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• • ·Editorial board

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• Coronary Artery Disease

  • ·Changing Capacity of Electrocardiographic Ventricular Repolarization in Post-Myocardial Infarction Patients With and Without Nonfatal Cardiac Arrest

    Pagina :295-299

    Jere Järvenpää, Lasse Oikarinen, Petri Korhonen, Heikki Väänänen, Lauri Toivonen, Matti Viitasalo

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  • ·Comparison of Two- and Three-Dimensional Echocardiography With Sequential Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Evaluating Left Ventricular Volume and Ejection Fraction Over Time in Patients With Healed Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :300-306

    Carly Jenkins, Kristen Bricknell, Jonathan Chan, Lizelle Hanekom, Thomas H. Marwick

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  • ·Left Ventricular Diastolic Filling Pattern at Doppler Echocardiography and Apoptotic Rate in Fatal Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :307-309

    Gianfranco Sinagra, Rossana Bussani, Antonio Abbate, Maddalena Piro, Giuseppe G.L. Biondi-Zoccai, Michael C. Kontos, Gastone Sabbadini, Elena Barresi, Filippo Crea, Luigi M. Biasucci, Aneta Aleksova, Bruno Pinamonti, Furio Silvestri, George W. Vetrovec, Alfonso Baldi

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  • ·Assessment by Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance, Electron Beam Computed Tomography, and Carotid Ultrasonography of the Distribution of Subclinical Atherosclerosis Across Framingham Risk Strata

    Pagina :310-314

    Sekar Kathiresan, Martin G. Larson, Michelle J. Keyes, Joseph F. Polak, Philip A. Wolf, Ralph B. D’Agostino, Farouc A. Jaffer, Melvin E. Clouse, Daniel Levy, Warren J. Manning, Christopher J. O’Donnell

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  • ·Racial Differences Among High-Risk Patients Presenting With Non–ST-Segment Elevation Acute Coronary Syndromes (Results from the SYNERGY Trial)

    Pagina :315-321

    Melvin R. Echols, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Anindita Banerjee, Karen S. Pieper, Amanda Stebbins, Alexandra Lansky, Mauricio G. Cohen, Eric Velazquez, Renato Santos, L. Kristin Newby, Enrique P. Gurfinkel, Luigi Biasucci, James J. Ferguson, Robert M. Califf

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  • ·Cardiovascular Effects of Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

    Pagina :322-324

    Nihat Kalay, Ibrahim Ozdogru, Yakup Cetinkaya, Namik Kemal Eryol, Ali Dogan, Ibrahim Gul, Tugrul Inanc, Ibrahim Ikizceli, Abdurrahman Oguzhan, Adnan Abaci

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  • ·Multislice Computed Tomography in an Asymptomatic High-Risk Population

    Pagina :325-328

    Francesco Romeo, Roberto Leo, Fabrizio Clementi, Cinzia Razzini, Mauro Borzi, Eugenio Martuscelli, Francesco Pizzuto, Gaetano Chiricolo, Jawahar L. Mehta

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  • ·Frequency of Percutaneous Coronary Interventions at Facilities Without On-Site Cardiac Surgical Backup—A Report from the American College of Cardiology–National Cardiovascular Data Registry (ACC-NCDR)

    Pagina :329-332

    Gregory J. Dehmer, Michael A. Kutcher, Syamal K. Dey, Richard E. Shaw, William S. Weintraub, Kristi Mitchell, Ralph G. Brindis, ACC-NCDR

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  • ·Comparison of Drug-Eluting Versus Bare Metal Stents on Later Frequency of Acute Myocardial Infarction and Death

    Pagina :333-338

    Robert J. Applegate, Matthew T. Sacrinty, Michael A. Kutcher, Talal T. Baki, Sanjay K. Gandhi, Renato M. Santos, William C. Little

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  • ·Trends in Operator and Hospital Procedure Volume and Outcomes for Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty, 1996 to 2001

    Pagina :339-343

    Susan M. Kansagra, Lesley H. Curtis, Kevin J. Anstrom, Kevin A. Schulman

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  • ·Hemodynamic Significance of Periprocedural Myocardial Injury Assessed With N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients With Stable and Unstable Coronary Artery Disease (from the JUMBO-TIMI 26 Trial)

    Pagina :344-348

    Marc P. Bonaca, Stephen D. Wiviott, Marc S. Sabatine, Jacqueline Buros, Sabina A. Murphy, Benjamin M. Scirica, Nader Rifai, Elliott M. Antman, David A. Morrow

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  • ·Long-Term Versus Short-Term Clopidogrel Therapy in Patients Undergoing Coronary Stenting (from the Randomized Argentine Clopidogrel Stent [RACS] Trial)

    Pagina :349-352

    Víctor Bernardi, Jorge Szarfer, Gabriel Summay, Oscar Mendiz, Ricardo Sarmiento, Máximo Rodriguez Alemparte, José Gabay, Peter B. Berger

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  • ·Effect of Atorvastatin and Pravastatin on Platelet Inhibition by Aspirin and Clopidogrel Treatment in Patients With Coronary Stent Thrombosis

    Pagina :353-356

    Peter Wenaweser, Stephan Windecker, Michael Billinger, Stephane Cook, Mario Togni, Bernhard Meier, Andre Haeberli, Otto M. Hess

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  • ·Protection of Distal Embolization in High-Risk Patients With Acute ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (PREMIAR)

