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Central mechanisms of pain control: a survey.- Peripheral innervation of the heart.- Pathophysiology of ischemic cardiac pain.- Alpha-receptors and transient ischemia.- Experimental approach to painful and painless ischemia.- Silent myocardial ischemia in middle aged men: Long term clinical course.- Prognostic implications of silent ischemia in patients with stable angina pectoris.- Silent myocardial ischemia in unstable angina: Prognostic considerations.- Prevalence of ventricular arrhythmias during silent myocardial ischemia.- Arrhythmogenic potential of silent myocardial ischemia after myocardial infarction.- Prevalence of silent ischemia in patients undergoing coronary angiography.- Identification of patients with silent myocardial ischemia by metabolic, scintigraphic and angiographic findings.- The frequency, pathophysiology, and prognosis of exercise-induced silent ischemia.- Regional wall motion disorders during exercise with and without angina.- Non invasive detection of silent myocardial ischemia with echocardiography.- Symptomatic versus asymptomatic ischemic episodes during Holter monitoring: patterns of high resolution trend recordings of ST segment and heart rate.- Silent ischemia and coronary anatomy.- Dedicated ST-segment monitoring in the CCU after successful coronary angioplasty: incidence and prognosis of silent and symptomatic ischemia.- Hemodynamics of painless ischemia.- Medical and surgical therapy of patients with asymptomatic ischemia.- Coronary angioplasty in silent myocardial ischemia.- Alleviation of silent ischemia by PTCA.- Guiding anti-ischemic therapy by Holter monitoring.- Silent myocardial ischemia: Current concepts and management.- Importance of silent myocardial ischemia in therapy for unstable angina pectoris.- Variability of myocardial ischemia in chronic stable angina.- Clinical significance of silent myocardial ischemia.