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• • ·Characteristics and prognosis of patients with suspected acute myocardial infarction and elevated MB relative index but normal total creatine kinase

    Pagina :957-962

    Donald M Lloyd-Jones, Carlos A Camargo, Robert P Giugliano, Craig R Walsh, Christopher J O’Donnell

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• • ·Usefulness of hospital admission risk stratification for predicting nonfatal acute myocardial infarction or death six months later in unstable angina pectoris

    Pagina :963-969

    Lluis Serés, Vicente Valle, Jaume Marrugat, Ginés Sanz, Rafel Masiá, Josep Lupón, Antoni Curós, Joan Sala, Lluis Molina, Marco Pavesi, the RESCATE Study Group

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• • ·Clinical and angiographic outcomes are similar with half, single, or multiple contiguous Palmaz-Schatz stent implantations for a single coronary stenosis

    Pagina :970-975

    I-Chang Hsieh, Ming-Shyan Chern, Hern-Jia Chang, Kuo-Chung Hung, Fun-Chung Lin, Delon Wu

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• • ·Weight-adjusted dosing of TNK-tissue plasminogen activator and its relation to angiographic outcomes in the thrombolysis in myocardial infarction 10B trial

    Pagina :976-980

    C.Michael Gibson, Christopher P Cannon, Sabina A Murphy, A.A.Jennifer Adgey, Marc J Schweiger, Rafael F Sequeira, Gilles Grollier, Norma Lynn Fox, Silvano Berioli, W.Douglas Weaver, Frans Van de Werf, Eugene Braunwald, for the TIMI 10B Investigators

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Evaluation of scaffolding effects of five different types of stents by intravascular ultrasound analysis

    Pagina :981-986

    Teruo Okabe, Yasushi Asakura, Shiro Ishikawa, Keiko Asakura, Hideo Mitamura, Satoshi Ogawa

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• • ·Polymorphism of platelet glycoprotein IIb and risk of thrombosis and restenosis after coronary stent placement

    Pagina :987-991

    Corinna Böttiger, Adnan Kastrati, Werner Koch, Julinda Mehilli, Nicolas von Beckerath, Josef Dirschinger, Meinrad Gawaz, Albert Schömig

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• • ·Intravascular ultrasound assessment of the presence of vascular remodeling in diseased human saphenous vein bypass grafts

    Pagina :992-998

    Myeong-Ki Hong, Gary S Mintz, Mun K Hong, Andrea S Abizaid, Augusto D Pichard, Lowell F Satler, Kenneth M Kent, Martin B Leon

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• • ·Possible role of proinflammatory cytokines in heart allograft coronary artery disease

    Pagina :999-1003

    Lars Gullestad, Svein Simonsen, Thor Ueland, Torbjørn Holm, Halfdan Aass, Arne K Andreassen, Steinar Madsen, Odd Geiran, Stig S Frøland, Pål Aukrust

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• • ·Baseline characteristics of the study population in the Diabetes Atherosclerosis Intervention Study (DAIS)

    Pagina :1004-1010

    George Steiner, Dawn Stewart, James Donald Hosking, The DAIS Project Group†See for the list of the DAIS Project Group. The DAIS study was conducted in cooperation with the World Health Organization. † Appendix, the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Study of Atherosclerosis in Diabetes‡University of Toronto and The Toronto Hospital (General Division), Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ‡

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• • ·Evidence that high-density lipoprotein cholesterol is an independent predictor of acute platelet-dependent thrombus formation

    Pagina :1011-1017

    Tasneem Z Naqvi, Prediman K Shah, Pamela A Ivey, Mia D Molloy, Arun M Thomas, Sandeep Panicker, Alaa Ahmed, Bojan Cercek, Sanjay Kaul

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• • ·Survey of C-reactive protein and cardiovascular risk factors in apparently healthy men

    Pagina :1018-1022

    Luis E.P Rohde, Charles H Hennekens, Paul M Ridker

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• • ·Right atrial appendage thrombosis in atrial fibrillation: its frequency and its clinical predictors

    Pagina :1023-1028

    Marcello de Divitiis, Heyder Omran, Rami Rabahieh, Barbara Rang, Stefan Illien, Rainer Schimpf, Dean MacCarter, Werner Jung, Harald Becher, Berndt Lüderitz

