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VOLUME XIX
January-June 1959
CIRCULATION
Official Journal of the American Heart Association
No. 1
EDITORIAL
A GENERAL SURVEY OF CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY. Hans H. Hecht... 1
FIBRINOLYTIC (PLASMIN) THERAPY OF EXPERIMENTAL CORONARY THROMBI
WITH ALTERATION OF THE EVOLUTION OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. Paul
Ruegsegger, Irwin Nydick, Robert C. Hutter, Alvin H. Freiman, Nils U.
Bang, Eugene E. Cliffton and John S. LaDue ........................ 7
ANOMALOUS ATRIOVENTRICULAR EXCITATION (WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE
SYNDROME). Louis Wolff .......................................... 14
HEREDITARY OCCURRENCE OF THE PRE-EXCITATION (WOLFF-PARKINSON-
WHITE) SYNDROME WITH RE-ENTRY MECHANISM AND CONCEALED CON-
DUCTION. William W. Harnischfeger ................................ 28
BALLISTOCARDIOGRAM IN CHRONIC SEVERE ANEMIA. L. M11. Sanghvi and K.
Banerjee .................................................... 41
SUPRASTERNAL TRANSAORTIC CORONARY ARTERIOGRAPHY. William M. Lemmon,
J. Stauffer Lehman and Randal A. Boyer ....................... 47
DYNAMICS OF THE ORIFICES OF THIE VENAE CAVAE STUDIED BY CINEANGIO-
CARDIOGRAPHY. Frank L. Campeti, George H. Ramsey, Raymond Gramiak
and James S. Watson, Jr ........................................... 55
MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION IN RATS FED DIETS CONTAINING HIGH FAT, CHO-
LESTEROL, THIOURACIL, AND SODIUM CHOLATE. Wilbur A. Thomas and WV.
Stanley Hartroft .................. ............................... 65
THE DISCOVERY AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ANTICOAGULANTS: A HISTORI-
CAL SYMPOSIUM. Irving S. Wright, Guest Editor
INTRODUCTION. Irving S. Wright ................................... 73
THE DISCOVERY OF HEPARIN. Jay McLean ........................... 75
PREPARATION OF HEPARIN ANI) ITS USE IN THE FIRST CLINICAL CASES.
Charles H.Best ................................................. 79
HEPARIN: A MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDE AND AN ACTIVE ANTITHROMBOTiC DRUG.
J. Erik Jorpes .................................................. 87
THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF THE PROTHROMBIN TESTS. Armand J.
Quick ......................................................... 92
THE DISCOVERY OF DICUMAROL AND ITS SEQUELS. Karl Paul Link ....... 97
THE INTRODUCTION OF HEPARIN THERAPY IN CASES OF EARLY THROMBOSIS.
Gunnar Bauer .................. ............................... 108
EXPERIENCE WITH ANTICOAGULANTS. Irving S. Wright ................ 110
HISTORICAL DATA REGARDING THE EXPERIENCES WITH COUMARIN ANTI-
COAGULANTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MEDICAL SCHOOL. Ovid
0. Meyer ...................................................... 114
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MY EARLY EXPERIENCE WITH BISHYDROXYCOUMARIN (DICUMAROL). Edgar
V. Allen . ...................................................... 118
HISTORICAL NOTES ON THIE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ANTICOAGULANT
THERAPY WITH DICUMAROL IN SWEDEN, Jorgen Lehmann............ 122
POST-THROMBOTIC SEQUELAE PREVENTABLE BY ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY.
