Table of contents

Cardiovascular medicine

• Delay in calling for help during myocardial infarction: reasons for the delay and subsequent pattern of accessing care (1 August, 2000)

  W S Leslie, A Urie, J Hooper, C E Morrison
• The impact of time to thrombolytic treatment on outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction (1 August, 2000)

  P Chareonthaitawee, R J Gibbons, R S Roberts, T F Christian, R Burns, S Yusuf
• Failure of thrombolysis by streptokinase: detection with a simple electrocardiographic method (1 August, 2000)

  A G C Sutton, P G Campbell, D J A Price, E D Grech, J A Hall, A Davies, M J Stewart, M A de Belder
• Changing the site of delivery of thrombolytic treatment for acute myocardial infarction from the coronary care unit to the emergency department greatly reduces door to needle time (1 August, 2000)

  C T Hourigan, D Mountain, P E Langton, I G Jacobs, I R Rogers, G A Jelinek, P L Thompson
• Angiographic assessment of prospectively determined non-invasive reperfusion indices in acute myocardial infarction (1 August, 2000)

  A J Oude Ophuis, F W Bär, F Vermeer, W Janssen, P A Doevendans, R J Haest, W R Dassen, H J J Wellens
• Incidence, recurrence, and case fatality rates for myocardial infarction in southwestern France, 1985 to 1993 (1 August, 2000)

  P Marques-Vidal, J-B Ruidavets, J-P Cambou, J Ferrières
• Endogenous endothelin maintains coronary artery tone by endothelin type A receptor stimulation in patients undergoing coronary arteriography (1 August, 2000)

  Z S Kyriakides, D T Kremastinos, E Bofilis, D Tousoulis, A Antoniadis, D J Webb
• Double blind randomised placebo controlled trial of adjunctive prednisolone in the treatment of effusive tuberculous pericarditis in HIV seropositive patients (1 August, 2000)

  J G Hakim, I Ternouth, E Mushangi, S Siziya, V Robertson, A Malin
• Does angina vary with the menstrual cycle in women with premenopausal coronary artery disease? (1 August, 2000)

  G W Lloyd, N R Patel, E McGing, A F Cooper, D Brennand-Roper, G Jackson
• Comparison of the acute effects of pacing the atrial septum, right atrial appendage, coronary sinus os, and the latter two sites simultaneously on the duration of atrial activation (1 August, 2000)

  D H Bennett