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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Contents

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Risk of All-Cause Mortality, Recurrent Myocardial Infarction, and Heart Failure Hospitalization Associated With Smoking Status Following Myocardial Infarction With Left Ventricular Dysfunction

    Pagina :911-916

    Amil M. Shah, Marc A. Pfeffer, L. Howard Hartley, Lemuel A. Moyé, Bernard J. Gersh, John D. Rutherford, Gervasio A. Lamas, Jean L. Rouleau, Eugene Braunwald, Scott D. Solomon

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  • ·Serial Assessment of Left Ventricular Remodeling by Measurement of Left Ventricular Torsion Using Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :917-923

    Jeong Yoon Jang, Jong Shin Woo, Woo-Shik Kim, Sang Jin Ha, Il Suk Sohn, Weon Kim, Jong Hoa Bae, Kwon Sam Kim

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  • ·Angiographic and Magnetic Resonance Imaging Evaluation of In-Hospital Delay in Primary Percutaneous Intervention Delivery on Myocardial Salvage

    Pagina :924-930

    José T. Ortiz-Pérez, Amadeo Betriu, Daniel C. Lee, Teresa M. De Caralt, Sheridan N. Meyers, Charles J. Davidson, Rosario J. Perea, Marta Sitges, Xavier Bosch, Robert O. Bonow, Mónica Masotti, Josep Brugada, Edwin Wu

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  • ·Implementation of a Prehospital Triage System for Patients With Chest Pain and Logistics for Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in the Region of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pagina :931-935

    Rob Adams, Yolande Appelman, Jean G. Bronzwaer, Ton Slagboom, Giovanni Amoroso, Pieternel van Exter, G.P. Jan Tijssen, Robbert J. de Winter

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  • ·Comparison of Radiation Dose and the Effect of Operator Experience in Femoral and Radial Arterial Access for Coronary Procedures

    Pagina :936-940

    Johanne Neill, Hannah Douglas, Geoffrey Richardson, Eng-Wooi Chew, Simon Walsh, Colm Hanratty, Niall Herity

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  • ·Comparison of Bivalirudin Versus Bivalirudin Plus Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitor Versus Heparin Plus Glycoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitor in Patients With Acute Coronary Syndromes Having Percutaneous Intervention for Narrowed Saphenous Vein Aorto-Coronary Grafts (the ACUITY Trial Investigators)

    Pagina :941-945

    Dinesh Kumar, George Dangas, Roxana Mehran, Ajay Kirtane, Michel Bertrand, Ramin Ebrahimi, Giulio Guagliumi, Somjot Brar, Martin Fahy, Eric Heller, Jeffrey Moses, Gregg Stone

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  • ·Comparison of Drug-Eluting and Bare Metal Stents for Saphenous Vein Graft Lesions (from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Dynamic Registry)

    Pagina :946-951

    Drew E. Baldwin, J. Dawn Abbott, Jeffrey C. Trost, Helen A. Vlachos, Faith Selzer, Ruchira Glaser, Robert L. Wilensky, James N. Slater, Serge Doucet, Srihari S. Naidu, Herbert D. Aronow, David O. Williams

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  • ·Intravascular Ultrasound Findings of Stent Fractures in Patients With Sirolimus- and Paclitaxel-Eluting Stents

    Pagina :952-957

    Hiroshi Doi, Akiko Maehara, Gary S. Mintz, Kenichi Tsujita, Takashi Kubo, Celia Castellanos, Alexandra J. Lansky, Bernhard Witzenbichler, Giulio Guagliumi, Bruce Brodie, Mirle A. Kellett, Helen Parise, Roxana Mehran, Martin B. Leon, Jeffrey W. Moses, Gregg W. Stone

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  • ·Usefulness of Postoperative Heart Rate as an Independent Predictor of Mortality After Coronary Bypass Grafting

    Pagina :958-962

    Michael Frank, Victor Aboyans, Alexandre Le Guyader, Isabelle Orsel, Philippe Lacroix, Elisabeth Cornu, Marc Laskar

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Relation of Vitamin D Deficiency to Cardiovascular Risk Factors, Disease Status, and Incident Events in a General Healthcare Population

    Pagina :963-968

    Jeffrey L. Anderson, Heidi T. May, Benjamin D. Horne, Tami L. Bair, Nathaniel L. Hall, John F. Carlquist, Donald L. Lappé, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Intermountain Heart Collaborative (IHC) Study Group

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  • ·30-Year Trends in Serum Lipids Among United States Adults: Results from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys II, III, and 1999–2006

    Pagina :969-975

    Jerome D. Cohen, Mark J. Cziraky, Qian Cai, Anna Wallace, Thomas Wasser, John R. Crouse, Terry A. Jacobson

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  • ·Usefulness of Microalbuminuria in Patients With the Metabolic Syndrome to Predict Subclinical Atherosclerosis and Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes

    Pagina :976-983

    Luis Afonso, Pawan Hari, Ashok Kondur, Vikas Veeranna, Palaniappan Manickam, Mengistu Simegn, Sony Jacob, Brian Ference

