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Cardiovascular medicine

• Left ventricular remodelling and brain natriuretic peptide after first myocardial infarction (1 December, 2001)

  J G Crilley, M Farrer
• Development of a new method for assessing the cardiac baroreflex: response to downward tilting in patients with diabetes mellitus (1 December, 2001)

  M Nakagawa, N Takahashi, T Ooie, K Yufu, M Hara, M Watanabe, S Nobe, H Yonemochi, I Katsuragi, T Okeda, T Sakata, T Saikawa
• Patients with acute coronary syndromes express enhanced CD40 ligand/CD154 on platelets (1 December, 2001)

  C D Garlichs, S Eskafi, D Raaz, A Schmidt, J Ludwig, M Herrmann, L Klinghammer, W G Daniel, A Schmeisser
• Prognostic significance of cardiac ¹²³I metaiodobenzylguanidine imaging for mortality and morbidity in patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective study

  (1 December, 2001)

  H Ogita, T Shimonagata, M Fukunami, K Kumagai, T Yamada, Y Asano, A Hirata, M Asai, H Kusuoka, M Hori, N Hoki
• Long term treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension with beraprost, an oral prostacyclin analogue (1 December, 2001)

  C D Vizza, S Sciomer, S Morelli, C Lavalle, P Di Marzio, D Padovani, R Badagliacca, A R Vestri, R Naeije, F Fedele
• Echocardiographic and pathoanatomical characteristics of isolated left ventricular non-compaction: a step towards classification as a distinct cardiomyopathy (1 December, 2001)

  R Jenni, E Oechslin, J Schneider, C Attenhofer Jost, P A Kaufmann
• Improved identification of viable myocardium using second harmonic imaging during dobutamine stress echocardiography (1 December, 2001)

  F B Sozzi, D Poldermans, J J Bax, A Elhendy, E C Vourvouri, R Valkema, J De Sutter, A F L Schinkel, A Borghetti, J R T C Roelandt
• Low dose dobutamine echocardiography for predicting functional recovery after coronary revascularisation (1 December, 2001)

  F Piscione, P Perrone-Filardi, G De Luca, M Prastaro, C Indolfi, P Golino, S Dellegrottaglie, M Chiariello