Sommario

• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Instructions for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorial

  • ·The vulnerable endothelium : Priming the vascular endothelium for thrombosis with unfractionated heparin: Biologic plausibility for observations from the Superior Yield of the New Strategy of Enoxaparin, Revascularization and GlYcoprotein IIb/IIIa Inhibitors (SYNERGY) trial

    Pagina :189-192

    Richard C. Becker

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Biopsychosocial experiences of adults with congenital heart disease: Review of the literature

    Pagina :193-201

    Adrienne H. Kovacs, Samuel F. Sears, Arwa S. Saidi

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• Trial Design

  • ·Methodological design for economic evaluation in Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) trial

    Pagina :202-208

    Graham Nichol, George Arthur Wells, Karen Kuntz, David Feeny, Will Longstreth, Brian Mahoney, Clay Mann, Ray Lucas, Mark Henry, Ella Huszti, Alice Birnbaum

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Blood glucose: A strong risk factor for mortality in nondiabetic patients with cardiovascular disease

    Pagina :209-214

    Sidney C. Port, Mark O. Goodarzi, Noel G. Boyle, Robert I. Jennrich

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  • ·Left ventricular ejection fraction to predict early mortality in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndromes

    Pagina :215-220

    Xavier Bosch, Pierre Théroux

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  • ·A randomized trial comparing clopidogrel versus ticlopidine therapy in patients undergoing infarct artery stenting for acute myocardial infarction with abciximab as adjunctive therapy

    Pagina :220.e1

    Guido Parodi, Roberto Sciagrà, Angela Migliorini, Gentian Memisha, Guia Moschi, Renato Valenti, Alberto Pupi, David Antoniucci

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  • ·Heart disease epidemic in Pakistan: Women and men at equal risk

    Pagina :221-226

    Tazeen H. Jafar, Fahim H. Jafary, Saleem Jessani, Nish Chaturvedi

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  • ·Association between cardiac troponin T elevation and angioscopic morphology of culprit lesion in patients with non–ST-segment elevation acute coronary syndrome

    Pagina :227-233

    Tomohito Ohtani, Yasunori Ueda, Masahiko Shimizu, Isamu Mizote, Atushi Hirayama, Masatsugu Hori, Kazuhisa Kodama

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  • ·Symptoms and type of symptom onset in acute coronary syndrome in relation to ST elevation, sex, age, and a history of diabetes

    Pagina :234-242

    Marie Thuresson, Marianne Berglin Jarlöv, Bertil Lindahl, Leif Svensson, Crister Zedigh, Johan Herlitz

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  • ·Candidate gene susceptibility variants predict intermediate end points but not angiographic coronary artery disease

    Pagina :243-250

    Bryant M. Whiting, Jeffrey L. Anderson, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Benjamin D. Horne, Tami L. Bair, Robert R. Pearson, John F. Carlquist, for the Intermountain Heart Collaborative (IHC) Study Group.

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  • ·Reproducibility of nitrate-stimulated tilt testing in patients with suspected vasovagal syncope and a healthy control group

    Pagina :251-256

    Arnaud J.J. Aerts, Paul Dendale, Pierre Block, Willem R.M. Dassen

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  • ·Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme or vasopeptidase inhibition on ventricular size and function in patients with heart failure: The Omapatrilat Versus Enalapril Randomized Trial of Utility in Reducing Events (OVERTURE) echocardiographic study

    Pagina :257-262

    Scott D. Solomon, Hicham Skali, Mikhail Bourgoun, James Fang, Jalal K. Ghali, Michel Martelet, Dariusz Wojciechowski, Baiba Ansmite, Janis Skards, Toivo Laks, David Henry, Milton Packer, Marc A. Pfeffer, for the OVERTURE Investigators

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  • ·Impact of pregnancy-related heart failure on humoral immunity: Clinical relevance of G3-subclass immunoglobulins in peripartum cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :263-269

    Rahat S. Warraich, Karen Sliwa, Albertino Damasceno, Robert Carraway, Bruce Sundrom, Gulnaz Arif, Raffique Essop, Aftab Ansari, James Fett, Magdi Yacoub

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  • ·Walking may be related to less vascular stiffness in the Activity Counseling Trial (ACT)

    Pagina :270-275

    Richard J. Havlik, Caroline L. Phillips, Dwight B. Brock, Kurt Lohman, William Haskell, Peter Snell, Mary O'Toole, Paul Ribisl, Peter Vaitkevicius, Harold A. Spurgeon, Edward G. Lakatta, Paul Pullen

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  • ·Patterns of inflammation associated with peripheral arterial disease: The InCHIANTI study

    Pagina :276-281

    Mary McGrae McDermott, Jack M. Guralnik, Annamaria Corsi, Monique Albay, Claudio Macchi, Stefania Bandinelli, Luigi Ferrucci

