Mianulli M, 901 Micco A, 650 Michaelis LL, 964 Mikell FL, 1299 Milan0 A, 1130, 1132 Miles WM, 1126 Miller GJ, 165 Miller JM, 393, 528 Miller WE, 372 Milliken MC, 301 Milner MR, 1043 Minamino T. 868 Minoda K, 887 Mirabal GS, 83 Mitchell JH, 301 Mitchell LB, 736 Miyagi H, 727 Miyata A, 56 Miyatake K, 641 Moe N, 809 Molgaard J, 378 Mondadori C, 53C Monsuez J-J. 1311 Montague TJ, 1285 Moore DM Jr, 330 Moore RL, 20E Morady F, 580 Morel DW, 208 Morganroth J, 18H, 461 Moriel M, 661 Morrison DA, 108 Morse JR, 1028 Moses HW, 1299

Moss AJ, 192,679 Mrosek DG, 1180 Mudge GH, 1268 Mugge A, 639, 837 Muller D, 493 Muller JE, 860 Munzel T, 40E Muro-Cache CA, 165 Murphy E, 172 Murphy MB, 46C Murray KD, 341 Musch TI, 2E, 20E Musto A, 229 Musto B, 229 Mustonen JN, 1273 Myerburg RJ, 653, 833 Myerowitz PD, 341 Naccarelli GV, 44D Nadeau R, 403 Naessens JM, 424 Nagano Y, 138 Nagata S, 1224 Nappi JM, 109G Narumiya S, 138 Natarajan D, 3 19 Nath A, 126 Nellessen U, 1093 Nesto RW, 178 Neukermans K, 838 Neuman M, 170 Neumann A, 46C Neuss H, 56D Newell JB, 186 Ng G, 1155 Nicholas JA, 334 Nicklas JM, 368 Nicod P, 1 Nidorf SM, 962 Nielsen TT, 686 Niaam PD. 319 Nikaidoh H, 343 Niles NW, 257 Nilsson S, 378, 44B Nimura Y, 641 Nishikawa K, 484 Norwood WI, 435 Nunez BD, 594, 912, 1053 Nyhuis AW, 413 Oakley C, 14A Obrador-Mayo1 D, 623 O’Connor SE, 9C Oqilvie RW, 15E Oh JK, 1151 Ohe T, 576 Ohm O-J, 585 die 0, 585 Okada K, 47G Okin PM, 1043 Oksa H, 35J Okumura K, 727, 887 O’Leary TJ, 789 Olson S-O, 114G Olsson AG, 378 Omae T, 576, 1224 O’Neill WW, 15K, 352 Orenstein JM, 658 Oreto G, 655 Orme E. 472 O’Rourke RA, 372 Ortola FV, 1323 Ouyang P, 1202 Ovitt T, 108 Ovitt TW, 824 Paakkonen P, 35J

Paasch C, 935 Palac R, 172 Palacios IF, 760 Pandian NG, 493, 1078 Panicek DM, 973 Paoe LA. 310 Paraskos J, 310 Park SC, 1136 Parness.1, 1256 Parratt JR, 18C Parrillo JE, 789 Parsonnet V, 71 Parthasarathy S, 6B Participants in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Valvular Heart Disease, 113 Pasquini L, 1256 Passamani ER, 179 Patt MV, 181 Patt NL, 1024 Patterson RE, 128 1 Peach MJ, 36G Pearson AC, 1180 Pecora MJ, 363 Pegram BL, 79G Peller OG, 1297 Penas M, 821 Penn IM, 1151 Pepper J, 1319 Peralba J, 399 Perkins JV, 234 Perloff JK, 512, 1149 Perrone-Filardi P, 523 Persson P, 68E Peshock RM, 301,449 Peters C, 63C Peterson J, 78, 1186 Pfeffer MA, 31 Pfisifer M, 637 Phelix JM, 1314 Phibbs B, 472 Picano E, 67, 694 Pichard A, 152 Pieper KS, 1038 Pierpont G, 113 Piessens J, 117 Pigott JD, 435 Pinamonti B, 285 Pini R, 257 Pintor PP, 313 Piomelli S, 121 Piscione F, 523 Pistis G, 313, 675 Pitlick PT, 838 Pitt B, 368 Plokker HWT, 142 Plouin P-F, 1072 Plumb VJ, 490, 741 Podrid PJ, 24H Pollak PT, 562 Pollick C, 1248, 1252 Pollock BH, 896 Pongiglione G, 566 Pool PE, 109G Poole WK, 860 Poole-Wilson PA, 4C, 31A, 49E Pope C, 1033 Pope JE, 982 Popma JJ, 1298 Potkin BN, 41, 1017 Powell LH, 1159 Prahalada S, 16J Prignitz I, 935 Pritchett ELC, lD, 3D Przewolka U, 337 Pyorala K, 1273

Qi A, 480 Quinones MA, 968 Radda GK, 53E Raff U, 543 Rafters EB, 239, 755 Rahimtoola SH, 882 Raich PC, 69G Raij L, 54G Rajagopalan B, 53E Rajendran V, 264 Rajfer SI, 46C Randall PA, 973 Randolph PH, 94 Rao P6, 979 Rapaport E, 31 Rashwan M, 131 Rautaharju PM, 59, 1285 Raymond R, 959 Re RN, 7G Reale A, 312 Rebuzzi AG, 670 Rector TS, 25A Reeves JT, 650 Reeves RL, 109G Reilly JM, 789 Reiter MJ, 408 Reynolds K, 736 Rezkalla S, 513 Ribeiro PA, 264, 822 Ricciardelli B. 745 Rich MW, 714 Richards KL, 113 Riede U, 82E Riegger GAJ, 16 1 Rinkenberger RL, 44D Riseman J, 1299 Rivano CA, 827 Robbins WL, 234 Roberts Ni 53C Roberts WC, 8, 36, 41, 144, 152, 167, 276, 339, 345, 495, 771, 789,840,847,988,991,1017, 1134,1144,1263,1281,1326 Roden DM, 34H Rokey R, 966, 1139 Romain KE, 1144 Roman MJ, 257 Romeo F, 312 Romero JC, 59G Roos JP, 628 Rose B, 698 Rosenblatt S, 109G Rosenmann D, 841 Rosiello G, 745 Ross AM, 21K Ross BA, 41D, 818 Ross J Jr, 1 Ross RD, 785 Rosseel PMJ, 78C Roth A. 551 Roth Fj, 935 Rothbard RL, 538 Rothschild A, 637 Rothschild M, 637 Rothschild RG, 1321 Rotto DM, 58E Roubin GS, 363, 809 Rouleau J-L, 46A Rouleau JR, 892 Rowe RD, 431, 1089 Rowe WW, 814 Roy D, 723 Rozenbaum W, 1311 Rucinska E, 1062 Rudd MA, 1268 Rudert WA, 278

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AUTHOR INDEX Ruffy R, 23D, 29D Ruilope LM, 59G Rumberger JA, 333 Ruskin JN, 39H, 83, 186 Rutledge J, 1062 Ryan TJ, 1155 Rybicki KJ, 58E Ryden L, 75A Sabbah HN, 358 Sacharoff A, 493 Safian RD, 1309 Sahasakul Y, 424 Sahn DJ, 131 Said E, 1139 Saini JS, 714 Saito S, 484 Saitoh F, 1224 Saji H, 202 Sakai T, 484 Sakuma S, 1147 Salem DN, 1078 Salerni R, 1140 Sales FF, 336, 644 Salmi J, 35J Saltin B, 30E Salvatore M, 523 Salvi A, 285 Sami MH, 1152 Samuel P, 1068 Sanders JH, 964 Sanders SP, 778, 1256 Saris-Coma V, 159 Saoudi N, 653 Sasaki T. 868 Satullo G, 655 Saul JP, 566 Savage DD, 59 Savage MP, 665 Sawrey-Kubicek L, 51 Scalzetti EM, 973 Scanlon PJ, 1033 Schaefer EJ, 1068 Schamroth L, 655 Schechtman KB, 556, 1000 Scheinman M, 1129 Schlepper M, 56D Schmaltz S, 560 Schmidt LF, 778 Schmieder RE, 594,912, 1053 Schneeweiss A, 178 Schneider JA, 1299 Schocken DD, 982 Schoenfeld BH, 1068 Schofield PM, 315 Schoop W, 935 Schraider J, 959 Schreiber TL, 1297 Schrier RW. 47G Schroder R,. 966 Schroeder JS, 876, 1093 Schuger CD, 803 Schumacher JR, 843 Schumacher M, 347 Schwartz A, 3G Schwartz CJ, 1B Schwartz DJ, 1000 Schwartz KS, 1124 Schwartz S, 1062 Schwarz KQ, 157 Schweiaer MJ, 476 Schwinger M, 646 Scortichini D, 36E Seifter JL, 1323 Selvester RH, 1038, 1116 Senda M, 202 Serizawa T, 56

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Sethi GK, 113 Setlv RK, 25K Sevilla DC, 1038 Shah PK, 20 Shahid M, 822 Shapiro EP, 1202 Sharma AD, 562,733 Shaver JA, 1098 Sheares R, 171 Sheffield LT, 1155 Sheldon RS, 736 Shenasa M, 403 Shepherd AMM, 92G Sherrid M, 1085 Shimomura K, 576 Shinebourne EA, 1319 Sholler GF, 778 Short BL, 929 Shroyer KR, 165 Shultz P, 54G Siddoway LA, 2H Siemienczuk D, 606 Sights KA, 83C Sigwart U, 38D Silva MVD. 977 Silvestri F,. 285 Simmons JT, 789 Simonton CA, 100 Simofendorfer C, 873, 959 Simpson PC, 13G Singh SN, 399 Sinoway LI, 2E, 45E Sirna SJ, 1048 Sirtori CR, 738 Sirtori M, 73B Siu CO, 1202 Skelton TN, 381 Slama R, 220 Smallhorn JF, 1089 Smeets JLRM, 387 Smith GW, 9C Smith P, 29D Smith TD, 1281 Sobocinski KA, 214 Sole MJ, 20G Solodyna M, 1208 Soma-Y, 484 Sorensen SG, 538 Sousa JEMR, 977 Spaccavento LJ, 1005 Spence DW, 173 Spodick DH, 316,465,985, Sprafkin RP, 209 Sprenger M, 628 Spudis EV, 170 Staker LV, 109G Stamler J, 377 Stamler JS, 1268 Stana JM, 952 Stark CA, 333 Starling RC; 341 Steele TH, 74G Stein PD, 358 Steinbera D, 6B Steinman RT, 803, 1213 Stellin G, 1130 Stenport G, 378, 448 Stern S, 661 Stevenson LW, 1321 Stevenson WG, 1321 Stewart RB, 718 Stewart RW, 253 Stinson EB, 876 Stokes J Ill. 147 Stone PH, 860 Stovall JR, 108 Strasburger JF, 566

Strauss HW, 799 Stray-Gundersen J, 301 Stults BM, 703 Sugimoto T, 56 Sullivan TJ, 838 Sung BH, 1176 Superko HR, 5 1 Sutor C, 809 Sutton M. 121 Suzuki K; 868 Suzuki S, 641 Suzuki T, 1224 Svensson A, 114G Swedberg K, lA, 60A, 67A Swerdlow CD, 78, 611 Szeverenyi NM, 973

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Tada M, 868 Tahvanainen K, 1273 Taichman GC, 30C Tajik AJ, 424 Tak T, 882 Takahashi M, 649 Takaichi S, 31B Takaku F, 60B Takaoka K, 887 Talenti E, 1132 Taliercio CP, 1151 Talwar S, 1273 Tamaki N, 202 Tamburi S, 670 Tami L, 444 Tanaka N, 641 Tandon R, 292 Tarui S, 668 Tavel ME, 175 Taylor GJ, 1299 Tavlor PC, 253 Taylor SH, 73C Tenaglia A, 136 Terjung RL, 15E Terry BE, 126 teVelde A, 714 Thapar MK, 979 The APSAC Investigators, 536 The APSAC Multicenter Trial Group, 347 The CONSENSUS Ethical Review Committee, 73A The CONSENSUS Trial Study Group, 60A, 67A The Diltiazem Reinfarction Study Research Group, 1000 The Dutch Invasive Reperfusion Studv Group, 25 The Encainide-Ventricular Tachycardia Study Group, 571 The Finnish Lovastatin Study Group, 35J The MILIS Study Group, 860 The Multicenter Postinfarction Research Group, 192,679 The National Heart Foundation of Australia Coronary Thrombolysis Group, 962 The Stanford Weight Control Project Team, 89 The TIMI Investigators, 179 Thiene G, 1132 Thoben-O’Grady L, 399 Thomas D, 606 Thomassen A, 686 Thompson PL, 962 Thoresen GE, 1159 Tikkanen I, 20A Tikkanen MJ, 35J Till JA. 1319

Tobert JA, 28J Todd GL, 25G Tofler GH, 860 Toivonen LK, 580 Tokushima T, 9 17 Tolins JP, 54G Tomikawa M, 318 Tomlinson GC, 1005 Tommaso CL, 8 11 Tomoda H, 1122 Top01 EJ, 352,368 Toth PD, 413 Trimarco B, 745 Tristani FE, 1155 Tronstad A, 585 Tsai P, 47G Tsuchiya T, 727 Tsuji S, 917 Tsuruta M, 9 17 Tuchler M, 1234 Turi ZG, 513 Turkevich D, 650 Tuzcu EM, 873 Tzivoni D, 661 Ugolini V, 923 Umhau JB, 175 Unverferth DV, 94,341 Uretsky BF, 1140 Urie PM, 325 Uusitupa MIJ, 1273 Vacek JL, 83C, 1314 Vaghy PL, 3G Valente M, 1132 Valk J, 628 Vallbracht C, 935 Vandenberg BF, 333 Van Den Berg EK, 1298 Vandenbogaerde JF, 68C Vandeplas A, 117 Van Der Starre PJA, 78C Vandormael MG. 474 Van Eenige MJ, 628 van Gelder IC, ‘1303 Van Praagh R, 1256 Van Praagh S, 1256 Van Rossum AC, 628 Van Tellingen C, 142 Varghese J, 658 Varon D, 170 Vatner SF, 94E Vaughan DE, 31, 1268 Veharanta T, 35J Venditti FJ, 24H Verbust KM, 698 Vermaak WJH, 841 Vidal MJ, 59G Viikari J, 35J Vincent J-L, 419 Virmani R, 276, 658, 789 Viskin S, 835 Visser FC, 628 Visser RF, 25 Vittecoq D,,l311 Vittitoe J, 372 Vogel JHK, 25K Vogel RA, lK, 1 lK, 811 Volpe M, 745 Von Leitner E-R, 966 Vorderbrugge S, 480 Wadenvik H, 114G Wagner GS, 322, 512, 982, 1038, 1116 Wagner NB, 322,512,982, 1038, 1116

Wainwright CL, 18C Wakasugi J-l, 3 1B Wakita Y, 1147 Walldius G, 378 Walks DE, 1033 Walton JA, 368 Wang R, 278 Wang SS, 1078 Ward D, 995 Ward DE, 1319 Warner RA, 209 Watson KM, 341 Watt C, 131 Weber KT, 35A Weber MA, 97G Wegscheider K, 966 Wei JY, 178 Weiland FL, 1005 Weiner DA, 1155 Weinert L, 46C Weintraub WS, 363 Wellens HJJ, lOD, 140, 387 Wellons HA, 1299 Wells PJ, 1208 Wenger NK, 171

West TW, 518 Whelchel JD, 234 White CW, 1301 Whitlow P, 873, 959 Whorwell PJ, 315 Wichmann T, 63E Wielgosz AT, 308 Wigle ED, 1248 Wilenskv RL, 276 Willems-JL, 117 Williams AE, 1024 Williams RR, 703, 708 Willich SN, 860 Willis PW Ill, 150 Wilson AR, 1307 Wilson DB, 83C Wilson JR, 1234 Wilson MF, 1176 Wilson RA, 606 Wilson RF, 1301 Wisenberg G, 1011 Wish M, 399 Woelfel A, 814 Wolf HK, 59 Wolf NM, 660

Wolff M, 1311 Wolfson P, 103G Wolos JA, 778 Wolozin MW, 1323 Wong LB, 1149 Wood PD, 89 Woodhouse SP, 17 1 Woods JR, 175, 413 Wooley CF, 952 Woosley RL, lH, 9H Wyman RM, 94 1 Wyndham CRC, 131 Wyse DG, 736 Yamagishi M, 641 Yamamoto A, 31B, 66B Yamashita K, 202 Yamashita S, 66B Yasue H. 727, 887 YeeR, 733 Yeuna-Lai-Wah JA. 480 Yokode M, 138 Yonekura Y, 202 Yoshino H, 484

Young CA, 785 Young M-L, 1197 Young P, 1268 Yudelman P, 276 Yusuf S, 41A Zabetakis PM, 173 Zaibag MA, 822 Zales VR, 225 Zaman L, 833 Zanchetti A, 53C Zee-Cheng C-S, 23D Zeigler V, 4lD, 818 Zelis K, 63E Zelis R, lE, 2E, 63E Zheutlin TA, 1213 Zimmerman BG, 69G Zin D, 661 Zion MM, 177,841, 1153 Zipes DP, 1126 Zoghbi WA, 968 Zuberbuhler JR, 1136 Zusman R, 103G Zwicky P, 639

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Abstracts-1988, American Academy of Pediatrics-Cardiology Section Abstracts. American Academy of Pediatrics, Section on Cardiology, 30th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, October 14-16, 1988, 500 Acebutolol Verapamil versus acebutolol for syndrome X, 312 Acetylcholine Effects of acetylcholine on epicardial coronary arteries after cardiac transplantation without angiographic evidence of fixed graft narrowing, 1093 Effects of intracoronary injection of acetylcholine on coronary arterial hemodynamics and diameter, 887 Acquired immune deficiency syndrome Comparison among acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients with and without clinical evidence of cardiac disease, 1311 Frequency of myocarditis, left ventricular dysfunction and ventricular tachycardia in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 789 Myocarditis diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy in human immunodeficiency virus infection with cardiac dysfunction, 658 Acute myocardial infarction See also Myocardial infarction Acquired ventricular septal defect during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 38 unoperated necropsy patients and comparison with 50 unoperated necropsy patients without rupture, 8 Acute myocardial infarction in a 22-yearold world class weight lifter using anabolic steroids, 164 Acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus and significance of congestive heart failure as a prognostic factor, 665 Acute myocardial infarction in women: influence of gender on mortality and prognostic variables, 1 Atrial natriuretic peptide in acute myocardial infarction, 1122 Circadian variation of ventricular tachycardia in acute myocardial infarction, 670 Clinical significance and prognostic importance of left ventricular hypertrophy in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction, 1000 Comparison of intravenous anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex and intracoronary streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction, 25 Comparison of left ventricular function and contractile reserve after successful recanalization by thrombolysis versus rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, 352 Comparison of nalbuphine hydrochloride versus morphine sulfate for acute myocardial infarction with elevated pulmonary artery wedge pressure, 551 Comprehensive electrocardiographic analysis of acute myocardial infarction by individual and combined waveforms, 465 Effects of type A behavior counseling and

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severity of prior acute myocardial infarction on survival, 1159 Electrically induced ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic agents, 186 Estimating left ventricular ejection fraction after myocardial infarction by various clinical parameters, 192 Exercise performance of the high risk acute myocardial infarction patient after cardiac rehabilitation, 197 Factors leading to shorter survival in patients ages 65 to 75 years compared with younger patients after acute myocardial infarction, 860 Impact of thrombolytic therapy on left ventricular mural thrombi in acute myocardial infarction, 310 Lack of association between acute myocardial infarction and mitral valve prolapse, 1297 Left ventricular thrombus formation after first anterior wall acute myocardial infarction, 31 Location of an acute myocardial infarct in patients with a healed myocardial infarct: analysis of 129 patients studied at necropsy, 1017 Morphologic findings in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting for acute myocardial infarction, 144 Nuclear magnetic resonance and radionuclide angiographic assessment of acute myocardiai infarction in a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, 1011 Occurrence, characteristics and prognostic significance of early postacute myocardial infarction angina pectoris, 679 Physician perception of exercise electrocardiography as a prognostic test after acute myocardial infarction, 675 Polymorphonuclear leukocyte activity and ventricular arrhythmia in acute myocardial infarction, 868 Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment, exercise testing and signal-averaged electrocardiogram in predicting outcome after acute myocardial infarction, 995 Relation of peak creatine kinase levels during acute myocardial infarction to presence or absence of previous manifestations of myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris or healed myocardial infarction), 534 Risk assessment of coronary artery bypass grafting within one month of acute myocardial infarction, 964 Risk of developing an acute myocardial infarction or sudden coronary death in patients with exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry, 1155 Rupture of the left ventricular free wall during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 138 necropsy patients and comparison with 50 necropsy patients with acute myocardial infarction without rupture, 847

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Temporary decrease in cardiac parasympathetic tone after acute myocardial infarction, 637 The creatine kinase ratio: a useful means of detecting early peaking of the creatine kinase curve after acute myocardial infarction, 962 The German Multicenter Trial of anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex versus heparin for acute myocardial infarction, 347 Usefulness of ambulatory radionuclide monitoring of left ventricular function early after acute myocardial infarction for predicting residual myocardial ischemia, 1005 Usefulness of a rapid initial increase in plasma creatine kinase activity as a marker of reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, 20 Value of the ST-T segment in lead V4R in inferior wall acute myocardia) infarction to predict the site of coronary arterial occlusion, 140 Adenylate cyclase Adenylate cyclase activity coupled to the stimulatory guanine nucleotide binding protein in patients having electrophysiologic studies and either structurally normal hearts or idiopathic myocardial disease, 1129 Adolescents Role of transesophageal pacing in evaluation of palpitations in children and adolescents, 566 AIDS See Acquired immune deficiency syndrome AJC 25 Years Ago The AJC in August 1963, 339 Akinesia Dubious reliability of Q-wave formation in predicting new regional left ventricular akinesis after coronary artery bypass grafting, 1299 Alcohol Alcohol use and supraventricular arrhythmia, 971 Aldosteronism Left ventricular structural characteristics in unilateral renovascular hypertension and primary aldosteronism, 1224 Aminophylline Aminophylline termination of dipyridamole stress as a trigger of coronary vasospasm in variant angina, 694 Amiodarone Elevation of serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels during amiodarone therapy, 562 Fatal postoperative amiodarone pulmonary toxicity, 490 Right and left ventricular function during chronic amiodarone therapy, 736 Spontaneous disappearance of blue-gray facial pigmentation during amiodarone therapy (out of the blue), 1146 Amlodipine Clinical safety and efficacy of once-a-day amlodipine for chronic stable angina pectoris, 518 Anastomosis Fate of the pulmonic valve after proximal pulmonary artery-to-ascending aorta

anastomosis for aortic outflow obstruction, 435 Anesthesia General anesthesia for intractable ventricular tachycardia, 13 18 Aneurysm Induction of ventricular tachycardia in patients with left ventricular aneurysms and no history of arrhythmia, 814 Prevalence of atrial septal aneurysm in patients with mitral valve prolapse, 1139 Angina pectoris See also Variant angina Altered global myocardial substrate preference at rest and during pacing in coronary artery disease with stable angina pectoris, 686 Angiography morphology in unstable angina pectoris, 1024 Clinical safety and efficacy of once-a-day amlodipine for chronic stable angina pectoris, 5 18 Comparison of combination nifedipinepropranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Comparison of the duration of action of atenolol and nadolol for treatment of angina pectoris, 1171 Coronary revascularization after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for unstable angina pectoris: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 368 Early and long-term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients 70 years of age and older with angina pectoris, 959 Frequency of angina pectoris and coronary artery disease in severe isolated valvular aortic stenosis, 117 Left ventricular function after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for postinfarction angina pectoris, 358 Nadolol versus diltiazem and combination for preventing exercise-induced ischemia in severe angina pectoris, 372 Occurrence, characteristics and prognostic significance of early postacute myocardial infarction angina pectoris, 679 Relation of peak creatine kinase levels during acute myocardial infarction to presence or absence of previous manifestations of myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris or healed myocardial infarction), 534 Safety and efficacy of esmolol for unstable angina.pectoris, 1033 Significance of cardiac weight in patients having coronary artery bypass grafting for angina pectoris, 36 Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, 1164 Angiography Angiography morphology in unstable angina pectoris, 1024 Causes of chest pain in patients with normal coronary angiograms: the eye of the beholder, 306 Comparison of coronary stenosis quantitation results from on-line digital and digitized tine film images, 381