Harry Zilliacus . ................................................ 127
PERSONAL EXPERIENCES WITH ANTICOAGULANTS FOR CORONARY ATHERO-
SCLEROSIS. E. Sterling Nichol .................................... 129
ABSTRACTS ....................................................... 135
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ...................... 158
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ....................... 161
No. 2
EDITORIAL
RHEUMATIC FEVER IN THE ADULT: CRITERIA AND IMPLICATIONS. Charles
K. Friedberg .................................................... 161
CLINICAL STUDY OF TWENTY-THREE CASES OF EBSTEIN 's ANOMALY OF THE
TRICUSPID VALVE. Gerold L. Schie-bler, Paul Adams, Jr., Ray C. Anderson,
Kurt Amplatz and Richard G. Lester ........................... 165
ATRIAL FLUTTER AS A MANIFESTATION OF DIGITALIS TOXICITY. Jay D.
Coffman and Gerald H. Whipple ................................... 188
ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT: FACTORS AFFECTING THE SURGICAL MORTALITY
RATE. Dwight C. MeGoon, H. J. C. Swan, Robert 0. Brandenburg,
Daniel C. Connolly and John W. Kirklin ........................... 195
SERUM CHOLESTEROL IN MAN: DIET FAT AND INTRINSIC RESPONSIVENESS.
Ancel Keys, Joseph T. Anderson and Francisco Grande ............... 201
SEVERE ACIDOSIS AND HYPERPOTASSEMIA TREATED WITH SODIUM BICARBONATE
INFUSION. Kuno C. Schwarz, Burton D. Cohen, Glenn D. Lubash and
Albert L. Rubin .................................................. 215
CONGENITAL ANEURYSMS OF THE CORONARY ARTERIES WITH REPORT OF A
CASE. Ira Gore, John Smith and Robert Clancy ..................... 221
SPECIAL ARTICLE
BIOCHEMICAL ALTERATIONS IN BLOOD IN OBLITERATIVE ATHEROSCLEROSIS.
Kornel Gibinski . .............................................. 228
THE PULMONARY DIFFUSING CAPACITY IN CONGENITAL AND RHEUMATIC
HEART DISEASE. J. Howland Auchincloss, Jr., Robert Gilbert and Robert
H. Eich . ........................................................ 232
FAMILIAL PSEUDOXANTHOMA ELASTICUM AND VALVULAR HEART DISEASE. Jay
D. Coffman and Sheldon C. Sommers ................................ 242
THE ELECTROCARDIOGRAM OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN BANTU. J. D. Woods
and W. Laurie ................................................... 251
DETERMINANTS OF THE LEFT ATRIAL PRESSURE PULSE IN MITRAL VALVE
DISEASE. Neil A. J. Hamer, Sujoy B. Roy and James W. Dow ......... 257
SERUM PARAMETERS AS DISCRIMINATORS BETWEEN NORMAL AND CORONARY
GROUPS. Bernard S. Schlessinger, Fredrick H. Wilson, Jr., Lawrence
J. Milch and the Cardiovascular Research Group ..................... 265
CARDIAC CHAMBER VOLUMES AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE IN RHEUMATIC HEART
DISEASE WITH ISOLATED MITRAL STENOSIS. Louis A. Soloff and Jacob
Zatuchni . ........................................................ 269
CLINICAL PROGRESS
BERIBERI HEART DISEASE. Reverdy H. Jones, Jr ..275

CONTENTS OF VOLUME XIX
CLINICAL CONFERENCE
HYPONATREMIA. Jack Orloff, MacKenzie Walser, Thomas J. Kennedy,
Jr., and Frederic C. Bartter ....................................... 284
ABSTRACTS ........................................................ 300
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ....................................... 314
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ......................................... 319
No. 3
EDITORIAL
IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE PATIENT. Jere W. Lord, Jr............. 321
DISSEMINATED NODULAR PULMONARY OSSIFICATION IN PATIENTS WITH
MITRAL STENOSIS. Willianm R. Wilson, Rikuro Sasaki and Charles A.
Johnson ......................................................... 323
ATYPICAL PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS: THE USE OF A VASOPRESSOR AGENT
AS A DIAGNOSTIC AID. Lamar E. Crevasse and R. Bruce Logue ......... 332
THE GROWTH OF THE NORMAL AORTA AND OF THE ANASTOMOTIC SITE IN
INFANTS FOLLOWING SURGICAL RESECTION OF COARCTATION OF THE AORTA.
