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Cardiovascular medicine

• Impact of diabetes mellitus on long term survival after acute myocardial infarction in patients with single vessel disease (1 August, 2001)

  M Ishihara, H Sato, T Kawagoe, Y Shimatani, S Kurisu, K Nishioka, Y Kouno, T Umemura, S Nakamura
• Raised urinary glucocorticoid and adrenal androgen precursors in the urine of young hypertensive patients: possible evidence for partial glucocorticoid resistance (1 August, 2001)

  W Shamim, M Yousufuddin, D P Francis, P Gualdiero, J W Honour, S D Anker, A J S Coats
• Management and outcome of cardiogenic shock complicating acute myocardial infarction in hospitals with and without on-site catheterisation facilities (1 August, 2001)

  I M Barbash, S Behar, A Battler, D Hasdai, V Boyko, S Gottlieb, J Leor
• A simple benchmark for evaluating quality of care of patients following acute myocardial infarction (1 August, 2001)

  M F Dorsch, R A Lawrance, R J Sapsford, J Oldham, D C Greenwood, B M Jackson, C Morrell, S G Ball, M B Robinson, A S Hall
• Increase in plasma adrenomedullin in patients with heart failure characterised by diastolic dysfunction (1 August, 2001)

  C-M Yu, B M Y Cheung, R Leung, Q Wang, W-H Lai, C-P Lau
• Prevalence of asymptomatic ST segment elevation in right precordial leads with right bundle branch block (Brugada-type ST shift) among the general Japanese population (1 August, 2001)

  M Furuhashi, K Uno, K Tsuchihashi, D Nagahara, M Hyakukoku, T Ohtomo, S Satoh, T Nishimiya, K Shimamoto
• Symptomatic improvement after radiofrequency catheter ablation for typical atrial flutter (1 August, 2001)

  P A O'Callaghan, M Meara, E Kongsgaard, J Poloniecki, L Luddington, J Foran, A J Camm, E Rowland, D E Ward
• Cross sectional study estimating prevalence of heart failure and left ventricular systolic dysfunction in community patients at risk (1 August, 2001)

  O W Nielsen, J Hilden, C T Larsen, J F Hansen
• Echocardiographic features of Candidaspecies endocarditis: 12 cases and a review of published reports

  (1 August, 2001)

  E Donal, P Abgueguen, D Coisne, J P Gouello, E P McFadden, J Allal, P Corbi