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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·β-Blocker withdrawal: The song of Orpheus

    Pagina :387-389

    Eric J. Eichhorn

    
• • ·To train or not to train

    Pagina :390-391

    Alexis H. Tilley, Gary L. Stiles

    
• • ·Transradial cardiac catheterization: Is femoral access obsolete?

    Pagina :392-393

    Charanjit S. Rihal, David R. Holmes

    
• • ·Practice still makes perfect

    Pagina :394-395

    James G. Jollis

    
• • ·Racial differences in the use of invasive cardiac procedures: A continuous quality improvement approach

    Pagina :396-399

    Stuart E. Sheifer, Kevin A. Schulman

    
• • ·Long-term nitrate use in chronic coronary artery disease: Need for a randomized controlled trial

    Pagina :400-402

    Koon K. Teo, Diane J. Catellier

    
• • ·Clinical features of Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

    Pagina :403-413

    Sana M. Al-Khatib, Edward L.C. Pritchett

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• • ·Assessing the cost of a cardiology residency program with a cost construction model

    Pagina :414-421

    Luisa Franzini, Shawn C. Chen, A.Iain McGhie, M.David Low

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• • ·Predictors of patient-reported physical and mental health 6 months after percutaneous coronary revascularization

    Pagina :422-429

    Ira S. Nash, Lesley H. Curtis, Haya Rubin

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• • ·Effect of transradial access on quality of life and cost of cardiac catheterization: A randomized comparison

    Pagina :430-436

    Christopher J. Cooper, Reda A. El-Shiekh, David J. Cohen, Linda Blaesing, Mark W. Burket, Asish Basu, Joseph A. Moore

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• • ·Coronary artery stent outcomes in a Medicare population: Less emergency bypass surgery and lower mortality rates in patients with stents

    Pagina :437-440

    James L. Ritchie, Charles Maynard, Nathan R. Every, Michael K. Chapko

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• • ·Long-term outcome of patients with very long stents for treatment of diffuse coronary disease

    Pagina :441-445

    Yoseph Rozenman, Adrian Mereuta, David Schechter, Morris Mosseri, Chaim Lotan, Hisham Nassar, A.Teddy Weiss, Yonathan Hasin, Roland Chisin, Mervyn S. Gotsman

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• • ·Primary stenting in acute myocardial infarction: Influence of diabetes mellitus in angiographic results and clinical outcome

    Pagina :446-455

    Jose A. Silva, Stephen R. Ramee, Christopher J. White, Tyrone J. Collins, J.Stephen Jenkins, Eduardo Nunez, Shuyang Zhang, Suresh P. Jain

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• • ·Can β-blocker therapy be withdrawn from patients with dilated cardiomyopathy?

    Pagina :456-459

    Shin-ichiro Morimoto, Keisuke Shimizu, Kenji Yamada, Shinya Hiramitsu, Hitoshi Hishida

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• • ·Pulmonary function, cardiac function, and exercise capacity in a follow-up of patients with congestive heart failure treated with carvedilol

    Pagina :460-467

    Marco Guazzi, Piergiuseppe Agostoni, Marco Matturri, Gianluca Pontone, Maurizio D. Guazzi

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• • ·Effect of distal stenosis of internal thoracic artery bypass grafts on longitudinal phasic blood flow velocity characteristics

    Pagina :468-476

    Jun Koyama, Mafumi Owa, Kiyoshi Asakawa, Hiroyuki Hikita, Katsuichirou Ohkubo, Shuichi Ikeda

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• • ·Symptoms, left ventricular function, and timing of valve replacement surgery in patients with aortic regurgitation

    Pagina :477-485

    Flávio Tarasoutchi, Max Grinberg, José Parga Filho, Mariza Izaki, Luiz F. Cardoso, Pablo Pomerantezeff, Amit Nuschbacher, Protasio L. da Luz

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• • ·Anthropometric and physiologic correlates of mitral valve prolapse in a biethnic cohort of young adults: The CARDIA study

    Pagina :486-492

    John M. Flack, John H. Kvasnicka, Julius M. Gardin, Samuel S. Gidding, Teri A. Manolio, David R. Jacobs, For the CARDIA Investigators

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• • ·Neurosurgical evacuation of intracranial hemorrhage after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction: Experience from the GUSTO-I Trial