Arthur J. Moss, Forrest H. Adams, Bernard J. O'Loughlin and Wilfrid
J. Dixon .... 338
SO-CALLED PRIMARY VENOUS OBSTRUCTION IN THE UPPER EXTREMITY:
PAGET-SCHROETTER SYNDROME. John T. Phelan and Charles W. Crumpton 350
EFFECTS OF CHLOROTHIAZIDE ON SPECIFIC RENAL FUNCTIONS IN HYPERTEN-
SION. A. C. Corcoran, Cathel Macleod, Harriet P. Dustan and Irvine H.
Page .... 355
A MECHANISM OF CHLOROTHIAZIDE-ENHANCED EFFECTIVENESS OF ANTI-
HYPERTENSIVE GANGLIOPLEGIC DRUGS. Harriet P. Dustan, G. R. Cum-
ming, A. C. Corcoran and Irvine H. Page ........................... 360
DEPRESSIVE REACTIONS IN HYPERTENSIVE PATIENTS: A COMPARISON OF
THOSE TREATED WITH RAUWOLFIA AND THOSE RECEIVING No SPECIFIC
ANTIHYPERTENSIVE TREATMENT. Richard M. Quetsch, Richard WV. P.
Achor, Edward M. Litin and Robert L. Faucett ...................... 366
THE FORCES NEEDED TO EVOKE SOUNDS FROM CARDIAC TISSUES, AND THE
ATTENUATION OF HEART SOUNDS. William Dock ..................... 376
THE ROLE OF VESSEL TONE IN MAINTAINING PULMONARY VASCULAR RE-
SISTANCE IN PATIENTS WITH MITRAL STENOSIS. Herbert J. Semler, John
T. Shepherd and Earl H. Wood ................................... 386
BLOOD PRESSURE STUDIES IN RURAL AND URBAN GROUPS IN DELHI. S.
Padmavati and Savitri Gupta ...................................... 395
HIGH-VOLTAGE QRS COMPLEXES IN THE ABSENCE OF LEFT VENTRICULAR
IHYPERTROPHY. Gordon R. Cumming and William L. Proudfit ..........
FALSE "CORONARY PATTERNS" IN THE INFANT ELECTROCARDIOGRAM. P.
Dominguez, B. L. Lendrum and A. Pick ............................
406
409
BIOCHEMICAL STUDIES IN FULL-BLOODED NAVAJO INDIANS. Reuben Straus,
Jarvey Gilbert and Moses Wurm .................................. 420
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC RESPONSE TO EXERCISE IN PATIENTS WITH MITRAL
STENOSIS. Lloyd H. Ramsey and John Beeble ........................
TIME AND CONCENTRATION COMPONENTS OF INDICATOR-DILUTION CURVES
RECORDED FOLLOWING CENTRAL INJECTIONS OF DYE IN NORMAL HUMAN
SUBJECTS. Stefan A. Carter, H. J. C. Swan and Earl H. Wood ........
424
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CLINICAL PROGRESS
STAPHYLOCOCCAL BACTEREMIA AND ENDOCARDITIS. Richard H. Meade, Ill 440
CLINICAL CONFERENCE
CONGENITAL AORTIC STENOSIS. Norman J. Sissman, Catherine A. Neill,
Frank C. Spencer and Helen B. Taussig ............................ 458
ABSTRACTS ........................................................ 469
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ....................................... 476
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ........................................ 479
No. 4
EDITORIAL
CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH IN RUSSIA. Ernst Simonson ............... 481
ANOMALOUS DRAINAGE OF ENTIRE PULMONARY VENOUS SYSTEM INTO LEFT
INNOMINATE VEIN: CLINICAL AND SURGICAL CONSIDERATIONS. Denton A.
