Acta Cardiologica
Volume 58, issue 6
December 2003



Viewpoint
495 - 498 - 
Social class and mortality
On the importance of nutrition
KESTELOOT, Hugo

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Original articles
499 - 505 - 
Relationship with plasma neurohormones and dyssynchrony detected by Dopples echocardiography in patients undergoing permanent pacemaker implantation
KÜRÜM, Turhan, YÜKSEL, Mahmut, ÖZBAY, Gültaç, SÖYÜK, Saadet, TÜRE, Mevlüt

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507 - 511 - 
Aortic stiffness in patients with cardiac syndrome X
GORGULU, Sevket, USLU, Nevzat, EREN, Mehmet, CELIK, Seden, YILDIRIM, Aydın, DAGDEVIREN, Bahadır, TEZEL, Tuna

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513 - 517 - 
Lowering of furosemide dosage after clinical stabilization in patients with congestive heart failure
ALEXOPOULOS, George P., ANASTASIOU-NANA, Maria I., RAPTI, Ageliki Ch., MARGARI, Zafiria J., TERROVITIS, John V., MITSIBOUNAS, Dimitrios, MAKRI, Stamatina, NANAS, John N.

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519 - 525 - 
Modulation of the positive inotropic effct of pyruvate by energetic substrate availability
LEITE-MOREIRA, Adelino F., CASTRO-CHAVES, Paulo, RONCON-ALBUQUERQUE, Roberto Jr., GUERRA, Miguel S., LIMA-CARNEIRO, Alexandre

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527 - 533 - 
Dobutamine-induced ST-segment elevation associated with a biphasic response of wall motion in patients with a recent myocardial infarction is caused by myocardial ischaemia and is abolished by revascularization of the infarct-related artery
LANZARINI, Luca, SCELSI, Laura, CANOSI, Umberto, KLERSY, Catherine, SEBASTIANI, Roberto, PREVITALI, Mario

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535 - 537 - 
Immediate sheath removal after PCI using a Femostop® is feasable and safe
Results of a registry
JASPERS, Luc, BENIT, Edouard

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539 - 545 - 
Left atrial function as a predictor of haemodynamic response in patients with mitral stenosis
A dobutamine stresss echocardiographic study
BELGI, Aytül, YALÇINKAYA, Selim, ÇETIN, Seyhan, KABUKÇU, GÖLBAŞI, İlhan, SANCAKTAR, Oktay

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547 - 553 - 
Subjective symptoms and well-being 30 months after acute chest pain in a county hospital and a city university hospital in Sweden
KARLSON, Björn W., KALIN, Björn, KARLSSON, Thomas, SVENSSON, Lillemor, ZEHLERTZ, Elisabeth, HERLITZ, Johan

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555 - 560 - 
Acetylcysteine, coronary procedure and prevention of contrast-induced worsening of renal function
Which benefit for which patient?
KEFER, Joëlle M., HANET, Claude E., BOITTE, Sabine, WILMOTTE, Léon, DE KOCK, Martine

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Case reports
561 - 562 - 
Colchine-induced rhabdomyolysis in patient with chronic heart failure
DEBIE, Karen, CONRAADS, Viviane, VRINTS, Christiaan

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563 - 565 - 
Growth of hepatocellular carcinoma into the right atrium
A case of antemortem diagnosis with magnetic resonance imaging of the heart
LAZAROS, George, SAMARA, Chrysoula, NIKOLAKOPOULOU, Zoi, TASSOPOULOS, Nicolaos

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567 - 570 - 
Lacrimo-auriculo-dento-digital syndrome with QT proglongation
ONRAT, Ersel, KAYA, Dayimi, ONRAT, Serap Tutgun

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Letter to the editor
571 - 574 - 
Early ischaemic preconditioning reduces spinal cord injury in transient ischaemia
TOUMPOLIS, Ioannis K.

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Abstracts
575 - 584 - 
Belgian Working Group on Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology 21st Annual Scientific Sessions

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