Correlation of heart rate variability with clinical and angiographic variables and late mortality after coronary angiography, 714 Dependence of assessment of coronary artery reperfusion during acute myocardial infarction on angiographic criteria and interobserver variability, 538 Evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging for determination of left ventricular ejection fraction and comparison with angiography, 628 Hemodynamic and angiographic effects of prostaglandin E, in coronary artery disease, 698 Influence of left ventricular asynchrony on filling in coronary artery disease, 523 Angioplasty Initial experience with coronary angioplasty and aortic valvuloplasty using elective semipercutaneous cardiopulmonary support, 811 Results of low speed rotational angioplasty for chronic peripheral occlusions, 935 Angioplasty, percutaneous transluminal coronary Amelioration of ischemia during angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an autoperfusion catheter, 513 Comparative costs of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting in multivessel coronary artery disease, 809 Comparison of left ventricular function and contractile reserve after successful recanalization by thrombolysis versus rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, 352 Determinants of primary success in elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for significant narrowing of a single major coronary artery, 873 Early and long-term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients 70 years of age and older with angina pectoris, 959 Effects of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty on atherosclerotic plaques and relation of plaque composition and arterial size to outcome, 41 Left ventricular function after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for postinfarction angina pectoris, 358 Long-term follow-up and influence of symptom-free interval on restenosis after repeat percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, 476 Long-term outcome of patients with asymptomatic restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, 1298 Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients with intracoronary thrombus, 474 Transient alterations of the QRS complex and ST segment during percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1038 Ventricular excitation during percutaneous

transluminal angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1116 Angiotensin II Effects of long-term angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on myocardial hypertrophy in experimental aortic stenosis in the rat, 161 Angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor First dose response and 24-hour antihypertensive efficacy of the new once-daily angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, ramipril, 239 Animal studies Effects of long-term angiotensin converting enzyme inhibition on myocardial hypertrophy in experimental aortic stenosis in the rat, 161 Origin of the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk in the Syrian hamster, 159 Anisoylaied plasminogen streptokinase activator complex Comparison of intravenous anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex and intracoronary streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction, 25 The German Multicenter Trial of anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex versus heparin for acute myocardial infarction, 347 Anomalous connections Anomalous origin of either the right or left main coronary artery from the aorta without coursing of the anomalistically arising artery between aorta and pulmonary trunk, 1263 Anomalous venous connection of the superior vena cava to the left atrium, 989 Antiarrhythmic therapy See a/so Arrhythmia; Ventricular arrhythmia; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia Antiarrhythmic drug therapy 1988: for whom, how and where? 461 New method for the assessment of druginduced arrhythmia aggravation, 966 The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction, 803 Antigens HLA-DRw6 antigen linkage in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease (ischemic cardiomyopathy), 8 16 Aortic regurgitation Development of severe stenosis in a previously purely regurgitant, congenitally bicuspid aortic valve, 988 Left ventricular response to submaximal and maximal exercise in asymptomatic aortic regurgitation, 606 Phasic coronary artery flow velocity determined by Doppler flowmeter catheter in aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation, 917 Aortic stenosis See also Stenosis Clinical and hemodynamic follow-up after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty in the elderly, 760 Clinical and noninvasive hemodynamic results after aortic balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis, 1078 Frequency of angina pectoris and

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SUBJECT INDEX coronary artery disease in severe isolated valvular aortic stenosis, 117 Insights on the mechanism of balloon valvuloplasty in aortic stenosis, 1241 Lack of sustained clinical improvement in an elderly population after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 270 Palliation of valvular aortic stenosis by balloon valvuloplasty as preoperative preparation for non-cardiac surgery, 1309 Phasic coronary artery flow velocity determined by Doppler flowmeter catheter in aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation, 917 Results of percutaneous transluminal valvuloplasty in 218 adults with valvular aortic stenosis, 598 Aortic valve Age-related changes in aortic and mitral valve thickness: implications for twodimensional echocardiography based on an autopsy study of 200 normal human hearts, 424 Development of severe stenosis in a previously purely regurgitant, congenitally bicuspid aortic valve, 988 Morphologic findings in stenotic aortic valves that have had “successful” percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty, 152 Aortic valvuloplasty Lack of sustained clinical improvement in an elderly population after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 270 Arrhythmia See a/so Antiarrhythmic therapy: Ventricular arrhythmia Alcohol use and supraventricular arrhythmia, 971 Antihypertensive drug therapy and arrhythmia risk, 147 Cardiac pacing practices in the United States in 1985, 71 Familial right ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy associated with supraventricular arrhythmias, 482 Flecainide for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults, 818 Long-term arrhythmic outcome in survivors of ventricular fibrillation with absence of inducible ventricular ‘tachycardia, 1213 Long-term prognosis of patients undergoing electrophysiologic studies for syncope of unknown origin, 1186 New method for the assessment of druginduced arrhythmia aggravation, 966 Results of electrical fulguration in arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease, 220 Sotalol for refractory sustained ventricular tachycardia and nonfatal cardiac arrest, 399 Arrhythmogenesis Results of electrical fulguration in arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease, 220 Termination of tachycardias by interrupting blood flow to the arrhythmogenic area, 387 Arteriography Frequency of angina pectoris and coronary artery disease in severe isolated valvular aortic stenosis, 117 Frequency of normal coronary arteriograms in three academic medical

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centers and one community hospital, 472 Assist devices Successful management of acute myocarditis with biventricular assist devices and cardiac transplantation, 341 Asynchrony Influence of left ventricular asynchrony on filling in coronary artery disease, 523 Atenolol Comparison of the duration of action of atenolol and nadolol for treatment of angina pectoris, 1171 Comparison of the effects of pindolol and atenolol on hemodynamic function in systemic hypertension, 413 Atherosclerosis See a/so Coronary artery disease Effects of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty on atherosclerotic plaques and relation of plaque composition and arterial size to outcome, 41 Atresia Survival to age 65 years with tricuspid and pulmonic valve atresia, 165 Atrial dimensions Role of right and left atrial dimensions for release of atrial natriuretic peptide in left-sided valvular heart disease and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 764 Atrial fibrillation Doppler echocardiographic predictors of recurrence of atrial fibrillation after cardioversion, 723 Effect of catheter ablation of the atrioventricular junction on quality of life and exercise tolerance in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 741 Effect of flestolol on ventricular rate during atrial fibrillation in WolffParkinson-White syndrome, 78 Effect of intravenous and oral calcium antagonists (diltiazem and verapamil) on sustenance of atrial fibrillation, 403 Sustained atrial fibrillation after conversion of paroxysmal reciprocating junctional tachycardia by intravenous verapamil, 835 Transient atrial dysfunction after conversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm, 1202 Atrial natriuretic factor Determinants of plasma atrial natriuretic factor concentrations in congenital heart disease, 785 Release of atrial natriuretic factor following pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis, 1323 Atrial natriuretic peptide Atrial natriuretic peptide in acute myocardial infarction, 1122 Estimation of the secretion rate of atrial natriuretic peptide from the coronary sinus in coronary artery disease, 56 Physiologic changes during supraventricular tachycardia and release of atrial natriuretic peptide, 576 Role of right and left atrial dimensions for release of atrial natriuretic peptide in left-sided valvular heart disease and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 764 Atrial trigeminy Mechanism of concealed atrial trigeminy, 1147 Atrioventricular conduction Effects of upright posture on

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atrioventricular nodal reentry and dual atrioventricular nodal pathways, 408 Atrioventricular connection Effects of epinephrine in patients with an accessory atrioventricular connection treated with quinidine, 580 Atrioventricular junction Effect of catheter ablation of the atrioventricular junction on quality of life and exercise tolerance in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 741 Autonomic nervous system Effect of pacing cycle length and autonomic blockade on sinus node refractoriness, 1192 Autopsy Age-related changes in aortic and mitral valve thickness: implications for twodimensional echocardiography based on an autopsy study of 200 normal human hearts, 424 Balloon angloplasty Balloon dilation angioplasty of BlalockTaussig shunts, 824 Plasma catecholamine responses to balloon angioplasty in children with coarctation of the aorta, 649 Balloon dilatation Gross and histologic anatomy of total anomalous pulmonary venous connections, 292 Transient unilateral pulmonary edema after successful balloon dilation of peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis, 327 Balloon valvotomy Mechanism of mitral valve area increase by in vitro single and double balloon mitral valvotomy, 264 Percutaneous double balloon pulmonary valvotomy in adults: one- to two-year follow-up, 822 Balloon valvuloplasty Causes of restenosis after balloon valvuloplasty for valvular pulmonary stenosis, 979 Clinical and hemodynamic follow-up after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty in the elderly, 760 Lack of sustained clinical improvement in an elderly population after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 270 Morphologic findings in stenotic aortic valves that have had “successful” percutaneous balloon valvuloplasty, 152 Results of percutaneous transluminal valvuloplasty in 218 adults with valvular aortic stenosis, 598 Behavioral counseling Effects of type A behavior counseling and severity of prior acute myocardial infarction on survival, 1159 Beta-adrenerglc blockade Comparison of combination nifedipinepropranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Comparison of the duration of action of atenolol and nadolol for treatment of angina pectoris, 1171 Comparison of the effects of pindolol and atenolol on hemodynamic function in systemic hypertension, 413 Effect of maximal exercise testing on serum cholesterol in healthy subjects undergoing exercise training and on beta-adrenergic blockade, 478

Effects of celiprolol on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine in primary hypertension, 751 Nadolol versus diltiazem and combination for preventing exercise-induced ischemia in severe angina pectoris, 372 Safety and efficacy of esmolol for unstable angina pectoris, 1033 Biopsy Repeated endomyocardial biopsy causing coronary arterial-right ventricular fistula after cardiac transplantation, 829 Blalock-Taussig shunt Balloon dilation angioplasty of BlalockTaussig shunts, 824 Blood flow Assessment of coronary blood flow by transesophageal two-dimensional pulsed Doppler echocardiography, 641 Cardiovascular adaptations to transfusion chelation therapy of homozygote sickle cell anemia, 121 Cardiovascular pharmacology of dopexamine in low output congestive heart failure, 94 Evaluation of age, gender, heart rate and blood pressure changes and exercise conditioning on Doppler measured aortic blood flow acceleration and velocity during upright treadmill testing, 439 Isolated obstruction of large septal perforators, 142 Termination of tachycardias by interrupting blood flow to the arrhythmogenic area, 387 Blood pressure See also Hypertension; Systemic hypertension Blood pressure at rest and during maximal dynamic and isometric exercise as predictors of systemic hypertension, 1058 Effects of chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure and heart rate, 755 Effects of weight loss on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive men, 89 Bundle branch block Effect of preexisting bundle branch block on the electrocardiographic diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia, 1208 Electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the presence of complete right bundle branch block, 590 Physiologic differences in rate-related versus exercise-induced left bundle branch block, 316 Buyer’s guide Advances in cardiovascular technologies (AJC guide to equipment and supplies), 1F Calcium antagonists Calcium channel bindinq characteristics in the human heart, 1281 Comparison of combination nifedipineprbpranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Effect of intravenous and oral calcium antagonists (diltiazem and verapamil) on sustenance of atrial fibrillation, 403 Effects of isradipine, a new calcium antagonist, versus hydrochlorothiazide

on serum lipids and apolipoproteins in patients with systemic hypertension, 1068 Nadolol versus diltiazem and combination for preventing exercise-induced ischemia in severe angina pectoris, 372 Calcium channel Calcium channel binding characteristics in the human heart, 1281 Cardiac amyloidosis Frequency of acute and healed myocardial infarcts in fatal cardiac amyloidosis, 1134 Cardiac anatomy Age-related changes in aortic and mitral valve thickness: implications for twodimensional echocardiography based on an autopsy study of 200 normal human hearts, 424 Cardiac arrest Prospective evaluation of initially ineffective defibrillation pulses on subsequent defibrillation success during ventricular fibrillation in survivors of cardiac arrest, 718 Sotalol for refractory sustained ventricular tachycardia and nonfatal cardiac arrest, 399 The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction, 803 Cardiac catheterization Heparin bolus therapy during cardiac catheterization, 1314 Use of balloon flotation pacing catheters for prophylactic temporary pacing during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures, 941 Cardiac function Cardiac function in systemic hypertension before and after reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy, 745 Cardiovascular response in exercise after the Mustard operation for simple and complex transposition of the great vessels, 6 17 Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac performance in infants on prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, 929 Effect of isolated right ventricular outflow obstruction on left ventricular function in infants, 778 Effects of supine and lateral positions on cardiac output and intracardiac pressures, 330 Simplified method for estimation of Doppler cardiac output in the great arteries, 155 Cardiac output Calculating cardiac output from transmitral volume flow using Doppler and M-mode echocardiography, 131 Cardiac rehabilitation Exercise performance of the high risk acute myocardial infarction patient after cardiac rehabilitation, 197 Cardiac rejection Retransplantation for severe accelerated coronary artery disease in heart transplant recipients, 876 Cardiac size Electrocardiographic estimate of left ventricular mass versus radiographic cardiac size and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the

epidemiologic follow-up study of the first national health and nutrition examination survey, 59 Cardiac transplantation Effects of acetylcholine on epicardial coronary arteries after cardiac transplantation without angiographic evidence of fixed graft narrowing, 1093 Frequency of hypercholesterolemia after cardiac transplantation, 1268 Left ventricular hypertrophy in cyclosporine-induced systemic hypertension after cardiac transplantation, 1140 Patterns of evolution of myocyte damage after human heart transplantation detected by indium-1 11 monoclonal antimyosin, 623 Repeated endomyocardial biopsy causing coronary arterial-right ventricular fistula after cardiac transplantation, 829 Retransplantation for severe accelerated coronary artery disease in heart transplant recipients, 876 Successful management of acute myocarditis with biventricular assist devices and cardiac transplantation, 341 Cardiac weight Significance of cardiac weight in patients having coronary artery bypass grafting for angina pectoris, 36 Cardiogenic shock Administration of enoximone in cardiogenic shock, 419 Cardiomyopathy See also Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy Abnormal myocardial fatty acid metabolism in dilated cardiomyopathy detected by Iodine-123 phenylpentadecanoic acid and tomographic imaging, 923 Evidence for a taurine-deficiency cardiomyopathy, 136 Familial apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 821 Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular dilatation and conduction disturbances, 484 Familial right ventricular dilated cardiomyopathy associated with supraventricular arrhythmias, 482 Natural history and prognostic risk factors in endocardial fibroelastosis, 431 Role of right and left atrial dimensions for release of atrial natriuretic oeotide in left-sided valvular heart disease and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 764 Ultrastructural features of familial cardiomyopathy, 325 Usefulness of dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning for distinguishing ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy, 945 Value of electropharmacologic testing in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias. 611 Cardioversion Doppler echocardiographic predictors of recurrence of atrial fibrillation after cardioversion, 723 Factors affecting transthoracic impedance during electrical cardioversion, 1048 Relation of the intraoperative defibrillation threshold to successful postoperative defibrillation with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, 393

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SUBJECT INDEX Transient atrial dysfunction after conversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm, 1202 Catecholamines Evidence for a dopaminergic Control of sympathoadrenal catecholamine release, 827 Plasma catecholamine responses to balloon angioplasty in children with coarctation of the aorta, 649 Systemic and coronary hemodynamic arid neurohumoral effects of levodopa in chronic congestive heart failure, 1228 Catheter ablation Effect of catheter ablation of the atrioventricular junction on quality of life and exercise tolerance in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 741 Catheters Amelioration of ischemia during angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an autoperfusion catheter, 513 Phasic coronary artery flow velocity determined by Doppler flowmeter catheter in aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation, 917 Use of balloon flotation pacing catheters for prophylactic temporary pacing during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures, 941 Celiprolol Effects of celiprolol on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine in primary hypertension, 751 Chest pain Causes of chest pain in patients with normal coronary angiograms: the eye of the beholder, 306 Connecting the ceruleus and the coronaries, 308 Differentiation of “esophageal” and “cardiac” chest pain, 315 One-year psychosocial follow-up of patients with chest pain and angiographically normal coronary arteries, 209 Children Complete denervation of the heart in a child with congenital long QT and deafness, 1319 Correlation between directly measured and indirectly estimated sinoatrial conduction time in children, 1197 Determinants of plasma atrial natriuretic factor concentrations in congenital heart disease, 785 Electrophysiologic effects and clinical efficacy of flecainide in children with recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 229 Flecainide for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults, 8 18 Plasma catecholamine responses to balloon angioplasty in children with coarctation of the aorta, 649 Role of transesophageal pacing in evaluation of palpitations in children and adolescents, 566 Cholesterol Effect of maximal exercise testing on serum cholesterol in healthy subjects undergoing exercise training and on beta-adrenergic blockade, 478 Effects of solid and liquid guar gum on plasma cholesterol and triglyceride

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concentrations in moderate hypercholesterolemia, 51 Elevation of serum total cholesterol and triglyceride levels during amiodarone therapy, 562 Family history as an independent risk factor for incident coronary artery disease in a high-risk cohort in Utah, 703 Circadian variation Circadian variabilities of modulated ventricular parasystole, 853 Circadian variation of ventricular tachycardia in acute myocardial infarction, 670 Effects of chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure and heartrate, 755 Maior circadian fluctuations in fibrinolytic iactors and possible relevance to time of onset of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and stroke, 635 Classification Endocardial fibroelastosis is not a disease, 468 Clonidine Refractory variant angina relieved by guanethidine and clonidine, 832 Coarctation Plasma catecholamine responses to balloon angioplasty in children with coarctation of the aorta, 649 Collaterals Cervical collateral arteries in pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, 1310 Conduction Correlation between directly measured and indirectly estimated sinoatrial conduction time in children, 1197 Direct effect of contrast material on atrioventricular conduction in the denervated human heart, 1321 Effect of pacing cycle length and autonomic blockade on sinus node refractoriness, 1192 Effect of preexisting bundle branch block on the electrocardiographic diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia, 1208 Entrainment of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia of left ventricular origin with evidence for reentry with an area of slow conduction and effect of verapamil, 727 Factors affecting transthoracic impedance during electrical cardioversion, 1048 Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular dilatation and conduction disturbances, 484 Improved differentiation of patients with and without ventricular tachycardia by frequency analysis of multiple electrocardiographic leads, 556 Prospective evaluation of initially ineffective defibrillation pulses on subsequent defibrillation success during ventricular fibrillation in survivors of cardiac arrest, 7 18 Serial electrocardiographic changes in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy confirmed at necropsy, 276 Transient atrial dysfunction after conversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm, 1202 Usefulness of transcutaneous triggering of conventional implanted pulse generators by an activity-sensing

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pacemaker for predicting effectiveness of rate response pacing, 901 Congenital heart disease Anomalous origin of either the right or left main coronary artery from the aorta with subsequent coursing between aorta and pulmonary trunk: analysis of 32 necropsy cases, 771 Catheter occlusion of the persistently patent ductus arteriosus, 1089 Determinants of plasma atrial natriuretic factor concentrations in congenital heart disease, 785 Echocardiographic and anatomic findings in atrioventricular discordance with ventriculoarterial concordance, 1256 Effect of isolated right ventricular outflow obstruction on left ventricular function in infants, 778 Fate of the pulmonic valve after proximal pulmonary artery-to-ascending aorta anastomosis for aortic outflow obstruction, 435 Gross and histologic anatomy of total anomalous pulmonary venous connections, 292 Survival to age 65 years with tricuspid and pulmonic valve atresia, 165 The coronary sinus diverticulum: a pathologic entity associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, 733 Congestive heart failure Acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus and significance of congestive heart failure as a prognostic factor, 685 Administration of enoximone in cardiogenic shock, 419 Cardiovascular pharmacology of dopexamine in low output congestive heart failure, 94 Clinical and electrophysiologic features of fetal and neonatal paroxysmal atrial tachycardia resulting in congestive heart failure, 225 Detection of abnormal calf muscle metabolism in patients with heart failure using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance, 1234 Estimating left ventricular ejection fraction after myocardial infarction by various clinical parameters, 192 HLA-DRw6 antigen linkage in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease (ischemic cardiomyopathy), 816 Renal artery stenosis in heart failure, 1307 Spontaneous neurohormonal fluctuation in chronic congestive heart failure, 150 Sustained hemodynamic effects with therapeutic doses of intravenous nitroglycerin in congestive heart failure, 319 Systemic and coronary hemodynamic and ..- neurohumoral effects of levodopa in chronic congestive heart failure, 1228 The ventilator;threshold: quantitative analysis of reproducibility and relation to arterial lactate concentration in normal subjects and in patients with chronic congestive heart failure, 100 Contractility Myocardial contractility and left ventricular function in obese patients with essential hypertension, 594 Contrast media Direct effect of contrast material on atrioventricular conduction in the denervated human heart, 1321

Converting enzyme inhibition Immediate and short-term cardiovascular effects of a new converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) in essential hypertension, 912 Coronary arteries Amelioration of ischemia during angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an autoperfusion catheter, 513 Anomalous origin of either the right or left main coronary artery from the aorta with subsequent coursing between aorta and pulmonary trunk: analysis of 32 necropsy cases, 771 Anomalous origin of either the right or left main coronary artery from the aorta without coursing of the anomalistically arising artery between aorta and pulmonary trunk, 1263 Connecting the ceruleus and the coronaries, 308 Effects of acetylcholine on epicardial coronary arteries after cardiac transplantation without angiographic evidence of fixed graft narrowing, 1093 Effects of intracoronary injection of acetylcholine on coronary arterial hemodynamics and diameter, 887 Imaging of coronary arteries by colorcoded transesophageal Doppler echocardiography, 639 Left ventricular function after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for postinfarction angina pectoris, 358 One-year psychosocial follow-up of patients with chest pain and angiographically normal coronary arteries, 209 Origin of the left main coronary artery from the pulmonary trunk in the Syrian hamster, 159 Phasic coronary artery flow velocity determined by Doppler flowmeter catheter in aortic stenosis and aortic regurgitation, 917 Transient alterations of the QRS complex and ST segment during percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1038 Ultrasound angioscopy: real-time, twodimensional, intraluminal ultrasound imaging of blood vessels, 493 Ventricular excitation during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1116 Coronary artery bypass grafting See also Surgery Comparative costs of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting in multivessel coronary artery disease, 809 Dubious reliability of Q-wave formation in predicting new regional left ventricular akinesis after coronary artery bypass grafting, 1299 Morphologic findings in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting for acute myocardial infarction, 144 Risk assessment of coronary artery bypass grafting within one month of acute myocardial infarction, 964 Significance of cardiac weight in patients

having coronary artery bypass grafting for angina pectoris, 36 Coronary artery disease See also Atherosclerosis Acquired ventricular septal defect during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 38 unoperated necropsy patients and comparison with 50 unoperated necropsy patients without rupture, 8 Acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus and significance of congestive heart failure as a prognostic factor, 665 Acute myocardial infarction in women: influence of gender on mortality and prognostic variables, 1 Altered global myocardial substrate preference at rest and during pacing in coronary artery disease with stable angina pectoris, 686 Amelioration of ischemia during angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an autoperfusion catheter, 513 Aminophylline termination of dipyridamole stress as a trigger of coronary vasospasm in variant angina, 694 Angiography morphology in unstable angina pectoris, 1024 Black/white differences in risk factors for arteriographically documented coronary artery disease in men, 214 Circadian variation of ventricular tachycardia in acute myocardial infarction, 670 Clinical safety and efficacy of once-a-day amlodipine for chronic stable angina pectoris, 518 Clinical significance and prognostic importance of left ventricular hypertrophy in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction, 1000 Comparative accuracy of clinical tests for diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease, 896 Comparative costs of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting in multivessel coronary artery disease, 809 Comparison of coronary stenosis quantitation results from on-line digital and digitized tine film images, 381 Comparison of Doppler echocardiographic and hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular diastolic properties in coronary artery disease, 882 Comparison of intravenous anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex and intracoronary streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction, 25 Comparison of left ventricular function and contractile reserve after successful recanalization by thrombolysis versus rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, 352 Comparison of the duration of action of atenolol and nadolol for treatment of angina pectoris, 1171 Contributions of the Framingham Study to the conquest of coronary-artery disease, 1109 Coronary revascularization after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for unstable angina pectoris: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 368