Cooley and Harold P. Collins ...................................... 486
EFFECTS OF PERIODIC MENTAL STRESS ON SERUM CHOLESTEROL LEVELS. Scott
M. Grundy and A. Clark Griffin .................................... 496
THE AORTIC ARCH SYNDROME (PULSELESS DISEASE): A REPORT OF TEN
CASES WITH THREE AUTOPSIES. W. M. Thurlbeck and J. H. Currens.... 499
BLOOD PRESSURE AND OBESITY. H. M. Whyte ...... .................... 511
CLINICAL AND PHYSIOLOGIC RELATIONSHIPS IN MITRAL VALVE DISEASE. Philip
Samet, Robert S. Litwak, William H. Bernstein, Eugene M. Fierer and
Leonard M. Silverman ............. ................................ 517
KINETOCARDIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS OF MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION. Soon Kyu
Suh and E. E. Eddleman, Jr......................................... 531
EXERTIONAL HYPOTENSION IN CARDIAC PATIENTS. Robert A. Bruce, Leonard
A. Cobb, Shigeaki Katsura, John H. Morledge, W. Wyman Andrus and
Theodore J. Fuller ................................................
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC CHANGES DURING HEMODIALYSIS WITH THE ARTIFI-
CIAL KIDNEY. II. THE TREATMENT OF DIGITALIS INTOXICATION. Glenn
D. Lubash, Burton D. Cohen, Warren S. Braveman, Albert L. Rubin and
E. Hugh Luckey ..................................................
PRODUCTION OF HEART SOUNDS BY THE CARDIAC CATHETER. Frederic L.
Eldridge and Herbert N. Hultgren ........ .......................... 557
"PERIPHERAL RESISTANCE" IN HYPERTENSION FOLLOWING THE ABOLITION OF
LOCAL SYMPATHETIC TONE. Francis S. Caliva, Jay F. Harris and Richard
H. Lyons ........................................................ 564
CAPACITY OF HUMAN CORONARY ARTERIES. A POSTMORTEM STUDY. Felix
L. Rodriguez and Stanley L. Robbins ................................ 570
VASOMOTOR RESPONSES TO EXERCISE IN THE EXTREMITIES OF SUBJECTS WITH
VASCULAR DISEASE. W. Redisch, K. de Crinis, A. Antonio, A. Bogdanovitz
and J. M. Steele .............................................. 579
VASOMOTOR RESPONSES TO COOLING IN THE EXTREMITIES OF SUBJECTS WITH
NEUROLOGIC LESIONS. K. de Crinis, W. Redisch, A. Antonio, A. Bogdanovitz
and J. M. Steele .............................................. 583
NORMAL RESPONSE CURVE TO EXERCISE OF RELATIVE CARDIAC OUTPUT
MEASURED WITH RADIOIODINATED SERUM ALBUMIN. Sylvan L. Weinberg,
G. Richard Grove, Robert E. Zipf, David C. Daniels and James P. Murphy 590
A STUDY OF CASES MANIFESTING LOW VOLTAGE IN THE FRONTAL PLANE
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC LEADS. Richard W. Watts and Kemal Gursal ... . 595
OSMOLE AND WATER EXCRETION IN MERCURIAL DIURESIS IN CONGESTIVE
HEART FAILURE. Norton Spritz, George W. Frimpter, Warren S. Braveman
and Albert L. Rubin .......................................... 600
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ANATOMIC VARIATIONS OF THE AUDITORY CANAL PERTAINING TO THE FIT OF
STETHOSCOPE EARPIECES. Dale Groom and Waddy Chapman ........... 606
CLINICAL PROGRESS
THE CLINICAL USE OF THE PERCUTANEOUS RENAL BIOPSY. John D. Arnold
and Benjamin Spargo ............ ................................ 609
ABSTRACTS ....................................................... 622
BOOKS RECEIVED ..................................................... 627
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ......... ............................. 629
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE .......................................... 638
No. 5
EDITORIAL
THE ROLE OF VESSEL TONE IN PULMONARY HYPERTENSION. John T. Shepherd
and Earl H. Wood ........................................... 641
THE LEWIS A. CONNER MEMORIAL LECTURE: MAINTENANCE OF CARDIORESPI-
RATORY FUNCTIONS BY EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION. John H. Gibbon, Jr. 646
PLASMA CATECHOL AMINE CONCENTRATIONS IN MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
AND ANGINA PECTORIS. P. C. Gazes, J. A. Richardson and E. F. Woods.. 657
ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA OF THE KIDNEY: NEW OBSERVATIONS AND REPORT
OF THREE CASES. Charles H. Scheifley, Guy TV. Daugherty, Laurence F.
