Acta Cardiologica
Volume 64, issue 5
2009



Editorial
581 - 582 - 
Atherothrombosis: a vanishing disease?
H. Kesteloot

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Original articles
583 - 588 - 
A long-term comparison of drug-eluting versus bare metal stents for the percutaneous treatment of coronary bifurcation lesions
F. Colombo, G. Biondi-Zoccai, V. Infantino, P. Omedé, C. Moretti, F. Sciuto, R. Siliquini, S. Chiadò, G.P. Trevi, I. Sheiban

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589 - 595 - 
Decrease in plasma brain natriuretic peptide level in the early phase after the start of carvedilol therapy is a novel predictor of long-term outcome in patients with chronic heart failure
M. Fujimura, M. Akaike, T. Iwase, S. Yoshida, Y. Sumitomo, S. Yagi, Y. Ikeda, S. Hashizume, K. Aihara, T. Nishiuchi, Y. Yasumura, T. Matsumoto

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597 - 602 - 
Impaired aortic elasticity in patients with psoriasis
A. Bicer, S. Acikel, H. Kilic, Z. Ulukaradag, B.B. Karasu, B.C. Cemil, M. Dogan, K. Baser, G. Cagirci, F. Eskioglu, R. Akdemir

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603 - 609 - 
Levels of proinflammatory cytokines and hs-CRP in patients with homozygous familial hypercholesterolaemia
D. Gokalp, A. Tuzcu, M. Bahceci, S. Arikan, A.G. Pirinccioglu, S. Bahceci

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611 - 616 - 
Post-intervention IVUS is not predictive for very late in-stent thrombosis in drug-eluting stents
S.C. Bergheanu, B.L. Van der Hoeven, A.K.M. Hassan, J. Dijkstra, F.R. Rosendaal, S.-S. Liem, M.J. Schalij, J.G. Van der Bom, J.W. Jukema

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617 - 626 - 
Masked diastolic dysfunction caused by exercise testing in hypertensive heart failure patients with normal ejection fraction and normal or mildly increased LV mass
G. Plehn, J. Vormbrock, M. Christ, M. Prull, L. Lefringhausen, H.-J. Trappe, A. Meissner

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Angiographic characteristics of major intramural coronary arteries and their effect on coronary bypass surgery
C. Arslan, B. Kayhan, E. Cantürk, A.K. Bozkurt

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633 - 637 - 
Does time delay between the primary cardiac arrest and PCI affect outcome?
F.M. Szymanski, M. Grabowski, G. Karpinski, A. Hrynkiewicz, K.J. Filipiak, G. Opolski

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639 - 644 - 
Reduction of cardiovascular event rate: different effects of cardiac rehabilitation in CABG and PCI patients
D. Hansen, P. Dendale, M. Leenders, J. Berger, A. Raskin, J. Vaes, R. Meeusen

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645 - 651 - 
Aortic root dilatation is associated with carotid intima-media thickness but not with carotid plaque in hypertensive men
J.-J. Jiang, X.-F. Chen, X.-M. Liu, L.-J. Tang, X.-F. Lin, Z.-X. Pu, T.-L. Chen, Y. Zhang, Y.-P. Wang, J.-A. Wang

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Review article
653 - 663 - 
Chronic aortic dissection: still a challenge
G. Giugliano, L. Spadera, M. De Laurentis, G. Brevetti

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Case reports
665 - 666 - 
Novel use of a subcutaneous shock lead to create an epicardial implantable cardioverter/ defibrillator system via a limited thoracotomy
R. Beelen, F. Casselman, P. Geelen

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667 - 668 - 
Angina pectoris as first manifestation of a huge biatrial myxoma
K. Alexiou, M. Wilbring, K. Matschke

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669 - 671 - 
Pericarditis with massive pericardial effusion in a cytomegalovirus-infected infant
C.-T. Wu, J.-L. Huang

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673 - 676 - 
Heart failure in a patient with corrected transposition of the great arteries. When is biventricular pacing indicated?
M. Kordybach, M. Kowalski, P. Hoffman

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677 - 679 - 
Intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery: a report of two cases
L. Timmers, T. Bové, M. De Pauw

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681 - 685 - 
Electrical storm in a patient with dilated non-ischaemic cardiomyopathy
G. De Meyer, K. Van Beeumen, M. Duytschaever

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687 - 688 - 
Cryptogenic stroke in the presence of venous bronchopulmonary collateralisation
V. Vandermotte, M. Vandermotte, M. Eycken, C. Vrints

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689 - 691 - 
Spontaneous jugular vein thrombosis
J. Chlumsky, J. Havlín

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Focus
693 - 694 - 
Noninvasive evaluation of a coronary-pulmonary artery fistula
S. Moral, G. Guzman, J. Sanz

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695 - 695 - 
Twiddling with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator
C.J. McCann, R. Beelen, P. Geelen

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Abstracts
697 - 710 - 
Belgian Society of Cardiology. Belgian Heart Rhythm Association (BeHRA)
The 3rd Belgian Heart Rhythm Meeting ‘Arrhythmias for Every Cardiologist’. 2-3 October 2009 – Sheraton Airport Hotel, Brussels

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Erratum
711 - 711 - 
Erratum

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Book reviews
712 - 714 - 
Book Reviews

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