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• • ·Body mass index and the risk of recurrent coronary events following acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :467-472

    Thomas D Rea, Susan R Heckbert, Robert C Kaplan, Bruce M Psaty, Nicholas L Smith, Rozenn N Lemaitre, Danyu Lin

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• • ·Reasons for higher in-hospital mortality >24 hours after percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty in women compared with men

    Pagina :473-477

    Francine K Welty, Stanley M Lewis, Wendy Kowalker, Samuel J Shubrooks

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• • ·Usefulness of serial electrocardiograms for diagnosis of acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :478-481

    Mattias Ohlsson, Hans Öhlin, Susanna Maria Wallerstedt, Lars Edenbrandt

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• • ·An anti-CD11/CD18 monoclonal antibody in patients with acute myocardial infarction having percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (the FESTIVAL study)

    Pagina :482-487

    James M. Rusnak, Stephen L. Kopecky, Ian P. Clements, Raymond J. Gibbons, Anne E. Holland, Harriet S. Peterman, Jenny S. Martin, Jay B. Saoud, Robert L. Feldman, Warren M. Breisblatt, Michael Simons, Carl J. Gessler, Albert S. Yu, FESTIVAL Investigators 1

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• • ·A risk score system for predicting adverse outcomes and magnitude of benefit with glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitor therapy in patients with unstable angina pectoris

    Pagina :488-492

    Marc S Sabatine, James L Januzzi, Stephen Snapinn, Pierre Théroux, Ik-Kyung Jang

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• • ·Vascular closure devices and the risk of vascular complications after percutaneous coronary intervention in patients receiving glycoprotein IIb-IIIa inhibitors

    Pagina :493-496

    Frederic S Resnic, Gavin J Blake, Lucila Ohno-Machado, Andrew P Selwyn, Jeffrey J Popma, Campbell Rogers

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• • ·Trends in outcome and costs of coronary intervention in the 1990s

    Pagina :497-503

    William S Weintraub, Elizabeth M Mahoney, Ziyad M.B Ghazzal, Spencer B King, Steven D Culler, Douglas C Morris, John S Douglas

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• • ·Effect of rosuvastatin on low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in patients with hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :504-508

    Anders G Olsson, John Pears, John McKellar, Jacques Mizan, Ali Raza

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• • ·Usefulness of the Framingham risk score and body mass index to predict early coronary artery calcium in young adults (Muscatine Study)

    Pagina :509-515

    Larry T Mahoney, Trudy L Burns, William Stanford, Brad H Thompson, John D Witt, Catherine A Rost, Ronald M Lauer

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• • ·Survival benefit with an implanted defibrillator in relation to mortality risk in chronic coronary heart disease

    Pagina :516-520

    Arthur J. Moss, Yazid Fadl, Wojciech Zareba, David S. Cannom, W.Jackson Hall, for the Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial Research Group ?

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• • ·Effect of regression of left ventricular hypertrophy from systemic hypertension on systolic function assessed by midwall shortening (HOT echocardiographic study)

    Pagina :521-525

    Miguel Zabalgoitia, S.Noor Ur Rahman, William E Haley, Steven Yarows, Lisa Krause, Lori C Anderson, Mohamed A Oraby, John Amarena

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• • ·Prognostic importance of marital quality for survival of congestive heart failure

    Pagina :526-529

    James C Coyne, Michael J Rohrbaugh, Varda Shoham, John S Sonnega, John M Nicklas, James A Cranford

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• • ·Mortality and readmission of hospitalized patients with congestive heart failure and preserved versus depressed systolic function

    Pagina :530-533

    Hiroyuki Tsutsui, Miyuki Tsuchihashi, Akira Takeshita

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• • ·Value of quantitative analysis of mitral regurgitation jet eccentricity by color flow Doppler for identification of flail leaflet

    Pagina :534-540

    Paolo C Colombo, Rex H Wu, Stanislav Weiner, Massimo Marinaccio, Alessandra Brofferio, Javier Banchs, Shailesh Malla, Robert Frater, Jamshid Shirani, Michele Nanna

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• • ·Comparison of two aspirin doses on ischemic stroke in post-myocardial infarction patients in the warfarin (Coumadin) Aspirin Reinfarction Study (CARS)

    Pagina :541-546

    Christopher M O’Connor, Wendy A Gattis, Anne S Hellkamp, Anatoly Langer, Rhonda L Larsen, Robert A Harrington, Scott D Berkowitz, Patrick T O’Gara, Steven L Kopecky, Mihai Gheorghiade, Robert Daly, Robert M Califf, Valentin Fuster

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• • ·Alfred Lewis Galabin and the first human documentation of atrioventricular block

    Pagina :547-550

    Charles B Upshaw, Mark E Silverman

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• • ·West meets East: breaking barriers to prevention in Asia and America

