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• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Progress in Cardiology

  • ·Type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, and vascular risk: Rationale and evidence for correcting the lipid imbalance

    Pagina :859-870

    Rafael Carmena

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Antidepressant therapy in patients with ischemic heart disease

    Pagina :871-881

    Wei Jiang, Jonathan R.T. Davidson

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  • ·Noncompliance in cardiovascular clinical trials

    Pagina :882-886

    Victor L. Serebruany, Benjamin R. Oshrine, Alex I. Malinin, Dan Atar, Alan D. Michelson, James J. Ferguson

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• Trial Design

  • ·Design of a registry to characterize “real-world” outcomes of percutaneous coronary revascularization in the drug-eluting stent era

    Pagina :887-892

    Sonia Jacob, David J. Cohen, Joseph Massaro, Paulette Niemyski, Kelly Maresh, Neal Kleiman, for the EVENT Investigators

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  • ·Testing new targets of therapy in advanced heart failure: The design and rationale of the Strategies for Tailoring Advanced Heart Failure Regimens in the Outpatient Setting: BRain NatrIuretic Peptide Versus the Clinical CongesTion ScorE (STARBRITE) trial

    Pagina :893-898

    Monica R. Shah, Karen A. Claise, Margaret T. Bowers, Manjushri Bhapkar, Julie Little, Anju Nohria, Laura H. Gaulden, Vickie K. McKee, Kara L. Cozart, Karen L. Mancinelli, Helen Daniels, Tesca Kinard, Lynne W. Stevenson, Donna M. Mancini, Christopher M. O'Connor, Robert M. Califf

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  • ·Targeted pharmacological reversal of electrical remodeling after cardioversion—Rationale and design of the Flecainide Short-Long (Flec-SL) trial

    Pagina :899.e1

    Paulus Kirchhof, Thomas Fetsch, Peter Hanrath, Thomas Meinertz, Gerhard Steinbeck, Walter Lehmacher, Günter Breithardt

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  • ·A randomized clinical trial of hospital-based, comprehensive cardiac rehabilitation versus usual care for patients with congestive heart failure, ischemic heart disease, or high risk of ischemic heart disease (the DANREHAB trial)—design, intervention, and population

    Pagina :899.e7

    Ann-Dorthe Olsen Zwisler, Lone Schou, Anne Merete Boas Soja, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen, Christian Gluud, Lars Iversen, Bjarne Sigurd, Mette Madsen, Jørgen Fischer-Hansen, the DANREHAB group e

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Global inflammation predicts cardiovascular risk in women: A report from the Women's Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) study

    Pagina :900-906

    Kevin E. Kip, Oscar C. Marroquin, Leslee J. Shaw, Christopher B. Arant, Timothy R. Wessel, Marian B. Olson, B. Delia Johnson, Suresh Mulukutla, George Sopko, C. Noel Bairey Merz, Steven E. Reis

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  • ·Hormone therapy, C-reactive protein, and progression of atherosclerosis: Data from the Estrogen Replacement on Progression of Coronary Artery Atherosclerosis (ERA) trial

    Pagina :907-911

    Susan G. Lakoski, Bridget Brosnihan, David M. Herrington

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  • ·Diabetes status and racial differences in post–myocardial infarction mortality

    Pagina :912-919

    Masoor Kamalesh, Usha Subramanian, Anahita Ariana, Stephen Sawada, Eric Peterson

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  • ·Effects of canrenoate plus angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors versus angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors alone on systolic and diastolic function in patients with acute anterior myocardial infarction

    Pagina :919.e1

    Pietro Di Pasquale, Sergio Cannizzaro, Sebastiano Scalzo, Gaspare Parrinello, Sergio Fasullo, Francesco Giambanco, Antonio Fatta, Salvatore Paterna

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  • ·Size and transmural extent of first-time reperfused myocardial infarction assessed by cardiac magnetic resonance can be estimated by 12-lead electrocardiogram

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    Henrik Engblom, Erik Hedström, Einar Heiberg, Galen S. Wagner, Olle Pahlm, Håkan Arheden

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  • ·Applicability of clinical prediction models in acute myocardial infarction: A comparison of traditional and empirical Bayes adjustment methods

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    Ewout W. Steyerberg, Marinus J.C. Eijkemans, Eric Boersma, J. Dik F. Habbema

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  • ·Cocaine and coronary calcification in young adults : The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study

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    Mark J. Pletcher, Catarina I. Kiefe, Steve Sidney, J. Jeffrey Carr, Cora E. Lewis, Stephen B. Hulley

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  • ·Predictors of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator skill retention