Correlation of heart rate variability with clinical and angiographic variables and late mortality after coronary angiography, 714 Determinants of primary success in elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for significant narrowing of a single major coronary artery, 873 Do different doses of intravenous streptokinase alter the frequency of coronary reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction? 843 Doppler and two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function before and after intravenous dipyridamole stress testing for detection of coronary artery disease, 1180 Effects of chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure and heart rate, 755 Effects of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty on atherosclerotic plaques and relation of plaque composition and arterial size to outcome, 4 1 Effects of solid and liquid guar gum on plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in moderate hypercholesterolemia, 5 1 Effects of type A behavior counseling and severity of prior acute myocardial infarction on survival, 1159 Electrically induced ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic agents, 186 Electrocardiographic estimate of left ventricular mass versus radiographic cardiac size and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the epidemiologic follow-up study of the first national health and nutrition examination survey, 59 Estimating left ventricular ejection fraction after myocardial infarction by various clinical parameters, 192 Estimation of the secretion rate of atrial natriuretic peptide from the coronary sinus in coronary artery disease, 56 Evaluation of left ventricular contractility indexes for the detection of symptomatic and silent myocardial ischemia, 1176 Exercise performance of the high risk acute myocardial infarction patient after cardiac rehabilitation, 197 Factors leading to shorter survival in patients ages 65 to 75 years compared with younger patients after acute myocardial infarction, 860 Family history as an independent risk factor for incident coronary artery disease in a high-risk cohort in Utah, 703 Frequency of angina pectoris and coronary artery disease in severe isolated valvular aortic stenosis, 117 Heart rate adjustment of ST-segment depression for reduction of false positive electrocardiographic responses to exercise in asymptomatic men screened for coronary artery disease, 1043 Hemodynamic and angiographic effects of prostaglandin E, in coronary artery disease, 698

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SUBJECT INDEX HLA-DRw6 antigen linkage in chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease (ischemic cardiomyopathy), 816 Influence of left ventricular asynchrony on filling in coronary artery disease, 523 Interpretation of conflicting clinical information by cardiologists, 313 Left ventricular thrombus formation after first anterior wall acute myocardial infarction, 31 Location of an acute myocardial infarct In patients with a healed myocardial infarct: analysis of 129 patients studied at necropsy, 1017 Nuclear magnetic resonance and radionuclide angiographic assessment of acute myocardial infarction in a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, 1011 Occurrence, characteristics and prognostic significance of early postacute myocardial infarction angina pectoris, 679 Physician perception of exercise electrocardiography as a prognostic test after acute myocardial infarction, 675 Presentation and late outcome of myocardial infarction in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease, 363 Prognosis following sustained ventricular tachycardia occurring early after myocardial infarction, 528 Prognostic significance of ischemic episodes in patients with previous myocardial infarction, 661 Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment, exercise testing and signal-averaged electrocardiogram in predicting outcome after acute myocardial infarction, 995 Reduced thiols and the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on platelet aggregation, 377 Relation between family history of coronary artery disease and coronary risk variables, 708 Retransplantation for severe accelerated coronary artery disease in heart transplant recipients, 876 Reverse and pseudo redistribution of thallium-201 in healed myocardial infarction and normal and negative thallium-201 washout in ischemia due to background oversubtraction, 543 Risk of developing an acute myocardial infarction or sudden coronary death in patients with exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry, 1155 Rupture of the left ventricular free wall during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 138 necropsy patients and comparison with 50 necropsy patients with acute myocardial infarction without rupture, 847 Significance of cardiac weight in patients having coronary artery bypass grafting for angina oectoris, 36 Six- and twelve-month follow-up of the phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial, 179 Survival with painless strongly positive exercise electrocardiogram, 892 The German Multicenter Trial of

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anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex versus heparin for acute myocardial infarction, 347 Usefulness of a rapid initial increase in plasma creatine kinase activity as a marker of reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, 20 Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, 1164 Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 67 Coronary artery occlusion Value of the ST-T segment in lead V4R in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction to predict the site of coronary arterial occlusion, 140 Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Risk of developing an acute myocardial infarction or sudden coronary death in patients with exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery - Study (CASS) registry,. 1155 Coronary sinus Estimation of the secretion rate of atrial natriuretic peptide from the coronary sinus in coronary artery disease, 56 The coronary sinus diverticulum: a pathologic entity associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, 733 Coronary vasospasm Aminophylline termination of dipyridamole stress as a trigger of coronary vasospasm in variant angina, 694 Cost assessment Comparative costs of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary artery bypass grafting in multivessel coronary artery disease, 809 Creatine kinase Relation of peak creatine kinase levels during acute myocardial infarction to presence or absence of previous manifestations of myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris or healed myocardial infarction), 534 The creatine kinase ratio: a useful means of detecting early peaking of the creatine kinase curve after acute myocardial infarction, 962 Usefulness of a rapid initial increase in plasma creatine kinase activity as a marker of reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, 20 Cyclosporin A Frequency of hypercholesterolemia after cardiac transplantation, 1268 Cyclosporine Left ventricular hypertrophy in cyclosporine-induced systemic hypertension after cardiac transplantation, 1140 Deep veins Deep venous contribution to hydrostatic blood volume change in the human leg, 449 Defibrillation Factors affecting transthoracic impedance during electrical cardioversion, 1048 Predictors of automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator discharge for

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life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, 83 Prospective evaluation of initially ineffective defibrillation pulses on subsequent defibrillation success during ventricular fibrillation in survivors of cardiac arrest, 7 18 Relation of the intraoperative defibrillation threshold to successful postoperative defibrillation with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, 393 The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction, 803 Defibrillators Reversible failure to sense ventricular tachycardia early after surgical implantation of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, 833 The automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator as antiarrhythmic treatment modality of choice for survivors of cardiac arrest unrelated to acute myocardial infarction, 803 Denervation Complete denervation of the heart in a child with congenital long QT and deafness, 1319 Direct effect of contrast material on atrioventricular conduction in the denervated human heart, 132 1 Diabetes mellitus Acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus and significance of congestive heart failure as a prognostic factor, 665 Impaired left ventricular systolic function during exercise in middle-aged insulindependent and noninsulin-dependent diabetic subjects without clinically evident cardiovascular disease, 1273 Juvenile diabetes mellitus with 50-year survival, 1144 Diagnosis Comparative accuracy of clinical tests for diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease, 896 Differentiation of “esophageal” and “cardiac” chest pain, 315 Interpretation of conflicting clinical information by cardiologists, 3 13 Diastole Comparison of Doppler echocardiographic and hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular diastolic properties in coronary artery disease, 882 Dose-dependent use of dobutamine to alter early diastolic filling in normal subjects, 333 Effect of heart rate alterations produced by atrial pacing on the pattern of diastolic filling in normal subjects, 1098 Effect of upright exercise on left ventricular diastolic filling in normal subjects, 488 Pattern of left ventricular diastolic filling associated with right ventricular enlargement, 444 Diltiarem Comparison of combination nifedipinepropranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Comparison of diltiazem and hydrochlorothiazide for treatment of

patients 60 years of age or older with systemic hypertension, 12 18 Effect of intravenous and oral calcium antagonists (diltiazem and verapamil) on sustenance of atrial fibrillation, 403 Nadolol versus diltiazem and combination for preventing exercise-induced ischemia in severe angina pectoris, 372 Dipyridamole Aminophylline termination of dipyridamole stress as a trigger of coronary vasospasm in variant angina, 694 Doppler and two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function before and after intravenous dipyridamole stress testing for detection of coronary artery disease, 1180 Simultaneous low level treadmill exercise and intravenous dipyridamole stress thallium imaging, 799 Usefulness of dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning for distinguishing ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy, 945 Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 67 Disopyramide Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy I. Hemodynamic assessment after intravenous administration, 1248 Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy II. Noninvasive assessment after oral administration, 1252 Oral disopyramide therapy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 1085 Dobutamine Dose-dependent use of dobutamine to alter early diastolic filling in normal subjects, 333 Domperidone Evidence for a dopaminergic control of sympathoadrenal catecholamine release, 827 Dopexamine Cardiovascular pharmacology of dopexamine in low output congestive heart failure, 94 Doppler ultrasound See also Echocardiography; M-mode echocardiography; Two-dimensional echocardiography Assessment of coronary blood flow by transesophageal two-dimensional pulsed Doppler echocardiography, 641 Calculating cardiac output from transmitral volume flow using Doppler and M-mode echocardiography, 131 Evaluation of age, gender, heart rate and blood pressure changes and exercise conditioning on Doppler measured aortic blood flow acceleration and velocity during upright treadmill testing, 439 Fate of the pulmonic valve after proximal pulmonary artery-to-ascending aorta anastomosis for aortic outflow obstruction, 435 Imaging of coronary arteries by colorcoded transesophageal Doppler echocardiography, 639 Pattern of left ventricular diastolic filling associated with right ventricular enlargement, 444 Role of left ventricular function and

Doppler-derived variables in predicting hemodynamic benefits of rateresponsive pacing, 906 Simplified method for estimation of Doppler cardiac output in the great arteries, 155 Ductus arteriosus Catheter occlusion of the persistently patent ductus arteriosus, 1089 Echocardiography See also Doppler ultrasound; M-mode echocardiography; Two-dimensional echocardiography Age-related changes in aortic and mitral valve thickness: implications for twodimensional echocardiography based on an autopsy study of 200 normal human hearts, 424 Comparison of Doppler echocardiographic and hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular diastolic properties in coronary artery disease, 882 Comparison of mitral valve dimensions and motion in mitral valve prolapse with severe mitral regurgitation to uncomplicated mitral valve prolapse and to mitral regurgitation without mitral valve prolapse, 257 Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy II. Noninvasive assessment after oral administration, 1252 Doppler and two-dimensional echocardiographic assessment of left ventricular function before and after intravenous dipyridamole stress testing for detection of coronary artery disease, 1180 Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac performance in infants on prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, 929 Doppler echocardiographic predictors of recurrence of atrial fibrillation after cardioversion, 723 Echocardiographic and anatomic findings in atrioventricular discordance with ventriculoat-terial concordance, 1256 Echocardiographic findings in myocarditis, 285 Imaging of coronary arteries by colorcoded transesophageal Doppler echocardiography, 639 Relation of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and extracardiac target organ damage to supranormal left ventricular performance in established essential hypertension, 246 Risk of transesophageal echocardiography in awake patients with cardiac diseases, 337 Simplified method for estimation of Doppler cardiac output in the great arteries, 155 Transesophageal echocardiography for assessing cause of hypotension after cardiac surgery, 1142 Transient atrial dysfunction after conversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm, 1202 Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 67 Visualization of patent foramen ovale by transesophageal color-coded Doppler echocardiography, 837 Ejection fraction Estimating left ventricular ejection fraction

after myocardial infarction by various clinical parameters, 192 Evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging for determination of left ventricular ejection fraction and comparison with angiography, 628 Right and left ventricular function during chronic amiodarone therapy, 736 Elderly patients Clinical and hemodynamic follow-up after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty in the elderly, 760 Comparison of diltiazem and hydrochlorothiazide for treatment of patients 60 years of age or older with systemic hypertension, 1218 Early and long-term results of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients 70 years of age and older with angina pectoris, 959 Evaluation of the QRS complex on the standard 1Blead electrocardiogram in normal subjects 70 to 79 years of age, 982 Factors leading to shorter survival in patients ages 65 to 75 years compared with younger patients after acute myocardial infarction, 860 Familial occurrence of congenital pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas in octogenarian siblings without telangiectasis, 1149 Influence of age on left ventricular contractility, 1103 Lack of sustained clinical improvement in an elderly population after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty, 270 Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease and its correlation with risk factors for peripheral arterial disease in elderly patients in a long-term health care facility, 644 Prevalence of postural hypotension in elderly patients in a long-term health care facility, 336 Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients, 1124 Usefulness of silent myocardial ischemia detected by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in predicting new coronary events in elderly patients, 1295 Electrical stimulation Long-term arrhythmic outcome in survivors of ventricular fibrillation with absence of inducible ventricular tachycardia, 12 13 Many things are not found in books or journals. .but some things are! Value of electrophysiologic testing in patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias, 1292 Transcutaneous pacing: patient tolerance, strength-interval relations and feasibility for programmed electrical stimulation, 1126 Electrocardiography Accuracy of the RVG:RVSvoltage ratio for increased left ventricular mass, 985 Comprehensive electrocardiographic analysis of acute myocardial infarction by individual and combined waveforms, 465 Correlation between directly measured

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SUBJECT INDEX and indirectly estimated sinoatrial conduction time in children, 1197 Effect of preexisting bundle branch block on the electrocardiographic diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia, 1208 Electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the presence of complete right bundle branch block, 590 Electrocardiographic estimate of left ventricular mass versus radiographic cardiac size and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the epidemiologic follow-up study of the first national health and nutrition examination survey, 59 Evaluation of the QRS complex on the standard 1Blead electrocardiogram in normal subjects 70 to 79 years of age, 982 Heart rate adjustment of ST-segment depression for reduction of false positive electrocardiographic responses to exercise in asymptomatic men screened for coronary artery disease, 1043 Identification of best electrocardiographic leads for diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy by statistical analysis of body surface potential maps, 1285 Improved differentiation of patients with and without ventricular tachycardia by frequency analysis of multiple electrocardiographic leads, 556 Mechanism of concealed atrial trigeminy, 1147 Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment, exercise testing and signal-averaged electrocardiogram in predicting outcome after acute myocardial infarction, 995 Sensitivity and specificity of electrocardiographic criteria for left and right ventricular hypertrophy in morbid obesity, 126 Serial electrocardiographic changes in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy confirmed at necropsy, 276 Survival with painless strongly positive exercise electrocardiogram, 892 Usefulness of silent myocardial ischemia detected by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in predicting new coronary events in elderly patients, 1295 Ventricular excitation during percutaneous transluminal angloplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1116 Electrophysiology Adenylate cyclase activity coupled to the stimulatory guanine nucleotide binding protein in patients having electrophysiologic studies and either structurally normal hearts or idiopathic myocardial disease, 1129 Correlation between directly measured and indirectly estimated sinoatrial conduction time in children, 1197 Effects of upright posture on atrioventricular nodal reentry and dual atrioventricular nodal pathways, 408 Electrophysiologic and clinical effects of flecainide for recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 585 Long-term prognosis of patients undergoing electrophysiologic studies for syncope of unknown origin, 1186

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Many things are not found in books or journals. .but some things are! Value of electrophysiologic testing in patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias, 1292 The coronary sinus diverticulum: a pathologic entity associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, 733 Value of electropharmacologic testing in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 611 Enalaprilat Effect of intravenous enalaprilat in moderate and severe systemic hypertension, 1062 Encainide Treatment of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia with encainide hydrochloride in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, 571 Endocardial fibroelastosis Endocardial fibroelastosis is not a disease, 468 Natural history and prognostic risk factors in endocardial fibroelastosis, 431 Endomyocardial biopsy Echocardiographic findings in myocarditis, 285 Enoximone Administration of enoximone in cardiogenic shock, 419 Entrainment Entrainment of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia of left ventricular origin with evidence for reentry with an area of slow conduction and effect of verapamil, 727 Epinephrine Effects of epinephrine in patients with an accessory atrioventricular connection treated with quinidihe, 580 Esmolol Safety and efficacy of esmolol for unstable angina pectoris, 1033 Exercise Cardiovascular response in exercise after the Mustard operation for simple and complex transposition of the great vessels, 617 Effect of upright exercise on left ventricular diastolic filling in normal subjects, 488 Left ventricular response to submaximal and maximal exercise in asymptomatic aortic regurgitation, 606 Noninvasive measurement of the decrease in left ventricular filling time during maximal exercise in normal subjects, 650 Usefulness of the dipyridamole-exercise echocardiography test for diagnosis of coronary artery disease, 67 Exercise testing Blood pressure at rest and during maximal dynamic and isometric exercise as predictors of systemic hypertension, 1058 Changes in left ventricular wall stress during isometric and isotonic exercise in healthy men, 794 Comparative accuracy of clinical tests for diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease, 896 Effect of maximal exercise testing on serum cholesterol in healthy subjects undergoing exercise tralning and on beta-adrenergic blockade, 478

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Evaluation of age, gender, heart rate and blood pressure changes and exercise conditioning on Doppler measured aortic blood flow acceleration and velocity during upright treadmill testing, 439 Evaluation of left ventricular contractility indexes for the detection of symptomatic and silent myocardial ischemia, 1176 Exercise performance of the high risk acute myocardial infarction patient after cardiac rehabilitation, 197 Impaired left ventricular systolic function during exercise in middle-aged insulindependent and noninsulin-dependent diabetic subjects without clinically evident cardiovascular disease, 1273 Left ventricular mass as determined by magnetic resonance imaging in male endurance athletes, 301 Physician perception of exercise electrocardiography as a prognostic test after acute myocardial infarction, 675 Physiologic differences in rate-related versus exercise-induced left bundle branch block, 316 Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment, exercise testing and signal-averaged electrocardiogram in predicting outcome after acute myocardial infarction, 995 Relation of potassium flux during incremental exercise to exercise intensity, 334 Simultaneous low level treadmill exercise and intravenous dipyridamole stress thallium imaging, 799 Survival with painless strongly positive exercise electrocardiogram, 892 The ventilatory threshold: quantitative analysis of reproducibility and relation to arterial lactate concentration in normal subjects and in patients with chronic congestive heart failure, 100 Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, 1164 Usefulness of transcutaneous triggering of conventional implanted pulse generators by an activity-sensing pacemaker for predicting effectiveness of rate response pacing, 901 Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac performance in infants on prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, 929 Facial pigmentation Spontaneous disappearance of blue-gray facial pigmentation during amiodarone therapy (out of the blue), 1146 Fetal tachycardia Clinical and electrophysiologic features of fetal and neonatal paroxysmal atrial tachycardia resulting in congestive heart failure, 225 Fistulas Familial occurrence of congenital pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas in octogenarian siblings without telangiectasis, 1149 Repeated endomyocardial biopsy causing coronary arterial-right ventricular fistula after cardiac transplantation, 829

Flecainide Electrophysiologic and clinical effects of flecainide for recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 585 Electrophysiologic effects and clinical efficacy of flecainide in children with recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 229 Flecainide for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults, 818 Supraventricular tachycardia mimicking ventricular tachycardia during flecainide treatment, 1303 Flestolol Effect of flestolol on ventricular rate during atrial fibrillation in WolffParkinson-White syndrome, 78 Fontan procedure Thrombolytic treatment with streptokinase for late intraatrial thrombosis after modified Fontan procedure, 343 Foramen ovale Visualization of patent foramen ovale by transesophageal color-coded Doppler echocardiography, 837 Framingham Heart Study Contributions of the Framingham Study to the conquest of coronary artery disease, 1109 From the Editor Argentina and Argentine cardiology, 167 Brazil and Brazilian cardiology, 991 Drug developers and drug dispensers: their dependency on one another, 840 Factors linking cholesterol to atherosclerotic plaques, 495 India and Indian cardiology, 1326 The Friedewald-Levy-Fredrickson formula for calculating low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, the basis for lipid-lowering therapy, 345 Fulguration Results of electrical fulguration in arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease, 220 Furosemide Effect of intravenous enalaprilat in moderate and severe systemic hypertension, 1062 Gorlin formula Inadequacy of the Gorlin formula for predicting prosthetic valve area, 113 Guanethidine Refractory variant angina relieved by guanethidine and clonidine, 832 Guar gum Effects of solid and liquid guar gum on plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in moderate hypercholesterolemia, 51 Heart failure Effects of chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure and heart rate, 755 Heart rate Correlation of heart rate variability with clinical and angiographic variables and late mortality after coronary angiography, 714 Effect of heart rate alterations produced by atrial pacing on the pattern of diastolic filling in normal subjects, 1098 Effects of chronic congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease on the circadian rhythm of blood pressure and heart rate, 755

Heart rate adjustment of ST-segment depression for reduction of false positive electrocardiographic responses to exercise in asymptomatic men screened for coronary artery disease, 1043 Hemodynamlcs Clinical and noninvasive hemodynamic results after aortic balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis, 1078 Comparison of Doppler echocardiographic and hemodynamic indexes of left ventricular diastolic properties in coronary artery disease, 882 Comparison of the effects of pindolol and atenolol on hemodynamic function in systemic hypertension, 413 Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy I. Hemodynamic assessment after intravenous administration, 1248 Effects of intracoronary injection of acetylcholine on coronary arterial hemodynamics and diameter, 887 Hemodynamic and angiographic effects of prostaglandin El in coronary artery disease, 698 Hemodynamic, humoral and volume findings in systemic hypertension with isolated ventricular septal hypertrophy, 1053 Immediate and short-term cardiovascular effects of a new converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) in essential hypertension, 9 12 Influence of left atrial systolic emptying on left ventricular early filling dynamics by Doppler in patients with sequential atrioventricular pacemakers, 968 Role of left ventricular function and Doppler-derived variables In predicting hemodynamic benefits of rateresponsive pacing, 906 Sustained hemodynamic effects with therapeutic doses of intravenous nitroglycerin in congestive heart failure, 319 Systemic and coronary hemodynamic and neurohumoral effects of levodopa in chronic congestive heart failure, 1228 Heparin Heparin bolus therapy during cardiac catheterization, 1314 The German Multicenter Trial of anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex versus heparin for acute myocardial infarction, 347 Heredity Familial apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, 821 Familial occurrence of congenital pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas in octogenarian siblings without telangiectasis, 1149 Family history as an independent risk factor for incident coronary artery disease in a high-risk cohort in Utah, 703 Relation between family history of coronary artery disease and coronary risk variables, 708 Historical studies In appreciation of Alfred G. Mayer, 454 Richard D. Rowe, MD (1923-1988) 957 Samuel A. Levine and his World War I experience, 952 Holter monitoring Polymorphonuclear leukocyte activity and

ventricular arrhythmia in acute mvocardial infarction , --., nnn Hydrochlorothfazide Comparison of diltiazem and hydrochlorothiazide for treatment of patients 60 years of age or older with systemic hypertension, 1218 Effects of isradipine, a new calcium antagonist, versus hydrochlorothiazide on serum lipids and apolipoproteins in patients with systemic hypertension, 1068 Hypercholesterolemia Effects of solid and liquid guar gum on plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in moderate hypercholesterolemia, 51 Frequency of hypercholesterolemia after cardiac transplantation, 1268 Hypertension See also Blood pressure; Systemic hypertension Antihypertensive drug therapy and arrhythmia risk, 147 Effects of celiprolol on plasma renin, aldosterone, norepinephrine and epinephrine in primary hypertension, 751 Effects of weight loss on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive men, 89 First dose response and 24-hour antihypertensive efficacy of the new once-daily angiotensin convertina enzyme inhibitor, ramipril, 239 Immediate and short-term cardiovascular effects of a new converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) in essential hypertension, 912 Left ventricular structural characteristics in unilateral renovascular hypertension and primary aldosteronism, 1224 Long-term metabolic effects of spironolactone and thiazides combined with potassium-sparing agents for treatment of essential hypertension, 1072 Myocardial contractility and left ventricular function in obese patients with essential hypertension, 594 Relation of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and extracardiac target organ damage to supranormal left ventricular performance in established essential hypertension, 246 Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy See also Cardiomyopathy Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy I. Hemodynamic assessment after intravenous administration, 1248 Disopyramide in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy II. Noninvasive assessment after oral administration, 1252 Oral disopyramide therapv for obstructive hypertrophlc cardiomyopathy, 1085 Hyoofibrinogenemia -Do different doses of intravenous streptokinase alter the frequency of coronary reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction? 843 Hypoplastic left-heart syndrome Fate of the pulmonic valve after proximal pulmonary artery-to-ascending aorta anastomosis for aortic outflow obstruction, 435

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SUBJECT INDEX Hypotension Prevalence of postural hypotension in elderly patients in a long-term health care facility, 336 Transesophageal echocardiography for assessing cause of hypotension after cardiac surgery, 1142 idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy Serial electrocardiographic changes in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy confirmed at necropsy, 276 idiopathic myocardiai disease Adenylate cyclase activity coupled to the stimulatory guanine nucleotide binding protein in patients having electrophysioiogic studies and either structurally normal hearts or idiopathic myocardial disease, 1129 indium- 111 Patterns of evolution of myocyte damage after human heart transplantation detected by indium-I 11 monoclonal antimyosin, 623 infants Doppler echocardiographic evaluation of cardiac performance in infants on prolonged extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, 929 Effect of isolated right ventricular outflow obstruction on left ventricular function in Infants, 778 infundibuiar hypertrophy Regression of infundibular hypertrophy after pulmonary valvuloplasty for pulmonic stenosis, 977 iodine-123 Abnormal myocardiai fatty acid metabolism in dilated cardiomyopathy detected by iodine-123 phenylpentadecanoic acid and tomographic imaging, 923 ischemia See a/so Myocardial ischemia Amelioration of ischemia during angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery with an autoperfusion catheter, 513 Prognostic significance of ischemic episodes in patients with previous myocardial infarction, 661 Reverse and pseudo redistribution of thallium-201 in healed myocardial infarction and normal and negative thallium-201 washout in ischemia due to background oversubtraction, 543 isradipine Effects of isradipine, a new calcium antagonist, versus hydrochlorothiazide on serum lipids and apolipoproteins in patients with systemic hypertension, 1068 Lactate The ventilatory threshold: quantitative analysis of reproducibility and relation to arterial lactate concentration in normal subjects and in patients with chronic congestive heart failure, 100 Lead V,R Value of the ST-T segment in lead V4R in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction to predict the site of coronary arterial occlusion, 140 Left ventricular dilatation Familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with left ventricular dilatation and conduction disturbances, 484 Left ventricular function See also Ventricular function

