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• • ·Editorial board

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Identification of Stunned Myocardium With Parametric Imaging-Based, Quantitative Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography After Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :167-172

    Viviana Serra, Leopoldo Perez de Isla, Maria Perez Ferro, Jose Luis Rodrigo, Carlos Almeria, Antonio Fernandez-Ortiz, Juan Carlos Garcia-Rubira, Jose Zamorano, Carlos Macaya

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  • ·Incidence and Prognostic Impact of Gastrointestinal Bleeding After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :173-176

    Amr E. Abbas, Bruce Brodie, Simon Dixon, Dominic Marsalese, Stacy Brewington, William W. O’Neill, Lorelei L. Grines, Cindy L. Grines

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  • ·Atherosclerotic Risk Genotypes and Recurrent Coronary Events After Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :177-182

    Arthur J. Moss, Daniel Ryan, David Oakes, Robert E. Goldstein, Henry Greenberg, Monty M. Bodenheimer, Mary W. Brown, Robert B. Case, Edward M. Dwyer, Shirley W. Eberly, Charles W. Francis, John A. Gillespie, Ronald J. Krone, Edgar Lichstein, Jean W. MacCluer, Frank I. Marcus, Jeanette McCarthy, Charles E. Sparks, Wojciech Zareba

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  • ·Relation of Chronic and Acute Glycemic Control on Mortality in Acute Myocardial Infarction With Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :183-186

    Jie J. Cao, Michael Hudson, Michelle Jankowski, Fred Whitehouse, W. Douglas Weaver

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  • ·Comparison of Specificity of Quantitative Myocardial Contrast Echocardiography for Diagnosis of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Versus Without Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :187-192

    Stuart Moir, Brian Haluska, Carly Jenkins, Duncan McNab, Thomas H. Marwick

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  • ·Influence of Revascularization on Long-Term Outcome in Patients ≥75 Years of Age With Diabetes Mellitus and Angina Pectoris

    Pagina :193-198

    Raban V. Jeger, Piero O. Bonetti, Michael J. Zellweger, Daniel Tobler, Christoph A. Kaiser, Stefan Osswald, Peter T. Buser, Matthias E. Pfisterer, TIME Investigators

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  • ·Prognostic Importance of Secondary Pulmonary Hypertension After Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :199-203

    Jacob E. Møller, Graham S. Hillis, Jae K. Oh, Patricia A. Pellikka

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  • ·Comparison of Plasma Serotonin Levels in Patients With Variant Angina Pectoris Versus Healed Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :204-207

    Jaume Figueras, Enric Domingo, Josefa Cortadellas, Ferran Padilla, David Garcia Dorado, Rosa Segura, Rosa Galard, Jordi Soler Soler

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  • ·Relation of Platelet Activation to Coronary Angiographic Severity and Collateralization

    Pagina :208-210

    Kiat T. Tan, Muzahir H. Tayebjee, Robert J. MacFadyen, Gregory Y.H. Lip

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  • ·Relation of Body Mass Index to Fatal and Nonfatal Cardiovascular Events After Cardiac Rehabilitation

    Pagina :211-214

    Justo Sierra-Johnson, Scott R. Wright, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Thomas G. Allison

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  • ·Recommendations and Performance of Coronary Revascularization Procedures in Black and White Patients

    Pagina :215-217

    Russell F. Kelly, Ahmed S. Hashim, Raed Al-Dallow

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  • ·Utilization of Drug-Eluting Stents in the Veterans Health Administration

    Pagina :218-220

    Charles Maynard, Elliott Lowy, Teresa Wagner, Anne E. Sales

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Combined Effect of the Metabolic Syndrome and Hostility on the Incidence of Myocardial Infarction (The Normative Aging Study)

    Pagina :221-226

    John F. Todaro, Andrea Con, Raymond Niaura, Avron Spiro, Kenneth D. Ward, Anna Roytberg

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  • ·Influence of Alcohol Dehydrogenase 1C Polymorphism on the Alcohol—Cardiovascular Disease Association (from the Framingham Offspring Study)

    Pagina :227-232

    Luc Djoussé, Daniel Levy, Alan G. Herbert, Peter W.F. Wilson, Ralph B. D’Agostino, L. Adrienne Cupples, Samer Karamohamed, R. Curtis Ellison

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Comparison of Ventricular Arrhythmia Frequency in Patients With Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Versus Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy Treated With Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators

    Pagina :233-238

    Cengiz Ermis, Alan X. Zhu, Laura Vanheel, Mary Jo Lemke, Scott Sakaguchi, Keith G. Lurie, Fei Lu, Joseph Lin, David G. Benditt

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  • ·Influence of Advancing Age on Fractionated Right Atrial Endocardial Electrograms

    Pagina :239-242

    Osmar Antonio Centurión, Akihiko Shimizu, Shojiro Isomoto, Atsushi Konoe, Muneshige Kaibara, Motonobu Hayano, Katsusuke Yano

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• Systemic Hypertension

  • ·Efficacy and Safety of Topiramate in the Treatment of Obese Subjects With Essential Hypertension

    Pagina :243-251

    Serena Tonstad, Andrzej Tykarski, Joshua Weissgarten, Alla Ivleva, Brian Levy, Ashish Kumar, Martin Fitchet, OBHT-001 Study Group

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  • ·Relation of Left Ventricular Concentric Remodeling to Levels of C-Reactive Protein and Serum Amyloid A in Patients With Essential Hypertension