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  • ·The benefit of cholesterol-lowering medications after coronary revascularization: A population study

    Pagina :282-286

    James M. Brophy, Paul Brassard, Chantal Bourgault

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  • ·Plasma low-density lipoprotein reduction and structural effects on coronary atherosclerotic plaques by atorvastatin as clinically assessed with intravascular ultrasound radio-frequency signal analysis: A randomized prospective study

    Pagina :287.e1

    Masaki Yokoyama, Nobuyuki Komiyama, Brian K. Courtney, Takashi Nakayama, Susumu Namikawa, Nehiro Kuriyama, Tomomi Koizumi, Mizuo Nameki, Peter J. Fitzgerald, Issei Komuro

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  • ·Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion Study (LAAOS): Results of a randomized controlled pilot study of left atrial appendage occlusion during coronary bypass surgery in patients at risk for stroke

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    Jeff S. Healey, Eugene Crystal, Andre Lamy, Kevin Teoh, Lloyd Semelhago, Stefan H. Hohnloser, Irene Cybulsky, Labib Abouzahr, Corey Sawchuck, Sandra Carroll, Carlos Morillo, Peter Kleine, Victor Chu, Eva Lonn, Stuart J. Connolly

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  • ·Regional myocardial velocities and isovolumic contraction acceleration before and after device closure of atrial septal defects: A color tissue Doppler study

    Pagina :294-301

    Linda B. Pauliks, Kak-Chen Chan, Dennis Chang, Scott K. Kirby, Loralee Logan, Curt G. DeGroff, Mark M. Boucek, Lilliam M. Valdes-Cruz

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  • ·Impact of vitamin E and C supplementation on serum adhesion molecules in chronic degenerative aortic stenosis: A randomized controlled trial

    Pagina :302-306

    Muhammad Tahir, Brendan Foley, Gordon Pate, Peter Crean, David Moore, Nuala McCarroll, Michael Walsh

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  • ·Can we reliably predict long-term mortality after exercise testing? An external validation

    Pagina :307-314

    Barbara Hesse, Anthony Morise, Claire E. Pothier, Eugene H. Blackstone, Michael S. Lauer

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  • ·Coronary venous imaging with electron beam computed tomographic angiography: Three-dimensional mapping and relationship with coronary arteries

    Pagina :315-322

    Songshou Mao, Jerold S. Shinbane, Marc J. Girsky, Janis Child, Sivi Carson, Ronald J. Oudiz, Matthew J. Budoff

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  • ·Resource use, costs, and quality of life among patients in the multinational Valsartan in Acute Myocardial Infarction Trial (VALIANT)

    Pagina :323-329

    Shelby D. Reed, Jasmina I. Radeva, Kevin P. Weinfurt, John J.V. McMurray, Marc A. Pfeffer, Eric J. Velazquez, Jennifer S. Allsbrook, Leah E. Masselink, Mary Ann Sellers, Robert M. Califf, Kevin A. Schulman, for the VALIANT Investigators

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  • ·Inhospital and 1-year mortality of patients who develop worsening renal function following acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction

    Pagina :330-337

    Alexander Goldberg, Haim Hammerman, Sirouch Petcherski, Alexander Zdorovyak, Sergey Yalonetsky, Michael Kapeliovich, Yoram Agmon, Walter Markiewicz, Doron Aronson

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  • ·Effect of lesion length on fractional flow reserve in intermediate coronary lesions

    Pagina :338-343

    David Brosh, Stuart T. Higano, Ryan J. Lennon, David R. Holmes, Amir Lerman

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  • ·Inflammatory response after intervention assessed by serial C-reactive protein measurements correlates with restenosis in patients treated with coronary stenting

    Pagina :344-350

    Alban Dibra, Julinda Mehilli, Siegmund Braun, Martin Hadamitzky, Hannsjörg Baum, Josef Dirschinger, Helmut Schühlen, Albert Schömig, Adnan Kastrati

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  • ·Sirolimus-eluting stent implantation and ?-irradiation for the treatment of in-stent restenotic lesions: Comparison of underlying mechanisms of acute gain and late loss as assessed by volumetric intravascular ultrasound

    Pagina :351-357

    Thomas M. Schiele, Andreas König, Johannes Rieber, Isabelle Erhard, Marcus Leibig, Karl Theisen, Uwe Siebert, Volker Klauss

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  • ·Impact of smoking status on outcomes of primary coronary intervention for acute myocardial infarction—The smoker's paradox revisited

    Pagina :358-364

    Giora Weisz, David A. Cox, Eulogio Garcia, James E. Tcheng, John J. Griffin, Giulio Guagliumi, Thomas D. Stuckey, Barry D. Rutherford, Roxana Mehran, Eve Aymong, Alexandra Lansky, Cindy L. Grines, Gregg W. Stone

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