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• • ·Mechanism of high-speed rotational atherectomy and adjunctive balloon angioplasty revisited by quantitative coronary angiography: Edge detection versus videodensitometry

    Pagina :405-412

    Clemens von Birgelen, Victor A. Umans, Carlo Di Mario, David Keane, Robert Gil, Francesco Prati, Pim de Feyter, Patrick W. Serruys

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• • ·Three-dimensional intravascular ultrasound assessment of plaque volume after successful atherectomy

    Pagina :413-419

    Neil J. Weissman, Igor F. Palacios, Stefan M. Nidorf, Robert E. Dinsmore, Arthur E. Weyman

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• • ·Correlation of atherectomy specimen histology with coronary arteriographic lesion morphologic appearance in patients with stable and unstable angina

    Pagina :420-424

    Jacob I. Haft, Christos P. Christou, Jonathan E. Goldstein, Raymond E. Carnes

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• • ·Importance of immediate and very early postprocedural angiographic and thallium-201 single photon emission computed tomographic perfusion measurements in predicting late results after coronary intervention

    Pagina :425-432

    Basil S. Lewis, Ruth Hardoff, Amnon Merdler, Moshe Y. Flugelman, Joe L. Rod, Sarah Gips, Avi Front, David A. Halon

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• • ·Influence of the selection of angiographic projections on the results of coronary angiographic follow-up trials

    Pagina :433-439

    Stefan Jost, Jaap Deckers, Peter Nikutta, Johan H.C. Reiber, Wolfgang Rafflenbeul, Birgitt Wiese, Hartmut Hecker, Paul Lichtlen, International Nifedipine Trial on Antiatherosclerotic Therapy Investigators

    Riassunto Riassunto
• • ·Comparison of vessel wall morphologic appearance a sites of focal and diffuse coronary vasospasm by intravascular ultrasound

    Pagina :440-445

    Jun Koyama, Masakazu Yamagishi, Jun Tamai, Shigeo Kawano, Satoshi Daikoku, Kunio Miyatake

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• • ·Monocyte-related cytokines in acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :446-452

    Hideki Tashiro, Hiroaki Shimokawa, Kunihiko Yamamoto, Mitunori Nagano, Michiko Momohara, Ko-hei Muramatu, Akira Takeshita

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• • ·Twenty-five—year mortality rate decrease in patients in Israel with a first episode of acute myocardial infarction

    Pagina :453-458

    Solomon Behar, Uri Goldbourt, Gabriel Barbash, Baruch Modan, Secondary Prevention Reinfarction Israeli Nifedipine Trial Study Group, Israeli Thrombolytic Survey Group

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• • ·Early and 1-year survival rates in acute myocardial infarction complicated by cardiogenic shock: A retrospective study comparing coronary angioplasty with medical treatment

    Pagina :459-464

    Helene Eltchaninoff, Conrad Simpfendorfer, Irving Franco, Russel E. Raymond, Paul N. Casale, Patrick L. Whitlow

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• • ·Aspirin therapy: Optimized platelet inhibition with different loading and maintenance doses

    Pagina :465-472

    Michael Buerke, Walter Pittroff, Jürgen Meyer, Harald Darius

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• • ·Baroreflex sensitivity, but not heart rate variability, is reduced in patients with life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias long after myocardial infarction

    Pagina :473-480

    Gaetano M. De Ferrari, Maurizio Landolina, Massimo Mantica, Ruggero Manfredini, Peter J. Schwartz, Antonio Lotto

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• • ·Use of signal-averaged electrocardiography for predicting inducible sustained monomorphic ventricular tachycardia in patients with bundle branch block with and without a history of syncope

    Pagina :481-488

    Anders Englund, Mårten Rosenqvist, Lennart Bergfeldt

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• • ·Prognostic importance of the length of ventricular tachycardia in patients with nonischemic congestive heart failure

    Pagina :489-493

    Daniel B. Reese, Michael E. Silverman, Michael R. Gold, Stephen S. Gottlieb

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• • ·Effect of amiodarone therapy on mortality in patients with left ventricular dysfunction and asymptomatic complex ventricular arrhythmias: Argentine pilot study of sudden death and amiodarone (EPAMSA)

    Pagina :494-500

    Jorge J. Garguichevich, JoséL. Ramos, Adolfo Gambarte, Antonio Gentile, Sergio Hauad, Omar Scapin, Juan Sirena, Miguel Tibaldi, Juan Toplikar, Argentine Pilot Study of Sudden Death and Amiodarone Investigators

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• • ·Implantable defibrillators for high-risk patients with heart failure who are awaiting cardiac transplantation

    Pagina :501-506

    Leslie A. Saxon, Isaac Wiener, David B. DeLurgio, Paul D. Natterson, Hillel Laks, Davis C. Drinkwater, William G. Stevenson

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• • ·Evaluating and improving the cost-effectiveness of the implantable cardioverter—defibrillator

    Pagina :507-515

    Joel Kupersmith, Andrew Hogan, Patricia Guerrero, Joseph Gardiner, E.David Mellits, Rosemary Baumgardner, David Rovner, Margaret Holmes-Rovner, Annette McLane, Joseph Levine, Sanjeev Saksena, Lawrence Griffith

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• • ·Modulation of noradrenaline release through presynaptic ⍺₂-adrenoceptors in congestive heart failure

    Pagina :516-521

    Shinya Minatoguchi, Hiroyasu Ito, Koji Ishimura, Hiroko Watanabe, Yoko Imai, Masatoshi Koshiji, Kiyoji Asano, Senri Hirakawa, Hisayoshi Fujiwara