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Treatment of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia with encainide hydrochloride in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, 571 Usefulness of ambulatory radionuclide monitoring of left ventricular function early after acute myocardiai infarction for predicting residual myocardiai ischemia, 1005 Left ventricular hypertrophy Cardiac function in systemic hypertension before and after reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy, 745 Clinical significance and prognostic importance of left ventricular hypertrophy in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction, 1000 Electrocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular hypertrophy in the presence of complete right bundle branch block, 590 Hemodynamic, humoral and volume findings in systemic hypertension with isolated ventricular septai hypertrophy, 1053 Identification of best electrocardiographic leads for diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy by statistical analysis of body surface potential maps, 1285 Left ventricular hypertrophy in cyclosporine-induced systemic hypertension after cardiac transplantation, 1140 Left ventricular structural characteristics in unilateral renovascular hypertension and primary aidosteronism, 1224 Relation of concentric left ventricular hypertrophy and extracardiac target organ damage to supranormai left ventricular performance in established essential hypertension, 246 Sensitivity and specificity of electrocardiographic criteria for left and right ventricular hypertrophy in morbid obesity, 126 Serial electrocardiographic changes in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy confirmed at necropsy, 276 Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients, 1124 Left ventricular mass Accuracy of the RVs:RVs voltage ratio for increased left ventricular mass, 985 Electrocardiographic estimate of left ventricular mass versus radiographic cardiac size and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the epidemiologic follow-up study of the first national health and nutrition examination survey, 59 Left ventricular mass as determined by magnetic resonance imaging in male endurance athletes, 301 Left ventricular mural thrombi Impact of thrombolytic therapy on left ventricular mural thrombi in acute myocardial infarction, 310 Left ventricular perfusion Relation of left ventricular perfusion and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202

Letters to the Editor A XII century description of congestive heart failure, 512 A common link between unstable angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction, 660 An echo-dense mass in the pericardial space as a sign of left ventricular free wall rupture during acute myocardial infarction, 173 Aortic valve replacement in both spouses on the same day, 170 Art in cardiology, 1153 Balloon valvuloplasty versus surgical commissurotomy, 1153 Blood pressure changes above and below the anaerobic threshold, 173 Cardiac catheterization by nonphysicians, 172 Correction, 1153 Deglutition syncope in childhood with complete atrioventricular block, 170 Diuretics, serum potassium and ventricular arrhythmias, 177 Do dreams come true? 175 Echocardiographic criteria for diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse, 641 Erratum, 641, 1151, 1152 Final word (?) for the diagnosis of mitral valve prolapse, 5 12 Maximal aortic valve pressure gradients by Doppler echocardiography, 1151 Mitral valve prolapse is not a new disease entity, 660 Nausea and vomiting during acute myocardial infarction, 178 New electrocardiographic criteria for right ventricular hypertrophy: a correction fat the 1986 study, 512 Nifedipine versus isosorbide dinitrate for angina pectoris, 178 Nonperpetual death, 170 Pregnancy following percutaneous transluminal angioplasty, 1152 Q-wave regression after transmural acute myocardial infarction, 1152 The cardioprotective effects of tricyclic antidepressants, 170 The case of the incorrect magnet, 171 The origin of specious, 175 Tissue plasminogen activator and selective coronary vasodilation, 173 TWEedledum, 1152. Use of flecainide acetate in the treatment of supraventricular tachyarrhythmias, 171 Value of programmed ventricular stimulation from the right ventricular outflow tract, 1152 Variability in plasma cholesterol assays: the object that defeats the goal, 841 Leukocytes Polymorphonuclear leukocyte activity and ventricular arrhythmia in acute myocardial infarction, 868 Levine, Samuel A. Samuel A. Levine and his World War I experience, 952 Levodopa Systemic and coronary hemodynamic and neurohumoral effects of levodopa in chronic congestive heart failure, 1228 Lipoprotein Effects of solid and liquid guar gum on plasma cholesterol and triglyceride concentrations in moderate hypercholesterolemia, 51 Lisinopril

Immediate and short-term cardiovascular effects of a new converting enzyme inhibitor (lisinopril) in essential hypertension, 9 12 Magnetic resonance imaging Deep venous contribution to hydrostatic blood volume change in the human leg, 449 Detection of abnormal calf muscle metabolism in patients with heart failure using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance, 1234 Evaluation of magnetic resonance imaging for determination of left ventricular ejection fraction and comparison with angiography, 628 Left ventricular mass as determined by magnetic resonance imaging in male endurance athletes, 301 Magnetic resonance imaging of prosthetic cardiac valves in vitro and in vivo, 973 Nuclear magnetic resonance and radionuclide angiographic assessment of acute myocardial infarction in a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, 1011 Mapping Identification of best electrocardiographic leads for diagnosing left ventricular hypertrophy by statistical analysis of body surface potential maps, 1285 Mayer, Alfred G. In appreciation of Alfred G. Mayer, 454 Medical records Book-burning in our medical libraries: prevention or palliation? 458 Men Black/white differences in risk factors for arteriographically documented coronary artery disease in men, 2 14 Changes in left ventricular wall stress during isometric and isotonic exercise in healthy men, 794 Effects of weight loss on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive men, 89 Heart rate adjustment of ST-segment depression for reduction of false positive electrocardiographic responses to exercise in asymptomatic men screened for coronary artery disease, 1043 Left ventricular mass as determined by magnetic resonance imaging in male endurance athletes, 301 Metabolism Abnormal myocardial fatty acid metabolism in dilated cardiomyopathy detected by Iodine-123 phenylpentadecanoic acid and tomographic imaging, 923 Altered global myocardial substrate preference at rest and during pacing in coronary artery disease with stable angina pectoris, 686 Detection of abnormal calf muscle metabolism in patients with heart failure using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance, 1234 Relation of left ventricular perfusion and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202 Methodology Abjective reality, 1113 Mitral regurgitation Comparison of mitral valve dimensions

and motion in mitral valve prolapse with severe mitral regurgitation to uncomplicated mitral valve prolapse and to mitral regurgitation without mitral valve prolapse, 257 Usefulness of onset of the pulmonary wedge V wave in predicting mitral regurgitation, 646 Mitral valve Age-related changes in aortic and mitral valve thickness: implications for twodimensional echocardiography based on an autopsy study of 200 normal human hearts, 424 Calculating cardiac output from transmitral volume flow using Doppler and M-mode echocardiography, 131 Mechanism of mitral valve area increase by in vitro single and double balloon mitral valvotomy, 264 Mitral valve prolapse Comparison of mitral valve dimensions and motion in mitral valve prolapse with severe mitral regurgitation to uncomplicated mitral valve prolapse and to mitral regurgitation without mitral valve prolapse, 257 Lack of association between acute myocardial infarction and mitral valve prolapse, 1297 Prevalence of atrial septal aneurysm in patients with mitral valve prolapse, 1139 Mitral valvuloplasty Applicability of mitral valvuloplasty techniques in a North American population, 253 M-mode echocardiography See also Doppler ultrasound: Echocardiography; Two-dimensional echocardiography Calculating cardiac output from transmitral volume flow using Doppler and M-mode echocardiography, 131 Morphine Comparison of nalbuphine hydrochloride versus morphine sulfate for acute myocardial infarction with elevated pulmonary artery wedge pressure, 551 Morphology Angiography morphology in unstable angina pectoris, 1024 Multicenter studies Frequency of normal coronary arteriograms in three academic medical centers and one community hospital, 472 Mustard operation Cardiovascular response in exercise after the Mustard operation for simple and complex transposition of the great vessels, 6 17 Successful pregnancy after the Mustard operation for transposition of the great arteries, 838 Myocardial infarction See a/so Acute myocardial infarction Dependence of assessment of coronary artery reperfusion during acute myocardial infarction on angiographic criteria and interobserver variability, 538 Do different doses of intravenous streptokinase alter the frequency of coronary reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction? 843 Evaluation of a QRS scoring system for estimating myocardial infarct size. VII:

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SUBJECT INDEX Specificity in a control group with right ventricular hypertrophy due to mitral stenosis, 322 Frequency of acute and healed myocardial infarcts in fatal cardiac amyloidosis, 1134 Left ventricular function after successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for postinfarction angina pectoris, 358 Major circadian fluctuations in fibrinolytic factors and possible relevance to time of onset of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and stroke, 635 Presentation and late outcome of myocardial infarction in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease, 363 Prognosis following sustained ventricular tachycardia occurring early after myocardial infarction, 528 Prognostic significance of ischemic episodes in patients with previous myocardial infarction, 661 Relation of left ventricular perfusion and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202 Relation of peak creatine kinase levels during acute myocardial infarction to presence or absence of previous manifestations of myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris or healed myocardial infarction), 534 Reverse and pseudo redistribution of thallium-201 in healed myocardial infarction and normal and negative thallium-201 washout in ischemia due to background oversubtraction, 543 Myocardial &hernia See a/so lschemia Clinical safety and efficacy of once-a-day amlodipine for chronic stable angina pectoris, 518 Evaluation of left ventricular contractility indexes for the detection of symptomatic and silent myocardial ischemia, 1176 Relation of peak creatine kinase levels during acute myocardial infarction to presence or absence of previous manifestations of myocardial ischemia (angina pectoris or healed myocardial infarction), 534 Risk of developing an acute myocardial infarction or sudden coronary death in patients with exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry, 1155 Usefulness of ambulatory radionuclide monitoring of left ventricular function early after acute myocardial infarction for predicting residual myocardial ischemia, 1005 Usefulness of silent myocardial ischemia detected by ambulatory electrocardiographic monitoring in predicting new coronary events in elderly patients, 1295 Myocarditls Echocardiographic findings in myocarditis, 285 Frequency of myocarditis, left ventricular dysfunction and ventricular tachycardia in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 789

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Myocarditis diagnosed by endomyocardial biopsy in human immunodeficiency virus infection with cardiac dysfunction, 658 Successful management of acute myocarditis with biventricular assist devices and cardiac transplantation, 341 Myocyte damage Patterns of evolution of myocyte damage after human heart transplantation detected by indium-1 11 monoclonal antimyosin, 623 Nadolol Comparison of the duration of action of atenolol and nadolol for treatment of angina pectoris, 117 1 Nadolol versus diltiazem and combination for preventing exercise-induced ischemia in severe angina pectoris, 372 Nalbuphine Comparison of nalbuphine hydrochloride versus morphine sulfate for acute myocardial infarction with elevated pulmonary artery wedge pressure, 551 National health and nutrition examination survey, first Electrocardiographic estimate of left ventricular mass versus radiographic cardiac size and the risk of cardiovascular disease mortality in the epidemiologic follow-up study of the first national health and nutrition examination survey, 59 Necropsy studies Anomalous origin of either the right or left main coronary artery from the aorta with subsequent coursing between aorta and pulmonary trunk: analysis of 32 necropsy cases, 771 Location of an acute myocardial infarct in patients with a healed myocardial infarct: analysis of 129 patients studied at necropsy, 1017 Rupture of the left ventricular free wall during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 138 necropsy patients and comparison with 50 necropsy patients with acute myocardial infarction without rupture, 847 Neonatal tachycardia Clinical and electrophysiologic features of fetal and neonatal paroxysmal atrial tachycardia resulting in congestive heart failure, 225 Neurohormones Spontaneous neurohormonal fluctuation in chronic congestive heart failure, 150 Neuroticism One-year psychosocial follow-up of patients with chest pain and angiographically normal coronary arteries, 209 Nifedipine Comparison of combination nifedipinepropranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Nitroglycerin Reduced thiols and the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on platelet aggregation, 377 Sustained hemodynamic effects with therapeutic doses of intravenous nitroglycerin in congestive heart failure, 319 Non-O-wave infarction Clinical significance and prognostic

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importance of left ventricular hypertrophy in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction, 1000 Obesity Effects of weight loss on clinic and ambulatory blood pressure in normotensive men, 89 Myocardial contractility and left ventricular function in obese patients with essential hypertension, 594 Sensitivity and specificity of electrocardiographic criteria for left and right ventricular hypertrophy in morbid obesity, 126 Occlusion Catheter occlusion of the persistently patent ductus arteriosus, 1089 Deep venous contribution to hydrostatic blood volume change in the human leg, 449 Results of low speed rotational angioplasty for chronic peripheral occlusions, 935 Pacemakers Influence of left atrial systolic emptying on left ventricular early filling dynamics by Doppler in patients with sequential atrioventricular pacemakers, 968 Role of left ventricular function and Doppler-derived variables in predicting hemodynamic benefits of rateresponsive pacing, 906 Usefulness of transcutaneous triggering of conventional implanted pulse generators by an activity-sensing pacemaker for predicting effectiveness of rate response pacing, 901 Use of balloon flotation pacing catheters for prophylactic temporary pacing during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures, 941 Pacing Altered global myocardial substrate preference at rest and during pacing in coronary artery disease with stable angina pectoris, 686 Cardiac pacing practices in the United States in 1985, 71 Effect of catheter ablation of the atrioventricular junction on quality of life and exercise tolerance in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 741 Effect of heart rate alterations produced by atrial pacing on the pattern of diastolic filling in normal subjects, 1098 Effect of pacing-cycle length and autonomic blockade on sinus node refractoriness, 1192 Role of left ventricular function and Doppler-derived variables in predicting hemodynamic benefits of rateresponsive pacing, 906 Role of transesophageal pacing in evaluation of palpitations in children and adolescents, 566 Transcutaneous pacing: patient tolerance, strength-interval relations and feasibility for programmed electrical stimulation, 1126 Usefulness of transcutaneous triggering of conventional implanted pulse generators by an activity-sensing pacemaker for predicting effectiveness of rate response pacing, 901 Use of balloon flotation pacing catheters for prophylactic temporary pacing during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures, 941

Palpitations Role of transesophageal pacing in evaluation of palpitations in children and adolescents, 566 Papaverine Serious ventricular dysrhythmias after intracoronary papaverine, 1301 Parasympathetic tone Temporary decrease in cardiac parasympathetic tone after acute myocardial infarction, 637 Parasystole Circadian variabilities of modulated ventricular parasvstole, 653 Double ventri&lar parasystole with modulation and intermittency, 655 Pathology Applicability of mitral valvuloplasty techniques in a North American population, 253 Pericardial inflammation Release of atrial natriuretic factor following pericardiectomy for chronic constrictive pericarditis, 1323 Peripheral arteries Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease and its correlation with risk factors for peripheral arterial disease in elderly patients in a long-term health care facility, 644 Ultrasound angioscopy: real-time, twodimensional, intraluminal ultrasound imaging of blood vessels, 493 Phosphorus-31 Detection of abnormal calf muscle metabolism in patients with heart failure using phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance, 1234 Pindolol Comparison of the effects of pindolol and atenolol on hemodynamic function in systemic hypertension, 413 Platelets Reduced thiols and the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on platelet aggregation, 377 Plethysmography Deep venous contribution to hydrostatic blood volume change in the human leg, 449 Position Effects of supine and lateral positions on cardiac output and intracardiac pressures, 330 Potassium Relation of potassium flux during incremental exercise to exercise intensity, 334 Potassium-sparing agents Long-term metabolic effects of spironolactone and thiazides combined with potassium-sparing agents for treatment of essential hypertension, 1072 Preservation of books Book-burning in our medical libraries: prevention or palliation? 458 Proarrhythmia Treatment of life-threatenina ventricular tachycardia with encainide hydrochloride in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, 571 Prognosis Acute myocardial infarction in diabetes mellitus and significance of congestive heart failure as a prognostic factor, 665 Acute myocardial infarction in women: influence of gender on mortality and

prognostic variables, 1 Blood pressure at rest and during maximal dynamic and isometric exercise as predictors of systemic hypertension, 1058 Clinical significance and prognostic importance of left ventricular hyper-trophy in non-Q-wave acute myocardial infarction, 1000 Comparative accuracy of clinical tests for diagnosis and prognosis of coronary artery disease, 896 Correlation of heart rate variability with clinical and angiographic variables and late mortality after coronary angiography, 714 Effects of type A behavior counseling and severity of prior acute myocardial infarction on survival, 1159 Evaluation of left ventricular contractility indexes for the detection of symptomatic and silent myocardial ischemia, 1176 Long-term prognosis of patients undergoing electrophysiologic studies for syncope of unknown origin, 1186 Natural history and prognostic risk factors in endocardial fibroelastosis, 431 Occurrence, characteristics and prognostic significance of early postacute myocardial infarction angina pectoris, 679 Penny wise, 806 Physician perception of exercise electrocardiography as a prognostic test after acute myocardial infarction, 675 Prognosis following sustained ventricular tachycardia occurring early after myocardial infarction, 528 Prognostic significance of ischemic episodes in patients with previous myocardial infarction, 661 Prospective evaluation of clinical assessment, exercise testing and signal-averaged electrocardiogram in predicting outcome after acute myocardial infarction, 995 Survival with painless strongly positive exercise electrocardiogram, 892 Usefulness of ambulatory radionuclide monitoring of left ventricular function early after acute myocardial infarction for predicting residual myocardial ischemia, 1005 Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients, 1124 Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, 1164 Usefulness of onset of the pulmonary wedge V wave in predicting mitral regurgitation, 646 Propafenone Symptomatic sinus node dysfunction associated with the use of propafenone, 480 Prophylaxis Initial experience with coronary angioplasty and aortic valvuloplasty using elective semipercutaneous cardiopulmonary support, 811

Use of balloon flotation pacing catheters for prophylactic temporary pacing during diagnostic and therapeutic catheterization procedures, 941 Propranolol Comparison of combination nifedipinepropranolol and diltiazem-propranolol with high dose diltiazem monotherapy for stable angina pectoris, 1028 Prostaglandin El Hemodynamic and angiographic effects of prostaglandin El in coronary artery disease, 698 Pulmonary artery pressure Comparison of nalbuphine hydrochloride versus morphine sulfate for acute myocardial infarction with elevated pulmonary artery wedge pressure, 551 Estimation of the secretion rate of atrial natriuretic peptide from the coronary sinus in coronary artery disease, 56 Saline contrast enhancement of trivial Doppler tricuspid regurgitation signals for estimating pulmonary artery pressure, 486 Usefulness of onset of the pulmonary wedge V wave in predicting mitral regurgitation, 646 Pulmonary atresia Cervical collateral arteries in pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, 1310 Pulmonary edema Transient unilateral pulmonary edema after successful balloon dilation of peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis, 327 Pulmonary hypertension Functional tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, 108 Pulmonary stenosis Causes of restenosis after balloon valvuloplasty for valvular pulmonary stenosis, 979 Percutaneous double balloon pulmonary valvotomy in adults: one- to two-year follow-up, 822 Regression of infundibular hypertrophy after pulmonary valvuloplasty for pulmonic stenosis, 977 Transient unilateral pulmonary edema after successful balloon dilation of peripheral pulmonary artery stenosis, 327 Pulmonary valve Fate of the pulmonic valve after proximal pulmonary artery-to-ascending aorta anastomosis for aortic outflow obstruction, 435 Pulmonary veins Morphologic features of stenosis of the pulmonary veins, 1136 Pulmonary venous connection Gross and histologic anatomy of total anomalous pulmonary venous connections, 292 QRS complex Evaluation of a QRS scoring system for estimating myocardial infarct size. VII: Specificity in a control group with right ventricular hypertrophy due to mitral stenosis, 322 Evaluation of the QRS complex on the standard 12-lead electrocardiogram in normal subjects 70 to 79 years of age, 982 Transient alterations of the QRS complex

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SUBJECT INDEX and ST segment during percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1038 QT interval Complete denervation of the heart in a child with congenital long QT and deafness, 1319 Quinidine Effects of epinephrine in patients with an accessory atrioventricular connection treated with quinidine, 580 0 wave Dubious reliability of Q-wave formation in predicting new regional left ventricular akinesis after coronary artery bypass grafting, 1299 Racial factors Black/white differences in risk factors for arteriographically documented coronary artery disease in men, 214 Radionuciide angiography Left ventricular response to submaximal and maximal exercise in asymptomatic aortic regurgitation, 606 Nuclear magnetic resonance and radionuclide angiographic assessment of acute myocardial infarction in a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, 10 11 Radionuciide ventriculography Usefulness of ambulatory radionuclide monitoring of left ventricular function early after acute myocardial infarction for predicting residual myocardial ischemia, 1005 Ramiprii First dose response and 24-hour antihypertensive efficacy of the new once-daily angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor, ramipril, 239 Renal function Cardiovascular pharmacology of dopexamine in low output congestive heart failure, 94 Reperfusion Dependence of assessment of coronary artery reperfusion during acute myocardial Infarction on angiographic criteria and interobserver variability, 538 Do different doses of intravenous streptokinase alter the frequency of coronary reperfusion in acute myocardial infarction? 843 Usefulness of a rapid initial increase in plasma creatine kinase activity as a marker of reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, 20 Restenosis Causes of restenosis after balloon valvuloplasty for valvular pulmonary stenosis, 979 Long-term follow-up and influence of symptom-free interval on restenosis after repeat percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, 476 Long-term outcome of patients with asymptomatic restenosis after percutaneous transiuminal coronary angioplasty, 1298 Right ventricular hypertrophy Evaluation of a QRS scoring system for estimating myocardiai infarct size. VII: Specificity in a control group with right ventricular hypertrophy due to mitral stenosis, 322

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Pattern of left ventricular diastolic filling associated with right ventricular enlargement, 444 Sensitivity and specificity of electrocardiographic criteria for left and right ventricular hypertrophy in morbid obesity, 126 Risk assessment Penny wise, 806 Prevalence of peripheral arterial disease and its correlation with risk factors for peripheral arterial disease in elderly patients in a long-term health care facility, 644 Risk assessment of coronary artery bypass grafting within one month of acute myocardial infarction, 964 Risk of developing an acute myocardial infarction or sudden coronary death in patients with exercise-induced silent myocardial ischemia. A report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) registry, 1155 Risk of transesophageal echocardiography in awake patients with cardiac diseases, 337 Risk factors Natural history and prognostic risk factors in endocardial fibroelastosis, 431 Relation between family history of coronary artery disease and coronary risk variables, 708 Rowe, Richard D. Richard D. Rowe, MD (1923-1988), 957 Septai perforator artery Isolated obstruction of large septal perforators, 142 Sickle ceil anemia Cardiovascular adaptations to transfusion chelation therapy of homozygote sickle cell anemia, 121 Signal averaging Improved differentiation of patients with and without ventricular tachycardia by frequency analysis of multiple electrocardiographic leads, 556 Sinus node Effect of pacing cycle length and autonomic blockade on sinus node refractoriness, 1192 Symptomatic sinus node dysfunction associated with the use of propafenone, 480 Sinus rhythm Transient atrial dysfunction after conversion of chronic atrial fibrillation to sinus rhythm, 1202 Smoking Presentation and late outcome of myocardial infarction in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease, 363 Sotaioi Sotalol for refractory sustained ventricular tachycardia and nonfatal cardiac arrest, 399 Spironoiactone Long-term metabolic effects of spironolactone and thiazides combined with potassium-sparing agents for treatment of essential hypertension, 1072 Stenosis See a/so Aortic stenosis Comparison of coronary stenosis quantitation results from on-line digital and digitized tine film images, 381 Determinants of primary success in

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elective percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for significant narrowing of a single major coronary artery, 873 Development of severe stenosis in a previously purely regurgitant, congenitally bicuspid aortic valve, 988 Inadequacy of the Gorlin formula for predicting prosthetic valve area, 113 Morphologic features of stenosis of the pulmonary veins, 1136 Renal artery stenosis in heart failure, 1307 Steroids Acute myocardial infarction in a 22-yearold world class weight lifter using anabolic steroids, 164 Streptokinase Comparison of intravenous anisoylated plasminogen streptokinase activator complex and intracoronary streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction, 25 Do different doses of intravenous streptokinase alter the frequency of coronary reperfusion in acute myocardiai infarction? 843 Electrically induced ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic agents, 186 Nuclear magnetic resonance and radionuclide angiographic assessment of acute myocardial infarction in a randomized trial of intravenous streptokinase, 1011 Six- and twelve-month follow-up of the phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial, 179 Thrombolytic treatment with streptokinase for late intraatrial thrombosis after modified Fontan procedure, 343 Stroke Major circadian fluctuations in fibrinolytic factors and possible relevance to time of onset of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and stroke, 635 ST segment Heart rate adjustment of ST-segment depression for reduction of false positive electrocardiographic responses to exercise in asymptomatic men screened for coronary artery disease, 1043 Transient alterations of the QRS complex and ST segment during percutaneous transluminal balloon angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1038 ST-T segment Value of the ST-T segment in lead V4R in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction to predict the site of coronary arterial occlusion, 140 Sudden cardiac death Major circadian fluctuations in fibrinolytic factors and possible relevance to time of onset of myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac death and stroke, 635 Supraventricuiar tachycardia Electrophysiologic and clinical effects of flecainide for recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 585 Physiologic changes during supraventricular tachycardia and release of atrial natriuretic peptide, 576 Supraventricular tachycardia mimicking ventricular tachycardia during flecainide treatment, 1303

