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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Contents

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Effect of Intensive Lipid-Lowering Therapy on Mortality After Acute Coronary Syndrome (a Patient-Level Analysis of the Aggrastat to Zocor and Pravastatin or Atorvastatin Evaluation and Infection Therapy–Thrombolysis In Myocardial Infarction 22 Trials)

    Pagina :1047-1051

    Sabina A. Murphy, Christopher P. Cannon, Stephen D. Wiviott, James A. de Lemos, Michael A. Blazing, Carolyn H. McCabe, Robert M. Califf, Eugene Braunwald

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  • ·Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome in Patients ≤45 Years of Age With Acute Myocardial Infarction Having Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :1052-1055

    Eugene H. Chung, Patrick J. Curran, Satish Sivasankaran, Manish S. Chauhan, David E. Gossman, Christopher T. Pyne, Thomas C. Piemonte, James Waters, Seth Bilazarian, Nabila Riskala, Azadeh Shoraki, Richard W. Nesto

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  • ·Characteristics and Outcome of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction According to Presenting Electrocardiogram (from the MONICA/KORA Augsburg Myocardial Infarction – Registry)

    Pagina :1056-1060

    Bernhard Kuch, Wolfgang von Scheidt, Birgitt Kling, Margit Heier, Allmut Hoermann, Christa Meisinger

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  • ·Ten-Year Trends of Cardiovascular Drug Use After Myocardial Infarction Among Community-Dwelling Persons ≥65 Years of Age

    Pagina :1061-1067

    Soko Setoguchi, Robert J. Glynn, Jerry Avorn, Raisa Levin, Wolfgang C. Winkelmayer

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  • ·Comparison of Early Dobutamine Stress Echocardiography and Exercise Electrocardiographic Testing for Management of Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department With Chest Pain

    Pagina :1068-1073

    Gaetano Nucifora, Luigi P. Badano, Nizal Sarraf-Zadegan, Apostolos Karavidas, Giuseppe Trocino, Giorgio Scaffidi, Gianni Pettinati, Costantino Astarita, Vitas Vysniauskas, Dario Gregori, Baris Ilerigelen, Ricarda Marinigh, Paolo M. Fioretti

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  • ·Prognostic Evaluation by Clinical Exercise Test Scores in Patients Treated With Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention or Fibrinolysis for Acute Myocardial Infarction (a Danish Trial in Acute Myocardial Infarction-2 Sub-Study)

    Pagina :1074-1080

    Nana Valeur, Peter Clemmensen, Peer Grande, Kari Saunamäki, DANAMI-2 Investigators

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  • ·Evaluation of Myocardial Bridging of the Left Anterior Descending Coronary Artery by 64-Slice Multidetector Computed Tomographic Angiography

    Pagina :1081-1082

    Lev Lubarsky, Manish P. Gupta, Harvey S. Hecht

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  • ·Comparison of Frequency of Coronary Spasm in Korean Patients With Versus Without Myocardial Bridging

    Pagina :1083-1086

    Jin Won Kim, Chang Gyu Park, Soon Yong Suh, Cheol Ung Choi, Eung Joo Kim, Seung-Woon Rha, Hong Seog Seo, Dong Joo Oh

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  • ·Presence of Carotid and Peripheral Arterial Disease in Patients With Left Main Disease

    Pagina :1087-1089

    Aaron L. Doonan, Juhana Karha, Thomas P. Carrigan, Anthony A. Bavry, Susan M. Begelman, Stephen G. Ellis, Jay Yadav, Deepak L. Bhatt

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  • ·Comparison of the Usefulness of Gadodiamide and Iodine Mixture Versus Iodinated Contrast Alone for Prevention of Contrast-Induced Nephropathy in Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease Undergoing Coronary Angiography

    Pagina :1090-1093

    Pamela S. Reed, Simon R. Dixon, Judith A. Boura, William W. O’Neill, Joel K. Kahn

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  • ·Intramyocardial Injection of Autologous Bone Marrow Mononuclear Cells in Patients With Chronic Myocardial Infarction and Severe Left Ventricular Dysfunction

    Pagina :1094-1098

    Saskia L.M.A. Beeres, Jeroen J. Bax, Petra Dibbets-Schneider, Marcel P.M. Stokkel, Willem E. Fibbe, Ernst E. van der Wall, Martin J. Schalij, Douwe E. Atsma

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  • ·Efficacy and Safety of Triple Antiplatelet Therapy With and Without Concomitant Anticoagulation During Elective Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (the REMOVE Trial)

    Pagina :1099-1102

    Rafael Valencia, Matthew J. Price, Neil Sawhney, Steve S. Lee, Garrett B. Wong, Raghava R. Gollapudi, Michelle Banares, Richard A. Schatz, Paul S. Teirstein

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  • ·Comparison of Triple Versus Dual Antiplatelet Therapy After Drug-Eluting Stent Implantation (from the DECLARE–Long Trial)

    Pagina :1103-1108

    Seung-Whan Lee, Seong-Wook Park, Young-Hak Kim, Sung-Cheol Yun, Duk-Woo Park, Cheol Whan Lee, Myeong-Ki Hong, Hyun-Sook Kim, Jae-Ki Ko, Jae-Hyeong Park, Jae-Hwan Lee, Si Wan Choi, In-Whan Seong, Yoon Haeng Cho, Nae-Hee Lee, June Hong Kim, Kook-Jin Chun, Seung-Jung Park, DECLARE-Long Study Investigators

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  • ·Impact of In-Stent Restenosis on Death and Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :1109-1113