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• • ·Comparison of oral loading dose of propafenone and amiodarone for converting recent-onset atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :1029-1032

    Jean-Jacques Blanc, Cristina Voinov, Martine Maarek, on behalf of the PARSIFAL Study Group∗A list of PARSIFAL investigators appears in the . ∗ Appendix

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• • ·Efficacy and safety of sotalol versus quinidine for the maintenance of sinus rhythm after conversion of atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :1033-1037

    Angelo Amato Vincenzo de Paola, Henrique Horta Veloso, for the SOCESP Investigators∗A list of investigators appears in the . ∗ Appendix

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• • ·Synergistic efficacy of enalapril and losartan on exercise performance and oxygen consumption at peak exercise in congestive heart failure

    Pagina :1038-1043

    Marco Guazzi, Pietro Palermo, Gianluca Pontone, Francesca Susini, Piergiuseppe Agostoni

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• • ·Factors leading to progression of valvular aortic stenosis

    Pagina :1044-1048

    Robert C Bahler, Dana R Desser, Robert S Finkelhor, Sorin J Brener, Mojtaba Youssefi

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• • ·Comparison of usefulness between exercise capacity and echocardiographic indexes of left ventricular function in cardiac amyloidosis

    Pagina :1049-1054

    Athanasios Trikas, Loukianos Rallidis, Philip Hawkins, Celia M Oakley, Petros Nihoyannopoulos

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• • ·Outcomes of transcatheter valvotomy in patients with pulmonary atresia and intact ventricular septum

    Pagina :1055-1060

    Jou-Kou Wang, Mei-Hwan Wu, Chung-I Chang, Yih-Sharng Chen, Hung-Chi Lue

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• • ·The effect of long-term training on age-related left ventricular changes by Doppler myocardial velocity gradient

    Pagina :1061-1067

    Przemysław Palka, Aleksandra Lange, Petros Nihoyannopoulos

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• • ·Initial clinical experience of real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in patients with ischemic and idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :1068-1073

    Takahiro Shiota, Patrick M McCarthy, Richard D White, Jian Xin Qin, Neil L Greenberg, Scott D Flamm, James Wong, James D Thomas

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• • ·Impact of cilostazol on clinical and angiographic outcome after primary stenting for acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :1074-1076

    Masahiko Ochiai, Koji Eto, Satoshi Takeshita, Naoyuki Yokoyama, Akio Oshima, Kiyoyuki Kondo, Tomohide Sato, Takaaki Isshiki

    
• • ·Effect of theophylline on the warm-up phenomenon

    Pagina :1077-1080

    Richard A Kerensky, Elizabeth Franco, Jay D Schlaifer, Carl J Pepine, Luiz Belardinelli

     
• • ·Detection of silent myocardial ischemia patients by the spatial velocity electrocardiogram

    Pagina :1081-1083

    Akihiko Sasaki, Tomio Arai, Hiroshi Shigeta, Chiharu Ibukiyama

     
• • ·Association of mitral annular calcium and of aortic cuspal calcium with coronary artery disease in older patients

    Pagina :1084-1085

    Wilbert S Aronow, Chul Ahn, Itzhak Kronzon

    
• • ·Endothelin-1 release from atherosclerotic plaque after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in stable angina pectoris and single-vessel coronary artery disease

    Pagina :1085-1088

    Anna Sonia Petronio, Giovanni Amoroso, Ugo Limbruno, Roberto Baglini, Giovanni Paterni, Eleonora Pinori, Marco Ferdeghini, Alberto Balbarini, Raffaele De Caterina, Mario Mariani

     
• • ·Procedural outcome and clinical results after stent deployment from the radial approach

    Pagina :1088-1090

    Jonathan Byers, Stephen Brown, Roy Robertson, Mark Smucker

    
• • ·Safety and efficacy of internal cardioversion of atrial fibrillation in patients with impaired left ventricular systolic function

    Pagina :1090-1092

    Hung-Fat Tse, Chu-Pak Lau

    
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiographic evidence of more pronounced left atrial stunning after chemical (propafenone) rather than electrical attempts at cardioversion from atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :1092-1096

