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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Comparison of Outcomes Using Sirolimus-Eluting Stenting in Diabetic Versus Nondiabetic Patients With Comparison of Insulin Versus Non–Insulin Therapy in the Diabetic Patients

    Pagina :1187-1191

    Ramon Kumar, Tobias T. Lee, Allen Jeremias, Christopher P. Ruisi, Brett Sylvia, Jorge Magallon, Ajay J. Kirtane, Brian Bigelow, Martin Abrahamson, Duane S. Pinto, Kalon K.L. Ho, David J. Cohen, Joseph P. Carrozza, Donald E. Cutlip

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  • ·Differences in Utilization of Drug-Eluting Stents by Race and Payer

    Pagina :1192-1198

    Edward L. Hannan, Michael Racz, Gary Walford, Luther T. Clark, David R. Holmes, Spencer B. King, Samin Sharma

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  • ·Meta-Analysis Appraising High Clopidogrel Loading in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :1199-1206

    Marzia Lotrionte, Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, Pierfrancesco Agostoni, Antonio Abbate, Dominick J. Angiolillo, Marco Valgimigli, Claudio Moretti, Emanuele Meliga, Thomas Cuisset, Marie-Christine Alessi, Gilles Montalescot, Jean-Philippe Collet, Germano Di Sciascio, Ron Waksman, Luca Testa, Giuseppe Sangiorgi, Antonio Laudito, Gian P. Trevi, Imad Sheiban

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  • ·High Yellow Color Intensity by Angioscopy With Quantitative Colorimetry to Identify High-Risk Features in Culprit Lesions of Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes

    Pagina :1207-1211

    Fumiyuki Ishibashi, Kyoichi Mizuno, Akio Kawamura, Premranjan P. Singh, Richard W. Nesto, Sergio Waxman

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  • ·Effect of Intracoronary Thrombectomy on 30-Day Mortality in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :1212-1217

    Daisaku Nakatani, Hiroshi Sato, Yasuhiko Sakata, Hiroya Mizuno, Masahiko Shimizu, Shinichiro Suna, Shinsuke Nanto, Atsushi Hirayama, Hiroshi Ito, Kenshi Fujii, Masatsugu Hori, Osaka Acute Coronary Insufficiency Study (OACIS) Group

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  • ·Long-Term Outcomes of Patients With Mitral Regurgitation Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :1218-1223

    Catherine A. Pastorius, Timothy D. Henry, Kevin M. Harris

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  • ·Comparison of Age, Body Mass Index, and Frequency of Systemic Hypertension and Diabetes Mellitus in Patients Having Coronary Angioplasty in 1996 Versus in 2006

    Pagina :1224-1226

    Hajir Dilmanian, Wilbert S. Aronow, Sarah Kaplan, Anthony L. Pucillo, Melvin B. Weiss, Kumar Kalapatapu, Craig E. Monsen

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  • ·Impact of Delay in Door-to-Needle Time on Mortality in Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :1227-1232

    Robert L. McNamara, Jeph Herrin, Yongfei Wang, Jeptha P. Curtis, Elizabeth H. Bradley, David J. Magid, Saif S. Rathore, Brahmajee K. Nallamothu, Eric D. Peterson, Martha E. Blaney, Paul Frederick, Harlan M. Krumholz

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  • ·Peri-Stent Reference Segment Plaque Burden Is Associated With Disease Progression in Saphenous Vein Grafts (A Serial Intravascular Ultrasound Assessment)

    Pagina :1233-1238

    Young Joon Hong, Gary S. Mintz, Sang Wook Kim, Teruo Okabe, Li Lu, Anh B. Bui, Augusto D. Pichard, Lowell F. Satler, Ron Waksman, Kenneth M. Kent, William O. Suddath, Neil J. Weissman

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  • ·Comparison Between Dobutamine Echocardiography and Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography for Interpretive Reproducibility

    Pagina :1239-1244

    Adele Ferro, Teresa Pellegrino, Letizia Spinelli, Wanda Acampa, Mario Petretta, Alberto Cuocolo

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Comparison of Effectiveness of Rosuvastatin Versus Atorvastatin on the Achievement of Combined C-Reactive Protein (<2 mg/L) and Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol (<70 mg/dl) Targets in Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (from the ANDROMEDA Study)

    Pagina :1245-1248

    D. John Betteridge, J. Martin Gibson, Philip T. Sager

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Differential Effects of Intravenous Magnesium on Atrioventricular Node Conduction in Supraventricular Tachycardia

    Pagina :1249-1253

    Martin K. Stiles, Prashanthan Sanders, Patrick Disney, Anthony Brooks, Bobby John, Dennis H. Lau, Lauren Wilson, Lorraine Mackenzie, Glenn D. Young

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• Systemic Hypertension--Review

