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• • ·Prevention of primary ventricular fibrillation in acute myocardial infarction with prophylactic lidocaine

    Pagina :545-551

    Milford G. Wyman, R.Michael Wyman, David S. Cannom, J.Michael Criley

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• • ·Accuracy of measurement of left ventricular volume and ejection fraction by new real-time three-dimensional echocardiography in patients with wall motion abnormalities secondary to myocardial infarction

    Pagina :552-558

    Kotaro Arai, Takeshi Hozumi, Yoshiki Matsumura, Kenichi Sugioka, Yasuhiko Takemoto, Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Minoru Yoshiyama, Hiroshi Kasanuki, Junichi Yoshikawa

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• • ·Prognostic value of exercise echocardiography in patients with classic angina pectoris

    Pagina :559-563

    Abdou Elhendy, Douglas W. Mahoney, Kelli N. Burger, Robert B. McCully, Patricia A. Pellikka

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• • ·Effect of enalapril and losartan on cytokines in patients with stable angina pectoris awaiting coronary artery bypass grafting and their interaction with polymorphisms in the interleukin-6 gene

    Pagina :564-569

    Jasper Trevelyan, David J. Brull, Edward W.A. Needham, Hugh E. Montgomery, Alan Morris, Raj K. Mattu

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• • ·Comparison of real-time myocardial contrast echocardiography for the assessment of myocardial viability with fluorodeoxyglucose-18 positron emission tomography and dobutamine stress echocardiography

    Pagina :570-576

    Grigorios Korosoglou, Alexander Hansen, Johannes Hoffend, Goran Gavrilovic, David Wolf, Joerg Zehelein, Uwe Haberkorn, Helmut Kuecherer

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• • ·Coronary flow reserve of the angiographically normal left anterior descending coronary artery in patients with remote coronary artery disease

    Pagina :577-582

    Francesco Pizzuto, Paolo Voci, Enrica Mariano, Paolo Emilio Puddu, Patrizia Spedicato, Francesco Romeo

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• • ·Comparison of outcomes of percutaneous coronary intervention of ostial versus nonostial narrowing of the major epicardial coronary arteries

    Pagina :583-587

    Kreton Mavromatis, Ziyad Ghazzal, Emir Veledar, Laura Diamandopoulos, William S. Weintraub, John S. Douglas, Anna M. Kalynych

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• • ·Differential effect of two nicotinic acid preparations on low-density lipoprotein subclass distribution in patients classified as low-density lipoprotein pattern A, B, or I

    Pagina :588-594

    H.Robert Superko, Mark E. McGovern, Elaine Raul, Brenda Garrett

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• • ·Safety and feasibility of using serial infusions of nesiritide for heart failure in an outpatient setting (from the FUSION I trial)

    Pagina :595-601

    Clyde W. Yancy, Mitchell T. Saltzberg, Robert L. Berkowitz, Barry Bertolet, Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, Kenneth Burnham, Ron M. Oren, Kirk Walker, Darlene P. Horton, Marc A. Silver

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• • ·Evidence of viral infection in the myocardium of American and Japanese patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :602-605

    Shigekazu Fujioka, Yasushi Kitaura, Hirofumi Deguchi, Akira Shimizu, Tadashi Isomura, Hisayoshi Suma, Hani N. Sabbah

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• • ·Prophylactic lidocaine in acute myocardial infarction: Resurface or reburial?

    Pagina :606-608

    Anil V. Yadav, Douglas P. Zipes

    
• • ·WIlliam Peter Castelli, MD: A conversation with the Editor

    Pagina :609-622

     
• • ·Comparison of long-term usefulness of clopidogrel therapy after the first percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass grafting versus that after the second or repeat intervention

    Pagina :623-625

    Jacqueline Saw, Eric J. Topol, Steven R. Steinhubl, Danielle Brennan, Peter B. Berger, David J. Moliterno, CREDO Investigators *

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• • ·Sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value of the dipyridamole sestamibi stress test in predicting graft occlusion or ≥50% new native coronary artery disease in men versus women and in patients aged ≥65 years versus <65 years who had prior coronary artery bypass grafting

    Pagina :625-626

    Albert J. Deluca, Evelyn Cusack, Wilbert S. Aronow, Craig E. Monsen

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• • ·Comparison of three-year outcomes after coronary stenting versus coronary artery bypass grafting in patients with multivessel coronary disease, including involvement of the left anterior descending coronary artery proximally (a subanalysis of the arterial revascularization therapies study trial)

    Pagina :627-631

    Jiro Aoki, Andrew T.L. Ong, Chourmouzios A. Arampatzis, Maniyal Vijaykumar, Gaston A. Rodriguez Granillo, Clemens M.C. Disco, Patrick W. Serruys

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• • ·Comparison of mortality rates after acute myocardial infarction in smokers versus nonsmokers

    Pagina :632-636

    Hans Jakob Jaatun, Santosh C. Sutradhar, Kenneth Dickstein, OPTIMAAL Study Group

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• • ·Magnitude and impact of treatment delays on weeknights and weekends in patients undergoing primary angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction (the cadillac trial)

