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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Contents

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Usefulness of Statin Pretreatment to Prevent Contrast-Induced Nephropathy and to Improve Long-Term Outcome in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :279-285

    Giuseppe Patti, Annunziata Nusca, Massimo Chello, Vincenzo Pasceri, Andrea D’Ambrosio, George W. Vetrovec, Germano Di Sciascio

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  • ·Factors Associated With Off-Label Use of Drug-Eluting Stents in Patients With ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :286-292

    Henry H. Ting, Matthew T. Roe, Bernard J. Gersh, John A. Spertus, John S. Rumsfeld, Fang-Shu Ou, John Kao, Kirsten Hall Long, David R. Holmes, Eric D. Peterson, National Cardiovascular Data Registry (NCDR)

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  • ·Impact of “Off-Label” Utilization of Drug-Eluting Stents on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Undergoing Percutaneous Coronary Intervention

    Pagina :293-299

    Probal Roy, Ashesh N. Buch, Aamir Javaid, Teruo Okabe, Vikram Raya, Tina L. Pinto Slottow, Daniel H. Steinberg, Kimberly Smith, Zhenyi Xue, Natalie Gevorkian, Lowell F. Satler, Kenneth M. Kent, William O. Suddath, Augusto D. Pichard, Joseph Lindsay, Ron Waksman

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  • ·Effect of Enhanced External Counterpulsation on Inflammatory Cytokines and Adhesion Molecules in Patients With Angina Pectoris and Angiographic Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :300-302

    Darren P. Casey, C. Richard Conti, Wilmer W. Nichols, Calvin Y. Choi, Matheen A. Khuddus, Randy W. Braith

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  • ·Association of Blood Glucose With Angiographic and Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (from the CLARITY-TIMI-28 Study)

    Pagina :303-307

    Duane S. Pinto, Ajay J. Kirtane, Yuri B. Pride, Sabina A. Murphy, Marc S. Sabatine, Christopher P. Cannon, C. Michael Gibson, CLARITY-TIMI 28 Investigators

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  • ·Relation of Spontaneous Reperfusion in ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction to More Distal Coronary Culprit Narrowings

    Pagina :308-310

    David Leibowitz, Penko Gerganski, Johannes Nowatzky, A. Teddy Weiss, David Rott

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  • ·Comparison of MB Fraction of Creatine Kinase Mass and Troponin I Serum Levels With Necropsy Findings in Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :311-314

    Thiago Nogueira Costa, Célia Maria Cassaro Strunz, José Carlos Nicolau, Paulo Sampaio Gutierrez

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Effects of Maximal Doses of Atorvastatin Versus Rosuvastatin on Small Dense Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol Levels

    Pagina :315-318

    Masumi Ai, Seiko Otokozawa, Bela F. Asztalos, Katsuyuki Nakajima, Evan Stein, Peter H. Jones, Ernst J. Schaefer

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  • ·Impact of Systemic Hypertension on the Cardiovascular Benefits of Statin Therapy—A Meta-Analysis

    Pagina :319-325

    Franz H. Messerli, Lionel Pinto, Simon S.K. Tang, Kamlesh M. Thakker, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Tina Sichrovsky, Robert W. Dubois

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  • ·Prediction of Intermittent Claudication, Ischemic Stroke, and Other Cardiovascular Disease by Detection of Abdominal Aortic Calcific Deposits by Plain Lumbar Radiographs

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    Yamini S. Levitzky, L. Adrienne Cupples, Joanne M. Murabito, William B. Kannel, Douglas P. Kiel, Peter W.F. Wilson, Philip A. Wolf, Christopher J. O’Donnell

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Acute Effects and Long-Term Outcome of Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Combination With Electrogram-Guided Substrate Ablation for Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

    Pagina :332-337

    Heidi L. Estner, Gabriele Hessling, Gjin Ndrepepa, Armin Luik, Claus Schmitt, Agathe Konietzko, Ekrem Ücer, JinJin Wu, Christof Kolb, Andreas Pflaumer, Bernhard Zrenner, Isabel Deisenhofer

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  • ·Cost in the Use of Enoxaparin Compared With Unfractionated Heparin in Patients With Atrial Fibrillation Undergoing a Transesophageal Echocardiography-Guided Cardioversion (from Assessment of Cardioversion Using Transesophageal Echocardiography [ACUTE] II Randomized Multicenter Study)

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    Liping Zhao, Zefeng Zhang, Paul Kolm, Susan Jasper, Cheryl Lewis, Allan Klein, William Weintraub, ACUTE II Investigators

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• Heart Failure

  • ·A Propensity-Matched Study of the Association of Cardiothoracic Ratio With Morbidity and Mortality in Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :343-347

    Grigorios Giamouzis, Xuemei Sui, Thomas E. Love, Javed Butler, James B. Young, Ali Ahmed

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  • ·Relation of the Prognostic Value of Ventilatory Efficiency to Body Mass Index in Patients With Heart Failure