  • ·A Meta-Analysis of 94,492 Patients With Hypertension Treated With Beta Blockers to Determine the Risk of New-Onset Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :1254-1262

    Sripal Bangalore, Sanobar Parkar, Ehud Grossman, Franz H. Messerli

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Usefulness of Tissue Doppler Velocity and Strain Dyssynchrony for Predicting Left Ventricular Reverse Remodeling Response After Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy

    Pagina :1263-1270

    Cheuk-Man Yu, John Gorcsan, Gabe B. Bleeker, Qing Zhang, Martin J. Schalij, Matthew S. Suffoletto, Jeffrey Wing-Hong Fung, David Schwartzman, Yat-Sun Chan, Masaki Tanabe, Jeroen J. Bax

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  • ·Comparison of Afro-Caribbean Patients Presenting in Heart Failure With Normal Versus Poor Left Ventricular Systolic Function

    Pagina :1271-1273

    Thomas C. Martin

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Prognostic Value of Exercise Tolerance Testing in Asymptomatic Chronic Nonischemic Mitral Regurgitation

    Pagina :1274-1281

    Phyllis G. Supino, Jeffrey S. Borer, Karlheinz Schuleri, Anuj Gupta, Clare Hochreiter, Paul Kligfield, Edmund McM. Herrold, Jacek J. Preibisz

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  • ·Epidemiologic Features of Infective Endocarditis in Taiwanese Adults Involving Native Valves

    Pagina :1282-1285

    Cheng-Han Lee, Wei-Chuan Tsai, Ping-Yen Liu, Liang-Miin Tsai, Ming-Tsung Ho, Jyh-Hong Chen, Li-Jen Lin

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  • ·Valve Structure and Survival in Sexagenarians 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 :1286-1292

    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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• Cardiomyopathy

  • ·Right Ventricular Involvement in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :1293-1298

    Martin S. Maron, Thomas H. Hauser, Ethan Dubrow, Taylor A. Horst, Kraig V. Kissinger, James E. Udelson, Warren J. Manning

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  • ·Acute Effect of Esmolol Intravenously on Coronary Microcirculation in Patients With Idiopathic Dilated Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :1299-1302

    Emmanuel I. Skalidis, Michael I. Hamilos, Gregory Chlouverakis, George E. Kochiadakis, Frangiskos I. Parthenakis, Panos E. Vardas

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  • ·Ventricular Systolic Reserve in Asymptomatic Children Previously Treated With Low Doses of Anthracyclines

    Pagina :1303-1306

    Fabio Guimaraes-Filho, Doralice Tan, Joao Braga, Alexandre Rodrigues, Paulo Waib, Beatriz Matsubara

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Prevalence of Hepatitis C Infection in Adult Patients Who Underwent Congenital Heart Surgery Prior to Screening in 1992

    Pagina :1307-1309

    Alicia Wang, Wendy M. Book, Michael McConnell, Teresa Lyle, Katherine Rodby, William T. Mahle

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Utility of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Predicting Medium-Term Mortality in Patients Undergoing Major Non-Cardiac Surgery

    Pagina :1310-1313

    Brian H. Cuthbertson, Amir R. Amiri, Bernard L. Croal, Sriram Rajagopalan, Julie Brittenden, Graham S. Hillis

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  • ·Clinical and Anatomical Characteristics of Subtle-Discrete Dissection of the Ascending Aorta

    Pagina :1314-1319

    Fabio Chirillo, Loris Salvador, Francesco Bacchion, Enrico Franceschini Grisolia, Carlo Valfrè, Zoran Olivari

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• Editorial

  • ·A Prescription for Improving National Health Care

    Pagina :1320-1321

    Fred Hassan

    

• Case Report

  • ·Morphologic Validation of Reperfused Hemorrhagic Myocardial Infarction by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance

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    Cristina Basso, Francesco Corbetti, Caterina Silva, Aierken Abudureheman, Carmelo Lacognata, Luisa Cacciavillani, Giuseppe Tarantini, Martina Perazzolo Marra, Angelo Ramondo, Gaetano Thiene, Sabino Iliceto

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·Aneurysms of Sinus of Valsalva

    Pagina :1328

    Tsung O. Cheng

    
  • ·Myopathy, Statins, and Vitamin D Deficiency

    Pagina :1328

    Mark R. Goldstein

    
  • ·Statins and Vitamin D

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    John F. Aloia, Melissa Li-Ng, Simcha Pollack

    
  • ·Response to Tobis Critique of Computed Tomographic Angiography

    Pagina :1329-1330

    Kenneth B. Desser

    
  • ·Retinopathy as a Useful Guide for Selecting an Appropriate Coronary Revascularization Treatment in Patients With Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :1330

    Takayuki Ohno, Shinichi Takamoto