1. A free fatty acid tolerance test identifies patients with coronary artery disease among individuals with a low conventional coronary risk profile

   • S. Westphal
   • Günther Helmut Gekeler
   • Claus Luley

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 79 - 85

2. Short- and long-term outcomes of compromised side branches after Multi-Link stent implantation

   • S. Ehara
   • Kenei Shimada
   • Junichi Yoshikawa

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 86 - 90

3. Compression and expansion wavefront travel in canine ascending aortic flow: wave intensity analysis

   • Christopher J. H. Jones
   • Motoaki Sugawara
   • Kim H. Parker

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 91 - 98

4. Assessment of left ventricular end-systolic elastance from aortic pressure-left ventricular volume relations

   • Wen-Shin Lee
   • Masaru Nakayama
   • C.-H. Chen

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 99 - 104

5. Nitric oxide plays an insignificant role in direct vasodilator effects of calcium channel blockers in healthy humans

   • M. Nakamura
   • Naoshi Arakawa
   • Katsuhiko Hiramori

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 105 - 110

6. Development of atherosclerosis in osteopontin transgenic mice

   • Satoru Chiba
   • H. Okamoto
   • Akira Kitabatake

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 111 - 117

7. Ventricular dysfunction in a patient with Plummer's disease: a case report

   • Ting-I Lee
   • Chien-Chu Lin
   • Y.-J. Chen

   CASE REPORT Pages: 118 - 120

8. A case of hypereosinophilic syndrome presenting mid-ventricular obstruction

   • Yoshikazu Nakaoka
   • Kota Iwahori
   • K. Yamauchi-Takihara

   CASE REPORT Pages: 121 - 124