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• • ·Analysis of the degree of undertreatment of hyperlipidemia and congestive heart failure secondary to coronary artery disease

    Pagina :1303-1307

    Carla A Sueta, Mridul Chowdhury, Stephen J Boccuzzi, Sidney C Smith, Charles M Alexander, Anil Londhe, Ash Lulla, Ross J Simpson

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• • ·Effects of aspirin and Trapidil on cardiovascular events after Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :1308-1313

    Hirofumi Yasue, Hisao Ogawa, Hiromitsu Tanaka, Shunichi Miyazaki, Ryuichi Hattori, Muneyasu Saito, Kinji Ishikawa, Yoshiaki Masuda, Tetsu Yamaguchi, Takeshi Motomiya, Yoshiyuki Tamura, on behalf of the Japanese Antiplatelets Myocardial Infarction Study (JAMIS) Investigators∗A full list of the JAMIS investigators and participating centers appears in the . ∗ Appendix

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• • ·Primary percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction in patients not included in randomized studies

    Pagina :1314-1319

    Ralf Zahn, Rudolf Schiele, Karlheinz Seidl, Caroline Bergmeier, Karl K. Haase, Hans G. Glunz, Karl E. Hauptmann, Thomas Voigtländer, Martin Gottwik, Jochen Senges, for the Maximal Individual Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (MITRA) Study Group∗The people and institutions who participated in the MITRA study are listed elsewhere. ∗ 22

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• • ·Simple and complex stent strategies for bifurcated coronary arterial stenosis involving the side branch origin

    Pagina :1320-1325

    Manuel Pan, José Suárez de Lezo, Alfonso Medina, Miguel Romero, Enrique Hernández, José Segura, Joaquin R Castroviejo, Djordje Pavlovic, Francisco Melian, Antonio Ramı́rez, Juan C Castillo

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• • ·Differences in TIMI frame count following successful reperfusion with stenting or percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :1326-1329

    Martin E Edep, Erminia M Guarneri, Paul S Teirstein, Paul S Phillips, David L Brown

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• • ·Low-density lipoprotein cholesterol bulk is the pivotal determinant of atherosclerosis in familial hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :1330-1333

    Frederick J Raal, Gillian J Pilcher, Rita Waisberg, E.Philani Buthelezi, Martin G Veller, Barry I Joffe

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• • ·Long-term outcome of patients with syncope associated with coronary artery disease and a nondiagnostic electrophysiologic evaluation

    Pagina :1334-1337

    Mark S Link, Kyong-Mee S Kim, Munther K Homoud, N.A.Mark Estes, Paul J Wang

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• • ·Prognostic importance of insulin-mediated glucose uptake in aged patients with congestive heart failure secondary to mitral and/or aortic valve disease

    Pagina :1338-1344

    Giuseppe Paolisso, Maria Rosaria Tagliamonte, Maria Rosaria Rizzo, Antonio Gambardella, Pasquale Gualdiero, Diana Lama, Gina Varricchio, Salvatore Gentile, Michele Varricchio

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• • ·Usefulness of soluble and surface-bound P-selectin in detecting heightened platelet activity in patients with congestive heart failure

    Pagina :1345-1349

    Christopher M O’Connor, Paul A Gurbel, Victor L Serebruany

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• • ·Gender differences and practice implications of risk factors for frequent hospitalization for heart failure in an urban center serving predominantly African-American patients

    Pagina :1350-1355

    Elizabeth O Ofili, Robert Mayberry, Ernest Alema-Mensah, Stefanie Saleem, Kamran Hamirani, Christopher Jones, Sanah Salih, Brenda Lankford, Adefisayo Oduwole, Priscilla Igho-Pemu

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• • ·Comparison of immediate and long-term results of mitral balloon valvotomy with the double-balloon versus inoue techniques

    Pagina :1356-1363

    Miltiadis N. Leon, Lari C. Harrell, Hector F. Simosa, Nasser A. Mahdi, Asad Z. Pathan, Julio Lopez-Cuellar, Igor F. Palacios

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• • ·Phenotypic features and impact of Beta blocker or calcium antagonist therapy on Aortic lumen size in the Marfan syndrome

    Pagina :1364-1368

    Rita Rossi-Foulkes, Mary J Roman, Stacey E Rosen, Randi Kramer-Fox, Kathryn H Ehlers, John E O’Loughlin, Jessica G Davis, Richard B Devereux

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• • ·Induction of sustained ventricular tachycardia after surgical repair of tetralogy of Fallot

    Pagina :1369-1373

    Hugues Lucron, François Marçon, Gilles Bosser, Jean-Paul Lethor, Pierre-Yves Marie, Béatrice Brembilla-Perrot

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• • ·Neurocognitive functioning and improvement in quality of life following participation in cardiac rehabilitation

    Pagina :1374-1378

    Ronald A Cohen, David J Moser, Matthew M Clark, Mark S Aloia, Byron R Cargill, Sandra Stefanik, Anna Albrecht, Peter Tilkemeier, Daniel E Forman

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    Pagina :1379-1396

    
• • ·Analysis of the relation between stent implantation pressure and expansion

    Pagina :1397-1400

    Gregg W. Stone, Frederick G. St. Goar, John McB Hodgson, Peter J. Fitzgerald, Edwin L. Alderman, Paul G. Yock, Janice Coverdale, Helen Sheehan, Thomas J. Linnemeier, for the Optimal Stent Implantation (OSTI) Investigators

     
• • ·Impact of stress single-photon emission computed tomography perfusion imaging on downstream resource utilization

    Pagina :1401-1403

    Jagdish P Mishra, Elmo Acio, Jaekyeong Heo, Jagat Narula, Ami E Iskandrian

    
• • ·Association of extracranial carotid arterial disease and chronic atrial fibrillation with the incidence of new thromboembolic stroke in 1,846 older persons

    Pagina :1403-1404

    Wilbert S Aronow, Chul Ahn, Myron R Schoenfeld, Hal Gutstein

    
• • ·Relation of atrial size and function to Doppler indexes of diastolic function in normal human fetuses

    Pagina :1405-1408

    Kenji Harada, Akira Tsuda, Mary J Rice, Takahiro Shiota, Robert W McDonald, David J Sahn

     
• • ·Further evidence suggesting a limited role of digitalis in infants with circulatory congestion secondary to large ventricular septal defect

    Pagina :1408-1411

    Masashi Seguchi, Makoto Nakazawa, Kazuo Momma

     
• • ·Carotid artery stenting in patients with high neurologic risks

    Pagina :1411-1413

    Nadim Al-Mubarak, Gary S Roubin, Camilo R Gomez, Ming W Liu, John Terry, Sriram S Iyer, Jiri J Vitek

    
• • ·Echocardiographic evaluation of left ventricular diastolic function in chronic cor pulmonale

    Pagina :1414-1417

    Eralp Tutar, Akín Kaya, Sadi Güleç, Fatih Ertaş, Çetin Erol, Özlem Özdemir, Derviş Oral

     
• • ·Effects of melatonin on vascular reactivity, catecholamine levels, and blood pressure in healthy men

    Pagina :1417-1419

    Serenella Arangino, Angelo Cagnacci, Marco Angiolucci, Anna M.B Vacca, Giorgio Longu, Annibale Volpe, Gian Benedetto Melis

    
• • ·Verapamil and risk of cancer in patients with coronary artery disease

    Pagina :1419-1422

    Ahmad Sajadieh, Hans Henrik Storm, Jørgen Fischer Hansen, the DAVIT Study Group