Sommario

• • ·Happy birthday, GISSI!

    Pagina :187

    Eugene Braunwald

    
• • ·We could all learn from the Italian cardiologists

    Pagina :188-189

    Peter Sleight

    
• • ·On the move?

    Pagina :189

     
• • ·Charting the course of clinical research: From an inspired past to a promising future

    Pagina :190-192

    Paul W. Armstrong, Padma Kaul, VIGOUR group

     
• • ·Transforming the scientific, health care, and sociopolitical culture of an entire country through clinical research: The story of GISSI

    Pagina :193-195

    Salim Yusuf

    
• • ·Turning necrosis into apoptosis: The exacting task that can enhance survival

    Pagina :196-199

    Carol Chen-Scarabelli, Tiziano M. Scarabelli

    
• • ·Treatment of hyperlipidemia in cardiac transplant recipients

    Pagina :200-210

    Kenneth C. Bilchick, Charles A. Henrikson, Diane Skojec, Edward K. Kasper, Roger S. Blumenthal

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·The triglyceride–high-density lipoprotein axis: An important target of therapy?

    Pagina :211-221

    Philippe O. Szapary, Daniel J. Rader

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa
• • ·Participation versus education: The GISSI story and beyond

    Pagina :222-229

    Luigi Tavazzi, Aldo P. Maggioni, Gianni Tognoni

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Cardiovascular disease and chronic kidney disease: Insights and an update

    Pagina :230-242

    Patricia J.M. Best, Donal N. Reddan, Peter B. Berger, Lynda A. Szczech, Peter A. McCullough, Robert M. Califf

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa
• • ·Slowing the progression of diabetic nephropathy and its cardiovascular consequences

    Pagina :243-251

    Peter A. McCullough, George L. Bakris, William F. Owen, Preston S. Klassen, Robert M. Califf

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy for end-stage heart failure

    Pagina :252-253

    Jonathan E.E. Yager, G.Michael Felker

    Mappa Mappa
• • ·Highlights from the American College of Cardiology Annual Scientific Sessions 2004: March 9–12, 2004

    Pagina :254-262

    Svati H. Shah, Jean-Pierre Dery, Michael C. Fischi, John F. Heitner, Geoffrey A. Kunz, Trip J. Meine, Manesh R. Patel, Anne Marie Valente, Richard E. Waters, Jonathan Yager

    Mappa Mappa
• • ·Clopidogrel added to aspirin versus aspirin alone in secondary prevention and high-risk primary prevention: Rationale and design of the Clopidogrel for High Atherothrombotic Risk and Ischemic Stabilization, Management, and Avoidance (CHARISMA) trial

    Pagina :263-268

    Deepak L. Bhatt, Eric J. Topol, CHARISMA Executive Committee *

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Coordinated series of studies to evaluate characteristics and mechanisms of acute coronary syndromes in high-risk patients randomly assigned to enoxaparin or unfractionated heparin: Design and rationale of the SYNERGY Library

    Pagina :269-276

    John L. Petersen, Kenneth W. Mahaffey, Richard C. Becker, Shaun G. Goodman, Neal S. Kleiman, A.J. Marian, Gregg W. Stone, Alexandra J. Lansky, A.Michael Lincoff, Stanley L. Hazen, Christopher C. Nessel, Luis Toro-Figueroa, Lynn Tate, Craig J. Reist, Marc Cohen, Robert M. Califf, James J. Ferguson

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Defining unrecognized myocardial infarction: A call for standardized electrocardiographic diagnostic criteria

    Pagina :277-284

    Khawaja Afzal Ammar, Jan A. Kors, Barbara P. Yawn, Richard J. Rodeheffer

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa
• • ·Association between different lipid-lowering treatment strategies and blood pressure control in the Brisighella Heart Study

    Pagina :285-292

    Claudio Borghi, Ada Dormi, Maddalena Veronesi, Zina Sangiorgi, Antonio Gaddi, Brisighella Heart Study Working Party *

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Is angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor useful in a Japanese population for secondary prevention after acute myocardial infarction? A final report of the Japanese Acute Myocardial Infarction Prospective (JAMP) study

    Pagina :292-299

    Kenji Ueshima, Kennichi Fukami, Katsuhiko Hiramori, Saichi Hosoda, Hiroshi Kishida, Kazuzo Kato, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Kiichiro Tsutani, Akira Sakuma, Japanese Angina and Myocardial Infarction Prospective (JAMP) study group *

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Remnant-like lipoproteins, hormone therapy, and angiographic and clinical outcomes: The Women's Angiographic Vitamin & Estrogen trial

    Pagina :293-299

    Vera Bittner, Mark Tripputi, Judith Hsia, Himanshu Gupta, Michael Steffes, WAVE Investigators