Surgery See also Coronary artery bypass grafting Applicability of mitral valvuloplasty techniques in a North American population, 253 Echocardiographic and anatomic findings in atrioventricular discordance with ventriculoarterial concordance, 1256 Mode of late failure of the low-profile (Liotta) porcine bioprosthesis in the mitral position, 1132 Palliation of valvular aortic stenosis by balloon valvuloplasty as preoperative preparation for non-cardiac surgery, 1309 Results of simultaneous replacement of one left-sided cardiac valve with a mechanical prosthesis and the other left-sided valve with a bioprosthesis, 1130 Transesophageal echocardiography for assessing cause of hypotension after cardiac surgery, 1142 Survival factors Effects of type A behavior counseling and severity of prior acute myocardial infarction on survival, 1159 Factors leading to shorter survival in patients ages 65 to 75 years compared with younger patients after acute myocardial infarction, 860 Symposium: Advances in Congestive Heart Failure Appendix: monitoring methods, considerations, and statement of the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS) Ethical Review Committee, 73A Arrhythmias, catecholamines and electrolytes, 55A Atrial natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure, 20A Cardiopulmonary exercise testing in congestive heart failure, 35A Causes of symptoms in chronic congestive heart failure and implications for treatment, 31A Cellular mechanisms in congestive heart failure, 3A Discussion, 81A Effect of drug therapy on survival in chronic congestive heart failure, 41A Effects of enalapril on mortality in severe congestive heart failure: results of the Cooperative North Scandinavian Enalapril Survival Study (CONSENSUS), 60A Importance of right ventricular function in congestive heart failure, 14A Introduction, IA Neuroendocrine manifestations of congestive heart failure, 9A Prognosis of congestive heart failure and predictors of mortality, 25A Tolerability of enalapril in congestive heart failure, 67A Vasodilator therapy in chronic congestive heart failure, 46A When and how to use angiotensinconverting enzyme inhibition in congestive heart failure, 75A Symposium: Calcium, the Cardiovascular System and the Kidney Automated blood pressure monitoring for the assessment of antihypertensive treatment, 97G Cardioprotective effects of diltiazem when given before, during or delayed after

infusion of norepinephrine in anesthetized dogs, 25G Catecholamines, calcium and cardiomyopathy, 20G Cell biology of vascular hypertrophy in systemic hypertension, 30G Comparison of the effects of calcium antagonists and converting enzyme inhibitors on renal function under normal and hypertensive conditions, 59G Determinants of antihypertensive response to calcium antagonists in systemic hypertension, 92G Diltiazem and captopril alone or in combination for treatment of mild to moderate systemic hypertension, 103G Diltiazem in hypertensive patients with type II diabetes mellitus, il4G Effects of calcium antagonists on deranged modulation of the renal function curve in salt-sensitive patients with essential hypertension, 85G Effects of calcium on renin and aldosterone, 41G Emerging issues in the cellular biology of the cardiovascular system, 7G Endothelium-derived relaxing factor release associated with increased endothelial cell inositol triphosphate and intracellular calcium, 36G Function of the hypertensive kidney during calcium flux manipulation, 74G Hemodynamic comparison of diltiazem and TA-3090 in spontaneously hypertensive and normal Wistar-Kyoto rats, 79G Introduction, 1G Mechanisms of hypertensive glomerular injury, 54G Mechanisms of the vascular effect of pressor hormones, 47G Metabolic effects of antihypertensive therapy with a calcium antagonist, 109G Receptors for calcium antagonists, 3G Renal hemodynamic effects of a selected calcium antagonist, 69G Role of proto-oncogenes in myocardial hypertrophy, 13G Symposium: Clinical Evaluation of Response to Antiarrhythmic Therapy Discussion, 46H Electrophysiologic evaluation of antiarrhythmic therapy for ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 39H Evaluation of antiarrhythmic therapy using Holter monitoring, 18H Initial dosage selection of antiarrhythmic therapy, 2H Introduction, IH Role of plasma concentration monitoring in the evaluation of response to antiarrhythmic drugs, 9H Role of the electrocardiogram in determining electrophysiologic end points of drug therapy, 34H The role of exercise testing in evaluation of arrhythmias, 24H Symposium: Focus on Congestive Heart Failure An introduction to the pharmacologic properties of dopacard (dopexamine hydrochloride), 9C Changes in regional blood flow distribution induced by infusions of dopexamine hydrochloride or dobutamine in anesthetized dogs, 30C THE AMERICAN

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Clinical development of dopexamine hydrochloride (dopacard) and an overview of its hemodynamic effects, 41c Current therapeutic principles in the acute management of severe heart failure, 4C Dopexamine hydrochloride after coronary artery bypass grafting, 78C Dopexamine hydrochloride in chronic congestive heart failure with improved cardiac performance without increased metabolic cost, 57C Effect of dopexamine hydrochloride in the early stages of experimental myocardial infarction and comparison with dopamine and dobutamine, 1% Hemodynamic comparison of dopexamine hydrochloride and dopamine in ischemic left ventricular dysfunction, 73c Hemodynamic effects of dopexamine hydrochloride infusions of 48 to 72 hours’ duration for severe congestive heart failure, 83C Inotropic, vascular and neuroendocrine effects of dopexamine hydrochloride and comparison with dobutamine, 63C Introduction, IC Relative significance of dopamine receptors, beta adrenoceptors and norepinephrine uptake inhibition in the cardiovascular actions of dopexamine hydrochloride, 37C Renal hemodynamic effects of dopexamine hydrochloride, 53C Role of the beta2 adrenoceptor in mediating positive inotropic activity in the failing heart and its relation to the hemodynamic actions of dopexamine, 46C The functional importance of beta, and beta2 adrenoceptors in the human heart, 24C Use of dopexamine hydrochloride in intensive care patients with low-output left ventricular heart failure, 68C Symposium: HMG CoA Reductase Inhibitors-a New Therapeutic Class Comparison between lovastatin and gemfibrozil in the treatment of primary hypercholesterolemia: the Finnish Multicenter Study, 35J Discovery, biochemistry and biology of lovastatin, 1OJ Efficacy and long-term adverse effect pattern of lovastatin, 28J Preclinical evaluation of lovastatin, 16J Therapeutic control of hyperlipidemia in the prevention of coronary atherosclerosis: a review of results from recent clinical trials, 1J Treatment of dyslipidemia in non-insulindependent diabetes mellitus with lovastatin, 44J Symposium: Hypercholesterolemia Changes in high-density lipoprotein subfraction distribution and increased cholesteryl ester transfer after probucol, 73B Development of femoral atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolemic patients during treatment with cholestyramine and orobucol/Dlacebo: Probucol huantitative Regression Swedish Trial (PQRST): a status report, 378 Effect of probucol on development of diabetes mellitus in BB rats, 27B Effect of probucol on macrophages, OF CARDIOLOGY

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SUBJECT INDEX leading to regression of xanthomas and atheromatous vascular lesions, 318 Increased levels of messenger ribonucleic acid for apolipoprotein E in the spleen of probucol-treated rabbits, 60B Inhibition by probucol of lnterleukin 1 secretion and its implication in atherosclerosis, 778 Introduction-the probucol experience: a review of the past and a look at the future, 1B In vivo inhibition of foam cell development by probucol in Watanabe rabbits, 6B Lipoprotein oxidation and cytotoxicity: effect of probucol on streptozotocintreated rats, 208 Prevention of atherosclerotic progression in Watanabe rabbits by probucol, 13B Probucol enhances cholesterol efflux from cultured human skin fibroblasts, 578 Probucol enhances cholesterol transport in cultured rat hepatocytes, 528 Probucol, high-density lipoprotein metabolism and reverse cholesterol transport, 488 Probucol Quantitative Regression Swedish Trial: new angiographic technique to measure atheroma volume of the femoral artery, 448 Selective reduction of cholesterol in HDLs fraction by probucol in familial hypercholesterolemia and hyperHDLs cholesterolemia with abnormal cholesteryl ester transfer, 66B Symposium: International Symposium on Supraventricular Arrhythmias-Focus on Flecainide Antiarrhythmic strategies for the chronic management of supraventricular tachycardias, 1D Clinical behavior of paroxysmal atrial tachycardia, 30 Concluding discussion, 67D Efficacy and safety of class IC antiarrhythmic agents for the treatment of coexisting supraventricular and ventricular tachycardia, 44D Flecainide acetate for treatment of bypass tract mediated reentrant tachycardia, 23D Flecainide for supraventricular tachycardia in children, 41D Intravenous flecainide acetate for supraventricular tachycardias, 16D Long-term efficacy and safety of flecainide for supraventricular tachycardia, 56D Mechanisms of supraventricular tachycardia, 10D Oral flecainide for prophylaxis of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation, 35D Restoration of sinus rhythm with flecainide in patients with atrial fibrillation, 38D Summary of efficacy and safety of flecainide for supraventricular arrhythmias, 62D Treatment of atrial tachyarrhythmias and preexcitation syndrome with flecainide acetate, 29D Symposium: Interventional Cardiology at a Crossroad-Diagnostics and Therapeutics Coronary angiography: a decade of advances, 7K General discussion, 28K Intravenous streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction at the community hospital: a six-year experience, 25K

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Introduction, 1K Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty: the second decade, 2K Primary percutaneous coronary angioplasty: a protagonist’s view, 15K The Maryland experience: angioplasty and valvuloplasty using percutaneous cardiopulmonary support, 11K The uncertain role of thrombolytic angioplasty within the treatment strategy for myocardial infarction, 21K Symposium: Recent Approaches in Evaluation and Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias Combination antiarrhythmic therapy for management of malignant ventricular arrhythmia, 181 Introduction, 1I Quinidine: an update on therapeutics, pharmacokinetics and serum concentration monitoring, 221 Relation of silent myocardial ischemia to ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death, 241 Role of invasive electrophysiologic testing in the management of life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, 131 Sudden cardiac death, 31 Values and limitations of programmed stimulation and ambulatory monitoring in the management of ventricular tachycardia, 71 Symposium: Regional Blood Flow in Congestive Heart Failure Alterations of skeletal muscle metabolism in humans studied by phosphorus 31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy in congestive heart failure, 53E Capacity of blood flow delivery to exercising skeletal muscle in humans, 30E Consideration of conduit and resistance vessels in regulation of blood flow, 40E Contributions of neuroendocrine and local autocrine-paracrine mechanisms to the pathophysiology and pharmacology of congestive heart failure, 76E Control of renal perfusion and function in congestive heart failure, 72E Direct and indirect assessment of skeletal muscle blood flow in chronic congestive heart failure, 36E Distribution of blood flow in the muscles of conscious animals during exercise, 9E Effect of conditioning and deconditioning stimuli on metabolically determined blood flow in humans and implications for congestive heart failure, 45E Effects of dynamic exercise training on the metabolic and cardiocirculatory responses to exercise in the rat model of myocardial infarction and heart failure, 20E Effects of vasodilators on the coronary circulation in congestive heart failure, 99E Influence of enoximone and UDCG-115 on coronary hemodynamics in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 104E Introduction, 1E Measurement of skeletal muscle blood flow in humans: plethysmographic, bolus and continuous infusion technique, 25E Onset of blood lactate accumulation exercise capacity, skeletal muscle fibers and metabolism before and after

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coronary artery bypass grafting, 108E Peripheral adaptations to low blood flow in muscle during exercise, 15E Physiology of the renal baroreceptor mechanism of renin release and its role in congestive heart failure, 68E Pressor reflex response to static muscular contraction: its afferent arm and possible neurotransmitters, 58E Reduced subendocardial myocardial perfusion as one mechanism for congestive heart failure, 94E Regional blood flow in congestive heart failure: concept of compensatory mechanisms with short and long time constants, 2E Regional blood flow, muscle strength and skeletal muscle histology in severe congestive heart failure, 49E Regional blood flow responses to vasodilators and inotropes in congestive heart failure, 86E Skeletal muscle blood flow, metabolism and morphology in chronic congestive heart failure and effects of short- and long-term angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition, 82E Vascular sympathetic nerve function in congestive heart failure, 63E Syncope Long-term prognosis of patients undergoing electrophysiologic studies for syncope of unknown origin, 1186 Syndrome X Verapamil versus acebutolol for syndrome X, 312 Systemic hypertension See also Blood pressure; Hypertension Alterations in myocardial thallium-201 distribution in patients with chronic systemic hypertension undergoing single-photon emission computed tomography, 234 Blood pressure at rest and during maximal dynamic and isometric exercise as predictors of systemic hypertension, 1058 Cardiac function in systemic hypertension before and after reversal of left ventricular hypertrophy, 745 Comparison of diltiazem and hydrochlorothiazide for treatment of patients 60 years of age or older with systemic hypertension, 1218 Comparison of the effects of pindolol and atenolol on hemodynamic function in systemic hypertension, 413 Effect of intravenous enalaprilat in moderate and severe systemic hypertension, 1062 Effects of isradipine, a new calcium antagonist, versus hydrochlorothiazide on serum lipids and apolipoproteins in patients with systemic hypertension, 1068 Hemodynamic, humoral and volume findings in systemic hypertension with isolated ventricular septal hypertrophy, 1053 Systole Impaired left ventricular systolic function during exercise in middle-aged insulindependent and noninsulin-dependent diabetic subjects without clinically evident cardiovascular disease, 1273 Influence of age on left ventricular contractility, 1103 Influence of left atrial systolic emptying on

left ventricular early filling dynamics by Doppler in patients with sequential atrioventricular pacemakers, 968 Tachycardia See also Ventricular tachycardia Clinical and electrophysiologic features of fetal and neonatal paroxysmal atrial tachycardia resulting in congestive heart failure, 225 Electrophysiologic effects and clinical efficacy of flecainide in children with recurrent paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, 229 Sustained atrial fibrillation after conversion of paroxysmal reciprocating junctional tachycardia by intravenous verapamil, 835 Taurine Evidence for a taurine-deficiency cardiomyopathy, 136 Thallium-201 Alterations in myocardial thallium-201 distribution in patients with chronic systemic hypertension undergoing single-photon emission computed tomography, 234 Relation of left ventricular perfusion, and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202 Reverse and pseudo redistribution of thallium-201 in healed myocardial infarction and normal and negative thallium-201 washout in ischemia due to background oversubtraction, 543 Simultaneous low level treadmill exercise and intravenous dipyridamole stress thallium imaging, 799 Usefulness of dipyridamole-thallium-201 perfusion scanning for distinguishing ischemic from nonischemic cardiomyopathy, 945 Usefulness of exercise electrocardiography and thallium scintigraphy in unstable angina pectoris in predicting the extent and severity of coronary artery disease, 1164 Thiazides Long-term metabolic effects of spironolactone and thiazides combined with potassium-sparing agents for treatment of essential hypertension, 1072 Thiois Reduced thiols and the effect of intravenous nitroglycerin on platelet aggregation, 377 Thromboiysis Comparison of left ventricular function and contractile reserve after successful recanalization by thrombolysis versus rescue percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction, 352 Coronary revascularization after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for unstable angina pectoris: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 368 Dependence of assessment of coronary artery reperfusion during acute myocardial infarction on angiographic criteria and interobserver variability, 538 Impact of thrombolytic therapy on left ventricular mural thrombi in acute myocardial infarction, 310

Thrombolytic treatment with streptokinase for late intraatrial thrombosis after modified Fontan procedure, 343 Usefulness of a rapid initial increase in plasma creatine kinase activity as a marker of reperfusion during thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction, 20 Thromboiysis in Myocarciiai infarction (TIMI) trial Six- and twelve-month follow-up of the phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial, 179 Thrombus Left ventricular thrombus formation after first anterior wall acute myocardial infarction, 31 Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in patients with intracoronary thrombus, 474 Presentation and late outcome of myocardial infarction in the absence of angiographically significant coronary artery disease, 363 Tissue plasminogen Coronary revascularization after intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for unstable angina pectoris: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial, 368 Electrically induced ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic agents, 186 Six- and twelve-month follow-up of the phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) trial, 179 Tomography Abnormal myocardial fatty acid metabolism in dilated cardiomyopathy detected by Iodine-123 phenylpentadecanoic acid and tomographic imaging, 923 Alterations in myocardial thallium-201 distribution in patients with chronic systemic hypertension undergoing single-photon emission computed tomography, 234 Relation of left ventricular perfusion and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202 Toxicity Fatal postoperative amiodarone pulmonary toxicity, 490 Transposition of the great arteries Successful pregnancy after the Mustard operation for transposition of the great arteries, 838 Transposition of the great vessels Cardiovascular response in exercise after the Mustard operation for simple and complex transposition of the great vessels, 617 Transthoracic impedance Factors affecting transthoracic impedance during electrical cardioversion, 1048 Tricuspid regurgitation Functional tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, 108 Saline contrast enhancement of trivial Doppler tricuspid regurgitation signals for estimating pulmonary artery pressure, 486 Triglycerides Elevation of serum total cholesterol and

triglyceride levels during amiodarone therapy, 562 Two-dimensional echocardiography See also Doppler ultrasound; Echocardiography; M-mode echocardiography Assessment of coronary blood flow by transesophageal two-dimensional pulsed Doppler echocardiography, 641 Experience rounding with a hand-held twodimensional cardiac ultrasound device, 157 Ultrasound angioscopy Ultrasound angioscopy: real-time, twodimensional, intraluminal ultrasound imaging of blood vessels, 493 Ultrastructural studies Ultrastructural features of familial cardiomyopathy, 325 Upright posture Effects of upright posture on atrioventricular nodal reentry and dual atrioventricular nodal pathways, 408 Valve prostheses Inadequacy of the Gorlin formula for predicting prosthetic valve area, 113 Magnetic resonance imaging of prosthetic cardiac valves in vitro and in vivo, 973 Mode of late failure of the low-profile (Liotta) porcine bioprosthesis in the mitral position, 1132 Results of simultaneous replacement of one left-sided cardiac valve with a mechanical prosthesis and the other left-sided valve with a bioprosthesis, 1130 Valvuiar heart disease Clinical and hemodynamic follow-up after percutaneous aortic valvuloplasty in the elderly, 760 Role of right and left atrial dimensions for release of atrial natriuretic peptide in left-sided valvular heart disease and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, 764 Vaivuioplasty Clinical and noninvasive hemodynamic results after aortic balloon valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis, 1078 Initial experience with coronary angioplasty and aortic valvuloplasty using elective semipercutaneous cardiopulmonary support, 811 Insights on the mechanism of balloon valvuloplasty in aortic stenosis, 1241 Palliation of valvular aortic stenosis by balloon valvuloplasty as preoperative preparation for non-cardiac surgery, 1309 Regression of infundibular hypertrophy after pulmonary valvuloplasty for pulmonic stenosis, 977 Variant angina See also Angina pectoris Aminophylline termination of dipyridamole stress as a trigger of coronary vasospasm in variant angina, 694 Refractory variant angina relieved by guanethidine and clonidine, 832 Ventilation The ventilatory threshold: quantitative analysis of reproducibility and relation to arterial lactate concentration in normal subjects and in patients with chronic congestive heart failure, 100 Ventricular arrhythmia See a/so Antiarrhythmic therapy; Arrhythmia; Ventricular tachyarrhythmia Antiarrhythmic drug therapy 1988: for

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SUBJECT INDEX whom, how and where? 461 Electrically induced ventricular arrhythmias in acute myocardial infarction treated with thrombolytic agents, 186 Flecainide for supraventricular and ventricular arrhythmias in children and young adults, 8 18 Many things are not found in books or journals. .but some things are! Value of electrophysiolbgic testing in patients with malignant ventricular arrhythmias, 1292 Polymorphonuclear leukocyte activity and ventricular arrhythmia in acute myocardial infarction, 868 Predictors of automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator discharge for life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias, 83 Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricutar hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients, 1124 Ventriculqr

dysrhythmia

Serious ventricular dysrhythmias after intracoronary papaverine, 1301 Ventricular

excitation

Ventricular excitation during percutaneous transluminal angioplasty of the left anterior descending coronary artery, 1116 Ventricular

fibrillation

Long-term arrhythmic outcome in survivors of ventricular fibrillation with absence of inducible ventricular tachycardia, 1213 Prospective evaluation of initially ineffective defibrillation pulses on subsequent defibrillation success during ventricular fibrillation in survivors of cardiac arrest, 718 Relation of the intraoperative defibrillation threshold to successful postoperative defibrillation with an automatic implantable cardioverter defibrillator, 393 Ventricular

function

See also Left ventricular function Effect of flestolol on ventricular rate during atrial fibrillation in WolffParkinson-White syndrome, 78 Functional tricuspid regurgitation and right ventricular dysfunction in pulmonary hypertension, 108 Right and left ventricular function during chronic amiodarone therapy, 736 Ventricular

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Acquired ventricular septal defect during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 38 unoperated necropsy patients and comparison with 50 unoperated necropsy patients without rupture, 8 Cervical collateral arteries in pulmonary atresia with ventricular septal defect, 1310 Ventricular

tachyarrhythmia

See also Antiarrhythmic therapy; Arrhythmia; Ventricular arrhythmia Value of electropharmacologic testing in idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy and sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias, 611 Ventricular

tachycardia

See also Tachycardia Circadian variation of ventricular tachycardia in acute myocardial infarction, 670 Effect of preexisting bundle branch block on the electrocardiographic diagnosis of ventricular tachycardia, 1208 Entrainment of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia of left ventricular origin with evidence for reentry with an area of slow conduction and effect of verapamil, 727 Frequency of myocarditis, left ventricular dysfunction and ventricular tachycardia in the acquired immune deficiency syndrome, 789 General anesthesia for intractable ventricular tachycardia, 1318 Improved differentiation of patients with and without ventricular tachycardia by frequency analysis of multiple electrocardiographic leads, 556 Induction of ventricular tachycardia in patients with left ventricular aneurysms and no history of arrhythmia, 814 Long-term arrhythmic outcome in survivors of ventricular fibrillation with absence of inducible ventricular tachycardia, 12 13 Prognosis following sustained ventricular tachycardia occurring early after myocardial infarction, 528 Results of electrical fulguration in arrhythmogenic right ventricular disease, 220 Reversible failure to sense ventricular tachycardia early after surgical implantation of the automatic implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, 833 Sotalol for refractory sustained ventricular tachycardia and nonfatal cardiac arrest, 399 Supraventricular tachycardia mimicking

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ventricular tachycardia during flecainide treatment, 1303 Termination of tachycardias by interrupting blood flow to the arrhythmogenic area, 387 Treatment of life-threatening ventricular tachycardia with encainide hydrochloride in patients with left ventricular dysfunction, 571 Usefulness of echocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy, ventricular tachycardia and complex ventricular arrhythmias in predicting ventricular fibrillation or sudden cardiac death in elderly patients, 1124 Ventricular

wall

Changes in left ventricular wall stress during isometric and isotonic exercise in healthy men, 794 Rupture of the left ventricular free wall during acute myocardial infarction: analysis of 138 necropsy patients and comparison with 50 necropsy patients with acute myocardial infarction without rupture, 847 Verapamil

Effect of intravenous and oral calcium antagonists (diltiazem and verapamil) on sustenance of atrial fibrillation, 403 Entrainment of idiopathic ventricular tachycardia of left ventricular origin with evidence for reentry with an area of slow conduction and effect of verapamil, 727 Sustained atrial fibrillation after conversion of paroxysmal reciprocating junctional tachycardia by intravenous verapamil, 835 Verapamil versus acebutolol for syndrome X, 312 Wall motion

Relation of left ventricular perfusion and wall motion with metabolic activity in persistent defects on thallium-201 tomography in healed myocardial infarction, 202 Wolff-Parkinson-White

syndrome

Effect of flestolol on ventricular rate during atrial fibrillation in WolffParkinson-White syndrome, 78 Effects of epinephrine in patients with an accessory atrioventricular connection treated with quinidine, 580 The coronary sinus diverticulum: a pathologic entity associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, 733 Women

Acute myocardial infarction in women: influence of gender on mortality and prognostic variables, 1

CONTENTS INDEX JULY 1, 1988 THROUGH DECEMBER 6, 1988 JULY 1.1999

VOLUME 62. NUMBER 1

67 Usefulness of the Dipyridamole-Exercise Echocardiography Test for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

Eugenio Picano, Fabio Lattanzi, Michele Masini, Alessandro Distante, and Antonio L’Abbate

1 Acute Myocardial Infarction in Women: Influence of Gender on Mortality and Prognostic Variables Howard Dittrich, Elizabeth Gilpin, Pascal Nicod, Geraldine Cali, Hartmut Henning, and John Ross, Jr.

