ACC Historical Articles:

C. Richard Conti

Ischemic heart disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 1-4. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Review Article:

Ihor Gussak, Charles Antzelevitch, Preben Bjerregaard, Jeffrey A. Towbin, and Bernard R. Chaitman

The Brugada syndrome: clinical, electrophysiologic and genetic aspects
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 5-15. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Electrophysiology:

Stuart J. Connolly, Robert Sheldon, Robin S. Roberts, Michael Gent on Behalf of the Vasovagal Pacemaker Study Investigators

The North American vasovagal pacemaker study (VPS) : A randomized trial of permanent cardiac pacing for the prevention of vasovagal syncope
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 16-20. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Luis A. Pires, Michael H. Lehmann, Russell T. Steinman, John J. Baga, Claudio D. Schuger Participating Investigators

Sudden death in implantable cardioverter-defibrillator recipients: clinical context, arrhythmic events and device responses
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 24-32. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Stephan Windecker, Raymond E. Ideker, Vance J. Plumb, G. Neal Kay, Gregory P. Walcott, and Andrew E. Epstein

The influence of ventricular fibrillation duration on defibrillation efficacy using biphasic waveforms in humans
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 33-38. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Hiroshige Yamabe, Ken Okumura, Ikuo Misumi, Hironobu Fukushima, Kazuhiro Ueno, Yoshihiro Kimura, and Youichi Hokamura

Role of bipolar electrogram polarity mapping in localizing recurrent conduction in the isthmus early and late after ablation of atrial flutter
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 39-45. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Volker Kühlkamp, Christian Mewis, Johannes Mermi, Ralph F. Bosch, and Ludger Seipel

Suppression of sustained ventricular tachyarrhythmias: a comparison of d,l-sotalol with no antiarrhythmic drug treatment
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 46-52. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Teruhisa Yoshida, Hisao Ikeda, Tatsuro Hiraki, Ichiro Kubara, Masanobu Ohga, and Tsutomu Imaizumi

Detection of concealed left sided accessory atrioventricular pathway by P wave signal averaged electrocardiogram
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 55-62. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Editorial:

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 21-23. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 79-81. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 171-173. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 218-221. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 283-284. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 285-286. [PDF]  

Editorial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 53-54. [PDF]  

Interventional Cardiology:

Edward L. Hannan, Michael J. Racz, Ben D. McCallister, Thomas J. Ryan, Djavad T. Arani, O. Wayne Isom, and Robert H. Jones

A comparison of three-year survival after coronary artery bypass graft surgery and percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 63-72. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Robert N. Piana, Waqar H. Ahmed, Bernard Chaitman, Peter Ganz, Scott Kinlay, John Strony, Burt Adelman, John A. Bittl on behalf of the Hirulog Angioplasty Study Investigators

Effect of transient abrupt vessel closure during otherwise successful angioplasty for unstable angina on clinical outcome at six months
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 73-78. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Markus Ferrari, B.ärbel Schnell, Gerald S. Werner, and Hans R. Figulla

Safety of deferring angioplasty in patients with normal coronary flow velocity reserve
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 82-87. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Barbara E. Tardiff, Robert M. Califf, James E. Tcheng, A. Michael Lincoff, Kristina N. Sigmon, Robert A. Harrington, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, E. Magnus Ohman, Paul S. Teirstein, James C. Blankenship, Michael M. Kitt, Eric J. Topol for the IMPACT-II Investigators

Clinical outcomes after detection of elevated cardiac enzymes in patients undergoing percutaneous intervention
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 88-96. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Judith K. Mickelson, M. Nadir Ali, Neal S. Kleiman, Nasser M. Lakkis, Thomas W. Chow, Bonnie J. Hughes, and C. Wayne Smith

Chimeric 7e3 Fab (ReoPro) decreases detectable CD11b on neutrophils from patients undergoing coronary angioplasty
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 97-106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Myocardial Infarction:

Stephen M. Zaacks, Philip R. Liebson, James E. Calvin, Joseph E. Parrillo, and Lloyd W. Klein

Unstable angina and non-Q wave myocardial infarction: does the clinical diagnosis have therapeutic implications?
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 107-118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Kirk N. Garratt, Peter A. Brady, Nancy L. Hassinger, Diane E. Grill, Andre Terzic, and David R. Holmes Jr.