    Daniel H. Steinberg, Tina L. Pinto Slottow, Ashesh N. Buch, Aamir Javaid, Probal K. Roy, Shaila Garg, Teruo Okabe, Rebecca Torguson, Kimberly A. Smith, Zhenyi Xue, William O. Suddath, Kenneth M. Kent, Lowell F. Satler, Augusto D. Pichard, Joseph Lindsay, Ron Waksman

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  • ·Utilization of Distal Embolic Protection in Saphenous Vein Graft Interventions (An Analysis of 19,546 Patients in the American College of Cardiology–National Cardiovascular Data Registry)

    Pagina :1114-1118

    Sameer K. Mehta, Andrew D. Frutkin, Sarah Milford-Beland, Lloyd W. Klein, Richard E. Shaw, William S. Weintraub, Ronald J. Krone, H. Vernon Anderson, Michael A. Kutcher, Steven P. Marso

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Relation of Coronary Artery Calcium to Flow-Mediated Dilation and C-Reactive Protein Levels in Asymptomatic Patients With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :1119-1123

    Zhong-Xuan Ye, Hao-Ming Cheng, Kuan-Rau Chiou, Po-Hsun Huang, Shing-Jong Lin, Min-Ji Charng

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  • ·Association of Pathobiologic Determinants of Atherosclerosis in Youth Risk Score and 15-Year Change in Risk Score With Carotid Artery Intima–Media Thickness in Young Adults (from the Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study)

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    C. Alex McMahan, Samuel S. Gidding, Jorma S.A. Viikari, Markus Juonala, Mika Kähönen, Nina Hutri-Kähönen, Eero Jokinen, Leena Taittonen, Matti Pietikäinen, Henry C. McGill, Olli T. Raitakari

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  • ·Rationale for Targeted Rather Than Population Based Screening With C-Reactive Protein Using the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (1999 to 2002)

    Pagina :1130-1133

    Brian N. Guttormsen, James H. Stein, Patrick E. McBride, Michael W. Cullen, Ronald Gangnon, Jon G. Keevil

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Circadian, Daily, and Seasonal Distributions of Ventricular Tachyarrhythmias in Patients With Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators

    Pagina :1134-1138

    Kishlay Anand, Arash Aryana, David Cloutier, Tom Hee, Dennis Esterbrooks, Aryan N. Mooss, Syed M. Mohiuddin

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Effect of Gender, Ethnicity, Pulmonary Disease, and Symptom Stability on Rehospitalization in Patients With Heart Failure

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    Jill Howie-Esquivel, Kathleen Dracup

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• Roundtable Discussion-CME

  • ·The Editor’s Roundtable: Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

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    Vincent E. Friedewald, John P. Boehmer, Robert C. Kowal, Leslie Saxon, Clyde W. Yancy, William C. Roberts

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Echocardiographic and Hemodynamic Findings in Patients With Mitral Stenosis Undergoing Percutaneous Mitral Commissurotomy Comparing Those With Chronic Atrial Fibrillation Versus Those With Normal Sinus Rhythm

    Pagina :1153-1156

    Hyung-Kwan Kim, Yong-Jin Kim, Jung-Im Shin, Seok-Jae Hwang, Sang-Ho Jo, Jin-Shik Park, Hyuk-Jae Chang, Dae-Won Sohn, Byung-Hee Oh, Young-Bae Park, Yun-Shik Choi

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  • ·Valve Structure and Survival in Septuagenarians Having Aortic Valve Replacement for Aortic Stenosis (±Aortic Regurgitation) With Versus Without Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting at a Single US Medical Center (1993 to 2005)

    Pagina :1157-1165

    William Clifford Roberts, Jong Mi Ko, Giovanni Filardo, Albert Carl Henry, Robert Frederick Hebeler, Edson Hoi-Kam Cheung, Gregory John Matter, Baron Lloyd Hamman

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Usefulness of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels to Predict Left Ventricular Filling Pressures in Patients With Body Mass Index >35, 31 to 35, and ≤30 kg/m²

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    Hisham Dokainish, Rafael Gonzalez, W. Bryan Hartley, Angel Caldera, Santhosh Koshy, Ranjita Sengupta, Nasser M. Lakkis

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  • ·Electrocardiographic Score and Short-Term Outcomes of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

    Pagina :1172-1176

    Mehrdad Seilanian Toosi, John D. Merlino, Kenneth V. Leeper

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  • ·Left Ventricular Mass in Elite Olympic Weight Lifters

    Pagina :1177-1180

    Sophie Lalande, James Christopher Baldi

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• Case Report

  • ·An Arrhythmic Storm: A Potential Complication on Opening the Umbrella for Percutaneous Closure of Interatrial Communications

    Pagina :1181-1183

    Michele Coceani, Giulio Zucchelli, Maria Grazia Bongiorni, Andrea Di Cori, Anna Sonia Petronio, Nicola Ciabatti, Carmela Nardi, Antonio Barsotti

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·Speed, Cocaine, and Other Psychostimulants Death Rates

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    Mark S. Gold, Noni A. Graham, Firas H. Kobeissy, Carl J. Pepine, Bruce A. Goldberger

     
  • ·Clinical Complexity of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

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    Kathy L. Ferguson, Mark Su

    
  • ·Preoperative Lipid-Lowering Therapy on Postoperative Outcome

    Pagina :1185

    Bruno Caramelli, Daniela Calderaro, Pai Ching Yu, Danielle Gualandro

    
  • ·Mobitz II Block, Misdiagnosis

    Pagina :1185-1186

    Brendan Phibbs

    
  • ·Correction

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