    Pagina :493-499

    Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Christopher B. Granger, Michael A. Sloan, Cindy L. Green, Joel M. Gore, W.Douglas Weaver, Harvey D. White, Maarten L. Simoons, Gabriel I. Barbash, Eric J. Topol, Robert M. Califf, For the GUSTO-I Investigators

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• • ·Ethnicity and long-term outcome after an acute coronary event

    Pagina :500-506

    Yasuyuki Nakamura, Arthur J Moss, Mary W. Brown, Masahiko Kinoshita, Chuichi Kawai, For the Multicenter Myocardial Ischemia Research Group

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• • ·Impact of availability of hospital-based invasive cardiac services on racial differences in the use of these services

    Pagina :507-517

    Patrice M. Gregory, George G. Rhoads, Alan C. Wilson, Kenneth J. O’Dowd, John B. Kostis

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• • ·Thrombolysis with saruplase versus streptokinase in acute myocardial infarction: Five-year results of the PRIMI Trial

    Pagina :518-524

    Martin Spiecker, Jürgen Windeler, Frank Vermeer, Rolf Michels, Ricardo Seabra-Gomes, Jürgen vom Dahl, Sebastian Kerber, Freek W.A. Verheugt, Pieter W. Westerhof, Frits W. Bär, Uwe Nixdorff, Hannes Barth, Gwyn R. Hopkins, Michael J.M. von Fisenne, Jürgen Meyer, For the PRIMI Investigators

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• • ·Continuous ST-segment monitoring associated with infarct size and left ventricular function in the GUSTO-I trial

    Pagina :525-532

    Karel G.M. Moons, Peter Klootwijk, Simon H. Meij, Gerrit-Anne van Es, Taco Baardman, Timo Lenderink, Marcel van den Brand, J.Dik F. Habbema, Diederick E. Grobbee, Maarten L. Simoons

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• • ·Bedside markers of coronary artery patency and short-term prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction and thrombolysis

    Pagina :533-539

    Ramón Corbalán, Juan C. Prieto, Eduardo Chavez, Carolina Nazzal, Francisco Cumsille, Mitchell Krucoff

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• • ·Sex and race differences in short-term prognosis after acute coronary heart disease events: The Atherosclerosis Risk In Communities (ARIC) study

    Pagina :540-548

    Alice D. White, Wayne D. Rosamond, Lloyd E. Chambless, Neal Thomas, David Conwill, Lawton S. Cooper, Aaron R. Folsom, For the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study investigators

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• • ·Relation between myocardial infarction, depression, hostility, and death

    Pagina :549-554

    Michael W. Kaufmann, John P. Fitzgibbons, Elliot J. Sussman, James F. Reed, Jeaninne M. Einfalt, Joanne K. Rodgers, Gregory L. Fricchione

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• • ·Increased expression of the CD11b/CD18 antigen on the surface of peripheral white blood cells in patients with ischemic heart disease: Further evidence for smoldering inflammation in patients with atherosclerosis

    Pagina :555-559

    Michael Kassirer, David Zeltser, Vitali Prochorov, Guy Schoenman, Aaron Frimerman, Gad Keren, Itzhak Shapira, Hylton Miller, Arie Roth, Nadir Arber, Amiram Eldor, Shlomo Berliner

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• • ·Diastolic potentials in verapamil-sensitive ventricular tachycardia: True potentials or bystanders of the reentry circuits?

    Pagina :560-566

    Minoru Sato, Masayuki Sakurai, Akihiko Yotsukura, Tetsuo Betsuyaku, Toshihiro Ito, Izumi Yoshida, Akira Kitabatake

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• • ·Effect of exercise training on heart rate variability in healthy older adults

    Pagina :567-576

    Phyllis K. Stein, Ali A. Ehsani, Peter P. Domitrovich, Robert E. Kleiger, Jeffrey N. Rottman

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• • ·Long-term nitrate use may be deleterious in ischemic heart disease: A study using the databases from two large-scale postinfarction studies

    Pagina :577-585

    Yasuyuki Nakamura, Arthur J Moss, Mary W. Brown, Masahiko Kinoshita, Chuichi Kawai, For the Multicenter Myocardial Ischemia Research Group

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• • ·Posttransplantation cytotoxic immunoglobulin G is associated with a high rate of acute allograft dysfunctions in heart transplant recipients

    Pagina :586-592

    P. Leprince, C. Fretz, R. Dorent, A. Boudifa, J. Jourdan, J.J. Youssoub, V. Bors, P. Nataf, A. Pavie, I. Gandjbakhch

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