Sulfonylurea drugs increase early mortality in patients with diabetes mellitus after direct angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 119-124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Marc A. Pfeffer, Frank M. Sacks, Lemuel A. Moyé, Cara East, Steven Goldman, David T. Nash, Jacques R. Rouleau, Jean Lucien Rouleau, Bruce A. Sussex, Pierre Theroux, Ron J. Vanden Belt, and Eugene Braunwald

Influence of baseline lipids on effectiveness of pravastatin in the CARE trial
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 125-130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Dietrich Andresen, Gerhard Steinbeck, Thomas Brüggemann, Dirk Müller, Ralph Haberl, Steffen Behrens, Ellen Hoffmann, Karl Wegscheider, R.üdiger Dissmann, and Hans-Christoph Ehlers

Risk stratification following myocardial infarction in the thrombolytic era: a two-step strategy using noninvasive and invasive methods
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 131-138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

John K. French, David J. Amos, Barbara F. Williams, David B. Cross, John M. Elliott, Hamish H. Hart, Miles G. Williams, Robin M. Norris, Noel G. Ashton, Ralph M. L. Whitlock, Stephanie C. McLaughlin, and Harvey D. White

Effects of early captopril administration after thrombolysis on regional wall motion in relation to infarct artery blood flow
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 139-145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Atherosclerosis:

Jun-Ichi Suzuki, Ryoichi Shimamoto, Jun-Ichi Nishikawa, Tadashi Yamazaki, Taeko Tsuji, Fumitaka Nakamura, Wee Soo Shin, Toshiaki Nakajima, Teruhiko Toyo-Oka, and Kuni Ohotomo

Morphological onset and early diagnosis in apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a long term analysis with nuclear magnetic resonance imaging
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 146-151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Yuk-ki Wong, Martine Thomas, Victor Tsang, Patrick J. Gallagher, and Michael E. Ward

The prevalence of Chlamydia pneumoniae in atherosclerotic and nonatherosclerotic blood vessels of patients attending for redo and first time coronary artery bypass graft surgery
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 152-156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carmine Gazzaruso, Adriana Garzaniti, Paola Buscaglia, Graziella Bonetti, Colomba Falcone, Pietro Fratino, Giorgio Finardi, and Diego Geroldi

Association between apolipoprotein(a) phenotypes and coronary heart disease at a young age
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 157-163. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heart Failure:

Michele Senni, Richard J. Rodeheffer, Christophe M. Tribouilloy, Jonathan M. Evans, Steven J. Jacobsen, Kent R. Bailey, and Margaret M. Redfield

Use of echocardiography in the management of congestive heart failure in the community
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 164-170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Rainer Hambrecht, Volker Adams, Stephan Gielen, Axel Linke, Sven Möbius-Winkler, Jiangtao Yu, Josef Niebauer, Hong Jiang, Eduard Fiehn, and Gerhard Schuler

Exercise intolerance in patients with chronic heart failure and increased expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase in the skeletal muscle
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 174-179. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Pedro E. Ureña, Gervasio A. Lamas, Gary Mitchell, Greg C. Flaker, Sidney C. Smith Jr., Frans J. Wackers, Patricia McEwan, Marc A. Pfeffer for the SAVE investigators

Ejection fraction by radionuclide ventriculography and contrast left ventriculogram: A tale of two techniques
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 180-185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Eduardo R. Azevedo, Gary E. Newton, and John D. Parker

Cardiac and systemic sympathetic activity in response to clonidine in human heart failure
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 186-191. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Heart Transplant:

Ruddy Richard, Jean-Claude Verdier, Alain Duvallet, Sully-Pierre Rosier, Philippe Leger, Alexis Nignan, and Michel Rieu