8 Acquired Ventricular Septal Defect During Acute Myocardial Infarction: Analysis of 36 Unoperated Necropsy Patients and Comparison With 50 Unoperated Necropsy Patients Without Rupture

ARRHYTHMIAS

AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

71 Cardiac Pacing Practices in the United States in 1995 Victor Parsonnet, Alan D. Bernstein, and Donna Galasso

78 Effect of Flestolol on Ventricular Rate During Atrial Fibrillation in Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

Jessica M. Mann and William C. Roberts

Charles D.Swerdlow, Jan Peterson, and L. Bing Liem

20 Usefulness of a Rapid Initial Increase in Plasma Creatine Hinase Activity as a Marker of Reperfusion During Thombolytic Therapy for Acute Myocardial Infarction Basil S. Lewis, William Ganz, Pierre Laramee, Bojan Cercek, Hanoch Hod, Prediman K. Shah, and Allan S. Lew 25

83 Predictors of Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator Discharge in Patients with Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmias Patricia Kelly, David Cannom, Hasan Garan, Dianne Finkelstein, Janet McComb, Joseph Ilvento, and Jeremy Ruskin

SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

Comparison of Intravenous Anisoylated Plasminogen Streptokinase Activator Complex and lntracoronary Streptokinase in Acute Myocardial Infarction

89 Effects of Weight Loss on Clinic and Ambulatory Pressure in Normotensive Men

Hans J.R.M. Bonnier, Rombout F. Visser, Huub C. Klomps, Hans J.M.L. Hoffmann, and the Dutch Invasive Reperfusion Study Group

31 Left Ventricular Thrombus Formation After First Anterior Wall Acute Myocardial Infarction

Blood

Stephen P. Fortmann, William L. Haskell, Peter D. Wood, and the Stanford Weight Control Project Team

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

Gervasio A. Lamas, Douglas E. Vaughan, and Marc A. Pfeffer

94 Cardiovascular Pharmacology of Dopexamine in Low Output Congestive Heart Failure

36 Significance of Cardiac Weight in Patients Having Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Angina Pectoris

Carl V. Leier, Philip F. Binkley, Jane A. Carpenter, Patricia H. Randolph, and Donald V. Unverferth

Jay M. Kalan and William C. Roberts

41 Effects of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty on Atherosclerotic Plaques and Relation of Plaque Composition and Arterial Size to Outcome

199 The Ventilatory Threshold: Quantitative Analysis of Reproducibility and Relation to Arterial Lactate Concentration in Normal Subjects and in Patients with Chronic Congestive Heart Failure

Benjamin N. Potkin and William C. Roberts

Charles A. Simonton, Michael B. Higginbotham, and Frederick R. Cobb

51 Effects of Solid and Liquid Guar Gum on Plasma Cholesterol and Triglyceride Concentrations in Moderate Hypercholesterolemia

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H. Robert Superko, William L. Haskell, Lisa Sawrey-Kubicek, and John W. Farquhar

108 Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation and Right Ventricular Dysfunction in Pulmonary Hypertension

56 Estimation of the Secretion Rate of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide from the Coronary Sinus in Coronary Artery Disease

Douglass A. Morrison, Theron Ovitt, and Karl E. Hammermeister, with the technical assistance of James R. Stovall

Yasunobu Hirata, Takashi Serizawa, Osami Kohmoto, Tokuichiro Sugimoto, Hiroaki Matsuoka, Masahiko lizuka, Masao Ishii, Tsuneaki Sugimoto, Atsuro Miyata, Kenji Kangawa, and Hisayuki Matsuo 59

Electrocardiographic Estimate of Left Ventricular Mass Versus Radiographic Cardiac Size and the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Mortality in the Epidemiologic Follow-Up Study of the First National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey Pentti M. Rautaharju, Andrea Z. LaCroix, Daniel D. Savage, Suzanne G. Haynes, Jennifer H. Madans, Hermann K. Wolf, Wilbur Hadden, Jacob Keller, and Joan Cornoni-Huntley

113 Inadequacy of the Gorlin Formula for Predicting Prosthetic Valve Area Scott R. Cannon, Kent 1. Richards, Michael H. Crawford, Edward D. Folland, Gordon Pierpont, Gulshan K. Sethi, Karl E. Hammermeister, and Participants in the Veterans Administration Cooperative Study on Valvular Heart Disease

117 Frequency of Angina Pectoris and Coronary Artery Disease in Severe Isolated Valvular Aortic Stenosis Ann Vandeplas, Jos L. Willems, Jan Piessens, and Hilaire De Geest

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121 Cardiovascular Adantations to Transfusion/Chelation Therapy of Homozygote Sickle Cell Anemia JosephW. Gaffney,Fredrick2. Bierman,ChristineM. Donnelly, MillicentSutton, SergioPiomelli, and WeltonM. Gersony 126 Sensitivity and Specificity of Electrocardiographic Criteria for Left and Right Ventricular Hypertrophy in Morbid Obesity Amar Nath, Martin A. Alpert, Boyd E. Terry, and DianaL. Kelly

157 Experience Rounding with a Hand-Held Two-Dimensional Cardiac Ultrasound Device Karl QuentinSchwarzand RichardStuart Meltzer 159 Origin of the Left Main Coronary Artery from the Pulmonary Trunk in the Syrian Hamster ValentinSans-Coma,Jose M. Arque, AnaC. Duran, and Manuel Cardo 161 Effects of Long-Term Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibition on Myocardial Hypertrophy in Experimental Aortic Stenosis in the Rat EckhardP. Kromer and GunterA.J. Riegger CASE REPORTS

Cakuiating Cardiac Output from Transmitral Volume Row Using Doppler and M-Mode Echocardiography Brian D. Hoit, MagdyRashwan,ConnieWatt, DavidJ. Sahn,and Valmik Bhargava EDITORIAL 136 Evidence for a Tat&e-Deficiency AlanTenagliaand Robert Cody

Cardiomyopathy

BRIEF REPORTS

164 Acute Myocardial Infarction in a 22-Year-Old World Class Weight Lifter Using Anabolic Steroids RobertA. McNutt, Gary S. Ferenchick,Philip C. Kirlin, and NancyJ. Hamlin 165 Survival to Age 65 Years with Tricusoid -. and ~~~~Pulmonic Valve Atresia ThomasR. Beaver, KennethR. Shroyer, CarlosA. Muro-Cache,Gary J. Miller, and S. Gilbert Blount FROM THE EDITOR

140 Vakre of the ST-T Segment in Lead VdR in Inferior Wall Acute Myocardial Infarction to Predict the Site of Coronary Arterial Occkuion SimonH. Braat, Anton P.M. Gorgels,Frits W. Bar, and HeinJ.J. Wellens Isolated Obstruction of Large Septai Perforators H.W.Thijs Plokker, Sjef M.P.G. Ernst, ChrisVan Tellingen,and Albert V.G. Bruschke 144 Morphologic Findings in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Acute Myocardial Infarction Jay M. Kalanand WilliamC. Roberts 147 Antihypertensive Drug Therapy and Arrhythmia Risk DanielLevy, KeavenM. Anderson,Jane C. Christiansen,Giovanni Campanile,and JosephStokes, Ill

167 Argentina and Argentine Cardiology CORRECTION/LETTERS 170 Correctkm Degkdition Syncope in Childhood with Complete Atrioventricular Bfock Nonperpetual Death The Cardioprotective Effects of Tricyclic Antidepressants Aortic Valve Replacement in Both Spouses on the Same Day Use of Flecainkle Acetate in the Treatment of Supraventrieular Tachyarrhythmias The Case of the Incorrect Magnet Cardiac Catheterization by Nonphysicians ReprY

Reply Spontaneous Neurohormonal Fluctuation in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Philip C. Kirlin, Cynthia Dansby,CarolynLaird, and Park W. Willis, Ill Morphologic Findings in Stenotic Aortic Vafves That Have Had “Successful” Percutaneous Balloon Valvulopiasty Jay M. Kalan, JessicaM. Mann, Martin B. Leon, August0Pichard, KennethM. Kent, and WilliamC. Roberts Simplified Method for Estimation of Doppler Cardiac Output in the Great Arteries RichardL. Donnersteinand GeraldR. Marx

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An Echo-Dense Mass in the Pericardiai Space as a Sign of Left Ventrkuiar Free Wall Runture During Acute Myocardial Infarction m Tissue Plasminogen Activator and Selective Coronary Vasodiiation Blood Pressure Changes Above and Below the Anaerobic Threshold Reply Do Dreams Come True? The Origin of Specious Reply Reply Diuretic, Serum Potassium and Ventricular Arrhythmias Nifedipine Versus lsosorbide Dinitrate for Angina Pectoris Reply Nausea and Vomiting During Acute Myocardial infarction

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 66

225 Clinical and Electrophysiologic Features of Fetal and Neonatal Paroxysmal Atriai Tachycardia Resulting in Congestive Heart Failure Vincent R. Zales,Ann Dunnigan,and D. WoodrowBenson,Jr.

JULY 11,198S VOLUME 62, NUMBER 2 A Symposium: Advances in Congestive Heart Failure JULY 25,1966 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 3 A Symposium: Second International Conference on Hypercholesterolemia-Examining New Data on Probucol After a Decade of Use AUGUST 1,1966

VOLUME 62, NUMBER 4

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SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

179 Six- and Twelve-Month Follow-Up of the Phase I Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) Trial James E. Dalen,Joel M. Gore, EugeneBraunwald,Jeffrey Borer, RobertJ. Goldberg,EugeneR. Passamani,SandraForman,Genell Knatterud, and the TIMI Investigators

234 Atterations in Myocardial Thallium-201 Distribution in Patients with Chronic Systemic Hypertension Undergoing Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography E. GordonDePuey,E. Guertler-Krawczynska,John V. Perkins,Wendy L. Robbins,John D. Whelchel,and StephenD. Clements

186 Electrically Induced Ventricular Arrhythmias in Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated with Thrombolytic Agents Janet M. McComb,HermanK. Gold, Robert C. Leinbach,John B. Newell,Jeremy N. Ruskin,and HasanGaran

239 First Dose Response and 24-Hour Antihypertensive Efficacy of the New Once-Daily Angiotensin Converting Enzyme Inhibitor, Ramiprii Mary E. Heber, GeoffreyS. Brigden, MichaelP. Caruana,Avijit Lahiri, and EdwardB. Raftery

192 Estimating Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction by Various Clinical Parameters RichardF. McNamara,Eric Carleen,Arthur J. Moss,and the Multicenter PostinfarctionResearchGroup,The Universityof RochesterMedicalCenter

246 Relation of Concentric Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Extracardiac Target Organ Damage to Supranormal Left Ventricular Performance in Established Essential Hypertension James Blake, RichardB. Devereux, EdmundMcM. Herrold, Michael Jason, Jeffrey Fisher,Jeffrey S. Borer, and John H. Laragh

197 Exercise Performance of the High Risk Acute Myocardial Infarction Patient After Cardiac Rehabilitation StephenArvan

VALVULAR

202 Relation of Left Ventricular Perfusion and Wall Motion with Metabolic Activity in Persistent Defects on Thaliium201 Tomography in Healed Myocardial Infarction NagaraTamaki, YoshiharuYonekura, Keiji Yamashita, MichioSenda, Hideo Saji, Tetsuo Hashimoto,Tetsuro Fudo, HirofumiKambara, ChuichiKawai, ToshihikoBan, and Junji Konishi 209 One-Year Psychosocial Follow-Up of Patients with Chest Pain and Angiographicaiiy Normal Coronary Arteries Larry J. Lantinga, Robert P. Sprafkin,James H. McCroskery,Marilyn T. Baker, Robert A. Warner,and Norma E. Hill 214 Black/White Differences in Risk Factors for Arteriographicaiiy Documented Coronary Artery Disease in Men DavidS. Freedman,Harvey W. Gruchow,Jack C. Manley, AlfredJ. Anderson,KathleenA. Sobocinski,and JosephJ. Barboriak ARRHYTHMIAS

229 Eiectrophysiologic Effects and Clinical Efficacy of Flecainide in Children with Recurrent Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia Benito Musto, AntonioD’Onofrio,Ciro Cavallaro,Antonio Musto, and RaffaeleGreco

AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

220 Results of Electrical Fulguration in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Disease Jean FrancoisLeclercq, FabriceChouty, BrunoCauchemez,Antoine Leenhardt, PhilippeCoumel, and Robert Slama

HEART DISEASE

253 Applicability of Mitral Vaivulopiasty Techniques in a North American Population AltagraciaM. Chavez, DelosM. Cosgrove,Ill, BruceW. Lytle, Carl C. Gill, FloydD. Loop, RobertW. Stewart, LeonardR. Golding,and Paul C. Taylor 257 Comparison of Mitral Valve Dimensions and Motion in Mitral Valve Prolapse With Severe Mitral Regurgitation to Uncomplicated Mitral Valve Prolapse and to Mitral Regurgitation Without Mitral Valve Prolapse RiccardoPini, RichardB. Devereux, BarbaraGreppi, Mary J. Roman, Clare Hochreiter, RandiKramer-Fox,NathanielW. Niles, Paul Kligfield, Jay A. Erlebacher,and Jeffrey S. Borer 264 Mechanism of Mitral Valve Area Increase by In Vitro Single and Double Balloon Mitral Valvotomy PauloA. Ribeiro, Muayedal Zaibag,Vijay Rajendran,AbdullahAshmeg, Saadal Kasab,Yahya al Faraidi, MurtadaHalim, MohamedIdris, and MohamedR. al Fagih 270 Lack of Sustained Clinical Improvement in an Elderly Population After Percutaneous Aortic Valvuioplasty FrankLitvack, AndrewT. Jakubowski,Neil A. Buchbinder,and Neal Eigler

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CARDIOMYOPATHY 276 Serial Electrocardiographic Changes in Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy Confirmed at Necropsy Robert L. Wilensky,PaulYudelman,AndrewI. Cohen, RossD. Fletcher, JamesAtkinson, RenuVirmani, and WilliamC. Roberts 285 Echocardiographic Findings in Myocarditis BrunoPinamonti, EzioAlberti, AlessandroCigalotto, Lorella Dreas, AlessandroSalvi, FurioSilvestri, and FulvioCamerini CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 262 Gross and Histologic Anatomy of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connections RussellV. Lucas,Jr., James E. Lock, RajendraTandon,and JesseE. Edwards MISCELLANEOUS

TOPICS

301 Left Ventricular Mass as Determined by Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Male Endurance Athletes Martin C. Milliken,JamesStray-Gundersen,RonaldM. Peshock,Jose Katz, and Jere H. Mitchell EDITORIALS 366 Causes of Chest Pain in Patients with Normal Coronary Angiograms: The Eye of the Beholder Richard0. Cannon,Ill 308 Connecting the Cendeus and the Coronaries AndyT. Wielgosz BRIEF REPORTS 310 Impact of Thrombolytic Therapy on Left Ventricular Mural Thrombi in Acute Myocardial Infarction A. ChristianHeld, Joel M. Gore, John Paraskos,LindaA. Pape, Steven P. Bali, Jeanne M. Corrao, and JosephS. Alpert 312 Verapamil Versus Acebutolol for Syndrome X FrancescoRomeo,AchilleGaspardone,MassimoCiavolella, PieragostinoGioffre,and Attilio Reale

319 Sustained Hemodynamic Effects with Therapeutic Doses of Intravenous Nitroglycerin in Congestive Heart Failure DeepakNatarajan,Tilak R. Khurana,Vijay Karhade, and PrabhuD. Nigam 377

Evaluation of a QRS Scoring Svstem for Estimating Myocardial Infarct Size. VIE Specificity in a Control Group with Right Ventricular Hypertrophy Due to Mitral Stenosis CatherineM. Howe, ChristopherJ. Freye, Nancy B. Wagner,SousinI. Leggett, Jeffrey V. Behar, MichaelG. Jones,TomoakiHinohara,and GalenS. Wagner 325 Ultrastructural Features of Familial Cardiomyopathy PaulM. Urie and Margaret E. Billingham 327 Transient Unilateral Pulmonarv Edema After Successful Balloon Dilation of Peripheral Pulmonary Artery Stenosis LucyWoodArnold, John F. Keane, Jean S. Kan, KennethE. Fellows, and James E. Lock 330 Effects of Supine and Lateral Positions on Cardiac Output and Intracardiac Pressures RichardA. Lange,Jose Katz, WadeMcBride, DonaldM. Moore, Jr., and L. DavidHillis 333 Dose-Dependent Use of Dobutamine to Alter Early Diastolic Filling in Normal Subjects Byron F. Vandenberg,CraigA. Stark, John A. Rumberger,and Richard E. Kerber 334 Relation of Potassium Flux During Incremental Exercise to Exercise Intensity Neil L. Coplan, Gilbert W. Gleim, and JamesA. Nicholas 336 Prevalence of Postural Hypotension in Elderly Patients in a Long-Term Health Care Facility WilbertS. Aronow, NeungH. Lee, FrancieF. Sales,and FritznerEtienne 551

Risk of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Awake Patients with Cardiac Diseases Annette Geibel,WolfgangKasper, AbdullahBehroz, Ulrike Przewolka, ThomasMeinertz, and HanjoergJust THE AJC 25 YEARS AGO 339 WilliamC. Roberts

313 Interpretation of Conflicting Clinical Information by Cardiologists Marco Bobbio, GianfrancoPistis, AntonellaDeorsola,Cristina Maggio, PlinioPinnaPintor, and GeorgeA. Diamond

341

315 Differentiation of “Esophageal” and “Cardiac” Chest Pain Peter M. Schofield,Peter J. Whorwell,Philip E. Jones, NicholasH. Brooks, and DavidH. Bennett

Successful Management of Acute Myocarditis with Biventricular Assist Devices and Cardiac Transplantation RandallC. Starling,Timothy A. Galbraith, Peter B. Baker, E. Paul Howanitz,Kevin D. Murray, Philip F. Binkley, Kim M. Watson,Donald V. Unverferth, and P. DavidMyerowitz

316 Physiologic Differences in Rate-Related Versus ExerciseInduced Left Bundle Branch Block HitoshiKoito and DavidH. Spodick

343 Thrombolytic Treatment with Streptokinase for Late lntraatrial Thrombosis After Modified Fontan Procedure Lynn Mahony, HisashiNikaidoh,and DavidE. Fixler

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CASE REPORTS

381 Comparison of Coronary Stenosis Quantitation Results from On-Line Digital and Digitized Cine Film Images ThomasN. Skelton, Katherine6. Kisslo,and ThomasM. Bashore

FROM THE EDITOR

The Friedewatd-Levy-Fredrickson Formula for Calculating Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol, the Basis for LipidLowering Therapy

AND CONDUCTlON DISTURBANCES

387 Termination of Tachycardias by Interrupting Blood Flow to the Arrhythmogenic Area PedroBrugada,Hansde Swart, Joep L.R.M. Smeets, Frits W.H.M. Bar, and HeinJ.J. Wellens

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS; on page 264 AUGUST l&l966 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 5 A Symposium: Focus on Heart Failure---Current Experiences in Basic Research and Clinical Studies on Dopexamine Hydrochloride (Dopacarde)

393 Relation of the lntraoperative Defibrillation Threshold to Successful Postoperative Defibrillation with an Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator FrancisE. Marchlinski,BelindaFlares,John M. Miller, CharlesD. Gottlieb, and W. Clark Hargrove, Ill

AUGUST 2!5,1966 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 6 International Symposium on Supraventricular Arrhythmias: Focus on Flecainide SEPTEMBER

ARRyTHMlAS

1; 19BS VOLUME 62, NUMBER 7

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 347 The German Multicenter Trial of Anisoylated Plasminogen Streptokinase Activator Complex Versus Heparin for Acute Myocardial Infarction ThomasMeinertz, WolfgangKasper, Martin Schumacher, and HanjorgJust 352 Comparison of Left Ventriwlar Function and Contractile Reserve After Successful Recanaliition by Thrombolysis Versus Rescue Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction Cindy Grines, Eric Topol, EdwardAnselmo,Jack Juni, and WilliamO’Neill

399 Sotalol for Refractory Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia and Nonfatal Cardiac Arrest Steven N. Singh,AndrewCohen,YiwangChen, Marc Wish,Laura Thoben-O’Grady,Jose Peralba, John Gottdiener, and RossD. Fletcher 403 Effect of Intravenous and Oral Calcium Antagonists (Diltiazem and Verapamil) on Sustenance of Atrial Fibrillation MohammadShenasa,Teresa Kus, Martin Fromer, Robert A. LeBlanc, Marc Dubuc,and ReginaldNadeau 408 Effects of Upright Posture on Atrtoventricular Dual Atrioventricular Nodal Pathways DavidE. Mannand MichaelJ. Reiter

Reentry and

SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION Left Ventricular Function After Successful Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty for Postinfarction Angina Pectoris Hani N. Sabbah,James F. Brymer, Mihai Gheorghiade,PaulD. Stein, and FareedKhaja 363 Presentation and Late Outcome of Myocardial Infarction in the Absence of Angiographically Significant Coronary Artery Disease MichaelJ. Pecora, Gary S. Roubin,6. WoodfinCobbs, Jr., StephenG. Ellis,WilliamS. Weintraub,and SpencerB. King, Ill 368 Coronary Revascularization After Intravenous Tissue Plasminogen Activator for Unstable Angina Pectoris: Results of a Randomized, Double-Blind, PlaceboControlled Trial Eric J. Topol, John M. Nicklas, Nathan H. Kander, JosephA. Walton, StephenG. Ellis, LauraGorman,and Bertram Pitt 372 Nadold Versus Dtlttazem and Combination for Preventing Exercise-Induced lschemia in Severe Angina Pectoris WilliamE. Miller, Judy Vittitoe, RobertA. O’Rourke, and MichaelH. Crawford 377 Reduced Thiols and the Effects of Intravenous Nitroglycerin on Platelet Aggregation JonathanStamler, MichaelCunningham,and Joseph Loscalzo

413 Comparison of the Effects of Pindolol and Atenolol on Hemodynamic Function in Systemic Hypertension Phillip D. Toth, RobertJ. Demeter, John R. Woods,Allen W. Nyhuis, and WilliamV. Judy CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE 419 Administration of Enoximone in Cardiogenic Shock Jean-LouisVincent, Eric Carlier, JacquesBerrC,CharlesW. Armistead, Jr., RobertJ. Kahn, EddieCoussaert,and FrancisCantraine VALVULAR

HEART DISEASE

424 Age-Related Changes in Aortic and Mitral Valve Thickness: Implications for Two-Dimensional Echocardiography Based on an Autopsy Study of 200 Normal Human Hearts YongyuthSahasakul,William0. Edwards,James M. Naessens, and A. Jamil Tajik 431 Natural History and Prognostic Risk Factors in Endocardial Fibroelastosis ToshihiroIno, Lee N. Benson,Robert M. Freedom, and RichardD. Rowe

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CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 435 Fate of the Pulmonic Valve After Proximal Pulmonary Artery-to-Ascending Aorta Anastomosis for Aortic Outflow Obstructton AlvinJ. Chin, GeraldBarber, J. GreggHelton, ErnerioT. Alboliras, Beth AnnAglira, John D. Pigott, and WilliamI. Norwood MISCELLANEOUS 439 Evaluation of Age, Gender, Heart Rate and Blood Pressure Changes and Exercise Conditioning on Doppler Measured Aortfc Blood Flow Acceleration and Velocity During Treadmill Testing MarleneLazarus,Tze-YuDang,Julius M. Gardin,Alice Allfie, and WalterL. Henry 444 Pattern of Lefl Ventricular Diastolic Filling Associated with Right Ventricular Enlargement StevenJ. Lavine, LuisTami, and lbrahim Jawad 449 Deep Venous Contribution to Hydrostatic Blood Volume Change in the Human Leg Jay C. Buckey, RonaldM. Peshock,and GunnarBlomqvist HISTORICAL STUDIES 454 In Appreciation Pedro Brugada

of Alfred 6. Mayer

EDITORIALS 458 Book-Burning in Our Medical Libraries: Prevention or Palliation? Lois DeBakey 461 Antiarrhythmtc Drug Therapy 1988: For Whom, How and Where? Joel Morganrothand LeonardN. Horowitz 465 Comprehensive Electrocardiographic Analysts of Acute Myocardiai Infarction by lndivtduai and Combined Waveforms DavidH. Spodick 468 Endocardial Fibroetastosis Is Not a Disease Paul R. Lurie

476 Long-Term Follow-Up and Influence of Symptom-Free Interval on Restenosis After Repeat Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty Marc J. Schweiger,Jane L. Garb, FidelaBlank, Alice E. Brickman, ThomasM. Marantz, and RalphE. Gianelly 478 Effect of Maximal Exercise Testing on Serum Cholesterol in Healthy Subjects Undergoing Exercise Training and on Beta-Adrenergic Blockade GeraldF. Fletcher, BarbaraJ. Fletcher, and AndrewMarshall 480 Symptomatic Sinus Node Dysfunction Associated with the Use of Propafenone Pui-KeeLee, CharlesR. Kerr, Shirley Vorderbrugge,AnzhenQi, and John A. Yeung-Lai-Wah 462 Familial Right Ventricular Dilated Cardiomyopathy Associated with Supraventricular Arrhythmias LloydW. Klein and LeonardN. Horowitz 464 Familial Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy with Left Ventricular Dilatation and Conduction Disturbances MasaoChino, ShigeharuSaito, HideakiYoshino,TakashiSakai, YasuhiroSoma, and Kuni Nishikawa 466 Saline Contrast Enhancement of Trivial Doppler Tricuspid Regurgitation Signals for Estimating Pulmonary Artery Pressure John T. Beard, II and BenjaminF. Byrd, Ill 466 Effect of Upright Exercise on Left Ventricular Filling in Normal Subjects A. ChristianHeld and StevenJ. Lavine

Diastolic

466 Fatal Postoperative Amiodarone Pulmonary Toxicity G. Neal Kay, AndrewE. Epstein,James K. Kirklin, ArnoldG. Diethelm, GwendolynGraybar, and VanceJ. Plumb 493 Ultrasound Angtoscopy: Real-Time, TwoDimensional, lntraluminai Ultrasound Imaging of Blood Vessels NatesaG. Pandian,AndreasKreis, BarbaraBrockway,Jeffrey M. Isner, Alex Sacharoff,EdwardBoleza, RichardCaro, and DavidMuller FROM THE EDITOR 495 Factors Linking Cholesterol to Atherosclerotic WilliamC. Roberts

Plaques

ABSTRACTS BRIEF REPORTS 472 Frequency of Normal Coronary Arteriograms in Three Academic Medical Centers and One Community Hospital BrendanPhibbs,Timothy Fleming,GordonA. Ewy, SamuelButman, John Ambrose, RichardGorlin, Eric Orme, and Jay Mason 474 Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in Patients with lntracoronary Thrombus UbeydullahDeligonul,GregoryI. Gabliani,DennisG. Caralis, Morton J. Kern, and MichelG. Vandormael

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500 American Academy of Pediatrics: Cardiology Abstracts LETTERS 512 New Electrocardiographic Criteria for Right Ventricular Hypertrophy: A Correction for the 1986 Study A XII Century Description of Congestive Heart Failure Final Word (?) for the Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Prolapse Reply

562 Elevation of Serum Cholesterol and Triglycerides During Amiodarone Therapy P. Timothy Pollak, Arjun D. Sharma, and S. GeorgeCarruthers

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 471 SEPTEMBER 9,1996 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 8 A Symposium: Regional Blood Flow in Congestive Heart Failure SEPTEMBER

15,1966

566 Role of Transesophageal Pacing in Evaluation of Palpitations in Children and Adotescents GiacomoPongiglione,J. Philip Saul, Ann Dunnigan,Janette F. Strasburger,and D. WoodrowBenson,Jr.