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    Paul Chase, Ross Arena, Jonathan Myers, Joshua Abella, Mary Ann Peberdy, Marco Guazzi, Daniel Bensimhon

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  • ·Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Long-Term Outcome of Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure

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    Dan Rusinaru, Imen Saaidi, Stephanie Godard, Haïfa Mahjoub, Caroline Battle, Christophe Tribouilloy

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  • ·Prognostic Value of Electrocardiographic Measurements Before and After Cardiac Resynchronization Device Implantation in Patients With Heart Failure due to Ischemic or Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy

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    Mark A. Iler, Tingfei Hu, Sunil Ayyagari, Thomas D. Callahan, Kenneth C. Civello, Sergio G. Thal, Bruce L. Wilkoff, Mina K. Chung

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  • ·Effects of Hemoglobin Concentration and Creatinine Clearance in Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide-Based Left Ventricular Filling Pressure Prediction in Patients With Preserved Left Ventricular Systolic Function

    Pagina :364-369

    Eui-Young Choi, Jong-Won Ha, Boyoung Joung, Young-Guk Ko, Donghoon Choi, Se-Joong Rim, Yangsoo Jang, Namsik Chung, Won-Heum Shim, Seung-Yun Cho

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  • ·Usefulness of C-Reactive Protein and Left Ventricular Diastolic Performance for Prognosis in Patients With Left Ventricular Systolic Heart Failure

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    W.H. Wilson Tang, Kevin Shrestha, Frederick Van Lente, Richard W. Troughton, Maureen G. Martin, Allen G. Borowski, Sue Jasper, Allan L. Klein

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Factors Determining Early Left Atrial Reverse Remodeling After Mitral Valve Surgery

    Pagina :374-377

    Deok-Kyu Cho, Jong-Won Ha, Byung-Chul Chang, Se-Hwa Lee, Se-Jung Yoon, Chi Young Shim, Jung Rae Cho, Jung-Sun Kim, Eui-Young Choi, Se-Joong Rim, Namsik Chung

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  • ·Analysis of 150 Patients With Carcinoid Syndrome Seen in a Single Year at One Institution in the First Decade of the Twenty-First Century

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    Sanjeev Bhattacharyya, Christos Toumpanakis, Martyn Evan Caplin, Joseph Davar

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  • ·Usefulness of Transesophageal Echocardiography in Percutaneous Transcatheter Repairs of Paravalvular Mitral Regurgitation

    Pagina :382-386

    Marcelino Cortés, Eulogio García, Miguel Angel García-Fernandez, Jose Juan Gomez, Esther Perez-David, Francisco Fernández-Avilés

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• Cardiomyopathy

  • ·Heart Transplantation in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

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    Elena Biagini, Paolo Spirito, Ornella Leone, Fernando M. Picchio, Fabio Coccolo, Luca Ragni, Carla Lofiego, Francesco Grigioni, Luciano Potena, Guido Rocchi, Letizia Bacchi-Reggiani, Giuseppe Boriani, Daniela Prandstraller, Eloisa Arbustini, Angelo Branzi, Claudio Rapezzi

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Frequency and Degree of Change of Peak Transvalvular Pressure Gradient Determined by Two Doppler Echocardiographic Examinations in Newborns and Children With Valvular Congenital Aortic Stenosis

    Pagina :393-395

    Christopher K. Davis, Mark W. Cummings, Matthew J. Gurka, Howard P. Gutgesell

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  • ·Prevalence of Migraine Headaches in Patients With Congenital Heart Disease

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    Tam Truong, Leo Slavin, Ramin Kashani, James Higgins, Aarti Puri, Malika Chowdhry, Philip Cheung, Adam Tanious, John S. Child, Joseph K. Perloff, Jonathan M. Tobis

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Association of C-Reactive Protein and Microalbuminuria (from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys, 1999 to 2004)

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    Abhijit V. Kshirsagar, Andrew S. Bomback, Heejung Bang, Linda M. Gerber, Suma Vupputuri, David A. Shoham, Madhu Mazumdar, Christie M. Ballantyne, James J. Paparello, Philip J. Klemmer

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• Methods

  • ·Visualization of the Cardiac Venous System Using Cardiac Magnetic Resonance

    Pagina :407-412

    Amedeo Chiribiri, Sebastian Kelle, Stephan Götze, Charalampos Kriatselis, Thomas Thouet, Tarinee Tangcharoen, Ingo Paetsch, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Eckart Fleck, Eike Nagel

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• Case Report

  • ·Traumatic Cardiac Rupture and Left Ventricular Aneurismal Formation in Childhood

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    Matthew A. Studer, John L. Jefferies, E. Dean McKenzie, Frank F. Ing

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·On the Application of Meta-Analysis in Pectus Excavatum Research

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    Moh H. Malek, Dale E. Berger, William D. Marelich, Jared W. Coburn

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  • ·William C. Roberts, MD, Is Board Eligible in Cardiology

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    Tsung O. Cheng

    
  • ·Increased Doppler Velocities in the Descending Aorta Due to Aortic Regurgitation

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    Warren G. Guntheroth