Chronotropic competence in endurance trained heart transplant recipients: heart rate is not a limiting factor for exercise capacity
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 192-197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy:

Hiromasa Suzuki, Sachio Kawai, Tadanori Aizawa, Kazuzo Kato, Satoshi Sunayama, Ryozo Okada, and Hiroshi Yamaguchi

Histological evaluation of coronary plaque in patients with variant angina: relationship between vasospasm and neointimal hyperplasia in primary coronary lesions
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 198-205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Eiji Takagi, Tetsu Yamakado, and Takeshi Nakano

Prognosis of completely asymptomatic adult patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 206-211. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Valvular Diseases:

Andrea Rossi, Giorgio Golia, Giampaolo Gasparini, Maria Antonia Prioli, Maurizio Anselmi, and Piero Zardini

Left atrial filling volume can be used to reliably estimate the regurgitant volume in mitral regurgitation
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 212-217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Congenital Heart Disease:

Naser M. Ammash, Heidi M. Connolly, Martin D. Abel, and Carole A. Warnes

Noncardiac surgery in Eisenmenger syndrome
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 222-227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pediatric Cardiology:

Wayne Tworetzky, Doff B. McElhinney, Michael M. Brook, V. Mohan Reddy, Frank L. Hanley, and Norman H. Silverman

Echocardiographic diagnosis alone for the complete repair of major congenital heart defects
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 228-233. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Experimental Studies:

Wayne H. Kaesemeyer, Ruth B. Caldwell, Jianzhong Huang, and R. William Caldwell

Pravastatin sodium activates endothelial nitric oxide synthase independent of its cholesterol-lowering actions
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 234-241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Masafumi Kitakaze, Koichi Node, Tetsuo Minamino, Hiroshi Asanuma, Tsunehiko Kuzuya, and Masatsugu Hori

A Ca channel blocker, benidipine, increases coronary blood flow and attenuates the severity of myocardial ischemia via NO-dependent mechanisms in dogs
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 242-249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Michael R. Zile, Masaaki Koide, Hiroshi Sato, Yoshiki Ishiguro, Chester H. Conrad, J. Michael Buckley, James P. Morgan, and George Cooper IV

Role of microtubules in the contractile dysfunction of hypertrophied myocardium
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 250-260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

David J. Schneider, Douglas J. Taatjes, Diantha B. Howard, and Burton E. Sobel

Increased reactivity of platelets induced by fibrinogen independent of its binding to the IIb-IIIa surface glycoprotein:: a potential contributor to cardiovascular risk
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 261-266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

Zia Khan, Ronald W. Millard, Marjorie Gabel, Richard A. Walsh, and Brian D. Hoit

Effect of congestive heart failure on in vivo canine aortic elastic properties
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 267-272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [Figures Only] [PDF]  

ACC/AHA Expert Consensus Document:

Melvin D. Cheitlin, Adolph M. Hutter, Ralph G. Brindis, Peter Ganz, Sanjay Kaul, Richard O. Russell, Randall M. Zusman, James S. Forrester, Pamela S. Douglas, David P. Faxon, John D. Fisher, Raymond J. Gibbons, Jonathan L. Halperin, Adolph M. Hutter, Judith S. Hochman, Sanjiv Kaul, William S. Weintraub, William L. Winters, and Michael J. Wolk

Use of sildenafil (Viagra) in patients with cardiovascular disease
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 273-282. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Letters to the Editor:

Correspondence
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 287. [PDF]  

Correspondence
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 287. [PDF]  

Correspondence
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 288. [PDF]  

Correspondence
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 288. [PDF]  

Correction:

Correction
J Am Coll Cardiol 1999 33: 289. [Full Text] [PDF]  

To see an article, click its [Full Text] link. To review many abstracts, check the boxes to the left of the titles you want, and click the 'Get All Checked Abstract(s)' button. To see one abstract at a time, click its [Abstract] link.