VOLUME 62, NUMBER 9

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 513 Amelioration of lschemia During Angioptasty of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery with an Autoperfusion Catheter Zoltan G. Turi, Shereif Rezkalla,ColinA. Campbell, and Robert A. Kloner

571 Treatment of Life-Threatening Ventricular Tachycardia with Encainide Hydrochloride in Patients with Left Ventricular Dysfunction The Encainide-VentricularTachycardiaStudy Group

518 Clinical Safety and Efficacy of Once-a-Day Amlodipine for Chronic Stabte Angina Pectoris Stephen P. Glasserand T. WizdaWest 523 Influence of Left Ventricular Asynchrony on Filling in Coronary Artery Disease PasqualePerrone-Filardi,SandroBetocchi, GabriellaGiustino,Federico Piscione,Ciro Indolfi, Marco Salvatore, and MassimoChiariello

576 Physiologic Changes During Supraventricular Tachycardia and Release of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide ShunichiKojima, TakashiFujii, Tohru Ohe, Shinji Karakawa,Tatsuyoshi lida, YukioHirata, Morio Kuramochi,KatsuroShimomura,Keiichi Ito, and Teruo Omae 566 Effects of Epinephrine in Patients with an Accessory Atriovenbfcular Connection Treated with Quinidine Fred Morady, WilliamH. Kou, Alan H. Kadish, Lauri K. Toivonen, Jeffrey A. Kushner,and StephenSchmaltz

Prognosis Following Sustained Ventricular Tachycardia Occurring Early After Myocardial Infarction Robert B. Kleiman,John M. Miller, Alfred E. Buxton, Mark E. Josephson,and FrancisE. Marchlinski

585 Eleetrophysiologic and Clinical Effects of flecainide for Recurrent Paroxysmal Supraventricular Tachycardia Per I. Hoff, Arve Tronstad, Bertil pie, and Ole-JpgenOhm

534 Relation of Peak Creatine Hinase Levels During Acute Myocardial Infarction to Presence or Absence of Previous Manifestations of Myocardiil lschemia (Angina Pectorfs or Healed Myocardial Infarction) John E. Brush, Jr., DonaldA. Brand, DeniseAcampora, Lee Goldman, and Henry S. Cabin

590 Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in the Presence of Complete Right Bundle Branch Block Vittorio De Leonardis,StevenA. Goldstein,and Joseph Lindsay,Jr.

Dependence of Assessment of Coronary Artery Reperfusion on Angiographic Criteria and Interobserver Variability: Implications for Comparisons Among Clinical Trials RosemaryA. Hackworthy, ShermanG. Sorensen,Patricia G. Fitzpatrick, WilliamH. Barry, RonaldL. Menlove, Robert L. Rothbard, Victor J. Marder, and Jeffrey L. Anderson,for the APSACInvestigators

594 Myocardial Contractility and Left Ventricular Functkm in Obese Patients with Essential Hypertension GuillermoE. Garavaglia,FranzH. Messerli,Boris D. Nunez, RolandE. Schmieder,and EhudGrossman

543 Reverse and Pseudo Redistribution of Thallium-261 in Healed Myocardial hrfarction and Normal and Negative Thallium-201 Washout in lschemia Due to Background Over-subtraction James L. Lear, Ulrich Raff, and RaviJain

598 Results of Percutaneous Transluminal Vatvuloplasty in 218 Adults wlth Valvular Aortic Disease Brice Letac, Alain Cribier, ReneKoning,and Jean-PaulBellefleur

551 Comparison of Nalbuphine Hydrochloride Versus Morphine Sulfate for Acute Myocardial Infarction with Elevated Pulmonary Artery Wedge Pressure Arie Roth, Gad Keren, AharonGluck, ShimonBraun, and ShlomoLaniado ARRYTHMIAS

AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

556 Improved Differentiation of Patients With and Without Ventricular Tachycardia by Frequency Analysis of Multiple Electrocardiographic Leads Bruce D. Lindsay, H. Dieter Ambos, KennethB. Schechtman, and MichaelE. Cain

SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

VALVULAR

HEART DISEASE

666 Left Ventricular Response to Submaximal and Maximal Exercise in Asymptomatic Aortic Regurgitation RichardA. Wilson,Barry H. Greenberg,Barry M. Massie, J. David Bristow, MelvinCheitlin, DeirdreSiemienczuk, GerbailT. Krishnamurthy,and DavidThomas CARDIOMYOPATHY 611 Value of Electropharmacologic Testing in Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy and Sustained Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias L. Bing Liem and CharlesD. Swerdlow

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CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 617 Cardiovascular Response to Exercise After the Mustard Operation for Simple and Complex Transposition of the Great Vessels GregoryJ. Ensing,CharlesT. Heise, and DavidJ. Driscoll MISCELLANEOUS Patterns of Evolution of Myocyte Damage After Human Heart Transplantation Detected by Indium-1 11 Monoclonal Antimyosin Mane1Ballester-Rod&, lgnasiCarri6-Gasset,LluisaAbadal-Berini, DamidObrador-Mayol,LluisBerna-Roqueta,and Josep M. Caralps-Riera METHODS 626 Evaluation of Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Determination of Left Ventricular Ejection Fraction and Comparison with Angiography Albert C. Van Rossum,FransC. Visser, MichielSprenger, MachielJ. Van Eenige,Jaap Valk, and Jan P. Roos BRIEF REPORTS Major Circadian Fkrctuations in Fibrinolytic Factors and Possible Relevance to Time of Onset of Myocardial Infarction, Sudden Cardiac Death and Stroke FelicitaAndreotti, GrahamJ. Davies,DavidR. Hackett, MohamedI. Khan, Anton C.W. De Bart, Victor R. Aber, Attilio Maseri, and CornelisKluft 637 Temporary Decrease in Cardiac Parasympathetic Tone After Acute Myocardial Infarction Marylee Rothschild,Armand Rothschild,and MichaelPfeifer 639 Imaging of Coronary Arteries by Color-Coded Transesophageal Doppler Echocardiography Peter Zwicky, WernerG. Daniel,AndreasMugge,and Paul R. Lichtlen Assessment of Coronary Blood Flow by Transesophageal Two-Dimensional Pulsed Doppler Echocardiography MasakazuYamagishi,KunioMiyatake, Shintaro Beppu, Keiji Kumon, ShinSuzuki,NorioTanaka, and YasuharuNimura 644 Prevalence of Peripheral Arterial Disease and Its Correlation with Risk Factors for Peripheral Arterial Disease in Ekferly Patients in a Long-Term Health Care Facility WilbertS. Aronow, FrancieF. Sales,FritznerEtienne,and NeungH. Lee 646 Usefulness of Onset of the Pulmonary Wedge V Wave in Predicting Mitral Regurgitation MatthewSchwinger,Marc Cohen, and ValentinFuster 649 Plasma Catecholamine Responses to Balloon Angioplasty in Chiklren with Coarctation of the Aorta Alan B. Lewisand MasatoTakahashi

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650 Noninvasive Measurement of the Decrease in Left Ventricular Filling Time During Maximal Exercise in Normal Subjects DaryaTurkevich, AlexanderMicco, and John T. Reeves CASE REPORTS 653 Cfrcadian Variabilities of Modulated Ventricular Parasystole AgustinCastellanos,Nadir Saoudi,Ivan J. Mendoza, and RobertJ. Myerburg Double Ventricular Parasystole with Modulation and lntermittency GiuseppeOreto, AntoninoDonato, GaetanoSatullo, and Leo Schamroth 658 Myocarditis Diagnosed by Endomyocardial Biopsy in Human lmmunodeficiency Virus Infection with Cardiac Dysfunction WarrenS. Levy, P. Jacob Varghese,DavidW. Anderson, Roy H. Leiboff,Jan M. Orenstein, RenuVirmani, and ShermanBloom LEITERS 660 A Common Link Between Unstable Angina Pectoris and Acute Myocardial Infarction Reply Mitral Valve Prolapse Is Not a New Disease Entity INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 634 OCTOBER 1.1966 Partlofll ’

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CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 661 Prognostic Significance of lschemic Episodes in Patients with Previous Myocardial Infarction DanTzivoni, Alex Gavish,DanZin, ShmuelGottlieb, Mady Moriel, Andre Keren, ShmuelBanai, and ShlomoStern 665 Acute Myocardial Infarction in Diabetes Mellitus: Significance of Congestive Heart Failure as a Prognostic Factor MichaelP. Savage,AndrzejS. Krolewski,GregoryG. Kenien, Mark P. Lebeis,A. RichardChristlieb, and Stanley M. Lewis 670 Circadian Variation of Ventricular Tachycardia in Acute Myocardial Infarction MicheleLucente, AntonioG. Rebuzzi,GaetanoA. Lanza,Sergio Tamburi, Maria C. Cortellessa,EldaCoppola, Mario lannarelli, and Ugo Manzoli Physician Perception of Exercise Electrocardiography as a Prognostic Test After Acute Myocardial Infarction Marco Bobbio, AntonellaDeorsola,GianfrancoPistis, AntoninoBrusca, and GeorgeA. Diamond

Occurrence, Characteristics and Prognostic Significance of Early Postacute Myocardial Infarction Angfna Pectoris Jesaia Benhorin, Mark L. Andrews,Eric D. Carleen,Arthur J. Moss,and the Multicenter PostinfarctionResearchGroup 686 Altered Global Myocardial Substrate Preference at Rest and During Pacing in Coronary Artery Disease with Stable Angina Pectoris AnneThomassen,Jens P. Bagger, TorstenT. Nielsen,and Per Henningsen 694 Aminophylline Termination of Dipyridamole Stress as a Trigger of Coronary Vasospasm in Variant Angina EugenioPicano, FabioLattanzi, MicheleMasini,AlessandroDistante, and Antonio L’Abbate Hemodynamic and Angiographic Effects of Prostaglandin El in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease Robert L. Feldman,Barry Rose,and Kathleen M. Verbust 763 Family History as an Independent Risk Factor for Incident Coronary Artery Disease in a High-Risk Cohort in Utah Paul N. Hopkins, Roger R. Williams,HiroshiKuida, Barry M. Stults, Steven C. Hunt, Gary K. Barlow, and K. OwenAsh

736 Right and Left Ventricular Function During Chronic Amiodarone Therapy Robert S. Sheldon,L. Brent Mitchell, HenryJ. Duff, D. GeorgeWyse, and Dante E. Manyari, with the technical assistanceof Kathryn Reynolds 741 Effect of Catheter Ablation of the Atrioventricular Junction on Quality of Life and Exercise Tolerance in Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation G. Neal Kay, RosemaryS. Bubien,AndrewE. Epstein,and VanceJ. Plumb SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION 745 Cardiac Function in Systemic Hypertension Refore and After Reversal of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy BrunoTrimarco, Nicola De Luca, Bruno Ricciardelli, GiovanniRosiello,MassimoVolpe, GianluigiCondorelli,Giuseppe Lembo, and Mario Condorelli 751 Effects of Celiprolol on Plasma Renin, Aldosterone, Norepinephrine and Epinephrine in Primary Hypertension ShinobuKimura, Vincent DeQuattro, Patrick H. Hernandez,and DeboraDe-PingLee CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE

708 Relation Between Family History of Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Risk Variables Lynn B. Jorde and RogerR. Williams 714 Correlation of Heart Rate Variability with Clinical and Angiographic Variables and Late Mortalii After Coronary Angiography MichaelW. Rich, Jasbir S. Saini, Rogert E. Kleiger, Robert M. Carney, AdrienneteVelde, and Kenneth E. Freedland

718 Prospective Evaluation of Initially Ineffective Defibrillation Pulses on Subsequent Defibrillation Success During Ventricular Fibrillation in Survivors of Cardiac Arrest Gust H. Bardy, Tom D. Ivey, GeorgeJohnson, Robert B. Stewart, and H. LeonGreene 723 Doppler Echocardiographic Predictors of Recurrence of Atrlal Fibrillation After Cardioversion Martine Dethy, CatherineChassat, DenisRoy, and Lise-AndreeMercier 727 Entrainment of Idiopathic Ventricular Tachycardia of Left Ventricular Origin with Evidence for Reentry with an Area of Slow Conduction and Effect of Verapamil Ken Okumura,Koshi Matsuyama,Hiroo Miyagi, TakeshiTsuchiya,and HirofumiYasue 733 The Coronary Sinus Divertiwlum: A Pathdogic Entity Associated with the Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome GerardM. Guiraudon,Colette M. Guiraudon,GeorgeJ. Klein, Arjun D. Sharma, and RaymondYee

755 Effects of Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Secondary to Coronary Artery Disease on the Circadian Rhythm of Rload Pressure and Hear-l Rate MichaelP. Caruana,Avijit Lahiri, Peter M.M. Cashman,DouglasG. Altman, and EdwardB. Raftery VALVULAR

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760 Clinical and Hemodynamic Follow-Up After Percutaneous Aortic Valvuloplasty in the Elderly Peter C. Blockand lgor F. Palacios 764 Role of Right and LeR Atrial Dimensions for Release of Atrial Natriuretic Peptide in Left-Sided Valvular Heart Disease and Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy MarkusHaass,RainerDietz, ThomasA. Fischer, RudolfE. Lang, and WolfgangKijbler CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE 771 Anomalous Origin of Either Right or Left Main Coronary Artery from the Aorta with Subsequent Coursing Between t:ort; and Pulmonary Trunk: Analysis of 32 Necropsy Amy H. Krageland WilliamC. Roberts 778 Effect of Isolated Right Ventricular Outftow Obstruction on Left Ventricular Function in Infants Gary F. Sholler, Steven D. Colan, and StephenP. Sanders 785 Determinants of Plasma Atrial Natriuretic Factor Concentrations in Congenital Heart Disease Robert D. Ross,Stephen R. Daniels,LawrenceM. Dolan, CarolynA. Young,and RichardA. Meyer

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MISCELLANEOUS 789 Frequency of Myocarditis, Left Ventricular Dysfunction and Ventricular Tachycardia in the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome JosephM. Reilly, Robert E. Cunnion,DavidW. Anderson,Timothy J. O’Leary, J. Thayer Simmons,H. Clifford Lane, AnthonyS. Fauci, WilliamC. Roberts, RenuVirmani, and Joseph E. Parrillo

Familial Apical Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy ManuelPenas,ManuelFuster, RamonFabregas,Clotilde Llorente, and FranciscoG. Cosio

W Percutaneous Double Balloon Pulmonarv Valvotomy in Adults: One- to Two-Year Follow-Up SaadAl Kasab, PauloA. Ribeiro, MuayedAl Zaibag, MurtadaHalim, Moh’DA. Habbab, and MaieShahid

784 Changes in Left Ventricular Wall Stress During Isometric and Isotonic Exercise in Healthy Men Ming K. Heng, Jie X. Bai, and Jairo Marin

824 Balloon Dilation Angioplasty of Blalock-Taussig Shunts GeraldR. Marx, HughD. Allen, TheronW. Ovitt, and WilliamHanson, with the technical assistanceof JeanneKeiter-Marek

METHODS

837 Evidence for a Donamineraic Control of Svmnathoadrenal - . Catecholamine Release GiuseppeMercuro, GianluigiGessa,CarloA. Rivano,Luigi Lai, and AngeloCherchi

786 Simultaneous Low Level Treadmill Exercise and Intravenous Dipyridamole Stress Thallium Imaging PaulN. Casale,Timothy E. Guiney, H. WilliamStrauss,and CharlesA. Boucher EDITORIALS 863 The Automatic Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillator as Antiarrhythmic Treatment Modality of Choice for Survivors of Cardiac Arrest Unrelated to Acute Myocardial Infarction MichaelH. Lehmann,RussellT. Steinman,ClaudioD. Schuger,and KennethJackson Penny Wise GeorgeA. Diamond BRIEF REPORTS Comparative Costs of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty and Coronary Artery Bypass Grafling in Multivessel Coronary Artery Disease AlexanderJ.R. Black, Gary S. Roubin,Cynthia Sutor, Nancy Moe, James M. Jarboe, John S. Douglas,Jr., and SpencerB. King, Ill Initial Experience with Coronary Angioplasty and Aortic Valvuloplasty Using Elective Semipercutaneous Cardiopulmonary Support RobertA. Vogel, Carl L. Tom 814 Induction of Ventricular Tachycardia in Patients with Left Ventricular Aneurysms and No History of Arrhythmia AlanWoelfel,James R. Foster, WilliamW. Rowe,AvanindraJain, and LeonardS. Gettes

Repeated Endomyocardial Biopsy Causing Coronary Arterial-Right Ventricular Fist& After Cardiac Transplantation DavidH. Fitchett, Clarke Forbes,and Albert J. Guerraty CASEREPORTS Refractory Variant Angina Relieved by Guanethidine and Clonidine MichaelFrenneaux,Juan CarlosKaski, MauriceBrown, and Attilio Maseri 833 Reversible Failure to Sense Ventricular Tachycardia Early After Surgical Implantation of the Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator FrancesL. Glicksman,Liaqat Zaman, HeikkiV. Huikuri, Agustin Castellanos,and RobertJ. Myerburg 835 Sustained Atrial Fibrillation Afler Conversion of Paroxysmal Reciprocating Junctional Tachycardia by Intravenous Verapamil BernardBelhassen,SamiViskin, and ShlomoLaniado 837 Visualization of Patent Foramen Ovale by Transesophageal Color-Coded Doppler Echocardiography AndreasMugge,WernerG. Daniel,JohannW. Kldpper, and Paul R. Lichtlen

838 Successful Pregnancy after the Mustard Operation for Transposition of the Great Arteries Katrien Neukermans,ThomasJ. Sullivan,and PaulT. Pitlick FROM THE EDITOR

HLA-DRw6 Antigen Linkage in Chronic Congestive Heart FaiaikrreSecondary to Coronary Artery Disease (Ischemic Cardiomyopathy) ConstantinosJ. Limasand CatherineLimas Ftecainide for Supraventricular and Ventricular Arrhythmias in Children and Young Adults Vicki Zeigler, PaulC. Gillette, BertrandA. Ross,and LesleyEwing

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840 Dnrg Developers and Drug Dispensers: Their Dependency on One Another LElTERS

841 Errata

887

Echocardiographic Criteria for Diagnosis of Mitral Valve Prolapse Variability in Plasma Cholesterol Assays-The Object That Defeats the Goal

Effects of lntracoronary Injection of Acetykholine on Coronary Arterial Hemodynamics and Diameter Yutaka Horio, HirofumiYasue, Ken Okumura,Kyoji Takaoka, Koshi Matsuyama,KazuoGoto, and Koutaro Minoda

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 642 Part II of II: Advances in Cardiovascular AJC Guide to Eauinment and Suuolies

892 Survival with Painless Strongly Positive Exercise Electrocardiogram GillesR. Dagenais,JacquesR. Rouleau,PhilippeHochart, Jorge Magrina, BernardCantin, and Jean G. Dumesnil

Technologies

OCTOBER 5,196B VOLUME 62, NUMBER 11 A Symposium: Calcium, the Cardiovascular System and the Hidney

896 Comparative Accuracy of Clinical Tests for Diagnosis and Prognosis of Coronary Artery Disease Marco Bobbio, Brad H. Pollock, lshac Cohen, and GeorgeA. Diamond

OCTOBER19,19BBVOLUME62,NUMBER12 A Symposium: Clinical Evaluation of Response to Antiarrhythmic Therapy

ARRYTHMIAS

NOVEMBERl.1966VOLUME 62.NUMBER13

991

CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE 843 Do Different Doses of Intravenous Streptoldnase Alter the Frequency of Coronary Reperfusion in Acute Myocardial Infarction? CharlesM. Gottlich, Barry Cooper, John R. Schumacher,and L. David Hillis 647 Rupture of the Left Ventricular Free Wall During Acute Myocardial Infarction: Analysis of 136 Necropsy Patients and Comparison With 50 Necropsy Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Without Rupture JessicaM. Mannand WilliamC. Roberts 860 Factors Leading to Shorter Survival in Patients Ages 65 to 75 Years Compared with Younger Patients After Acute Myocardial Infarction GeoffreyH. Tofler, James E. Muller, Peter H. Stone, Stefan N. Willich, Vicki G. Davis, W. Kenneth Poole, EugeneBraunwald,and the MILIS Study Group 868 Polymorphonuclear Leukocyte Activity and Ventricular Arrhythmia in Acute Myocardial Infarction TsunehikoKuzuya, Shiro Hoshida,KeiichiroSuzuki,Tatsuya Sasaki, Akira Kitabatake, TakenobuKamada,TakazoMinamino,and MichihikoTada 673 Determinants of Primary Success in Elective Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty for Significant Narrowing of a Single Major Coronary Artery E. Murat Tuzcu, ConradSimpfendorfer,Kavita Badhwar,James Chambers,KhosrowDorosti, Irving France, Jay Hollman, and Patrick Whitlow

AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

Usefulness of Transcutaneous Triggering of Conventional Implanted Pulse Generators by an Activity-Sensing Pacemaker for Predicting Effectiveness of Rate Response Pacing Joseph Fetter, DavidG. Benditt, and MarcusMianulli 906 Role of Left Ventricular Function and Doppler-Derived Variables in Predicting Hemodynamic Benefits of RateResponsive Pacing Chu-PakLau and A. John Camm SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

912 Immediate and Short-Term Cardiovascular Effects of a New Converting Enzyme Inhibitor (Lisinopril) in Essential Hypertension GuillermoE. Garavaglia,FranzH. Messerli,Boris D. Nunez, RolandE. Schmieder,and EdwardD. Frohlich VALVULAR