    Pagina :551-552

    Lori Mosca

     
• • ·Effect of ingestion of purple grape juice on endothelial function in patients with coronary heart disease

    Pagina :553-555

    Eric J Chou, Jon G Keevil, Susan Aeschlimann, Donald A Wiebe, John D Folts, James H Stein

     
• • ·Incidence of new coronary events in older persons with diabetes mellitus and prior myocardial infarction treated with sulfonylureas, insulin, metformin, and diet alone

    Pagina :556-557

    Wilbert S Aronow, Chul Ahn

    
• • ·Relation of pathologic Q waves at presentation and time to streptokinase therapy with early changes in infarct-related artery flow and ventricular wall motion

    Pagina :558-561

    Cheuk-Kit Wong, John K. French, Andrew Zambanini, Jacqueline Andrews, Philip E. Aylward, A.A.Jennifer Adgey, Martin J. Frey, Harvey D. White

     
• • ·How many patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy exhibit viable myocardium?

    Pagina :561-564

    Arend F.L Schinkel, Jeroen J Bax, Eric Boersma, Abdou Elhendy, Jos R.T.C Roelandt, Don Poldermans

     
• • ·Incidence, management, and outcome of stent loss during intracoronary stenting

    Pagina :565-567

    Johann Bolte, Ulrich Neumann, Conrad Pfafferott, Albrecht Vogt, Heinz-Jürgen Engel, Helmuth C Mehmel, Klaus E von Olshausen, on behalf of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Leitende Kardiologische Krankenhausärtze (ALKK)

    
• • ·Effect of diltiazem on the recurrence rate of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :568-570

    Hung-Fat Tse, Chu-Pak Lau, Qiong Wang, Frank Pelosi, Hakan Oral, Bradley P. Knight, S.Adam Strickberger, Fred Morady

     
• • ·Clinical characteristics and possible mechanism of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation induced by intracoronary injection of acetylcholine

    Pagina :570-573

    Shozo Sueda, Hiroshi Fukuda, Kouki Watanabe, Naoto Ochi, Hiroyuki Kawada, Yutaka Hayashi, Tadao Uraoka

    
• • ·Mapping and ablation of atrial arrhythmias after surgical correction of congenital heart disease guided by a 64-electrode basket catheter

    Pagina :573-578

    Bernhard Zrenner, Gjin Ndrepepa, Michael A.E Schneider, Martin R Karch, Silke Brodherr-Heberlein, Harald Kaemmerer, John Hess, Albert Schömig, Claus Schmitt

     
• • ·Evidence for increased peripheral production of tumor necrosis factor-? in advanced congestive heart failure

    Pagina :578-581

    Gabriel B Grossman, Luis E Rohde, Nadine Clausell

    
• • ·Association between mitral annular calcium and carotid artery stenosis and role of age and gender

    Pagina :581-583

    Francesco Antonini-Canterin, Michele Capanna, Aldo Manfroni, Marco Brieda, Umberto Grandis, Fabio Sbaraglia, Eugenio Cervesato, Daniela Pavan, Gian Luigi Nicolosi

     
• • ·Efficacy of nonsurgical septal reduction therapy in symptomatic patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and provocable gradients

    Pagina :583-586

    Nasser Lakkis, Juan Carlos Plana, Sherif Nagueh, Donna Killip, Robert Roberts, William H Spencer

    
• • ·Late follow-up of occlusion of the patent ductus arteriosus with the Rashkind device with emphasis on long-term efficacy and risk for infections

    Pagina :586-588

    Roberto Formigari, Alessandra Toscano, Ignacio Herraiz, Jacek Bialkowski, Andrea Donti, Fernando M Picchio, Ramon Bermudez-Cañete, Luigi Ballerini

     
• • ·Comparison of results of closure of secundum atrial septal defect by surgery versus amplatzer septal occluder

    Pagina :589-591

    Collin G Cowley, Thomas R Lloyd, Edward L Bove, Diane Gaffney, Megan Dietrich, Albert P Rocchini

    
• • ·Usefulness of corticosteroid therapy in decreasing epinephrine requirements in critically ill infants with congenital heart disease

    Pagina :591-594

    Shirah Shore, David P Nelson, Jeffrey M Pearl, Peter B Manning, Hector Wong, Thomas P Shanley, Timothy Keyser, Steven M Schwartz

     
• • ·Intensive isotonic training modifies basal and exercise Doppler indexes of systolic function: a comparative study of athletes and sedentary men

    Pagina :594-598

    Enrique Z Fisman, Michael Motro, Yehuda Adler, Ety Lasry, Liviu Leibovitch, Alexander Tenenbaum

     
• • ·Coronary artery disease is more than just coronary lumen disease

    Pagina :599-600

    Richard M Fleming