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• • ·Contents

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• • ·Editorial Board

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• • ·Information for Readers

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• Editorials

  • ·Race, ethnicity, and heart disease: A challenge for cardiology for the 21st century

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    Vivian S. Rambihar, Sherryn P. Rambihar, Vanessa S. Rambihar

     
  • ·Prevention of sudden cardiac death: Need for a plaque stabilizer

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    Arthur J. Moss, Ilan Goldenberg

    

• Results of Expert Meetings

  • ·Planning the Safety of Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Registry Initiative (SAFARI) as a Collaborative Pan-Stakeholder Critical Path Registry Model: A Cardiac Safety Research Consortium “Incubator” Think Tank

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    Sana M. Al-Khatib, Hugh Calkins, Benjamin C. Eloff, Douglas L. Packer, Kenneth A. Ellenbogen, Stephen C. Hammill, Andrea Natale, Richard L. Page, Eric Prystowsky, Warren M. Jackman, William G. Stevenson, Albert L. Waldo, David Wilber, Peter Kowey, Marcia S. Yaross, Daniel B. Mark, James Reiffel, John K. Finkle, Danica Marinac-Dabic, Ellen Pinnow, Phillip Sager, Art Sedrakyan, Daniel Canos, Thomas Gross, Elise Berliner, Mitchell W. Krucoff, for an expert panel participating in this meeting

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• Curriculum in Cardiology

  • ·Altitude and the heart: Is going high safe for your cardiac patient?

    Pagina :25-32

    John P. Higgins, Troy Tuttle, Johanna A. Higgins

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• Clinical Investigations

  • ·Etiology of sudden death in the community: Results of anatomical, metabolic, and genetic evaluation

    Pagina :33-39

    A. Selcuk Adabag, Garry Peterson, Fred S. Apple, Jack Titus, Richard King, Russell V. Luepker

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  • ·Management patterns of non-ST segment elevation acute coronary syndromes in relation to prior coronary revascularization

    Pagina :40-46

    Esam Elbarasi, Shaun G. Goodman, Raymond T. Yan, Robert C. Welsh, Jan Kornder, Graham C. Wong, Jean-Pierre Déry, Fred Anderson, Joel M. Gore, Keith A.A. Fox, Andrew T. Yan, On behalf of the Canadian Acute Coronary Syndrome Registries I and II (ACS I and ACS II) h, Canadian Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE/expanded-GRACE) Investigators i

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  • ·Noninvasive assessment of left ventricular filling pressure after acute myocardial infarction: A prospective study of the relative prognostic utility of clinical assessment, echocardiography, and B-type natriuretic peptide

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    Kirsten Kruszewski, Anne E. Scott, Justin L. Barclay, Gary R. Small, Bernard L. Croal, Jacob E. Møller, Jae K. Oh, Graham S. Hillis

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  • ·Extent of ST-segment resolution after fibrinolysis adds improved risk stratification to clinical risk score for ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction

    Pagina :55-62

    James R. Harkness, Marc S. Sabatine, Eugene Braunwald, David A. Morrow, Sarah Sloan, Stephen D. Wiviott, Robert P. Giugliano, Elliott M. Antman, Christopher P. Cannon, Benjamin M. Scirica

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  • ·Prognostic role of highly sensitive cardiac troponin I in patients with systolic heart failure

    Pagina :63-67

    Takayoshi Tsutamoto, Chiho Kawahara, Keizo Nishiyama, Masayuki Yamaji, Masanori Fujii, Takashi Yamamoto, Minoru Horie

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  • ·Predictive value of B-type natriuretic peptides in detecting latent left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in ?-thalassemia major

    Pagina :68-74

    Dimitrios Th. Kremastinos, Eftihia Hamodraka, John Parissis, Dimitrios Tsiapras, Kleanthi Dima, Alan Maisel

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  • ·Obesity and survival in patients with heart failure and preserved systolic function: A U-shaped relationship

    Pagina :75-80

    John R. Kapoor, Paul A. Heidenreich

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  • ·Association of longitudinal measures of hemoglobin and outcomes after hospitalization for heart failure

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    Pamela N. Peterson, David J. Magid, Ella E. Lyons, Christina L. Clarke, Chan Zeng, Ashley Fitzgerald, JoAnn Lindenfeld, Mikhail Kosiborod, David Brand, Frederick A. Masoudi

