Percutaneous coronary interventions in Europe 2000.

Aims: The purpose of this registry is to collect data on trends in interventional cardiology within Europe. Special interest focuses on relative increases and ratios in newer revascularization approaches and its distribution in different regions in Europe.

Methods And Results: Questionnaires distributed to delegates of the national societies of cardiology represented in the European Society of Cardiology to be completed by local institutions and operators yielded that 1637148 angiograms and 525983 coronary angioplasty (PTCAs) were performed in 2000.

Percutaneous coronary interventions in Europe 1992-2001.

Aims: The purpose of this registry is to collect data on trends in interventional cardiology within Europe. Special interest focuses on relative increases and ratios in newer re-vascularisation approaches and its distribution in different regions in Europe. We report the data of the year 2001 and give an overview of the development of coronary interventions since 1992, when the first data collection was performed.

Psychosocial predictors of death for low-risk patients after a first myocardial infarction: a 7-year follow-up study.

Purpose: This study aimed to identify whether psychosocial variables predicted mortality 7 years after a first myocardial infarction among patients who did not undergo revascularization.

Methods: The study population consisted of 222 men aged 30 to 60 years who entered an inpatient rehabilitation program a mean of 7 weeks after a first myocardial infarction. Medical data were obtained from the patients and their physicians at entry to the rehabilitation center and 1 year later.

Sexual activity in hypertensive men.

Erectile dysfunction is one of the major obstacles for noncompliance in the antihypertensive treatment. It has been shown that various antihypertensive drugs have a negative influence on sexual activity such as diuretics and beta-blockers. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of valsartan, an AT1-receptor antagonist, or its combination with hydrochlorothiazide on sexual activity in hypertensive patients.

Interventional cardiology in Europe 1999.

Aims: The purpose of this registry is to collect data on trends in interventional cardiology within Europe. Special interest focuses on relative increases and ratios in newer revascularization approaches and its distribution in different regions in Europe.

Methods And Results: Questionnaires distributed to delegates of the national societies of cardiology represented in the European Society of Cardiology to be completed by local institutions and operators yielded that 1,452,751 angiograms and 452,019 PTCAs were performed in 1999.