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• • ·Prevention of nitroglycerin tolerance with diuretics

    Pagina :522-527

    Nita Mohanty, Alan G. Wasserman, Pamela Walker, Richard J. Katz

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• • ·Cardiac immunocyte-derived (AL) amyloidosis: An endomyocardial biopsy study in 11 patients

    Pagina :528-536

    Eloisa Arbustini, Giampaolo Merlini, Antonello Gavazzi, Maurizia Grasso, Marta Diegoli, Roberta Fasani, Vittorio Bellotti, Gabriella Marinone, Patrizia Morbini, Barbara Dal Bello, Carlo Campana, Victor J. Ferrans

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• • ·Plasma endothelin-1 in patients with left-to-right shunt

    Pagina :537-542

    Matthias Gorenflo, Peter Gross, Alexandra Bodey, Lothar Schmitz, Konrad Brockmeier, Felix Berger, Georg Bein, Peter E. Lange

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• • ·Utility of transesophageal echocardiography in the examination of adult patients with patent ductus arteriosus

    Pagina :543-546

    Alejandra Andrade, Jesus Vargas-Barron, Maria Rijlaarsdam, Angel Romero-Cardenas, Candace Keirns, Nilda Espinola

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• • ·Efficacy and safety of combined anticoagulant and antiplatelet therapy versus anticoagulant monotherapy after mechanical heart-valve replacement: A metaanalysis

    Pagina :547-552

    Joseph C. Cappelleri, Louis D. Fiore, Mary T. Brophy, Daniel Deykin, Joseph Lau

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• • ·Identification of hibernating myocardium by dobutamine stress echocardiography: Comparison with thallium-201 reinjection imaging

    Pagina :553-563

    Tuhin Haque, Takami Furukawa, Masayuki Takahashi, Masahiko Kinoshita

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• • ·Life-threatening alterations in heart rate after the use of adenosine in atrial flutter

    Pagina :564-571

    Michael A. Brodsky, Chun Hwang, Dodie Hunter, Peng-Sheng Chen, David Smith, Mehrdad Ariani, Warren D. Johnston, Byron J. Allen, James G. Chun, Claudia R. Gold

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• • ·Clinicians and patients with hypertension: Unsettled issues about compliance

    Pagina :572-579

    Peter Rudd

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• • ·Preventing and arresting coronary atherosclerosis

    Pagina :580-600

    William Clifford Roberts

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• • ·Endothelin and endothelin antagonism: Roles in cardiovascular health and disease

    Pagina :601-610

    Praveen Tamirisa, William H. Frishman, Anil Kumar

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• • ·Bilateral vitreous hemorrhages as a consequence of thrombolytic therapy successfully treated with vitrectomy in a patient without diabetes

    Pagina :611-612

    Zannos G. Grekos, Douglas D. Schocken

    
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiography to diagnose and assess repair of aortic cusp perforation caused by directional coronary atherectomy

    Pagina :612-613

    Howard J. Willens, Allan Wolpowitz, William D. Nitzberg, Kenneth M. Kessler

    
• • ·Catheter ablation of left-sided accessory pathway with left superior vena cava

    Pagina :613-615

    C.S. Ma, Dayi Hu, Q. Fang, L.H. Shang, L.F. Wang, Michael K. Belz, Mark A. Wood

    
• • ·Improved definition of anomalous left coronary artery by magnetic resonance coronary angiography

    Pagina :615-617

    Warren J. Manning, Wei Li, Stafford I. Cohen, Robert G. Johnson, Robert R. Edelman

    
• • ·Obstruction of the systemic venous pathway after closure of an adjustable atrial septal defect in the modified Fontan operation

    Pagina :617-618

    Daniel M. Cohen, John J. Wheller, J.Terrance Davis, Hugh D. Allen

    
• • ·Use of extra corporeal membrane oxygenation to maintain oxygenation during pediatric interventional cardiac catheterization

    Pagina :619-620

    Cameron J.B. Ward, Charles E. Mullins, Leanne J. Barron, Ronald G. Grifka, Michael R. Gomez, Maria R. Cuellar-Gomez

    
• • ·Extrapericardial cardiac tamponade after blunt chest trauma

    Pagina :620-621

    Roger J. Hajjar, Geoffrey A. Rose, Joren C. Madsen, Robert A. Levine, Roman W. DeSanctis

    
• • ·Severe tricuspid stenosis: An unusual and unique cause

    Pagina :621-624

    Karl Foster-Smith, William D. Edwards, Brian O'Murchu, A.Jamil Tajik, Hartzell V. Schaff, Robert S. Schwartz

    
• • ·Late discovery of cor triatriatum as a result of unilateral pulmonary venous obstruction

    Pagina :624-627

    Richard A. Kerensky, Barry D. Bertolet, Michael Epstein

    
• • ·Transesophageal echocardiography in the management of mitral valve myxoma

    Pagina :627-629

    Dennis A. Tighe, John A. Rousou, Shantilal Kenia, Pankaj Kulshrestha

    
• • ·Cyclic intermittent opening of Bjork-Shiley mitral prosthesis caused by fibrous tissue ingrowth

    Pagina :629-631

    Stuart J. Hutchinson, Leonard Lapkin, Sajen Matthews, Tahir Tak, P.Anthony N. Chandraratna, Richard J. Hurvitz

    
• • ·Desired mechanisms of drugs for ventricular arrhythmia: Class III antiarrhythmic agents

    Pagina :632-640

    Leslie J. Lipka, JoséM. Dizon, James A. Reiffel