    Pagina :252-256

    Costas Tsioufis, Pavlos Stougiannos, Apostolis Kakkavas, Marina Toutouza, Argiris Mariolis, Ioannis Vlasseros, Christodoulos Stefanadis, Ioannis Kallikazaros

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Usefulness of Tissue Doppler and Color M-Mode Indexes of Left Ventricular Diastolic Function in Predicting Outcomes in Systolic Left Ventricular Heart Failure (from the ADEPT Study)

    Pagina :257-262

    Richard W. Troughton, David L. Prior, Christopher M. Frampton, Patrick J. Nash, Jeremy J. Pereira, Maureen Martin, Annette Fogarty, Annitta J. Morehead, Randall C. Starling, James B. Young, James D. Thomas, Michael S. Lauer, Allan L. Klein

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  • ·Combined Use of Amino Terminal-Pro-Brain Natriuretic Peptide Levels and QRS Duration to Predict Left Ventricular Systolic Dysfunction in Patients With Dyspnea

    Pagina :263-266

    Rahul Sakhuja, Annabel A. Chen, Saif Anwaruddin, Aaron L. Baggish, James L. Januzzi, PRIDE Study Group

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  • ·Effects of Carvedilol Upon Intra- and Interventricular Synchrony in Patients With Chronic Heart Failure

    Pagina :267-269

    Pablo F. Castro, Paul Mc-Nab, Juan Carlos Quintana, Alex Bittner, Douglas Greig, Ismael Vergara, José Luis Vukasovic, Ramón Corbalan, Miguel Copaja, Guillermo Díaz-Araya, Mario Chiong, Rodrigo Troncoso, Hernán Alcaino, Sergio Lavandero

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• Cardiomyopathy

  • ·Relation of Electrocardiographic Patterns to Phenotypic Expression and Clinical Outcome in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :270-275

    Julia V. Montgomery, Kevin M. Harris, Susan A. Casey, Andrey G. Zenovich, Barry J. Maron

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  • ·Usefulness of Programmed Ventricular Stimulation in Predicting Future Arrhythmic Events in Patients With Cardiac Sarcoidosis

    Pagina :276-282

    Anthony Aizer, Eric H. Stern, J. Anthony Gomes, Alvin S. Teirstein, Robert E. Eckart, Davendra Mehta

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Cyanotic Congenital Heart Disease and Coronary Artery Atherogenesis

    Pagina :283-290

    Alistair Fyfe, Joseph K. Perloff, Koichiro Niwa, John S. Child, Pamela D. Miner

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  • ·Long-Term Results of the Fontan Operation for Double-Inlet Left Ventricle

    Pagina :291-298

    Michael G. Earing, Frank Cetta, David J. Driscoll, Douglas D. Mair, David O. Hodge, Joseph A. Dearani, Francisco J. Puga, Gordon K. Danielson, Patrick W. O’Leary

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  • ·Comparison of Strain Rate Imaging for Quantitative Evaluation of Regional Left and Right Ventricular Function After Surgical Versus Percutaneous Closure of Atrial Septal Defect

    Pagina :299-302

    Giovanni Di Salvo, Manuela Drago, Giuseppe Pacileo, Marianna Carrozza, Giuseppe Santoro, Maurizio Cappelli Bigazzi, Pio Caso, Maria Giovanna Russo, Mario Carminati, Raffaele Calabró

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• Miscellaneous

  • ·Prognostic Significance of Troponin Elevation and Right Ventricular Enlargement in Acute Pulmonary Embolism

    Pagina :303-305

    Tudor Scridon, Cristiana Scridon, Hicham Skali, Alberto Alvarez, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Scott D. Solomon

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  • ·Usefulness of Arterial Compliance in the Thigh in Predicting Exercise Capacity in Individuals Without Coronary Heart Disease

    Pagina :306-310

    Howard J. Willens, Julio A. Chirinos, W. Virgil Brown, Warren W. Davis, David M. Herrington, Lori Mosca, Shunichi Homma, Mohamad Moussa, Gail Walker, Jeffrey K. Raines

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• Historical Study

  • ·Eulogy for Edward D. Freis, MD*

    Pagina :311-312

    Vasilios Papademetriou

    

• Review

  • ·Sexual Dysfunction and Cardiac Risk (the Second Princeton Consensus Conference)

    Pagina :313-321

    John B. Kostis, Graham Jackson, Raymond Rosen, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Kevin Billups, Arthur L. Burnett, Culley Carson, Melvin Cheitlin, Robert Debusk, Vivian Fonseca, Peter Ganz, Irwin Goldstein, Andre Guay, Dimitris Hatzichristou, Judd E. Hollander, Adolph Hutter, Stuart Katz, Robert A. Kloner, Murray Mittleman, Francesco Montorsi, Piero Montorsi, Ajay Nehra, Richard Sadovsky, Ridwan Shabsigh

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·Neurobiology of U-Shaped Characteristic in Major Adverse Cardiac Events

    Pagina :322

    Ernest H. Friedman

    
  • ·Regression Analysis of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Treatment-Related Time Delay

    Pagina :322

    Russell D. MacDonald, Michelle Welsford, Hans-Richard Arntz

    
  • ·Chest Sonography for Extravascular Lung Water

    Pagina :322-323

    Gino Soldati, Carlo Bergamini

    
  • ·LQTS and SIDS Linkage: Clarifying the Record

    Pagina :323

    Barry J. Maron

    
  • ·Assessing the Quality of Predictive Models for Classification

    Pagina :323-324

    Jainn-Shiun Chiu, Yu-Chuan Li, Yuh-Feng Wang

    
  • ·Correction

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  • ·Correction

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