Greene and James T. Priestley ..................................... 662
ACUTE REVERSIBLE HEART FAILURE IN SEVERE IRON-DEFICIENCY ANEMIA
ASSOCIATED WITH HOOKWORM INFESTATION IN UGANDA AFRICANS.
K. Somers ....................................................... 672
STUDIES OF BLOOD COAGULATION AND FIBRINOLYSIS IN PATIENTS WITH
IDIOPATHIC HYPERLIPEMIA AND PRIMARY HYPERCHOLESTEREMIA BEFORE
AND AFTER A FATTY MEAL. Saul I. Nitzberg, M. Anthony Peyman, Robert
Goldstein and Samuel Proger ...................................... 676
EFFECTS OF INTRAVENOUS HYDRATION AND PITRESSIN ON RENAL FUNCTION
IN SUBJECTS WITH ESSENTIAL HYPERTENSION. William Hollander ...... 691
ACTION OF NITROGLYCERIN ON THE CORONARY CIRCULATION IN NORMAL AND
IN MILD CARDIAC SUBJECTS. Norman Brachfeld, John Bozer and Richard
Gorlin .......................................................... 697
EFFECT OF NITROGLYCERIN ON THE CORONARY CIRCULATION IN PATIENTS
WITH CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE OR INCREASED LEFT VENTRICULAR WORK.
Richard Gorlin, Norman Brachfeld, Colin MacLeod and Pierre Bopp.. 705
ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PATTERNS IN MAN AT HIGH ALTITUDES. Andres Rotta
and Andres Lopez . ................................................ 719
WATER AND SALT EXCRETION AFTER INTRAVENOUS SALT LOAD IN HYPERTEN-
SIVE SUBJECTS. T. D. Ullmann, S. H. Blondheim, S. Dikstein and D. Ben-
Ishay ........................................................... 729
SPINAL EPIDURAL HEMATOMA DURING ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY. Bertram
M. Winer, Simon Horenstein and Albert M. Starr ..................... 735
PERICARDIAL TAMPONADE FOLLOWING PERCUTANEOUS LEFT VENTRICULAR
PUNCTURE. Richard J. Botham, G. G. Rowe and W. P. Young .......... 741
RUPTURE OF ANEURYSM OF AORTIC SINUS OF VALSALVA ASSOCIATED WITH
ACUTE BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS. Hershel Jick, P. Jack Kasarjian and
Morley Barsky ................................................... 745
A CASE OF ABNORMAL CARDIAC POSITION (LEVOPOSITION). G. G. Rowe
and L. W. Paul ................................................... 750
CLINICAL PROGRESS
BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS IN THE ANTIBIOTIC ERA: WITH SPECIAL REFER-
ENCE TO THE LATER COMPLICATIONS. William L. Morgan and Edward F.
Bland ........................................................... 753
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CLINICAL CONFERENCE
THE MALIGNANT CARCINOID SYNDROME. Roland E. Schneckloth, Irvine H.