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917 Phasic Coronary Artery Flow Velocity Determined by Doppler Flowmeter Catheter in Aortic Stenosis and Aortic Regurgitation ShuzoMatsuo, MitsuhiroTsuruta, MotonobuHayano,Youichi Imamura,YoshikiEguchi,TakashiTokushima,and ShinsukeTsuji CARDIOMYOPATHY 923 Abnormal Myocardial Fatty Acid Metabolism in Dilated Cardiomyopathy Detected by Iodine-123 Phenylpentadecanoic Acid and Tomographic Imaging ValentinaUgolini, ChristopherL. Hansen,PadamakarV. Kulkarni, DonaldE. Jansen, MarvinS. Akers, and James R. Corbett CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

Retransplantation for Severe Accelerated Coronary Artery Disease in Heart Transplant Recipients ShaoZhouGao, John S. Schroeder, SharonHunt, and Edward8. Stinson

929 Doppler Echocardiographic Evaluation of Cardiac Performance in Infants on Prolonged Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Gerard R. Martin and Billie L. Short

Comparison of Doppler Echocardiographic and Hemodynamic Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Properties in Coronary Artery Disease Shoa-LinLin, Tahir Tak, DavidT. Kawanishi,CharlesR. McKay, ShahbudinH. Rahimtoola,and P. Anthony N. Chandraratna THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CARDIOLOGY DECEMBER 1, 1988

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971 Akohd Use and Supraventricular Arrhythmia EdwardJ. Cohen,Arthur L. Klatsky, and Mary AnneArmstrong

935 Results of Low Speed Rotational Angioplasty for Chronic Peripheral Occlusions ChristianVallbracht, Dieter Liermann,lngeborgPrignitz, Wolfgang Beinborn,Helmut Landgraf,Christa Paasch,FranzJ. Roth, Jurgen Kollath, WernerSchoop,WilhelmBamberg,and Martin Kaltenbach

973 Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Prosthetic Cardiac Valves In Vitro and In Vivo PatriciaA. Randall,LeslieJ. Kohman,ErnestM. Scalzetti, NikolausM. Szeverenyi,and DavidM. Panicek

941 Prophylactic Temporary Pacing During Diagnostic and Therapeutic Catheterization Procedures: Use of Balloon Flotation Catheters John R. Harvey, R. MichaelWyman,RaymondG. McKay, and DonaldS. Bairn METHODS 945 Usefulness of Dipyridamole-Thallium-201 Perfusion Scanning for Distinguishing lschemic from Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy EricJ. Eichhorn,EdwardJ. Kosinski,Stanley M. Lewis,ThomasC. Hill, LouisH. Emond,and 0. StevensLeland HISTORICAL STUDIES 952 Samuel A. Levine and His World War I Experience CharlesF. Wooleyand John M. Stang 957 Richard D. Rowe, MD (1923-1966) Robert M. Freedom BRIEF REPORTS 959 Early and Long-Term Results of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty In Patients 70 Years of Age and Older with Angina Pectoris ConradSimpfendorfer,RussellRaymond,James Schraider, Kavita Badhwar, KhosrowDorosti, Irving France,Jay Hollman, and Patrick Whitlow 961 The Creatine Kinase Ratio: A Useful Means of Detecting Early Peaking of the Creatine Kinase Curve After Acute Myocardial Infarction Stefan Mark Nidorf, Peter LindsayThompson,AmandaByrne, Nicholas Hubert de Klerk, and The NationalHeart Foundationof Australia CoronaryThrombolysisGroup 964 Rish Assessment of Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Within One Month of Acute Myocardial Infarction ReneeS. Hartz, WilliamP. Hoyne, Joseph LoCicero,III, John H. Sanders,JamesW. Frederiksen,and LawrenceL. Michaelis 966 New Method for the Assessment of Drug-hutuced Arrhythmia Aggravation Dietrich Andresen,Karl Wegscheider,Enz-RudigerVon Leitner, and RolfSchrbder 966 Influence of Left Atrial Systolii Emptying on Left Ventrkular Early Ailing Dynamics by Doppler in Patients with Sequential Atrioventricular Pacemakers RoxannRokey, MiguelA. Quinones,WilliamA. Zoghbi, LawrenceC. Kuo, and EdwardG. Abinader 1366

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977 Regression of lnfundibular Hypertrophy After Pulmonary Valvuloplasty for Pulmonic Stenosis Valmir F. Fontes,CesarA. Esteves,J. EduardoM.R. Sousa,Maria VirginiaD. Silva, and MariaCristina B. Bembom 979 Causes of Restenosis After Balloon Valvuloplasty for Valvular Pulmonary Stenosis P. SyamasundarRao, MohinderK. Thapar, and Farid Kutayli 982 Evaluation of the QRS Complex on the Standard 12-Lead Electrocardiogram in Normal Subjects 70 to 79 Years of Age Nancy 8. Wagner,DouglasD. Schocken,Lori Lee, W. Kenneth Haisty, JamesE. Pope, and GalenS. Wagner 985 Accuracy of the RVs:RVs Voltage Ratio for Increased Left Ventricular Mass Hitoshi Koito and DavidH. Spodick CASEREPORTS 966 Development of Severe Stenosis in a Previously Purely Regurgitant, Congenitally Bicuspid Aorlic Valve Jay M. Kalan, CharlesL. McIntosh, Robert 0. Bonow,and WilliamC. Roberts 969 Anomalous Venous Connection of the Superior Vena Cava to the Left Atrium MichaelA. Arsenianand RichardA. Anderson FROM THE EDITOR

991 Brazil and Brazilian Cardiology WilliamC. Roberts INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS on page 994 NOVEMBER 3,196B VOLUME 62, NUMBER 14 A Symposium: Recent Approaches in Evaluation and Management of Ventricular Arrhythmias NOVEMBER 11,1966 VOLUME 62, NUMBER 15 A Symposium: HMG CoA Reductase Inhibitors-A New Therapeutic Class NOVEMBER 151969

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CORONARYARTERYDISEASE 995 Prospective Evaluation of Clinkal Assessment, Exercise Testing and Signal-Averaged Electrocardiogram in Predkting Outcome After Acute Myocardial Infarction Tim Cripps, DavidBennett, John Camm, and DavidWard

1000 Clinical Significance and Prognostic Importance of Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Non-Q-Wave Acute Myocardial Infarction WilliamE. Boden, Robert E. Kleiger, KennethB. Schechtman,Robert J. Capone, DavidJ. Schwartz, Robert S. Gibson,and the Diltiazem ReinfarctionStudy ResearchGroup

1005 Usefulness of Ambulatory Radionuclide Monitoring of Left Ventricular Function Early After Acute Myocardial Infarction for Predicting Residual Myocardial lschemia WarrenM. Breisblatt, FrederickL. Weiland,John R. McLain,Gregory C. Tomlinson,Mary Jane Burns, and LeoJ. Spaccavento

1011 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Radionuclide Angiographic Assessment of Acute Myocardial Infarction in a Randomized Trial of Intravenous Streptokinase GeraldWisenberg,Keith J. Finnie,GeorgeJablonsky,WilliamJ. Kostuk, and Tara Marshall 1017 Location of an Acute Myocardial Infarct in Patients with a Healed Myocardial Infarct: Analysis of 128 Patients Studied at Necropsy BenjaminN. Potkin and WilliamC. Roberts 1024 Angiographic Morphology in Unstable Angina Pectoris Anne E. Williams,MichaelR. Freeman,RobertJ. Chisholm,NormanL. Patt, and PaulW. Armstrong 1028 Comparison of Combination Nifedipine-Propranold Diltiazem-Proprandol with High Dose Diltiazem Monotherapy for Stable Angina Pectoris John R. Morse

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1048 Factors Affecting Transthoracic Impedance During Electrical Cardioversion SaraJ. Sirna, DavidW. Ferguson,FrancisCharbonnier,and RichardE. Kerber

1882 Effect of Intravenous Enalaprilat in Moderate and Severe Systemic Hypertension John Rutledge,CarlosAyers, Robert Davidson,DonaldDiPette, Gordon Guthrie, Mary Fisher,Skai Schwartz, and EwaRucinska

1068 Effects of lsradipine, a New Cakium Antagonist, Versus Hydrochlorothiazkfe on Serum Lipids and Apoiipoproteins in Patients with Systemic Hypertension PaulSamuel,WalterM. Kirkendall, ErnstJ. Schaefer, BruceChin, Barton Schoenfeld,LeonardGonasun,and SidneyLieberman 1072 Long-Term Metabolic Effects of Spironolactone and Thiaxides Combined with Potassium-Sparing Agents for Treatment of Essential Hypertension XavierJeunemaitre, AnneCharru, GillesChatellier, Patrice Degoulet, JacquesJulien, Pierre-FrancoisPlouin, Pierre Corvol, and Joel MCnard HEART DISEASE

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IO!58 Blood Pressure at Rest and During Maximal Dynamic and Isometric Exercise as Predictors of Systemic Hypertension Robert H. Chaneyand RichardK. Eyman

1078 Clinical and Noninvasive Hemodynamic Results After Aortic Balloon Valvuloplasty for Aortic Stenosis Mark R. Desnoyers,Jeffrey M. Isner, NatesaG. Pandian,ShanShen Wang,ThomasHougen,ConstanceD. Fields,AlexandraR. Lucas,and DeebN. Salem

Transient Alterations of the QRS Complex and ST Segment During Percutaneous Transluminal Balloon Angioplasty of the Left Anterior Descending Artery Nancy B. Wagner,DorinaC. Sevilla, MitchellW. Krucoff, Kerry L. Lee, Karen S. Pieper, Kenneth K. Kent, RandyK. Bottner, RonaldH. Selvester, and GalenS. Wagner

ARRHYTHMIAS

1053 Hemodynamic, Humoral and Volume Findings in Systemic Hypertension with Isolated Ventricular Septal Hypertrophy RolandE. Schmieder, FranzH. Messerli,Boris D. Nunez,GuillermoE. Garavaglia,and EdwardD. Frohlich

VALVULAR

1033 Safety and Efficacy of Esmolol for Unstable Angina PeetorN DianeE. Wallis,Cynthia Pope, WilliamJ. Littman, and Patrick J. Scanlon

1043 Heart Rate Adjustment of ST-Segment Depression for Reduction of False Positive Ekrctrocardiographic Responses to Exercise in Asymptomatic Men Screened for Coronary Artery Disease Peter M. Okin, Paul Kligfield, Mark R. Milner, StevenA. Goldstein, and Joseph LindsayJr.

SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

1085 Oral Disopyramide Therapy for Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Mark Sherrid, ErnestDelia, and EdwardDwyer CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE

1089 Catheter Occlusion of the Persistently Patent Ductus Arteriosus John D. Dyck, Lee N. Benson,Jeffrey F. Smallhorn,Peter R. McLaughlin,Robert M. Freedom,and RichardD. Rowe MISCELLANEOUS 1883 Effects of Acetylcholine on Epicardial Coronary Atieries After Cardiac Transplantation Without Angiographic Evidence of Fixed Graft Narrowing Ulrich Nellessen,Tommy C. Lee, Tim A. Fischell,RobertGinsburg, Tohru Masuyama,EdwinL. Alderman,and John S. Schroeder 1888 Effect of Heart Rate Alterations Produced by Atrial Pacing on the Pattern of Diastofic Filling in Normal Subjects StevenJ. Lavine,VenkataramanKrishnaswami,NormanLevinson,and JamesA. Shaver THE AMERICANJOURNALOF CARDIOLOGY DECEMBER1, 1988

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1103 Influence of Age on Left Ventricular Contractility Alvaro Merino, EduardoAlegria, Ram6nCastellb, and DiegoMartinez-Car0 EDITORIALS

Frequency of Acute and Healed Myocardial Infarcts in Fatal Cardiac Amyloidosis DeborahJ. Barbourand WilliamC. Roberts t

1169 Contributions of the Framingham Study to the Conquest of Coronary Artery Disease WilliamB. Kannel

1136 Morphdogic Features of Stenosis of the Pulmonary Veins LanceV. Fong, Robert H. Anderson,SangC. Park, and JamesR. Zuberbuhler

1139

1113 Abjective Reality GeorgeA. Diamond

Prevalence of Atrial Septal Aneurysm in Patients with Mitral Valve Prolapse EdwardG. Abinader, RoxannRokey, EhudGoldhammer,LawrenceC. Kuo, and EliasSaid

1116 Ventricular Excitation During Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Art-Y RonaldH. Selvester, Nancy B. Wagner,and GalenS. Wagner

Left Ventricular Hypertrophy in Cyclosporine-Induced Systemic Hypertension After Cardiac Transplantation R. Curtis McKay, Barry F. Uretsky, Robert Kormos, Robert L. Hardesty, Bartley P. Griffith, and RosemarieSalerni

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1122 Atrial Natriuretic HaruoTomoda

Peptide in Acute Myocardial Infarction

Transesophageal Echocardiography for Assessing Cause of Hypotension After Cardiac Surgery Kwan-LeungChan, with the technical assistanceof MichaelBlakley, Judie Andrews,and Margaret Barrie CASEREPORTS

1124 Usefulness of Echocardiographic Left Ventricular Hypertrophy, Ventricular Tachycardia and Complex Ventricular Arrhythmias in Predicting Ventricular Fibrillation or Sudden Cardiac Death in Elderly Patients WilbertS. Aronow, Stanley Epstein, MordecaiKoenigsberg,and KennethS. Schwartz

1126 Transcutaneous Pacing: Patient Tolerance, StrengthInterval Relations and Feasibility for Programmed Elecbical Stimulation LawrenceS. Klein, WilliamM. Miles, JamesJ. Heger, and DouglasP. Zipes

1129 Adenytate Cyclase Activity Coupled to the Stimulatory Guanine Nucleotide Binding Protein in Patients Having Electrophysiologic Studies and Either Structurally Normal Hearts or Idiopathic Myocardial Disease Joel S. Karliner and MelvinScheinman

1130 Results of Simultaneous Replacement of One Left-Sided Cardiac Vatve with a Mechanical Prosthesis and the Other Left-Sided Valve with a Bioprosthesis Uberto Bortolotti, Aldo Milano,AlessandroMazzucco,Francisco Guerra,Albert0 Magni,GiovanniStellin, and VincenzoGallucci

1132 Mode of Late Failure of the Low-Profile (Liotta) Porcine Bioprosthesis in the Mitral Position Uberto Bortolotti, Aldo Milano, GaetanoThiene, AlessandroMazzucco, FranciscoGuerra, EnricoTalenti, MarialuisaValente, and VincenzoGallucci

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1144 Juvenile Diabetes Mellitus with SO-Year Survival Jay M. Kalan, FrederickA. Dressler,KathleenE. Romain,MonicaV.E. Gallivan,and WilliamC. Roberts

1146 Spontaneous Disappearance of Blue-Gray Facial Pigmentation During Amiodarone Therapy (Out of the Blue) WillemP. Beukemaand ThomasB. Graboys 1147 Mechanism of Concealed Atrial Trigeminy Shinji Kinoshita,Go Konishi, KuniyoshiKimura, YuzuruWakita,and ShizuoSakuma

1149 Familial Occurrence of Congenital Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistulas in Octogenarian Siblings Without Telangiectasis L. BrandonWongand JosephK. Perloff LETTERS

1151 Erratum Maximal Aortic Valve Pressure Gradients by Doppler Echocardiography Reply Erratum Pregnancy Following Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty Value of Programmed Ventricular Stimulation from the Right Ventricular Outftow Tract TWEedledum

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Q-Wave Regression Afler Transmural Acute Myocardial Infarction

Effect of Pacing.Cycle Length and Autonomic Blockade on Sinus Node Refractoriness CharlesR. Kerr

Reply Art in Cardiology Reply Correction Balloon Valvuloplasty INSTRUCTIONS

1197 Correlation Between Directly Measured and Indirectly Estimated Sinoatrial Conduction Time in Children Ming-LollYoungand DianneL. Atkins

Versus Surgical Commissurotomy

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Transient Atria1 Dysfunction After Conversion of Chronic Atria1 Fibrillation to Sinus Rhythm EdwardP. Shapiro, Mark B. Effron, SandraLima, PamelaOuyang, Cynthia0. Siu, and DavidBush

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CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE

1155 Risk of Developing an Acute Myocardial Infarction or Sudden Coronary Death in Patients with Exercise-Induced Silent Myocardial Ischemia. A Report from the Coronary Artery Surgery Study (CASS) Registry DonaldA. Weiner,ThomasJ. Ryan, Carolyn H. McCabe,Grace Ng, Bernard R. Chaitman, L. ThomasSheffield,Felix E. Tristani, and Lloyd D. Fisher

1159 Effects of Type A Behavioral Counseling and Severity of Prior Acute Myocardial Infarction on Survival Lynda H. Powelland Carl E. Thoresen

1164 Usefulness of Exercise Electrocardiography and Thallium Scintigraphy in Unstable Angina Pectoris in Predicting the Extent and Severity of Coronary Artery Disease Michael R. Freeman,Robert J. Chisholm,and PaulW. Armstrong 1171 Comuarison of Duration of Action of Atenolol and Nadolol for Treatment of Angina Pectoris John B. Kostis

1176 Evaluation of Left Ventricular Contractflity Indexes for the Detection of Symptomatic and Silent Myocardial lschemia MichaelF. Wilson,BongHee Sung, CharlesP. Herbst, RonaldH. Lee, and DanielJ. Brackett

1160 Doppler and Two-Dimensional Echocardiographic Assessment of Left Ventricular Function Before and After Intravenous Dipyridamole Stress Testing for Detection of Coronary Artery Disease Arthur J. Labovitz, Anthony C. Pearson,and Bernard R. Chaitman, with the technical assistanceof Sheila L. Byers and DeniseG. Mrosek ARRHYTHMIAS

AND CONDUCTION DISTURBANCES

1266 Effect of Preexisting Bundle Branch Block on the Electrocardiographic Diagnosis of Venbfeular Tachycardia Mark S. Kremers, WilliamH. Black, Peter J. Wells,and Martha Solodyna

1213 Long-Term Arrhythmic Outcome in Survivors of Vent&&r Fibrillation with Absence of Inducible Ventricular Tachycardia Terry A. Zheutlin, RussellT. Steinman,ThomasA. Mattioni, and RichardF. Kehoe SYSTEMIC HYPERTENSION

1218 Comparison of Diltiazem and Hydrochlorothiaxide for Treatment of Patients 60 Years of Age or Older with Systemic Hypertension DavidJ. Leeheyand EvelynHartman

1224 Left Ventricular Structural Characteristics in Unilateral Renovascular Hypertension and Primary Aklosteronism ToshihideSuzuki,HitoshiAbe, Seiki Nagata, FumioSaitoh, Satoru Iwata, AtsushiAshizawa,Morio Kuramochi,and Teruo Omae CONGENITAL HEART FAILURE

1228 Systemic and Coronary Hemodynamic and Neurohumoral Effects of Levodopa in Chronic Congestive Heart Failure Teresa De Marco, PaulA. Daly, and KanuChatterjee

1234 Detection of Abnormal Calf Muscle Metaboljsm in Patients with Heart Failure Using Phosphorus-31 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance DonnaM. Mancini, Nancy Ferraro, MatthewTuchler, Britton Chance, and John R. Wilson VALVULAR

1166 Long-Term Prognosis of Patients Undergoing Electrophysiologic Studies for Syncope of Unknown Origin Eric B. Bass,JamesJ. Elson,RichardN. Fogoros,JacquelinePeterson, Vincent C. Arena, and WishwaN. Kapoor

HEART DISEASE

1241 Insights on the Mechanism of Balloon Valvuloplasty Aortic Stenosis Brice Let&, LowellI. Gerber, and ReneKoning

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1292 ManyThingsAreNotFoundinBooksorJawnals...but Some Things Are! Vaiue of Ektrophysiobgic PaBentswithMaEgnantVentriukAd@hm&s Leonard N. Horowitz and Martin Borggrefe

Disopyramide in Hyperbaphii Cardiomyopathy I. Hemodynamic Assessme nt After Intravenous Administration Charles Pollick, Brian Kimball, Mark Henderson, and E. Douglas Wigle

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1295 CONGENITAL

HEART

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~andAMtomlc Atrioventricular Biscodawe WiihBrtelial comerdance Luciano Pasquini, Stephen P. Sanders, Ira Parness, Steven Golan, John F. Keane, John E. Mayer, Jr., Christa Kratz, Ronald B. Foran, Bruno Marino. Stella Van Praagh, and Richard Van Praagh

1263 Anomalous Origin of Either the Right or Led Main CeromryArteryfremlheAortaWRheutcourringofthe AnomaksticaHy Arising Artery Between Aorta and PulmonaryTd William C. Roberts and Amy H. Kragel

Frequency of Hyperchoktewkmia After Cardiac Tran@mtaBan Jonathan S. Stamler, Douglas E. Vaughan, M. Audrey Rudd, Gilbert H. Mudge, James Kirshenbaum, Pia Young, R. Wayne Alexander, and Joseph Loscalzo Impaired Left Ventricular Systolic Function Bwing Exercise in Middle-Aged bwdin-Bependd and Nonbwulin-kpedent Diabetic sbjects WM ClinIcally EvldentcardiovascularDhJease Juha N. Mustonen, Matti I. J. Uusitupa, Kari Tahvanainen, Sunil Talwar, Markku Laakso, Esko Lansimies, Jyrki T. Kuikka, and Kalevi Pyorala

1281 Cakium Channel Binding Characteristics in the Human Heart Mitchell S. Finkel, Randolph E. Patterson, William C. Roberts, Thomas D. Smith, and Harry R. Keiser METHODS

Usefubwss of Silent Myocardial Ischemii AmbulatorymMminW New Coronary Events in Elddy Patients Wilbert S. Aronow, and Stanley Epstein

1297 Lack of Association Between Acute Myocardial Infarction lllldMiilllV8lWRobpre Owen G. Peller, Richard B. Devereux, Theodore L. Schreiber, and Ann McNulty EToutcolneofPaientrWithAsylnptomrtic Restenosis After Percutaneous Transhmninal

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Jeffrey J. Popma, Egerton K. van den Berg, and Gregory J. Dehmer 1299 lhbious Reliability of Q-Wave Fonnation in Prediing New Regional Left Venbicular Aklnesis After Coronary Artery Bypa= *afths George J. Taylor, Mary Bourland. Frank L. Mikeil, H. Weston Moses, James T. Dove, Jay Riseman, Cynthia Korsmeyer, Harry A. Wellons, and Joel A. Schneider Sehus Ventricular Bywhythdas Papavedne Robert F. Wilson, and Carl W. White

Afte!r I~acorunary

1303 Sunrawnbidar Tadycada Mimikkinsz Ventrkdar Ta;chyepn%BuringFl&ainideTreatm& Harry J. Crijns, lsabelle C. van Gelder, and K.I. Lie 1307 RenalArterySteno&inHeatiFa&re Marc D. Meissner, Audrey R. Wilson, and Marie11Jessup 1309 Palliation of Vatvular Aortic Stenosis by Balloon Vahnrlopluty as Preoperathre Preparatian for Nancadac SWFY Marc J. Levine, Aaron D. Berman, Robert D. Safian, Daniel J. Diver, and Raymond G. McKay

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Fred Kornreich, Terrence J. Montague, Pentti M. Rautaharju, Michail Kavadias, and Milan B. Horacek

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pclknoMlyAtreSblWBh VentrieularSeptalDefect R. Timothy Brown, and Kenneth E. Fellows

1311 Cemparisen q Acquired Immure Deftck~y 6p%&W~~WRhdWRhOUtWHhoulEEvidcnchOf Jean-Jacques Monsuez, Evlin L. Kinney, Daniel Vittecoq, Michel Kitzis, Willy Rozenbaum, Marie Francoise d’Agay, Michel Wolff, Claudie Marche, Michel Janier. lsabelle Gorin, John Evans, and Brigitte Autran

1331 blrect Eflect et Contrast Matedal en Atrlovcntricuhr CombtbninthebatedRumanReart Richard G. Rothschild, William G. Stevenson, and Lynne Warner Stevenson

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Weparln Bob Therapy Mng Cardiac CatheWization James L. Vacek, Raye L. Bellinger, and Joan Phelix

Release of Atrial Natriuretic Factor . After Pehardiiomy terchrenicce#ladkpcrkardbr Mark W. Wolozin, Franqoise V. Ortola, David H. Spodick, and Julian L. Seifter

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FROM THE EDITOR

1336 In&a and Indian hrdihgy Jihad Bitar, Jeffrey Lakier, and Sidney Goldstein

INSTRUCTIONS

1319 cempkte-eftheHeutlnachildwlth congenltalLengQTandDealneM Janice A. Till, Elliot A. Shinebourne, John Pepper, A. John Camm, and David E. Ward

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