Sommario

• • ·Table of Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Authors

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorial

  • ·Left ventricular geometry: Does shape matter?

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    Supriya Sehgal, Mark H. Drazner

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  • ·The evolution of evidence: Cautionary notes for the clinician and the meta-analyst

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    Finlay A. McAlister, Rachid Mohamed

    
  • ·Commentary: Medicare Coverage Advisory Committee meeting on noninvasive imaging for coronary artery disease

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    Stuart Caplan, James A. Rollins, Louis B. Jacques, Steve E. Phurrough

    

• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Noninvasive imaging for coronary artery disease: A technology assessment for the Medicare Coverage Advisory Commission

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    Manesh R. Patel, Lynne M. Hurwitz, Lori Orlando, Douglas C. McCrory, Gillian D. Sanders, David B. Matchar, Daniel Mark

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Prevalence of persistent platelet reactivity despite use of aspirin: A systematic review

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    Marcel M.C. Hovens, Jaapjan D. Snoep, Jeroen C.J. Eikenboom, Johanna G. van der Bom, Bart J.A. Mertens, Menno V. Huisman

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  • ·Do endocrine treatments for breast cancer have a negative impact on lipid profiles and cardiovascular risk in postmenopausal women?

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    Sandra Lewis

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  • ·Curriculum in cardiology: Integrated diagnosis and management of diastolic heart failure

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    Kavitha M. Chinnaiyan, Daniel Alexander, Michael Maddens, Peter A. McCullough

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• Trial Design

  • ·Heart Failure and A Controlled Trial Investigating Outcomes of Exercise TraiNing (HF-ACTION): Design and rationale

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    David J. Whellan, Christopher M. O'Connor, Kerry L. Lee, Steven J. Keteyian, Lawton S. Cooper, Stephen J. Ellis, Eric S. Leifer, William E. Kraus, Dalane W. Kitzman, James A. Blumenthal, David S. Rendall, Nancy Houston-Miller, Jerome L. Fleg, Kevin A. Schulman, Ileana L. Piña, on behalf of the HF-ACTION Trial Investigators

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  • ·Design and rationale for the Myocardial Stem Cell Administration After Acute Myocardial Infarction (MYSTAR) Study: A multicenter, prospective, randomized, single-blind trial comparing early and late intracoronary or combined (percutaneous intramyocardial and intracoronary) administration of nonselected autologous bone marrow cells to patients after acute myocardial infarction

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    Noémi Nyolczas, Mariann Gyöngyösi, Gilbert Beran, Markus Dettke, Senta Graf, Heinz Sochor, Günther Christ, István Édes, László Balogh, Korff T. Krause, Kai Jaquet, Karl-Heinz Kuck, Imre Benedek, Theodora Hintea, Róbert Kiss, István Préda, Vladimir Kotevski, Hristo Pejkov, Darius Dudek, Grzegorz Heba, Christer Sylven, Silvia Charwat, Ronaldo Jacob, Gerald Maurer, Irene Lang, Dietmar Glogar

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• AHJ at the Meetings

  • ·Highlights from the 20th Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association: November 12 to 15, 2006, Chicago, Illinois

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    James S. Mills, George L. Adams, Pierluigi Tricoci, Chiara Melloni, E. Marc Joliceur, Tracy W. Wang, Kevin L. Thomas

    

• Clinical Investigations

  • ·A population-based analysis of the class effect of ?-blockers after myocardial infarction

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    Stéphane Rinfret, Michal Abrahamowicz, Jack Tu, Karin Humphries, Mark J. Eisenberg, Hugues Richard, Peter C. Austin, Louise Pilote

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  • ·Prognostic importance of right ventricular infarction in an acute myocardial infarction cohort referred for contemporary percutaneous reperfusion therapy

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    Abid R. Assali, Igal Teplitsky, Itsik Ben-Dor, Alejandro Solodky, David Brosh, Alexander Battler, Shmuel Fuchs, Ran Kornowski

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  • ·Intracoronary infusion of the mobilized peripheral blood stem cell by G-CSF is better than mobilization alone by G-CSF for improvement of cardiac function and remodeling: 2-Year follow-up results of the Myocardial Regeneration and Angiogenesis in Myocardial Infarction with G-CSF and Intra-Coronary Stem Cell Infusion (MAGIC Cell) 1 trial

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    Hyun-Jae Kang, Hyo-Soo Kim, Bon-Kwon Koo, Yong-Jin Kim, DongSoo Lee, Dae-Won Sohn, Byung-Hee Oh, Young-Bae Park

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  • ·Left ventricular geometric patterns in the Jackson cohort of the atherosclerotic risk in communities (ARIC) study: Clinical correlates and influences on systolic and diastolic dysfunction

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    Ervin R. Fox, Jason Taylor, Herman Taylor, Hui Han, Tandaw Samdarshi, Donna Arnett, Merle Myerson

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  • ·The use of B-type natriuretic peptide to assess volume status in patients with end-stage renal disease

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    Victoria Sheen, Vikas Bhalla, Alisi Tulua-Tata, Meenakshi A. Bhalla, Danielle Weiss, Albert Chiu, Omaran Abdeen, Scott Mullaney, Alan Maisel

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  • ·Long-term costs and resource use in elderly participants with congestive heart failure in the Cardiovascular Health Study