Page and A. C. Corcoran .......................................... 766
ABSTRACTS ......................................................... 773
BOOK REVIEWS ..................................................... 795
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ...... ................................ 796
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ......................................... 799
No. 6
EDITORIAL
ROLE OF CONNECTIVE TISSUE GROUND SUBSTANCE IN DEGENERATIVE DIS-
EASE. Albert Dorfman.801
A CLINICAL STUDY OF 1,000 CONSECUTIVE CASES OF MITRAL STENosIs Two
TO NINE YEARS AFTER MITRAL VALVULOPLASTY. Laurence B. Ellis, Dwight
E. Harken and Harrison Black ...... .............................. 803
EVALUATION OF OPERABILITY IN PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY HYPERTENSION
BY CATHETERIZATION AND OCCLUSION OF PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS.
A. Actis-Dato and A. Tarquini ...... .............................. 821
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DIURETIC AND ANTIHYPERTENSIVE EFFECTS OF
CHLOROTHIAZIDE AND MERCURIAL DIURETICS. William Hollander, Aram
V. Chobanian and Robert WV. Wilkins ..... ......................... 827
MITRAL INCOMPETENCE CAUSED BY DISEASE OF THE MURAL Cusi). P. G. F.
Nixon, Geoffrey H. Wooler and Leo R. Radigan .839
INFLUENCE OF SOME VASOACTIVE DRUGS ON FIBRINOLYTIC ACTIVITY. lurray
WVeiner, Kurt de Crinis, Walter Redisch and J. Murray Steele ... ..... 845
DIETARY FAT, SERUM CHOLESTEROL LEVELS AND INCIDENCE OF ATIHERO-
SCLEROSIS IN DELHI. S. Padmavati, S. Gupta and G. V. A. Pantulu ...... 849
DIFFERENTIAL LUNG FUNCTION IN ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT. H. A. Fleming. . 856
CHANGES IN PROTEINS AND LIPOPROTEINS IN DIABETES AND TIIEIR RELA-
TIONSHIP TO VASCULAR DEGENERATION. J. C. Dentanet, P. E. Gregoire
and P. A. Bastenie .......... .................................... 863
LEFT VENTRICULAR ACTIVATION TIME IN NORMAL MEN. Takashi Wada . ... 868
LEFT VENTRICULAR ACTIVATION TIME IN LEFT VENTRICULAR HYPERTROPHY
AND IN LEFT BUNDLE-BRANCH BLOCK. Takashi WVada. ................ 873
STUDIES OF FAT LIPOLYSIS BY POST-HEPARIN HUMAN PLASMA LIPOPROTEIN
LIPASE AND BY HUMAN PANCREATIC LIPASE. H. Engelberg .... ........ 884
EXTRAPULMONIC STENOSIS OF TIlE PULMONARY VEINS. Jay Bernsleiv,
Anthony C. Nolke and Joseph 0. Reed ...... ........................ 891
AN EVALUATION OF THE NITROUS OXIDE METHOD FOR THE QUANTIFICATION
OF LEFT-TO-RIGHT SHUNTS. AN EXPERIMENTAL COMPARISON OF THE
GASOMETRIC TECHNIC WITH DIRECTLY METERED BLOOD FLOWS. Richard
J. Sanders, Theodore Cooper and Andrew G. Morrow.898
DESIGN OF A CLINICAL ULTRA-LOW FREQUENCY BALLISTOCARDIOGRAPH.
Robert R. Donaldson, Don M. Cunningham, Herbert E. Griswold and
Ralph B. Reaume . .............................................. 903
RIGHT ATRIAL MYXOMA. Martin S. Belle ...... ........................ 910
USE OF A CALCIUM CHELATING AGENT (NAEDTA) IN CARDIAC ARRYTHMIAS.
Burton D. Cohen, Norton Spritz, Glenn D. Lu bash and Albert L. Rubin 918
A LARGE WHALE HEART. George J. Race, TV. L. Jack Edwards, E. R.
Halden, Hugh E. Wilson and Francis J. Luibel ..... ................. 928
CLINICAL PROGRESS
CLINICAL EVALUATION OF CHLOROTIIIAZIDE. W17alter M. Kirkendal11...... 933
ABSTRACTS . ...................................................... 942
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION ......... ............................. 955
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE .......... ............................... 959