    Pagina :927-932

    Barbara Riegel, Alice Birnbaum, Tom P. Aufderheide, Henry C. Thode, Mark C. Henry, Lois Van Ottingham, Robert Swor, the PAD Investigators

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  • ·Indinavir impairs endothelial function in healthy HIV-negative men

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    Sudha S. Shankar, Michael P. Dubé, J. Christopher Gorski, James E. Klaunig, Helmut O. Steinberg

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  • ·A pilot study: The Noninvasive Surface Cooling Thermoregulatory System for Mild Hypothermia Induction in Acute Myocardial Infarction (The NICAMI Study)

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    Hung Q. Ly, André Denault, Jocelyn Dupuis, Alain Vadeboncoeur, François Harel, André Arsenault, C. Michael Gibson, Raoul Bonan

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  • ·Sex differences in left ventricular function in older persons with mild hypertension

    Pagina :934-940

    Jimmy G. Lim, Edward P. Shapiro, Dhananjay Vaidya, Samer S. Najjar, Katherine L. Turner, Anita C. Bacher, Pamela Ouyang, Kerry J. Stewart

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  • ·Oxygen pulse during exercise is related to resting systolic and diastolic left ventricular function in older persons with mild hypertension

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    Jimmy G. Lim, Timothy J. McAveney, Jerome L. Fleg, Edward P. Shapiro, Katherine L. Turner, Anita C. Bacher, Pamela Ouyang, Kerry J. Stewart

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  • ·The Italian registry for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: A nationwide survey

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    Franco Cecchi, Iacopo Olivotto, Sandro Betocchi, Claudio Rapezzi, Maria Rosa Conte, Gianfranco Sinagra, Elisabetta Zachara, Antonello Gavazzi, Roberto Rordorf, Gianfranco Carnemolla, Maurizio Porcu, Stefano Nistri, Paolo Gruppillo, Simona Giampaoli, on behalf of the participating centers

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  • ·Impact of implantable cardioverter defibrillators on survival and recurrent hospitalization in advanced heart failure

    Pagina :955-960

    Saman Nazarian, William H. Maisel, J. Shawn Miles, Sui Tsang, Lynne W. Stevenson, William G. Stevenson

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  • ·Depression predicts mortality and hospitalization in patients with myocardial infarction complicated by heart failure

    Pagina :961-967

    John S. Rumsfeld, Philip G. Jones, Mary A. Whooley, Mark D. Sullivan, Bertram Pitt, William S. Weintraub, John A. Spertus

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  • ·Racial differences in outcome and treatment effect in congestive heart failure

    Pagina :968-976

    James Mathew, Janet Wittes, Frances McSherry, William Williford, Rekha Garg, Jeffrey Probstfield, Salim Yusuf, Digitalis Investigation Group

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  • ·Diastolic dysfunction after mediastinal irradiation

    Pagina :977-982

    Paul A. Heidenreich, Steven L. Hancock, Randall H. Vagelos, Byron K. Lee, Ingela Schnittger

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  • ·Pilot study to determine the impact of a multidisciplinary educational intervention in patients hospitalized with heart failure

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    Femida H. Gwadry-Sridhar, J. Malcolm O. Arnold, Ying Zhang, James E. Brown, Gordon Marchiori, Gordon Guyatt

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  • ·How do different indicators of cardiac pump function impact upon the long-term prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure?

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    Simon G. Williams, Mark Jackson, George Alastair Cooke, Diane Barker, Ashish Patwala, David Jay Wright, Khaled Albuoaini, Lip-Bun Tan

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  • ·A simplified education program improves knowledge, self-care behavior, and disease severity in heart failure patients in rural settings

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    Mary A. Caldwell, Kathryn J. Peters, Kathleen A. Dracup

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  • ·Blood volume and brain natriuretic peptide in congestive heart failure: A pilot study

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    Karen B. James, Richard W. Troughton, Joseph Feldschuh, Daniel Soltis, Delsa Thomas, Fetnat Fouad-Tarazi

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  • ·Vulnerabilities of patients recovering from an exacerbation of chronic heart failure

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    Debra K. Moser, Lynn V. Doering, Misook L. Chung

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  • ·Economic impact of the reduced incidence of atrial fibrillation in patients with heart failure treated with enalapril

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    Monika Wagner, Donna Rindress, Brigitte Desjardins, Marie-Claude Meilleur, Anique Ducharme, Jean-Claude Tardif

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  • ·Comparative efficacy of nebivolol versus carvedilol on left ventricular function and exercise capacity in patients with nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy. A 12-month study

