Acta Cardiologica
Volume 60, issue 1
February 2005



Tutorial
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On the sex ratio of mortality
Evolution during the period 1970-1999
KESTELOOT, Hugo

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Viewpoints
7 - 12 - 
Comments about possible use of human embryonic stem cell-derived cardiomyocytes to direct autologous adult stem cells into the cardiomyogenic lineage
HENG, Boon Chin, HAIDER, Husnain Khawaja, SIM, Eugene Kwang-Wei, CAO, Tong, TONG, Guo Qing, NG, Soon Chye

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13 - 14 - 
Multisite cardiac pacing
A code proposal revisited
BAROLD, S. Serge

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Original articles
15 - 20 - 
Nitrate-stimulated tilt testing enhances the predictive value of the tilt test on the risk of recurrence in patients with suspected vasovagal syncope
AERTS, Arnaud J.J., VANDERGOTEN, Peter, DASSEN, Willem R.M., DENDALE, Paul

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21 - 25 - 
Intracardiac basic fibroblast growth factor and transforming growth factor-beta 1 mRNA and their proteins expression level in patients with pressure or volume-overload right or left ventricular hypertrophy
HE, Zuo Yun, FENG, Bing, YANG, Sheng Li, LUO, Hui Lan

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27 - 31 - 
Different clinical features, biochemical profiles, echocardiographic and electrocardiographic findings in older and younger patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy
GUO, Hangyuan, LEE, Jong-Dae, UEDA, Takanori, WANG, Jian'an, LU, Duan, HE, Hong, SHAN, Jiang

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33 - 37 - 
Acute Chagas' disease
Immunohistochemical characteristics of T cell infiltrate and its relationship with T. cruzi parasitic antigens
FUENMAYOR, Carmen, HIGUCHI, Maria L., CARRASCO, Hugo, PARADA, Henry, GUTIERREZ, Paulo, AIELLO, Vera, PALOMINO, Sueli

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39 - 41 - 
Echinococcosis of the heart
Clinical and echocardiographic features in 12 patients
BOURAOUI, Hatem, TRIMECHE, Besma, MAHDHAOUI, Abdallah, MAJOUB, Amine, ZAARAOUI, Jilani, ERNEZ, Samia Hajri, GOUIDER, Jeridi, AMMAR, Habib

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43 - 49 - 
Effect of Chlamydia pneumoniae infection and hyperlipidaemia on the expression of PPARγ, P50 and c-Fos in aortic endothelial cells in C57BL/6J mice
HUANG, Bingsheng, DONG, Yugang, MAI, Weiyi, LI, Yongqiang

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51 - 53 - 
Cardiovascular changes in mucopolysaccharidoses in Taiwan
CHEN, Ming-Ren, LIN, Shuan-Pei, HWANG, Haw-Kwei, YU, Chang-Hsien

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Letter to the editor
55 - 56 - 
Aortic distensibility in coronary artery disease and in aortic stenosis
NEMES, Attila, FORSTER, Tamás, CSANÁDY, Miklós

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Case reports
57 - 60 - 
Secondary cardiac tumour originating from laryngeal carcinoma
Case report and review of the literature
RENDERS, Frank, VANDERHEYDEN, Marc, ANDRIES, Erik

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61 - 63 - 
Combination of high bolus dose of tirofiban with half dose thrombolytics for the treatment of subacute stent thrombosis
DI PASQUALE, Pietro, CANNIZZARO, Sergio, PATERNA, Salvatore

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65 - 67 - 
Anomalous left coronary artery arising from the right sinus of Valsalva as a cause of ventricular tachycardia
PAPADOPOULOS, Dimitris P., ECONOMOU, Chrisostomos K., MOYSSAKIS, Ioannis, VOTTEAS, Vassilios E.

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69 - 71 - 
Variant angina in 17-year-old male
LI, Jian-Jun, CHU, Jian-Ming, ZHANG, Chao-Yang

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73 - 75 - 
Cardiac metastasis from a stage IIIb cervix carcinoma
FEYS, Ann, HERREGODS, Marie-Christine, ECTOR, Hugo

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77 - 79 - 
Reversible left v entricular hypertrophy after tako-tsubo-like cardiomyopathy
HIGASHIKUNI, Yasutomi, SATA, Masataka, NAGAI, Ryozo

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Abstracts
81 - 128 - 
Belgian Society of Cardiology 24th annual scientific meeting, February 3-4-5, 2005 - Conrad Hotel, Brussels, Belgium

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