    Pagina :357-363

    Fernando A. Cura, Alejandro Garcia Escudero, Daniel Berrocal, Oscar Mendiz, Marcelo S. Trivi, Juan Fernandez, Alejandro Palacios, Mariano Albertal, Ruben Piraino, Miguel Angel Riccitelli, Luis Gruberg, Miguel Ballarino, Jose Milei, Ricardo Baeza, Jorge Thierer, Liliana Grinfeld, Mitchell Krucoff, William O’Neill, Jorge Belardi, PREMIAR Investigators

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  • ·Outcome of Overlapping Heterogenous Drug-Eluting Stents and of Overlapping Drug-Eluting and Bare Metal Stents

    Pagina :364-368

    Francesco Burzotta, Massimo Siviglia, Luca Altamura, Carlo Trani, Antonio Maria Leone, Enrico Romagnoli, Mario Attilio Mazzari, Rocco Mongiardo, Giampaolo Niccoli, Marta Brancati, Giuseppe Biondi-Zoccai, Antonio Giuseppe Rebuzzi, Giovanni Schiavoni, Filippo Crea

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• Preventive Cardiology

  • ·Relation of the “Hypertriglyceridemic Waist” Phenotype to Earlier Manifestations of Coronary Artery Disease in Patients With Glucose Intolerance and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

    Pagina :369-373

    Julie St-Pierre, Isabelle Lemieux, Patrice Perron, Diane Brisson, Marta Santuré, Marie-Claude Vohl, Jean-Pierre Després, Daniel Gaudet

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  • ·Comparison of Progression of Coronary Calcium in Postmenopausal Women on Versus Not on Estrogen/Progestin Therapy

    Pagina :374-378

    Alexander Becker, Alexander Leber, Franz von Ziegler, Christoph Becker, Andreas Knez

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  • ·Safety of Lovastatin/Extended Release Niacin Compared With Lovastatin Alone, Atorvastatin Alone, Pravastatin Alone, and Simvastatin Alone (from the United States Food and Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System)

    Pagina :379-381

    Alawi A. Alsheikh-Ali, Richard H. Karas

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• Roundtable Discussion

  • ·The Editor’s Roundtable: The Metabolic Syndrome

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    Vincent E. Friedewald, Scott Grundy, Antonio M. Gotto, Stephen Haffner, Margot A. Denke, Priscilla Hollander, William C. Roberts

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• Arrhythmias and Conduction Disturbances

  • ·Association of Atrial Fibrillation in Patients With Interatrial Block Over Prospectively Followed Controls With Comparable Echocardiographic Parameters

    Pagina :390-392

    Vignendra Ariyarajah, Sirin Apiyasawat, Jaxon Fernandes, Mark Kranis, David H. Spodick

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• Heart Failure

  • ·Chronic Kidney Disease Associated Mortality in Diastolic Versus Systolic Heart Failure: A Propensity Matched Study

    Pagina :393-398

    Ali Ahmed, Michael W. Rich, Paul W. Sanders, Gilbert J. Perry, George L. Bakris, Michael R. Zile, Thomas E. Love, Inmaculada B. Aban, Michael G. Shlipak

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  • ·Comparison of Peak Exercise Oxygen Consumption and the Heart Failure Survival Score for Predicting Prognosis in Women Versus Men

    Pagina :399-403

    Philip Green, Lars H. Lund, Donna Mancini

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  • ·Ease of Noninvasive Measurement of Cardiac Output Coupled With Peak VO₂ Determination at Rest and During Exercise in Patients With Heart Failure

    Pagina :404-405

    Chim C. Lang, Paula Karlin, Jennifer Haythe, Lana Tsao, Donna M. Mancini

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• Congenital Heart Disease

  • ·Effect of Beta-Blockade on Ascending Aortic Dilatation in Children With the Marfan Syndrome

    Pagina :406-409

    Magalie Ladouceur, Christophe Fermanian, Jean-Marc Lupoglazoff, Thomas Edouard, Yves Dulac, Philippe Acar, Suzel Magnier, Guillaume Jondeau

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• Reviews

  • ·Safety and Efficacy of Statins in Asians

    Pagina :410-414

    James K. Liao

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  • ·Catheter-Tip Embolectomy in the Management of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism

    Pagina :415-420

    Elias Skaf, Afzal Beemath, Tehmina Siddiqui, Muhammad Janjua, Nikunj R. Patel, Paul D. Stein

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  • ·Outcome of Pulmonary Embolectomy

    Pagina :421-423

    Paul D. Stein, Majd Alnas, Afzal Beemath, Nikunj R. Patel

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• Editorial

  • ·Cypher Versus Taxus: All Smoke and No Fire: Lessons for Future Comparative Drug-Eluting Stent Trials in Interventional Cardiology

    Pagina :424-427

    Ashesh N. Buch, Ron Waksman

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• Readers' Comments

  • ·“Left Bundle Branch Block”

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    J. Willis Hurst

    
  • ·Relative Effectiveness of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors After Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :428-429

    Jacques J. Lelorier

    
  • ·The Impact of Previously Occluded Noninfarct Vessels in Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction

    Pagina :429-430

    Raul Moreno, Maria J. Perez-Vizcayno, Angel Sanchez-Recalde, Luis Calvo, Guillermo Galeote, Fernando Alfonso, Rosana Hernandez, Dominick J. Angiolillo, Esteban Lopez de Sa, Carlos Macaya, José L. López-Sendón

    
  • ·Correction

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