    Emanuele Antonielli, Alfredo Pizzuti, Antonia Bassignana, Mattia Tanga, Giorgio Baralis, Maria Elena Rovere, Margherita Di Leo

     
• • ·Usefulness of ibutilide in facilitating successful external cardioversion of refractory atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :1096-1098

    Huagui Li, Andrea Natale, Gery Tomassoni, Salwa Beheiry, Patricia Cooper, Fabio Leonelli, Arthur Easley, William Barrington, John Windle

    
• • ·Significance of late ventricular potentials in myotonic dystrophy

    Pagina :1099-1101

    Dominique Babuty, Laurent Fauchier, David Tena-Carbi, Philippe Poret, Josette Leche, Martine Raynaud, Jean Paul Fauchier, Pierre Cosnay

     
• • ·Usefulness of the echocardiographic velocity ratio for detection of significant aortic stenosis

    Pagina :1101-1103

    Hakan Karpuz, Mahmut Ozsahin, Nicole Aebischer, Jean-Jacques Goy, Lukas Kappenberger, Xavier Jeanrenaud

     
• • ·Three-dimensional echocardiographic reconstruction of mitral valve color Doppler flow events

    Pagina :1103-1106

    Timothy Irvine, Graham Derrick, David Morris, Michael Norton, Antoinette Kenny

     
• • ·Usefulness of triiodothyronine (T₃) treatment after surgery for complex congenital heart disease in infants and children

    Pagina :1107-1109

    Devyani Chowdhury, Vincent A Parnell, Kaie Ojamaa, Robert Boxer, Rubin Cooper, Irwin Klein

     
• • ·Is captopril useful in decreasing pleural drainage in children after modified Fontan operation?

    Pagina :1109-1112

    Narakesari Heragu, Lynn Mahony

     
• • ·Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect with a new flexible, self-centering device (the STARFlex Occluder)

    Pagina :1113-1116

    Gerd Hausdorf, Renate Kaulitz, Thomas Paul, Mario Carminati, James Lock

     
• • ·Right ventricular dysfunction in congenitally corrected transposition of the great arteries

    Pagina :1116-1119

    Tim S Hornung, Elizabeth J Bernard, David S Celermajer, Edgar Jaeggi, Robert B Howman-Giles, Richard B Chard, Richard E Hawker

     
• • ·Labil subaortic obstruction during exercise stress echocardiography

    Pagina :1119-1123

    Jesús Peteiro, Lorenzo Montserrat, Alfonso Castro-Beiras

     
• • ·Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty for the treatment of complete arterial occlusion after retrograde cardiac catheterization in infancy

    Pagina :1124-1126

    Matthias Peuster, Harald Bertram, Christoph Fink, Thomas Paul, Gerd Hausdorf

     
• • ·Comparison of left ventricular mass and function in obese versus nonobese women <40 years of age

    Pagina :1127-1129

    Lucı́ola Lopes Crisostomo, Leila Maria Batista Araújo, Edmundo Câmara, Carlos Carvalho, Fabrı́cio Afra Silva, Milene Vieira, Álvaro Rabelo

    
• • ·Effects of postprandial walking exercise on meal-related hypotension in frail elderly patients

    Pagina :1130-1132

    Amitai S Oberman, Randall K Harada, Margaret M Gagnon, Dan K Kiely, Lewis A Lipsitz

     
• • ·Effect of harmonic imaging without contrast on image quality of transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :1132-1134

    Guido Rocchi, Nico de Jong, Tjebbe W Galema, Jaroslaw D Kasprzak, Folkert J Ten Cate

     
• • ·Relation between QT interval dispersion and heart rate

    Pagina :1135-1137

    Ken Umetani, Sadayoshi Komori, Tsukasa Ishihara, Takao Sawanobori, Isao Kohno, Hiroshi Ijiri, Kohji Tamura

     
• • ·Feasibility of right ventricular myocardial opacification by contrast echocardiography and comparison with left ventricular intensity

    Pagina :1137-1140

    Hisashi Masugata, Bruno Cotter, Koji Ohmori, Oi Ling Kwan, Katsufumi Mizushige, Anthony N DeMaria

     
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