1. Clinical usefulness of carotid arterial wave intensity in assessing left ventricular systolic and early diastolic performance

   • Nobuyuki Ohte
   • Hitomi Narita
   • Genjiro Kimura

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 107 - 111

2. Pulsed Doppler tissue imaging can help to identify patients with right ventricular infarction

   • Mustafa Yilmaz
   • Mustafa Kemal Erol
   • Necip Alp

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 112 - 116

3. Effects of glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition on clinical stabilization parameters in patients with unstable angina and non-Q-wave myocardial infarction

   • Ertan Okmen
   • Mahmut Cakmak
   • Nese Cam

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 117 - 122

4. A comparison of 1-month and 6-month clopidogrel therapy on clinical and angiographic outcome after stent implantation

   • Hasan Pekdemir
   • Veli Gokhan Cin
   • Tuncay Parmaksiz

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 123 - 129

5. Long-term effects of octreotide therapy on in-stent restenosis

   • S. Hurkan Kursaklioglu
   • Atila Iyisoy
   • Ertan Demirtas

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 130 - 135

6. Tachycardia exacerbates abnormal left ventricular–arterial coupling in heart failure

   • Nobuyuki Ohte
   • Che-Ping Cheng
   • William C. Little

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 136 - 141

7. Vascular endothelial growth factor stimulates angiogenesis without improving collateral blood flow following hindlimb ischemia in rabbits

   • James C. Hershey
   • Elizabeth P. Baskin
   • Jacquelynn J. Cook

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 142 - 149

8. Percutaneous balloon mitral valvotomy and coronary stenting in the same sitting

   • S. Harikrishnan
   • Anil Bhat
   • Jaganmohan Tharakan

   CASE REPORT Pages: 150 - 152

9. Cardiac hemangioma: a report of two cases and review of the literature

   • Satoshi Kojima
   • Masataka Sumiyoshi
   • Yasuro Nakata

   CASE REPORT Pages: 153 - 156

10. Atrial fibrillation induced by simvastatin treatment in a 61-year-old man

    • Takemi Akahane
    • Katsufumi Mizushige
    • Shigeki Kuriyama

    CASE REPORT Pages: 157 - 159

11. Left ventricular pseudoaneurysm after myocardial infarction

    • Hikmet KoÇak
    • Necip Becit
    • Yahya ÜnlÜ

    CASE REPORT Pages: 160 - 162

12. Visualization of a coronary collateral channel by multislice spiral computed tomography

    • Yuichi Sato
    • Fumio Inoue
    • Katsuo Kanmatsuse

    GRAPHIC REPORT Pages: 163 - 164