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• • ·Effect of preinfarction angina pectoris on outcome in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with primary angioplasty (results from the Myocardial Infarction Registry [MIR])

    Pagina :1-6

    Ralf Zahn, Rudolf Schiele, Steffen Schneider, Anselm K Gitt, Karlheinz Seidl, Claus Bossaller, Gerhard Schuler, Martin Gottwik, Ernst Altmann, Werner Rosahl, Jochen Senges, Myocardial Infarction Registry (MIR) Study Group

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• • ·Magnesium use in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in the United States (observations from the Second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction)

    Pagina :7-10

    Roy C Ziegelstein, Joseph M Hilbe, William J French, Elliott M Antman, Nisha Chandra-Strobos, Participants in the Second National Registry of Myocardial Infarction

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• • ·Does angina the week before protect against first myocardial infarction in elderly patients?

    Pagina :11-15

    Manuel Jiménez- Navarro, Juan José Gómez-Doblas, Juan Alonso-Briales, José Marı́a Hernández Garcı́a, Gemma Gómez, Angel Garcı́a Alcántara, Isabel Rodriguez-Bailón, Alberto Barrera, Angel Montiel, Juan S.Espinosa Caliani, Eduardo de Teresa

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• • ·Low-grade exercise enhances platelet aggregability in patients with obstructive coronary disease independently of myocardial ischemia

    Pagina :16-20

    Felicita Andreotti, Gaetano A Lanza, Alessandro Sciahbasi, Dionigi Fischetti, Alfonso Sestito, Raimondo De Cristofaro, Attilio Maseri

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• • ·Expression of CD40 in vascular smooth muscle cells and macrophages is associated with early development of human atherosclerotic lesions

    Pagina :21-27

    Dennis Bruemmer, Urte Riggers, Johannes Holzmeister, Matthias Grill, Frank Lippek, Utz Settmacher, Vera Regitz-Zagrosek, Eckart Fleck, Kristof Graf

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• • ·Usefulness of nisoldipine for prevention of restenosis after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (results of the NICOLE study)

    Pagina :28-33

    Joseph A Dens, Walter J Desmet, Patrick Coussement, Ivan K De Scheerder, Konstantinos Kostopoulos, Pitsanu Kerdsinchai, Chumpol Supanantaroek, Jan H Piessens

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• • ·Restenosis after coronary placement of various stent types

    Pagina :34-39

    Adnan Kastrati, Julinda Mehilli, Josef Dirschinger, Jürgen Pache, Kurt Ulm, Helmut Schühlen, Melchior Seyfarth, Claus Schmitt, Rudolf Blasini, Franz-Josef Neumann, Albert Schömig

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• • ·Lessons from the post coronary artery bypass graft study in evaluating and controlling technical variability in angiographic trials

    Pagina :40-43

    Carl W White, Lucien Campeau, Paul Canner, Michael Domanski, James S Forrester, Fredarick L Gobel, J.Allen Herd, Byron J Hoogwerf, Donald B Hunninghake, Genell L Knatterud, Frances LoPresti, the Post CABG Investigators

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• • ·Effects of atorvastatin versus fenofibrate on lipoprotein profiles, low-density lipoprotein subfraction distribution, and hemorheologic parameters in type 2 diabetes mellitus with mixed hyperlipoproteinemia

    Pagina :44-48

    Robert J.A Frost, Carsten Otto, H.Christian Geiss, Peter Schwandt, Klaus G Parhofer

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• • ·Association of ventricular premature complexes with electrocardiographic-estimated left ventricular mass in a population of african-american and white men and women (the atherosclerosis risk in communities [ARIC] study)

    Pagina :49-53

    Ross J Simpson, Wayne E Cascio, Richard S Crow, Pamela J Schreiner, Pentti M Rautaharju, Gerardo Heiss

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• • ·Effect of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy on left ventricular systolic function in systemic hypertension (the LIFE study)

    Pagina :54-60

    Kristian Wachtell, Jens Rokkedal, Jonathan N. Bella, Tapio Aalto, Björn Dahlöf, Gunnar Smith, Mary J. Roman, Hans Ibsen, Gerard P. Aurigemma, Richard B. Devereux

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• • ·Left ventricular midwall function improves with antihypertensive therapy and regression of left ventricular hypertrophy in patients with asymptomatic hypertension

    Pagina :61-65

    Adam E Schussheim, Joseph A Diamond, Robert A Phillips

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• • ·Comparison of quantitative and semiquantitative methods for assessing mitral regurgitation by transesophageal echocardiography

    Pagina :66-70

    Min Pu, James D Thomas, Pieter M Vandervoort, William J Stewart, Delos M Cosgrove, Brian P Griffin