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    Lawrence Liao, Kevin J. Anstrom, John S. Gottdiener, Paul A. Pappas, David J. Whellan, Dalane W. Kitzman, Gerard P. Aurigemma, Daniel B. Mark, Kevin A. Schulman, James G. Jollis

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  • ·Survival rates as a guide to implanted cardioverter-defibrillator replacement strategies for device recalls—Adding statistical insight to clinical intuition

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    Lorne J. Gula, David Massel, Andrew D. Krahn, Allan C. Skanes, Raymond Yee, George J. Klein

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  • ·Alcohol consumption and risk and prognosis of atrial fibrillation among older adults: The Cardiovascular Health Study

    Pagina :260-266

    Kenneth J. Mukamal, Bruce M. Psaty, Pentti M. Rautaharju, Curt D. Furberg, Lewis H. Kuller, Murray A. Mittleman, John S. Gottdiener, David S. Siscovick

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  • ·Long-term noninvasive arrhythmia assessment after total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair

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    Ronn E. Tanel, Paul M. Kirshbom, Stephen M. Paridon, Diane M. Hartman, Nancy B. Burnham, Michael G. McBride, Richard F. Ittenbach, Thomas L. Spray, J. William Gaynor

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  • ·N-Acetylcysteine in the prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy: Publication bias perpetuated by meta-analyses

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    Paul T. Vaitkus, Charanjit Brar

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  • ·Novel predictor of prognosis from exercise stress testing: Heart rate variability response to the exercise treadmill test

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    Frederick E. Dewey, James V. Freeman, Gregory Engel, Raul Oviedo, Nayana Abrol, Natasha Ahmed, Jonathan Myers, Victor F. Froelicher

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  • ·Effect of timing of clopidogrel administration on 30-day clinical outcomes: 300-mg loading dose immediately after coronary stenting versus pretreatment 6 to 24 hours before stenting in a large unselected patient cohort

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    Tibor Szük, Mariann Gyöngyösi, Nóra Homorodi, Èva Kristóf, Csaba Király, István F. Èdes, Andrea Facskó, Noemi Pavo, Gottfried Sodeck, Christoph Strehblow, Serdar Farhan, Gerald Maurer, Dietmar Glogar, Hans Domanovits, Kurt Huber, István Èdes

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  • ·Anatomical and physiologic assessments in patients with small coronary artery disease: Final results of the Physiologic and Anatomical Evaluation Prior to and After Stent Implantation in Small Coronary Vessels (PHANTOM) trial

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    Marco A. Costa, Manel Sabate, Rodolfo Staico, Fernando Alfonso, Ana C. Seixas, Mariano Albertal, Arthur Crossman, Dominick J. Angiolillo, Martin Zenni, J. Eduardo Sousa, Carlos Macaya, Theodore A. Bass

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  • ·Intravascular ultrasound assessment of drug-eluting stent expansion

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    Jose de Ribamar Costa, Gary S. Mintz, Stéphane G. Carlier, Kenichi Fujii, Koichi Sano, Masashi Kimura, Kaoru Tanaka, Ricardo A. Costa, Joanna Lui, Yingbo Na, Celia Castellanos, Sinan Biro, Issam Moussa, Gregg W. Stone, Jeffrey W. Moses, Martin B. Leon

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  • ·Importance of complete revascularization in patients with acute myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention

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    Zbigniew Kalarus, Rados?aw Lenarczyk, Jacek Kowalczyk, Oskar Kowalski, Mariusz G?sior, Tomasz W?s, Tadeusz Z?bik, Hubert Krupa, Piotr Chodór, Lech Polo?ski, Marian Zembala

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  • ·Correction

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  • ·Socioeconomic disparities in outcomes after acute myocardial infarction

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    Susannah M. Bernheim, John A. Spertus, Kimberly J. Reid, Elizabeth H. Bradley, Rani A. Desai, Eric D. Peterson, Saif S. Rathore, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Philip G. Jones, Ali Rahimi, Harlan M. Krumholz

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  • ·Variation in cardiac procedure use and racial disparity among Veterans Affairs Hospitals

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    Peter W. Groeneveld, Gregory B. Kruse, Zhen Chen, David A. Asch

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  • ·Correction

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  • ·Racial differences in coronary artery calcification are not attributed to differences in lipoprotein particle sizes: The Heart Strategies Concentrating on Risk Evaluation (Heart SCORE) Study

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    Aryan N. Aiyer, Kevin E. Kip, Oscar C. Marroquin, Suresh R. Mulukutla, Daniel Edmundowicz, Steven E. Reis

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  • ·Efficacy and safety of the coadministration of ezetimibe/simvastatin with fenofibrate in patients with mixed hyperlipidemia

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    Michel Farnier, Eli Roth, Blas Gil-Extremera, Gustavo F. Mendez, Geraldine Macdonell, Constance Hamlin, Inna Perevozskaya, Michael J. Davies, Debra Kush, Yale B. Mitchel, for the Ezetimibe/Simvastatin + Fenofibrate Study Group f

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  • ·Progression of aortic regurgitation after surgical repair of outlet-type ventricular septal defects

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    Shuenn-Nan Chiu, Jou-Kou Wang, Ming-Tai Lin, Chun-An Chen, Hui-Chi Chen, Chung-I Chang, Yih-Sharng Chen, Ing-Sh Chiu, Hung-Chi Lue, Mei-Hwan Wu

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