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    Alexandros P. Patrianakos, Fragiskos I. Parthenakis, Hercules E. Mavrakis, George F. Diakakis, Gregorios I. Chlouverakis, Panos E. Vardas

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  • ·Intracoronary administration of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells after induction of short ischemia is safe and may improve hibernation and ischemia in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy

    Pagina :986.e1

    Alex Blatt, Gad Cotter, Marina Leitman, Ricardo Krakover, Edo Kaluski, Olga Milo-Cotter, Igor B. Resnick, Simcha Samuel, David Gozal, Zvi Vered, Shimon Slavin, Michael Y. Shapira

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  • ·A randomized trial in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary angioplasty: Roxithromycin does not reduce clinical restenosis but angioplasty increases antibody concentrations against Chlamydia pneumoniae

    Pagina :987-993

    Jan Kaehler, Antje Haar, Klaus-Peter Schaps, Andreas Gaede, Marion Carstensen, Ilka Schalwat, Ralf Koester, Rainer Laufs, Thomas Meinertz, Wolfram Terres

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  • ·“Full metal jacket” (stented length ?64 mm) using drug-eluting stents for de novo coronary artery lesions

    Pagina :994-999

    Jiro Aoki, Andrew T.L. Ong, Gaston A. Rodriguez Granillo, Eugène P. McFadden, Carlos A.G. van Mieghem, Marco Valgimigli, Keiichi Tsuchida, Georgios Sianos, Evelyn Regar, Peter P.T. de Jaegere, Willem J. van der Giessen, Pim J. de Feyter, Ron T. van Domburg, Patrick W. Serruys

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  • ·Admission glucose concentrations independently predict early and late mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated by primary or rescue percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :1000-1006

    Edwin Straumann, David J. Kurz, Jörg Muntwyler, Irene Stettler, Marcel Furrer, Barbara Naegeli, Jürgen Frielingsdorf, Ernst Schuiki, Raymond Mury, Osmund Bertel, Giatgen A. Spinas

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  • ·Relationship of a comprehensive panel of plasma oxidized low-density lipoprotein markers to angiographic restenosis in patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for stable angina

    Pagina :1007-1014

    Amit Segev, Bradley H. Strauss, Joseph L. Witztum, Herbert K. Lau, Sotirios Tsimikas

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  • ·Left ventricular remodeling after primary coronary angioplasty in patients treated with abciximab or intracoronary adenosine

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    Anna S. Petronio, Marco De Carlo, Nicola Ciabatti, Giovanni Amoroso, Ugo Limbruno, Caterina Palagi, Vitantonio Di Bello, Maria F. Romano, Mario Mariani

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  • ·Early versus periprocedural administration of abciximab for primary angioplasty: A pooled analysis of 6 studies

    Pagina :1015.e11

    Jochen Gödicke, Marcus Flather, Marko Noc, Mariann Gyöngyösi, Hans-Richard Arntz, Lars Grip, Henrique Mesquita Gabriel, Kurt Huber, Fiona Nugara, Joachim Schröder, Leif Svensson, Duolao Wang, Simona Zorman, Gilles Montalescot

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  • ·Coronary artery calcifications in the long-term follow-up of Kawasaki disease

    Pagina :1016.e1

    Gul H. Dadlani, Robert L. Gingell, Joseph D. Orie, Jean-Michel Roland, Jan Najdzionek, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Daniel R. Pieroni, Steven E. Lipshultz

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  • ·Sex differences in depression after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

    Pagina :1017-1025

    Rachel H.B. Mitchell, Emma Robertson, Paula J. Harvey, Robert Nolan, Gary Rodin, Sarah Romans, Beth L. Abramson, Stephanie J. Brister, Joan Ivanov, Donna E. Stewart

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  • ·The association between prior percutaneous coronary intervention and short-term outcomes after coronary artery bypass grafting

    Pagina :1026-1031

    Ansar Hassan, Karen J. Buth, Roger J.F. Baskett, Imtiaz S. Ali, Andrew Maitland, John A.P. Sullivan, William A. Ghali, Gregory M. Hirsch

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  • ·The relationship between C-reactive protein and subclinical cardiovascular disease in the Diabetes Heart Study (DHS)

    Pagina :1032-1038

    Donald W. Bowden, Leslie A. Lange, Carl D. Langefeld, K. Bridget Brosnihan, Barry I. Freedman, J. Jeffrey Carr, Lynne E. Wagenknecht, David M. Herrington

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  • ·Alterations of high-density lipoprotein subclasses in endogenous hypertriglyceridemia