    Pagina :637-640

    H. Mehrdad Sadeghi, Cindy L. Grines, Harish R. Chandra, Roxana Mehran, Martin Fahy, David A. Cox, Eulogio Garcia, James E. Tcheng, John J. Griffin, Thomas D. Stuckey, Alexandra J. Lansky, William W. O'Neill, Gregg W. Stone

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• • ·Comparison of effects of quinapril versus enalapril on vasoactive substances following acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :641-643

    James P. Tsikouris, Jan Simoni, Jose A. Suarez, Piraon Sutthiwan, Martin Ziska, Gary E. Meyerrose

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• • ·Mortality rates and hemorrhagic complications in asian-pacific islanders during treatment of acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :644-646

    Philip I. Kuo, Richard Severino, Frederic J. Pashkow

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• • ·Comparison of three-year outcomes in blacks versus whites with coronary heart disease following percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :647-649

    Jeffrey S. Berger, Timothy A. Sanborn, Warren Sherman, David L. Brown

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• • ·Effect of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on survival of patients with coronary heart disease having percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :649-651

    Jeffrey S. Berger, Timothy A. Sanborn, Warren Sherman, David L. Brown

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• • ·Effect of simvastatin on endothelial function in cardiac syndrome X patients

    Pagina :652-655

    Emília Fábián, Albert Varga, Eugenio Picano, Zoltan Vajo, Aladár Rónaszéki, Miklós Csanády

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• • ·Prevalence and determinants of breast arterial calcium in women at high risk of cardiovascular disease

    Pagina :655-659

    Angela H.E.M. Maas, Yvonne T. van der Schouw, Willem P. Th.M. Mali, Yolanda van der Graaf

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• • ·Comparative effects of carvedilol and amiodarone on conversion and recurrence rates of persistent atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :659-662

    Emmanuel M. Kanoupakis, Emmanuel G. Manios, Hercules E. Mavrakis, Panos G. Tzerakis, Helen K. Mouloudi, Panos E. Vardas

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• • ·Effectiveness of oral propafenone for the prevention of atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting

    Pagina :663-665

    Peter R. Kowey, Daniel Yannicelli, Ezra Amsterdam, COPPA-II Investigators * †

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• • ·Effectiveness of catheter ablation for coexisting atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter

    Pagina :666-668

    Daniela Husser, Andreas Bollmann, Steven Kang, Marc J. Girsky, Robert D. Lerman, David S. Cannom, Anil K. Bhandari

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• • ·N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide reflects pulmonary capillary leakage in patients with acute dyspnea

    Pagina :669-670

    Antoni Bayes-Genis, Jesus Bellido-Casado, Edgar Zapico, Carlos Cotes, Jose Belda, Laura Lopez, Miquel Santaló, Jordi Ordoñez-Llanos

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• • ·Effect of chronic heart failure on nuclear factor kappa B in peripheral leukocytes

    Pagina :671-673

    Stefan Frantz, Stefan Stoerk, Sami Ok, Helga Wagner, Christiane E. Angermann, Georg Ertl, Johann Bauersachs

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• • ·Proportion of patients in a congestive heart failure care management program meeting criteria for cardiac resynchronization therapy

    Pagina :673-676

    Albert Yuh-Jer Shen, XunZhang Wang, Jonathan Doris, Naing Moore

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• • ·Elevated B-type natriuretic peptide in asymptomatic men with chronic aortic regurgitation and preserved left ventricular systolic function

    Pagina :676-678

    Micah J. Eimer, Deborah L. Ekery, Vera H. Rigolin, Robert O. Bonow, Mercedes R. Carnethon, William G. Cotts

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• • ·Weights of individual cusps in operatively-excised congenitally bicuspid stenotic aortic valves

    Pagina :678-681

    William C. Roberts, Jong Mi Ko

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• • ·Weights of individual cusps in operatively-excised stenotic three-cuspid aortic valves

    Pagina :681-684

    William C. Roberts, Jong Mi Ko

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• • ·Coronary hemodynamics in patients with symptomatic hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :685-687

    Eric H. Yang, Tiong Cheng Yeo, Stuart T. Higano, Rick A. Nishimura, Amir Lerman

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• • ·Implications and limitations of an abnormal fetal echocardiogram

    Pagina :688-689

    Geoffrey A. Forbus, Andrew M. Atz, Girish S. Shirali

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• • ·Comparison of costs of intracardiac echocardiography and transesophageal echocardiography in monitoring percutaneous device closure of atrial septal defect in children and adults

    Pagina :690-692

    Ernerio T. Alboliras, Ziyad M. Hijazi

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• • ·Repeatability of noninvasive surrogates of endothelial function

    Pagina :693-696

    Jan Malik, Dan Wichterle, Tomas Haas, Vojtech Melenovsky, Jan Simek, Tomas Stulc

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• • ·Clinical significance of increased cardiac troponins T and I in participants of ultra-endurance events

    Pagina :696-698

    Axel Urhausen, J.ürgen Scharhag, Markus Herrmann, Wilfried Kindermann

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• • ·Long-term survival of childhood coronary artery disease in a patient severely affected with familial hypercholesterolemia

    Pagina :699-700

    Christopher Sibley, Sarah McGann, Neil J. Stone

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• • ·Repetitive yawning associated with cardiac tamponade

    Pagina :701-702

    Mori J. Krantz, Jenny K. Lee, David H. Spodick

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• • ·Editorial board

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