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  • ·Relation Between Common Allergic Symptoms and Coronary Heart Disease Among NHANES III Participants

    Pagina :984-987

    Jongoh Kim, Bhaskar Purushottam, Young Kwang Chae, Lakshmi Chebrolu, Aman Amanullah

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  • ·Red Cell Distribution Width and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease Events

    Pagina :988-993

    Sandip K. Zalawadiya, Vikas Veeranna, Ashutosh Niraj, Jyotiranjan Pradhan, Luis Afonso

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• Review

  • ·KIF6 Polymorphism as a Predictor of Risk of Coronary Events and of Clinical Event Reduction by Statin Therapy

    Pagina :994-998

    Yonghong Li, Olga A. Iakoubova, Dov Shiffman, James J. Devlin, James S. Forrester, H. Robert Superko

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• Systemic Hypertension

  • ·Prognostic Significance of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients With Left Ventricular Hypertrophy and Systemic Hypertension (the LIFE Study)

    Pagina :999-1005

    Kristian Wachtell, Vittorio Palmieri, Eva Gerdts, Jonathan N. Bella, Gerard P. Aurigemma, Vasilios Papademetriou, Björn Dahlöf, Tapio Aalto, Hans Ibsen, Jens E. Rokkedal, Richard B. Devereux

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Effect of Metformin on Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :1006-1010

    Josie M.M. Evans, Alex S.F. Doney, Matlooba A. AlZadjali, Simon A. Ogston, John R. Petrie, Andrew D. Morris, Allan D. Struthers, Aaron K.F. Wong, Chim C. Lang

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• Valvular Heart Disease

  • ·Relation of Level of B-Type Natriuretic Peptide With Outcomes in Patients With Infective Endocarditis

    Pagina :1011-1015

    Angela B. Shiue, Amy B. Stancoven, Jonathan B. Purcell, Kristi Pinkston, Andrew Wang, Amit Khera, James A. de Lemos, Gail E. Peterson

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• Cardiomyopathy

  • ·Usefulness of Magnetic Resonance Imaging to Distinguish Hypertensive and Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :1016-1022

    Valentina O. Puntmann, Cosima Jahnke, Rolf Gebker, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Kevin F. Fox, Eckart Fleck, Ingo Paetsch

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Effect of Abnormal Pulmonary Flow Distribution on Ventilatory Efficiency and Exercise Capacity After Arterial Switch Operation for Transposition of Great Arteries

    Pagina :1023-1028

    Alessandro Giardini, Sachin Khambadkone, Andrew Taylor, Graham Derrick

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  • ·Abnormalities of Cardiac Repolarization in Williams Syndrome

    Pagina :1029-1033

    R. Thomas Collins, Peter F. Aziz, Marie M. Gleason, Paige B. Kaplan, Maully J. Shah

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  • ·Results of Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defect

    Pagina :1034-1037

    Jian Zuo, Jiaqi Xie, Wei Yi, Jian Yang, Jun Zhang, Jun Li, Dinghua Yi

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• Review

  • ·The Variant Associations of Aortic Isthmic Coarctation

    Pagina :1038-1041

    Joseph K. Perloff

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Left Ventricular Mechanical Dyssynchrony by Phase Analysis of Gated Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography in End-Stage Renal Disease

    Pagina :1042-1047

    Wael AlJaroudi, Jayanth Koneru, Fahad Iqbal, Himanshu Aggarwal, Jaekyeong Heo, Ami E. Iskandrian

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  • ·Frequency and Age-Related Course of Mitral Valve Dysfunction in the Marfan Syndrome

    Pagina :1048-1053

    Meike Rybczynski, Thomas S. Mir, Sara Sheikhzadeh, Alexander M.J. Bernhardt, Claudia Schad, Hendrik Treede, Simon Veldhoen, Eike F. Groene, Kristin Kühne, Dietmar Koschyk, Peter N. Robinson, Jürgen Berger, Hermann Reichenspurner, Thomas Meinertz, Yskert von Kodolitsch

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• Methods

  • ·Usefulness of Intravenously Administered Fluid Replenishment for Detection of Patent Foramen Ovale by Transesophageal Echocardiography

    Pagina :1054-1058

    Luis Afonso, Anupama Kottam, Ashutosh Niraj, Joya Ganguly, Pawan Hari, Mengistu Simegn, Rajeev Sudhakar, Sony Jacob, Seemant Chaturvedi, Greg J. Ensing, Theodore P. Abraham

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·Percutaneous Stenting Versus Bypass Surgery for Unprotected Left Main Coronary Artery Disease

    Pagina :1059

    Hisato Takagi, Hideaki Manabe, Takuya Umemoto

    
  • ·Lack of Correlation Between Doppler and Catheter in Pulmonary Pressure: Flawed Noninvasive Technique or Straw Man

    Pagina :1059-1060

    Samir R. Thadani, Bryan Ristow, Nelson B. Schiller

    
  • ·Reply

    Pagina :1060

    Jeffrey M. Testani, Susan E. Wiegers, James N. Kirkpatrick

    
  • ·Erratum

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