Author

Year of study

No. of patients

Age

Shapiro

1970

35

5 – 85

Veress

1975

6

25-80

Armijo

1978

1

47

Fisher

1978

1

24

King

1979

1

43

Morant

1980

2

27-31

Malhotra

1981

1

20

Moss

1981

1

19

Takayama

1982

1

39

Bourland

1982

3

40

Zamora

1982

1

52

Swinehart

1982

3

26-37

Malcolm

1982

1

51

Pak

1983

1

39

Bhawan

1983

1

22

Feinstein

1984

1

23

Stolp

1984

1

28

Sarma

1984

1

31

Theuvenet

1984

2

35-42

Mehregan

1984

4

-

Nakamura

1985

1

38

Soldre

1986

1

-

Kumagai

1987

1

25

Moskovitz

1987

1

76

Melo

1988

1

22

Dare

1988

4

20-65

Song

1988

1

29

Dekio

1989

1

-

Lesourd

1989

2

30-34

Akosa

1989

5

31-50

Kaskas

1991

1

44

Fuzesi

1991

1

31

Wright

1991

9

17-72

Irisawa

1991

1

33

Gormally

1992

11

12-50

Bozoumel

1992

1

32

Michl

1994

1

69

Baruffaldi

1994

1

22

Garmiyanoglu

1994

1

50

Polk

1996

1

40

Baruchin

1997

5

23-60

Ortiz

1997

1

50

Dini

1998

1

36

Martinez

1995

3

42-56

Ito

2001

1

29

Saad

2001

3

-

Ruiz-Genao

2002

1

36

Shivkumar

2003

1

31

Saladi

2004

1

25

Yahya

2005

4

23-32

Hicheri

2005

1

39

Noël

2006

5

-

Shah & Shet

2007

20

21-40

Parlakgumus

2008

1

41

TOTAL

162