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• • ·Molecular genetic, biochemical, and clinical studies in three families with cardiac Fabry’s disease

    Pagina :71-75

    Takashi Yoshitama, Shoichiro Nakao, Toshihiro Takenaka, Hiroyuki Teraguchi, Takeshi Sasaki, Chihaya Kodama, Akihiro Tanaka, Akira Kisanuki, Chuwa Tei

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• • ·Comparison of two transcatheter closure methods of persistently patent arterial duct

    Pagina :76-81

    Henri Justino, Robert N Justo, Caroline Ovaert, Alan Magee, Kyong-Jin Lee, Aijaz Hashmi, David G Nykanen, Brian W McCrindle, Robert M Freedom, Lee N Benson

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• • ·Acute and delayed antithrombotic effects of alcohol in humans

    Pagina :82-85

    Lucie Lacoste, Joseph Hung, Jules Y.T Lam

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• • ·Comparison of new Doppler echocardiographic methods to differentiate constrictive pericardial heart disease and restrictive cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :86-94

    Navin Rajagopalan, Mario J Garcia, Leonardo Rodriguez, R.Daniel Murray, Carolyn Apperson-Hansen, Marie Stugaard, James D Thomas, Allan L Klein

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• • ·Comparison of magnetic resonance real-time imaging of left ventricular function with conventional magnetic resonance imaging and echocardiography

    Pagina :95-99

    Simon Schalla, Eike Nagel, Hans Lehmkuhl, Christoph Klein, Axel Bornstedt, Bernhard Schnackenburg, Uta Schneider, Eckart Fleck

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• • ·The time has come to reexamine the gold standard when evaluating noninvasive testing

    Pagina :100-101

    Myrvin H Ellestad

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• • ·Acute increases in plasma oxidized low-density lipoprotein immediately after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty

    Pagina :102-103

    Hiroyuki Fujii, Masami Shimizu, Hidekazu Ino, Masato Yamaguchi, Toshihiko Yasuda, Noboru Fujino, Tomohito Mabuchi, Hiroshi Mabuchi, Ichiro Michishita, Akira Genda

     
• • ·High-density lipoprotein cholesterol and vascular stiffness at baseline in the activity counseling trial

    Pagina :104-107

    Richard J Havlik, Dwight Brock, Kurt Lohman, William Haskell, Peter Snell, Mary O’Toole, Paul Ribisl, Peter Vaitkevicius, Harold A Spurgeon, Edward G Lakatta, Paul Pullen

    
• • ·Effect of aortic valve replacement on plasma soluble P-selectin, von Willebrand factor, and fibrinogen

    Pagina :107-110

    Ira R.A Goldsmith, Andrew D Blann, Ramesh L Patel, Gregory Y.H Lip

     
• • ·Outcome of reoperation for aortic valve prosthesis-patient mismatch

    Pagina :111-114

    Steven E Girard, Fletcher A Miller, Samantha Montgomery, William D Edwards, Henry D Tazelaar, Joseph F Malouf, James B Seward, Thomas A Orszulak

     
• • ·Assessment of QT dispersion as a prognostic marker for sudden death in a regional nonreferred hypertrophic cardiomyopathy cohort

    Pagina :114-115

    Barry J Maron, Mark J Leyhe, Susan A Casey, Thomas E Gohman, Casey M Lawler, Richard S Crow, Martin S Maron, Morrison Hodges

     
• • ·One-year follow-up of the Amplatzer device to close atrial septal defects

    Pagina :116-118

    Roozbeh Taeed, David Shim, Thomas R Kimball, Erik C Michelfelder, Khaled J Salaymeh, Lisa M Koons, Robert H Beekman

     
• • ·Association between C-reactive protein, anti-Chlamydia pneumoniae antibodies, and vascular function in healthy adults

    Pagina :119-121

    Niraj Sharma, John D. Rutherford, J.Thomas Grayston, Louise P. King, Ishwarlal Jialal, Thomas C. Andrews

    
• • ·A noninvasive measurement of reactive hyperemia that can be used to assess resistance artery endothelial function in humans

    Pagina :121-125

    Yukihito Higashi, Shota Sasaki, Keigo Nakagawa, Hideo Matsuura, Goro Kajiyama, Tetsuya Oshima

     
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiography during cardioversion of atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :126

    Heyder Omran, Berndt Lüderitz

    
• • ·Scalar versus vector electrocardiography to determine right coronary artery or left circumflex coronary artery occlusion in inferior wall acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :126

    Jacob Zatuchni

    
• • ·Electrocardiographic lead reversal

    Pagina :126-127

    Bo Heden

    
• • ·ABCs of thrombolysis

    Pagina :127

    Arsad A Karcic, Israel Freeman

    
• • ·Correction

    Pagina :128