    Pagina :1039-1045

    Lantu Gou, Mingde Fu, Yanhua Xu, Ying Tian, Bingyu Yan, Luchuan Yang

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  • ·Clinical profile and outcomes of diabetic and nondiabetic patients in cardiac rehabilitation

    Pagina :1046-1051

    Lisa Hindman, James M. Falko, Michelle LaLonde, Richard Snow, Teresa Caulin-Glaser

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  • ·Women in cardiac rehabilitation: Outcomes and identifying risk for dropout

    Pagina :1052-1058

    Bonnie K. Sanderson, Vera Bittner

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  • ·Burst bicycle exercise facilitates diagnosis of latent long QT syndrome

    Pagina :1059-1063

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

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  • ·Indications for internal cardioverter defibrillator implantation predict time to first shock and the modulating effect of ?-blockers

    Pagina :1064.e1

    Haitham Hreybe, Maninder Bedi, Rana Ezzeddine, William Barrington, Sandeep Jain, Ogundu Ngwu, Samir Saba

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  • ·Effect of C-reactive protein reduction on paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

    Pagina :1064.e7

    John Dernellis, Maria Panaretou

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  • ·Is ambulatory monitoring for “community-acquired” syncope economically attractive? A cost-effectiveness analysis of a randomized trial of external loop recorders versus Holter monitoring

    Pagina :1065.e1

    Marie Antoinette Rockx, Jeffrey S. Hoch, George J. Klein, Raymond Yee, Allan C. Skanes, Lorne J. Gula, Andrew D. Krahn

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  • ·The effects of enhanced external counterpulsation on myocardial perfusion in patients with stable angina: A multicenter radionuclide study

    Pagina :1066-1073

    Andrew D. Michaels, Ajit Raisinghani, Ozlem Soran, Paul-Andre de Lame, Michele L. Lemaire, Paul Kligfield, Denny D. Watson, C. Richard Conti, George Beller

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  • ·Screening for coronary artery disease in patients with diabetes: A Bayesian strategy of clinical risk evaluation and exercise echocardiography

    Pagina :1074-1080

    Dhrubo J. Rakhit, Melodie Downey, Leanne Jeffries, Stuart Moir, Johannes B. Prins, Thomas H. Marwick

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  • ·Ultrasound-detected carotid plaque as a screening tool for advanced subclinical atherosclerosis

    Pagina :1081-1085

    Rachael A. Wyman, Michael C. Fraizer, Jon G. Keevil, Kjersten L. Busse, Susan E. Aeschlimann, Claudia E. Korcarz, James H. Stein

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  • ·The use and effect of surgical therapy for prosthetic valve infective endocarditis: A propensity analysis of a multicenter, international cohort

    Pagina :1086-1091

    Andrew Wang, Paul Pappas, Kevin J. Anstrom, Elias Abrutyn, Vance G. Fowler, Bruno Hoen, Jose M. Miro, G. Ralph Corey, Lars Olaison, Judith A. Stafford, Carlos A. Mestres, Christopher H. Cabell, International Collaboration on Endocarditis Investigators g

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  • ·Use of surgery in patients with native valve infective endocarditis: Results from the International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database

    Pagina :1092-1098

    Christopher H. Cabell, Elias Abrutyn, Vance G. Fowler, Bruno Hoen, Jose M. Miro, G. Ralph Corey, Lars Olaison, Paul Pappas, Kevin J. Anstrom, Judith A. Stafford, Susannah Eykyn, Gilbert Habib, Carlos A. Mestres, Andrew Wang, ICE-MD Investigators i International Collaboration on Endocarditis Merged Database (ICE-MD) Study Group

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  • ·Analysis of mortality and risk factors associated with native valve endocarditis in drug users: The importance of vegetation size

    Pagina :1099-1106

    Pilar Martín-Dávila, Enrique Navas, Jesús Fortún, Jose Luis Moya, Javier Cobo, Vicente Pintado, Carmen Quereda, Manuel Jiménez-Mena, Santiago Moreno

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  • ·Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibition on mitral regurgitation severity, left ventricular size, and functional capacity

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    Kevin M. Harris, Dorothee M. Aeppli, Charles F. Carey

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• Letters to the Editor

  • ·Sotalol and amiodarone versus digoxin for conversion of recent onset atrial fibrillation

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    Henrique Horta Veloso, Angelo A.V. de Paola

    
  • ·Reply to Veloso

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    Stuart P. Thomas, Duncan Guy, Elisabeth Wallace, Roselyn Crampton, Pat Kijvanit, Vicki Eipper, David L. Ross, Mark J. Cooper