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Acute effect of oral vitamin C on coronary circulation in young healthy smokers

    Pagina :300-305

    Kiyomi Teramoto, Masao Daimon, Rei Hasegawa, Tomohiko Toyoda, Tai Sekine, Takayuki Kawata, Katsuya Yoshida, Issei Komuro

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Too little aspirin for secondary prevention after acute myocardial infarction in patients at high risk for cardiovascular events: Results from the MITRA study

    Pagina :306-311

    Birgit Frilling, Rudolf Schiele, Anselm Kai Gitt, Ralf Zahn, Steffen Schneider, Hans-Georg Glunz, Ulf Gieseler, Edwin Jagodzinski, Jochen Senges, Maximal Individual Therapy in Acute Myocardial Infarction (MITRA) Study Group

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Atrial septal pacing to prevent atrial fibrillation in patients with sinus node dysfunction: Results of a randomized controlled study

    Pagina :312-317

    Jean-Sylvain Hermida, MacIej Kubala, François-Xavier Lescure, Jean Delonca, Jérome Clerc, Akli Otmani, Geneviève Jarry, Jean-Luc Rey

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Quality of life restored to normal in patients with atrial fibrillation after pulmonary vein ostial isolation

    Pagina :318-325

    Helmut Pürerfellner, Martin Martinek, Josef Aichinger, Hans Joachim Nesser, Kitty Kempen, Jacques P.G. Janssen

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Correction

    Pagina :325

    Mappa Mappa
• • ·Detection of asymptomatic arrhythmias in unexplained syncope

    Pagina :326-332

    Andrew D. Krahn, George J. Klein, Raymond Yee, Allan C. Skanes

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Assessment of plaque vulnerability by angioscopic classification of plaque color

    Pagina :333-335

    Yasunori Ueda, Tomohito Ohtani, Masahiko Shimizu, Atsushi Hirayama, Kazuhisa Kodama

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Angiographic perfusion score: An angiographic variable that integrates both epicardial and tissue level perfusion before and after facilitated percutaneous coronary intervention in acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :336-340

    C.Michael Gibson, Sabina A. Murphy, David A. Morrow, Julian M. Aroesty, Raymond J. Gibbons, Steven G. Gourlay, Hal V. Barron, Robert P. Giugliano, Elliott M. Antman, Eugene Braunwald

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Oral rapamycin to prevent human coronary stent restenosis: A pilot study

    Pagina :341-343

    Eduardo Guarda, Eugenio Marchant, Alejandro Fajuri, Alejandro Martínez, Sergio Morán, Manuel Mendez, Polentzi Uriarte, Edith Valenzuela, Rosa Lazen

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa
• • ·Myocardial endothelin-1 release and indices of inflammation during angioplasty for acute myocardial infarction and stable coronary artery disease

    Pagina :341-347

    Andrew J. Taylor, Alex Bobik, Mark Richards, David Kaye, Geoffrey Raines, Paul Gould, Garry Jennings

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Extent of myocardial scarring on nonstress delayed-contrast–enhancement cardiac magnetic resonance imaging correlates directly with degrees of resting regional dysfunction in chronic ischemic heart disease

    Pagina :342-348

    Monvadi B. Srichai, Paulo R. Schvartzman, Bernhard Sturm, Jane M. Kasper, Michael L. Lieber, Richard D. White

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Is hormonal activation during exercise useful for risk stratification in patients with moderate congestive heart failure?

    Pagina :349-355

    Pascal de Groote, Benoît Soudan, Nicolas Lamblin, Nathalie Rouaix-Emery, Eugène Mc Fadden, Thibaut Meurice, Frédéric Mouquet, Christophe Bauters

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Antecedent hypertension and the effect of captopril on the risk of adverse cardiovascular outcomes after acute myocardial infarction with left ventricular systolic dysfunction: Insights from the Survival and Ventricular Enlargement trial

    Pagina :356-364

    Satish Kenchaiah, Barry R. Davis, Eugene Braunwald, Jean-Lucien Rouleau, Gilles R. Dagenais, Bruce Sussex, Richard M. Steingart, Edward J. Brown, Gervasio A. Lamas, David Gordon, Victoria Bernstein, Marc A. Pfeffer

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Response of B-type natriuretic peptide to exercise in hypertensive patients with suspected diastolic heart failure: Correlation with cardiac function, hemodynamics, and workload

    Pagina :365-370

    Philip M. Mottram, Brian A. Haluska, Thomas H. Marwick

    Riassunto Riassunto Mappa Mappa  
• • ·Table of contents

    Pagina :A3

    
• • ·Editorial board

    Pagina :A7

    
• • ·Information for authors

    Pagina :A8

    
• • ·Information for readers

    Pagina :A10