BRITI SH

HEART JOURNAL

Volume 53
1985

BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, TAVISTOCK SQUARE, LONDON WC1H 9JR

 EDITOR
DENNIS KRIKLER

ASSISTANT EDITORS
T R EVANS
KIM Fox

EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
(Appointed by The British Cardiac Society)
NICHOLAS BROOKS MICHAEL J GODMAN MAURICE RAPHAEL
DOUGLAS CHAMBERLAIN IAN HUTTON DEREK J ROWLANDS
PAUL V L CURRY CLIVE A LAYTON P G I STOVIN
JOHN S GEDDES T W MEADE GEORGE SUTTON
DEREK G GirsoN JOHN PARKER RODERIC D THOMAS

EDITOR, British Medical Journal

EDITOR, Cardiovascular Research

TECHNICAL EDITOR
SHUNA JUDGE

EDITORIAL ASSISTANT
ANNE OLIVER
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Notices
Intensive care and emergency medicine
The fifth international symposium on intensive care
and emergency medicine will take place in Brussels
from 26 to 29 March 1985. Further information may
be obtained from Dr J-L Vincent, Department of
Intensive Care, Erasme University Hospital, Route de
Lennik 808, B-1070 Brussels, Belgium.
British Cardiac Society
The Annual General Meeting for 1985 will take place
in Birmingham on 17 and 18 April 1985, and the
closing date for receipt of abstracts will be 8 January
1985.
The Autumn Meeting will be held at the Wembley
Conference Centre, London, on 26 to 28 November
1985, and the closing date for receipt of abstracts will
be 1 August 1985.
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Cardiac pacing and electrophysiology
The Third Asian Pacific Symposium on Cardiac Pac-
ing and Electrophysiology will be held from 27 to 30
October 1985 at the Melbourne Hilton, Melbourne.
Further information may be obtained from:
Secretary-General, 3rd Asian-Pacific Symposium on
Cardiac Pacing and Electrophysiology, Department of
Cardiology, Suite 3.5, Epworth Medical Centre, 62
Erin Street, Richmond 3121, Victoria, Australia.
Authors' checklist
The journal is providing a checklist (see pl19) for
the use of authors preparing articles for possible pub-
lication to enable them to ensure that their manu-
scripts comply with the journal's requirements before
submission. Would authors therefore please make a
copy of the checklist and send it completed with their
manuscripts.
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angiographic findings. Br HeartJ7 1984; 52:
304-8.
Chapter in book:
28 Schiebler GL, Van Mierop LHS, Krovetz
LJ. Diseases of the tricuspid valve. In:
Moss AJ, Adams F, eds. Heart disease in
infants, children and adolescents. Baltimore:
Williams and Wilkins, 1968:134-9.
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ences should have specific page numbers)
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Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1981:549-
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