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  • ·Glycemia and prognosis of patients with chronic heart failure—Subanalysis of the Long-term Prospective Randomized Controlled Study Using Repetitive Education at Six-Month Intervals and Monitoring for Adherence in Heart Failure Outpatients (REMADHE) trial

    Pagina :90-97

    Victor S. Issa, Alexandre F. Amaral, Fátima D. Cruz, Silvia M. Ayub-Ferreira, Guilherme V. Guimarães, Paulo R. Chizzola, Germano E.C. Souza, Edimar A. Bocchi

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  • ·Intraoperative defibrillation threshold testing during implantable cardioverter-defibrillator insertion: Do we really need it?

    Pagina :98-102

    Valeria Calvi, Daniela Dugo, Davide Capodanno, Rocco Arancio, Angelo Di Grazia, Claudio Liotta, Euglena Puzzangara, Antonio Ragusa, Alberto Arestia, Corrado Tamburino

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  • ·EuroSCORE refines the predictive ability of SYNTAX score in patients undergoing left main percutaneous coronary intervention

    Pagina :103-109

    Davide Capodanno, Marco Miano, Glauco Cincotta, Anna Caggegi, Cettina Ruperto, Rita Bucalo, Alessandra Sanfilippo, Piera Capranzano, Corrado Tamburino

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  • ·Hematomas of at least 5 cm and outcomes in patients undergoing elective percutaneous coronary intervention: Insights from the SafeTy and Efficacy of Enoxaparin in PCI patients, an internationaL randomized Evaluation (STEEPLE) trial

    Pagina :110-116

    Harvey D. White, Philip E. Aylward, Richard Gallo, Christoph Bode, Gabriel Steg, Steven R. Steinhubl, Gilles Montalescot, for the STEEPLE Investigators

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  • ·Safety and feasibility of early hospital discharge in ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction—A prospective and randomized trial in low-risk primary percutaneous coronary intervention patients (the Safe-Depart Trial)

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    Mark A. Kotowycz, Tammy L. Cosman, Corinne Tartaglia, Rizwan Afzal, Renu Pal Syal, Madhu K. Natarajan

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  • ·The incidence and clinical predictors of early stent thrombosis in patients with acute coronary syndrome

    Pagina :118-124

    Roy Beinart, Raed Abu Sham'a, Amit Segev, Hanoch Hod, Victor Guetta, Michael Shechter, Valentina Boyko, Shlomo Behar, Shlomi Matetzky

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  • ·Quantitative impact of cardiovascular risk factors and vascular closure devices on the femoral artery after repeat cardiac catheterization

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    Klaus A. Tiroch, Michael E. Matheny, Frederic S. Resnic

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  • ·Plasma N-terminal fragment of the prohormone B-type natriuretic peptide concentrations in relation to time to treatment and Thrombolysis in Myocardial Infarction (TIMI) flow: A substudy of the Assessment of the Safety and Efficacy of a New Treatment Strategy with Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (ASSENT IV-PCI) trial

    Pagina :131-140

    Rudolf Jarai, Kurt Huber, Kris Bogaerts, Walter Droogne, Justin Ezekowitz, Christopher B. Granger, Peter R. Sinnaeve, Allan M. Ross, Uwe Zeymer, Paul W. Armstrong, Frans J. Van de Werf, on behalf of the ASSENT IV-PCI investigators

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  • ·Percutaneous coronary intervention or coronary artery bypass surgery for cardiogenic shock and multivessel coronary artery disease?

    Pagina :141-147

    Rajendra H. Mehta, Renato D. Lopes, Andrea Ballotta, Alessandro Frigiola, Michael H. Sketch, Eduardo Bossone, Eric R. Bates

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  • ·Incremental value of subclinical left ventricular systolic dysfunction for the identification of patients with obstructive coronary artery disease

    Pagina :148-157

    Gaetano Nucifora, Joanne D. Schuijf, Victoria Delgado, Matteo Bertini, Arthur J.H.A. Scholte, Arnold C.T. Ng, Jacob M. van Werkhoven, J. Wouter Jukema, Eduard R. Holman, Ernst E. van der Wall, Jeroen J. Bax

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